Ben Affleck achieved as much success in his filmmaking career as he did as an actor. But he admitted that he might not have pursued being a director at all if it wasn’t for his Gigli experience.
Ben Affleck explained how ‘Gigli’ jumpstarted his filmmaking career Ben Affleck | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
After a tumultuous period in his life, Affleck helped revitalize his career with the 2007 movie Gone Baby Gone. It was Affleck’s first full-length feature, and ended up being the catalyst for his moviemaking career going forward.
But he asserted that tumultuous period played a huge role in motivating him to become a director in the first place. Affleck was facing much scrutiny in the media due to his public relationship with Jennifer Lopez among other things. Their 2003 film Gigli didn’t help matters, either. Affleck and Lopez’s Gigli didn’t meet expectations financially or critically. To this day,...
Ben Affleck explained how ‘Gigli’ jumpstarted his filmmaking career Ben Affleck | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
After a tumultuous period in his life, Affleck helped revitalize his career with the 2007 movie Gone Baby Gone. It was Affleck’s first full-length feature, and ended up being the catalyst for his moviemaking career going forward.
But he asserted that tumultuous period played a huge role in motivating him to become a director in the first place. Affleck was facing much scrutiny in the media due to his public relationship with Jennifer Lopez among other things. Their 2003 film Gigli didn’t help matters, either. Affleck and Lopez’s Gigli didn’t meet expectations financially or critically. To this day,...
- 7/21/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Jack Cutmore-Scott, the lead of ABC’s crime drama series Deception, is returning to the network as the star and writer of What If?, a comedy series in development. It is executive produced by Jay Lacopo and Ruben Flerischer for ABC Studios where Flerschers The District is under a deal.
What If?, based on an original idea by Cutmore-Scott, is a single-camera ensemble comedy that explores how seemingly insignificant choices – with the help of a little bit of luck – can have life-changing consequences.
Cutmore-Scott will write with Lacopo supervising. It’s a reunion for the duo following the Fox comedy series Cooper Barrett’s guide To Surviving Life, which Lacopo created and executive produced and Cutmore-Scott headlined, playing the title character.
Lacopo executive produces What If? alongside The District’s Fleischer and David Bernad. Cutmore-Scott will be a supervising producer.
Cutmore-Scott played Cameron Black, a superstar magician who joins the...
What If?, based on an original idea by Cutmore-Scott, is a single-camera ensemble comedy that explores how seemingly insignificant choices – with the help of a little bit of luck – can have life-changing consequences.
Cutmore-Scott will write with Lacopo supervising. It’s a reunion for the duo following the Fox comedy series Cooper Barrett’s guide To Surviving Life, which Lacopo created and executive produced and Cutmore-Scott headlined, playing the title character.
Lacopo executive produces What If? alongside The District’s Fleischer and David Bernad. Cutmore-Scott will be a supervising producer.
Cutmore-Scott played Cameron Black, a superstar magician who joins the...
- 11/14/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Jack Cutmore-Scott is staying in business with ABC.
The former “Deception” lead is set to write and star in an comedy series currently in development at the broadcaster. The single-camera project is titled “What If?” It is described as an ensemble comedy that explores how seemingly insignificant choices, with the help of a little bit of luck, can have life-changing consequences.
Cutmore-Scott will serve as a supervising producer in addition to writing and starring. Jay Lacopo will executive produce along with David Bernad and Ruben Fleischer. ABC Studios will produce. Lacopo previously worked with Cutmore-Scott on the Fox comedy series “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life.”
“Deception,” in which Cutmore-Scott played a magician who goes to work for the FBI, aired in the spring of this year on ABC for 13 episodes. In addition to “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life,” his other roles include appearances in “Dunkirk,” “Kingsman: The Secret Service,...
The former “Deception” lead is set to write and star in an comedy series currently in development at the broadcaster. The single-camera project is titled “What If?” It is described as an ensemble comedy that explores how seemingly insignificant choices, with the help of a little bit of luck, can have life-changing consequences.
Cutmore-Scott will serve as a supervising producer in addition to writing and starring. Jay Lacopo will executive produce along with David Bernad and Ruben Fleischer. ABC Studios will produce. Lacopo previously worked with Cutmore-Scott on the Fox comedy series “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life.”
“Deception,” in which Cutmore-Scott played a magician who goes to work for the FBI, aired in the spring of this year on ABC for 13 episodes. In addition to “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life,” his other roles include appearances in “Dunkirk,” “Kingsman: The Secret Service,...
- 11/14/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Fox has given a script order with penalty to a “Partridge Family”-like comedy about a family band from “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life” creator Jay Lacopo.
“An American Band” follows the “harmonic and discordant adventures of The Wyldes, a diverse and dysfunctional Northern California family that can’t get a single thing right with each other, except for the music they’ve been making for the last 25 years as a multigenerational family band.”
Lacopo will write and executive produce the single-camera comedy alongside Gail Berman and Joe Earley of Jackal Group.
Also Read: 'New Fox' Ups Mike Biard to Ops President, Steve Tomsic to CFO and Eric Shanks to Fox Sports CEO
Jackal Group will produce the project with 20th Century Fox Television, reuniting the company with Lacopo following his short-lived series starring Jack Cutmore Scott.
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“An American Band” follows the “harmonic and discordant adventures of The Wyldes, a diverse and dysfunctional Northern California family that can’t get a single thing right with each other, except for the music they’ve been making for the last 25 years as a multigenerational family band.”
Lacopo will write and executive produce the single-camera comedy alongside Gail Berman and Joe Earley of Jackal Group.
Also Read: 'New Fox' Ups Mike Biard to Ops President, Steve Tomsic to CFO and Eric Shanks to Fox Sports CEO
Jackal Group will produce the project with 20th Century Fox Television, reuniting the company with Lacopo following his short-lived series starring Jack Cutmore Scott.
Read original story ‘Partridge Family’-Style Musical Comedy in the Works...
- 10/5/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Fox is developing a music comedy series that hails from the Jackal Group, Variety has learned.
The project is titled “An American Band.” The single-camera comedy is about the harmonic and discordant adventures of The Wyldes, a diverse and dysfunctional Northern California family that can’t get a single thing right with each other, except for the music they’ve been making for the last 25 years as a multi-generational family band.
Fox has given the project a script commitment with a penalty attached. Jay Lacopo is the writer and executive producer, with Gail Berman and Joe Earley executive producing via Jackal Group. Jackal Group will produce along with 20th Century Fox Television.
Lacopo previously partnered with Jackal Group when he created the Fox sitcom “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life.” The show starred Jack Cutmore Scott, Meaghan Rath, James Earl, Charlie Saxton, Liza Lapira, and Justin Bartha. Lacopo is repped by Wme.
The project is titled “An American Band.” The single-camera comedy is about the harmonic and discordant adventures of The Wyldes, a diverse and dysfunctional Northern California family that can’t get a single thing right with each other, except for the music they’ve been making for the last 25 years as a multi-generational family band.
Fox has given the project a script commitment with a penalty attached. Jay Lacopo is the writer and executive producer, with Gail Berman and Joe Earley executive producing via Jackal Group. Jackal Group will produce along with 20th Century Fox Television.
Lacopo previously partnered with Jackal Group when he created the Fox sitcom “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life.” The show starred Jack Cutmore Scott, Meaghan Rath, James Earl, Charlie Saxton, Liza Lapira, and Justin Bartha. Lacopo is repped by Wme.
- 10/5/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Fox is looking to find the next Partridge Family.
The network has handed out a script order (with penalty) to An American Band, a single-camera comedy about the harmonic and discordant adventures of the Wyldes, a diverse and dysfunctional Northern California family that can’t get a single thing right with each other, except for the music they've been making for the past 25 years as a multigenerational family band.
Jay Lacopo (Fox's short-lived Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life) will pen the script and executive produce alongside the Jackal Group's Gail Berman and Joe Earley. The ...
The network has handed out a script order (with penalty) to An American Band, a single-camera comedy about the harmonic and discordant adventures of the Wyldes, a diverse and dysfunctional Northern California family that can’t get a single thing right with each other, except for the music they've been making for the past 25 years as a multigenerational family band.
Jay Lacopo (Fox's short-lived Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life) will pen the script and executive produce alongside the Jackal Group's Gail Berman and Joe Earley. The ...
- 10/5/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life begins with a conspicuously trite sitcom premise. Its titular Wonder Bread-white male lead (played by Jack Cutmore-Scott) speaks directly into the camera about how his life post-college has not exactly been what he envisioned.
His mid-twenties, thus far, have been a mess of mistakes and misadventures – he has yet to land on his feet and seems to stumble into trouble more than stay out of it. He also lives in a comfortable flat in a Los Angeles apartment building with two roommates: the boisterous Barry (James Earl) and the meek computer-savvy Neal (Charlie Saxton). He frequently relies on his forty-year old brother, Josh (Justin Bartha), to bail him out of sticky situations. And he’s potentially falling in love with Kelly (Meaghan Rath), the woman living across the hall, because of course he is.
The show rarely moves beyond that recognizable,...
Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life begins with a conspicuously trite sitcom premise. Its titular Wonder Bread-white male lead (played by Jack Cutmore-Scott) speaks directly into the camera about how his life post-college has not exactly been what he envisioned.
His mid-twenties, thus far, have been a mess of mistakes and misadventures – he has yet to land on his feet and seems to stumble into trouble more than stay out of it. He also lives in a comfortable flat in a Los Angeles apartment building with two roommates: the boisterous Barry (James Earl) and the meek computer-savvy Neal (Charlie Saxton). He frequently relies on his forty-year old brother, Josh (Justin Bartha), to bail him out of sticky situations. And he’s potentially falling in love with Kelly (Meaghan Rath), the woman living across the hall, because of course he is.
The show rarely moves beyond that recognizable,...
- 12/31/2015
- by Nathan Frontiero
- We Got This Covered
Liza Lapira has been cast as a regular on Fox’s midseason comedy series The Guide To Surviving Life. Created by Jay Lacopo and executive produced by Gail Berman, the young ensemble comedy revolves around a group of friends living together for the first time and celebrates the mistakes and misadventures of post-college life. Lapira will play Leslie Barrett, the wife of Josh Barrett (Justin Bartha). Lapira replaces Maureen Sebastian who played the role in the pilot. While…...
- 6/26/2015
- Deadline TV
The joys of piecemeal pre-upfronts pilot ordering! One hour after announcing pickups for the comedy "The Grinder" and the drama "Rosewood," Fox added a pair of comedies to its 2015-2016 slate. Earning series orders for Fox are "Grandfathered," starring John Stamos, and the ensemble "The Guide to Surviving Life." While specifics on scheduling won't be revealed until Fox announces its whole schedule on Monday (May 11) morning, the network notes that the "Guide to Surviving Life" order is for six episode. Both comedies are single-cams. Let's get to the details... "Grandfathered" is John Stamos' return to primetime -- Sorry, "Fuller House" -- and comes from ABC Studios and 20th Century Fox TV. Stamos plays a bachelor whose life changes rather dramatically when he discovers that he's a father and a grandfather at the same time. The pilot was written by Danny Chun and directed by Chris Koch. Stamos will serve...
- 5/8/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Jack Cutmore-Scott, who starred in the Fox comedy pilot Cabot College last year, has been cast by the network as another comedy pilot lead. The young Broadway actor has landed the title role in single-camera Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Your 20s, from 20th Century Fox TV and Gail Berman's the Jackal Group. Written by Jay Lacopo, Cooper Barrett's Guide celebrates the mistakes and misadventures of post-college life. It centers on 26-year-old Cooper Barrett…...
- 3/5/2015
- Deadline TV
James Earl (Gridiron Gang) has been cast in Fox’s comedy pilot Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life from 20th Century Fox TV and Gail Berman’s the Jackal Group. Written by Jay Lacopo, Cooper Barrett’s Guide is a 20-something comedy that celebrates the mistakes and misadventures of post college life. Earl, repped by Abrams Artists Agency and Untitled Entertainment, will play Cooper Barrett’s roommate Barry. Earl previously had recurring roles in Glee as well as two TBS…...
- 2/25/2015
- Deadline TV
Today’s film is the 1993 short I Killed my Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and now I have a three-picture deal at Disney. The film is directed by Ben Affleck, and is co-written by Kamala Lopez and Jay Lacopo, the latter of whom also stars in the short. Following years as an actor in various leading and supporting roles, Affleck has recently begun to step behind the camera once again, and his latest directorial feature, Argo, won Best Picture at the 85th Annual Academy Awards.
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- 3/2/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Ben Affleck has a message for young filmmakers: It Gets Better.
Sure, he didn’t record a PSA, but his first film, 1993’s I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Ηung Ηer on a Μeathook & Νow I Have a Three-Picture Deal with Disney, functions as such for all aspiring directors out there. Just because your first short film tells the convoluted story about a director who auditions women for a movie while simultaneously yelling at his wife, who is, yes, hung on a meathook, doesn’t mean you can’t eventually go on to direct something like Gone Baby Gone and Argo.
Sure, he didn’t record a PSA, but his first film, 1993’s I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Ηung Ηer on a Μeathook & Νow I Have a Three-Picture Deal with Disney, functions as such for all aspiring directors out there. Just because your first short film tells the convoluted story about a director who auditions women for a movie while simultaneously yelling at his wife, who is, yes, hung on a meathook, doesn’t mean you can’t eventually go on to direct something like Gone Baby Gone and Argo.
- 2/21/2013
- by Erin Strecker
- EW.com - PopWatch
[1] Good things are happening to good people in today's TV Bits, which sees new sitcoms in the works for Conan O'Brien, Judy Greer, and Mandy Moore, among others. After the jump: TBS orders a sitcom from Conan O'Brien ABC develops new projects with Judy Greer, Mandy Moore, and Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry The CW buys a thriller from Easy A scribe Bert V Royal CBS yanks the already-cancelled How to Be a Gentleman from its Saturday lineup Watch the first 9 minutes of ABC's Once Upon a Time Conan O'Brien and TBS are apparently enjoying a very happy and fruitful relationship. The late night host already has his talk show Conan on the cable network, and now he may have two sitcoms coming up as well. Last month, TBS gave a pilot order [2] to an untitled multi-camera sitcom from O'Brien about a man who quits his job and returns to his hometown.
- 10/21/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
NBC has fallen for Man of Your Dreams, a multicamera comedy from Conan O'Brien's Conaco Prods.
The network has handed out a cast-contingent pilot order to the project, penned by writer-actor Jay Lacopo (The Third Wheel), which centers on a womanizer who uses his expertise to help romantically challenged women.
Lacopo will executive produce the Universal Media Studios/Conaco comedy with O'Brien, Jeff Ross and David Kissinger.
While NBC was the king of sitcoms in the late '90s and early 2000s with Friends, Seinfeld, Frasier and Will & Grace, the network has been moving away from the multicamera format in the past few years. All four half-hour series it has on the air, The Office, My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock and Scrubs, are single camera. They were to be joined by multicamera midseason comedy The IT Crowd, but NBC recently pulled the plug on the show, which also featured single-camera elements.
The network has handed out a cast-contingent pilot order to the project, penned by writer-actor Jay Lacopo (The Third Wheel), which centers on a womanizer who uses his expertise to help romantically challenged women.
Lacopo will executive produce the Universal Media Studios/Conaco comedy with O'Brien, Jeff Ross and David Kissinger.
While NBC was the king of sitcoms in the late '90s and early 2000s with Friends, Seinfeld, Frasier and Will & Grace, the network has been moving away from the multicamera format in the past few years. All four half-hour series it has on the air, The Office, My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock and Scrubs, are single camera. They were to be joined by multicamera midseason comedy The IT Crowd, but NBC recently pulled the plug on the show, which also featured single-camera elements.
- 10/16/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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