Danny DeVito is set to direct the indie comedy "Honeymoon With Dad" at Tapestry Films and Reel FX Creative Studios reports Variety.
The story follows an accountant who, after being left at the altar, winds up going on his would-be honeymoon with his estranged and larger-than-life father. Scott Atkinson and Tegan West penned the script.
It's not certain whether DeVito is interested in also starring in the project, but it is possible. Shooting will take place during DeVito's next hiatus from his work on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". Michael Schreiber, Peter Abrams, Cary Granat and Jared Mass will produce.
The story follows an accountant who, after being left at the altar, winds up going on his would-be honeymoon with his estranged and larger-than-life father. Scott Atkinson and Tegan West penned the script.
It's not certain whether DeVito is interested in also starring in the project, but it is possible. Shooting will take place during DeVito's next hiatus from his work on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". Michael Schreiber, Peter Abrams, Cary Granat and Jared Mass will produce.
- 10/11/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
There was a time, back around 1996, when it appeared that Danny DeVito had permanently transitioned to the director.s chair. Though he had made his bones as an actor, appearing in classics like One Flew Over the Cuckoo.s Nest and a number of hit television shows, DeVito enjoyed a run of successes as a filmmaker. But after 2003.s Duplex, he stopped. We.re not sure why . yet we are excited that he seems to be edging back towards it. DeVito is in post-production on the thriller St. Sebastian, with William Fichtner and Lance Reddick. The film.s due out in 2013. After that, though, Variety reports that he.s .expected to film. the indie comedy Honeymoon with Dad, based on a script by Scott Atkinson and Tegan West. The story follows a Cpa who is abandoned at the altar by his cold-footed bride. Instead of letting his honeymoon go to...
- 10/11/2012
- cinemablend.com
If there's one thing you can't call Mark Waters -- it's "genre stuck." The man has brought us some pretty crappy romcoms, a family-friendly remake, an adventure movie, a film too often compared to Heathers, and one of my all-time favorites -- The House of Yes. And now, aside from the sequel to Mean Girls (he's listed as director on IMDb), The Hollywood Reporter posts that he's in final negotiations to helm a new comedy called Minimum Wage.
Penned by Tegan West and Scott Atkinson, the film will focus on "a corrupt corporate executive who is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a year living on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted." Now that is one heck of a unique punishment. Georgia Rule with older folks and hopefully less off-camera shenanigans? I'm sure he'll get charmed with small-town life just like Doc Hollywood. If only things like this...
Penned by Tegan West and Scott Atkinson, the film will focus on "a corrupt corporate executive who is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a year living on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted." Now that is one heck of a unique punishment. Georgia Rule with older folks and hopefully less off-camera shenanigans? I'm sure he'll get charmed with small-town life just like Doc Hollywood. If only things like this...
- 1/10/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
As I am sure many of you have noticed I have stopped reporting on all of the casting and directing updates that come out of the pages of Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. Sure, a few of them peak my interest and get posted, but for the most part I believe it comes rather redundant. Every single movie news website/blog does this on a daily basis in a cut and paste format and I was just of the opinion it took up space and made this site no different than any of the others and where is the fun in that? However, that doesn't mean some of the announced projects aren't of interest, it just means they aren't necessarily worthy of their own post, so I have decided to take a stab at simplifying things and hope to be able to do this on a weekly basis as I...
- 1/9/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Ready for the first credit-crunch comedy? Well, director Mark Waters seems to be, with the news that he's in talks to direct Minimum Wage. From the synopsis below, you'll see that it's less a film and more a blueprint as to how we should treat the various bankers and hedge fund managers who played such a large role in messing up the world economy.The script, by Tegan West (The Cave)and Scott Atkinson, centres on a corrupt corporate executive who is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a year of living in the community he bankrupted on minimum wage. There, we have a sneaking suspicion that he will learn the error of his ways and become a better person, but only time will tell.Waters, the man who directed Mean Girls, most recently made The Spiderwick Chronicles and the upcoming The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, so this marks something of a change of pace for him.
- 1/9/2009
- EmpireOnline
Mark Waters is in negotiations to direct Minimum Wage, a timely comedy from Participant Media that tackles the effects of greed, report the trades. The project is being developed by Peter Abrams, Robert Levy and Andrew Panay, the producing team behind comedies such as Van Wilder, Employee of the Month and Wedding Crashers. Wage centers on a corrupt corporate executive who is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a year living on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted. It was written by Tegan West (The Cave) and Scott Atkinson. Waters’ directing credits include Head Over Heels, Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Just Like Heaven. He ventured away from the rom-coms last year for the adventure/fantasy flick The Spiderwick Chronicles. He recently finished work on The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a rom-com starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner which is set to open in May.
- 1/9/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
Mark Waters is in negotiations to direct "Minimum Wage," a timely comedy from Participant Media that tackles the effects of greed. Peter Abrams, Robert Levy and Andrew Panay are producing.
Written by Tegan West and Scott Atkinson, the story centers on a corrupt corporate executive who is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a year living on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted.
Jonathan King and Erin Stam are overseeing for Participant.
The company, headed by CEO Jim Berk and president Ricky Strauss, aims to make commercial films with a social bent. This year, it was behind such movies as Tom McCarthy's "The Visitor" and Errol Morris' "Standard Operating Procedure" and is involved in upcoming pics "The Soloist" and "The Informant."
Waters, repped by CAA, last directed "The Spiderwick Chronicles." His comedy "The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" is in the can and set for a May 1 release.
Written by Tegan West and Scott Atkinson, the story centers on a corrupt corporate executive who is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a year living on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted.
Jonathan King and Erin Stam are overseeing for Participant.
The company, headed by CEO Jim Berk and president Ricky Strauss, aims to make commercial films with a social bent. This year, it was behind such movies as Tom McCarthy's "The Visitor" and Errol Morris' "Standard Operating Procedure" and is involved in upcoming pics "The Soloist" and "The Informant."
Waters, repped by CAA, last directed "The Spiderwick Chronicles." His comedy "The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" is in the can and set for a May 1 release.
- 1/9/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mark Waters is in talks to direct Minimum Wage , a comedy from Participant Media that tackles the effects of greed, says The Hollywood Reporter . Peter Abrams, Robert Levy and Andrew Panay are producing. Written by Tegan West and Scott Atkinson, the story centers on a corrupt corporate executive who is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a year living on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted. Waters last directed The Spiderwick Chronicles . His comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past will be released on May 1st.
- 1/8/2009
- Comingsoon.net
NEW YORK -- Participant Media and Wedding Crashers producer Tapestry Films are making Minimum Wage, a comedy about a thieving corporate exec sentenced to live on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted.
Tapestry's partners Peter Abrams, Robert Levy and Andrew Panay will produce the feature based on a to-be-completed script from Tegan West (The Cave) and fellow actor Scott Atkinson.
Participant's vp Creative Affairs and Production Jodi Zuckerman acquired the pitch from and will oversee the film alongside Tapestry's Michael Schreiber, an executive producer on the project.
The project is one of Participant's recent initiatives to produce broad but socially conscious comedies under the direction of executive vp production Jonathan King, expanding from the more serious films that have defined it such as Standard Operating Procedure. But the film is familiar turf for the Fox-based Tapestry, which produced National Lampoon's Van Wilder, The Wedding Planner and She's All That.
Tapestry's partners Peter Abrams, Robert Levy and Andrew Panay will produce the feature based on a to-be-completed script from Tegan West (The Cave) and fellow actor Scott Atkinson.
Participant's vp Creative Affairs and Production Jodi Zuckerman acquired the pitch from and will oversee the film alongside Tapestry's Michael Schreiber, an executive producer on the project.
The project is one of Participant's recent initiatives to produce broad but socially conscious comedies under the direction of executive vp production Jonathan King, expanding from the more serious films that have defined it such as Standard Operating Procedure. But the film is familiar turf for the Fox-based Tapestry, which produced National Lampoon's Van Wilder, The Wedding Planner and She's All That.
- 3/20/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Known for laughers and knee-slappers such as An Inconvenient Truth, Darfur Now and Standard Operating Procedure, THR announced that Participant Media is teaming up (with Tapestry Films) on a comedy that goes by a storyline that should have occured for a couple of high-ranking folks at Enron. The partnership puts together a company with a great track record in terms of quality content and another with forgettable slew of comedies such as The Comebacks, the Van Wilder franchise and box office gold Wedding Crashers and The Wedding Planner to vouch for. Currently being polished off by scripters Tegan West ("The Cave") and actor Scott Atkinson, Minimum Wage tells the story of a thieving corporate exec sentenced to live on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted. Tapestry's partners Peter Abrams, Robert Levy and Andrew Panay will produce the feature and Participant's vp Creative Affairs and Production Jodi Zuckerman
- 3/19/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
As monster movies go, "The Cave" is discouragingly routine with the exception of one thing: These monsters live in a cave. Not just any cave, mind you, but an ancient Romanian cave. Which means a sealed-off ecosystem that contains miles of rivers, rapids, a waterfall, huge caverns, a sulfuric thermal bath, an ice cave, archeological remains and, yes, malevolent invertebrate animals. This bad-news theme park makes you tolerate, for a while at least, a dull script by Michael Steinberg and Tegan West that runs through artificial character conflicts and contrived melodrama. Meanwhile, the monsters, when they finally appear, look like something H.R. Giger designed for "Alien" -- then rejected.
Generally speaking, however, audiences don't go to movies to look at sets. So the film's appeal, limited mostly to young males, will be fleeting. Boxoffice looks mediocre at best.
Stories that send characters -- and audiences -- into uncharted territory usually supply a vital reason for such exploration. A prologue set during the Cold War and a present-day sequence rush a group of adventurers into this cave beneath a 13th century abbey without a compelling justification for doing so. There's no pot of gold or Holy Grail or great scientific discovery lurking within. A Romanian scientist simply summons a group of top divers and cave explorers to head into a cave to see if anyone survives.
Leading the team are the mercurial Jack (Cole Hauser) and his easygoing brother Tyler (Eddie Cibrian). A woman named Charlie (Piper Perabo) adds a touch of glamour, and Top Buchanan (Morris Chestnut) makes a steady right-hand man. Biologist Dr. Kathryn Jennings (Lena Headey) joins her Romanian colleague Dr. Nicolai (Marcel Iures) to take care of the science, Alex Kim Daniel Dae Kim) is the photog, and Strode (Kieran Darcy-Smith) supplies tech support.
A cave-in blocks the party from their entry route, and for some reason, despite this being a well-funded exposition, they won't be "missed for 12 days." As they move into the cave seeking a way out, something attacks and kills a team member. Dr. Kathryn peers at cave specimens through her microscope and detects weird organism and parasites. Then something takes a bite out of Jack, and the infection seems to trigger paranoid hallucinations.
Jack insists that everyone take a ride down the rapids, which dumps them into a huge underground pond. It is at this point someone screams, "There's something in the water!" Actually, these creatures swim in water, fly through air and gallop along the ground and ceiling. There are silly, all-purpose monsters that pick off the cast one by one, leaving you to place bets on who will survive.
Characters are poorly established, so when conflicts arise they do so out of thin air. Attacks are preceded by a weird clicking noise, but most of the tension derives from Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek's musical score, which huff and puffs and thunders and whines.
Australian commercial director Bruce Hunt, making his feature debut, keeps the camera close and the action furious so you can't always be certain where characters are or what is happening. The film requires athleticism rather than acting from performers. Underwater photography and production design, much taking place at the Media Pro studios complex in Bucharest, is thoroughly professional though wasted on such a lame effort.
THE CAVE
Screen Gems
Lakeshore Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Bruce Hunt
Screenwriters: Michael Steinberg & Tegan West
Producers: Tom Rosenberg
Gary Lucchesi, Andrew Mason, Richard Wright, Michael Ohoven
Executive producers: Marco Mehlitz, Neil Bluhm, Judd Malkin
Director of photography: Ross Emery
Production designer: Pier Luigi Basile
Music: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek
Co-producer: Robert Bernacchi, James McQuaide
Costumes: Wendy Partridge
Editor: Brian Berdan
Cast:
Jack: Cole Hauser
Top Buchanan: Morris Chestnut
Tyler: Eddie Cibrian
Briggs: Rick Ravanello
Dr. Nicolai: Marcel Iures: Strode: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Kim: Daniel Dae Kim
Katherine: Lena Headey
Charlie: Piper Perabo
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 96 minutes...
Generally speaking, however, audiences don't go to movies to look at sets. So the film's appeal, limited mostly to young males, will be fleeting. Boxoffice looks mediocre at best.
Stories that send characters -- and audiences -- into uncharted territory usually supply a vital reason for such exploration. A prologue set during the Cold War and a present-day sequence rush a group of adventurers into this cave beneath a 13th century abbey without a compelling justification for doing so. There's no pot of gold or Holy Grail or great scientific discovery lurking within. A Romanian scientist simply summons a group of top divers and cave explorers to head into a cave to see if anyone survives.
Leading the team are the mercurial Jack (Cole Hauser) and his easygoing brother Tyler (Eddie Cibrian). A woman named Charlie (Piper Perabo) adds a touch of glamour, and Top Buchanan (Morris Chestnut) makes a steady right-hand man. Biologist Dr. Kathryn Jennings (Lena Headey) joins her Romanian colleague Dr. Nicolai (Marcel Iures) to take care of the science, Alex Kim Daniel Dae Kim) is the photog, and Strode (Kieran Darcy-Smith) supplies tech support.
A cave-in blocks the party from their entry route, and for some reason, despite this being a well-funded exposition, they won't be "missed for 12 days." As they move into the cave seeking a way out, something attacks and kills a team member. Dr. Kathryn peers at cave specimens through her microscope and detects weird organism and parasites. Then something takes a bite out of Jack, and the infection seems to trigger paranoid hallucinations.
Jack insists that everyone take a ride down the rapids, which dumps them into a huge underground pond. It is at this point someone screams, "There's something in the water!" Actually, these creatures swim in water, fly through air and gallop along the ground and ceiling. There are silly, all-purpose monsters that pick off the cast one by one, leaving you to place bets on who will survive.
Characters are poorly established, so when conflicts arise they do so out of thin air. Attacks are preceded by a weird clicking noise, but most of the tension derives from Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek's musical score, which huff and puffs and thunders and whines.
Australian commercial director Bruce Hunt, making his feature debut, keeps the camera close and the action furious so you can't always be certain where characters are or what is happening. The film requires athleticism rather than acting from performers. Underwater photography and production design, much taking place at the Media Pro studios complex in Bucharest, is thoroughly professional though wasted on such a lame effort.
THE CAVE
Screen Gems
Lakeshore Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Bruce Hunt
Screenwriters: Michael Steinberg & Tegan West
Producers: Tom Rosenberg
Gary Lucchesi, Andrew Mason, Richard Wright, Michael Ohoven
Executive producers: Marco Mehlitz, Neil Bluhm, Judd Malkin
Director of photography: Ross Emery
Production designer: Pier Luigi Basile
Music: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek
Co-producer: Robert Bernacchi, James McQuaide
Costumes: Wendy Partridge
Editor: Brian Berdan
Cast:
Jack: Cole Hauser
Top Buchanan: Morris Chestnut
Tyler: Eddie Cibrian
Briggs: Rick Ravanello
Dr. Nicolai: Marcel Iures: Strode: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Kim: Daniel Dae Kim
Katherine: Lena Headey
Charlie: Piper Perabo
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 96 minutes...
Morris Chestnut and Eddie Cibrian are getting evil for Sony's Screen Gems. The duo have joined Cole Hauser in the Lakeshore Entertainment production Prime Evil for Bruce Hunt, who is making his feature directorial debut on the project. Slated to start shooting in April in Eastern Europe, Prime Evil centers on a group of hotshot cave divers who get trapped in an underground cave system. They are then forced to battle demonic creatures when they attempt to escape. Chestnut and Cibrian play members of the diving troupe. Michael Steinberg and Tegan West wrote the screenplay, which is being produced by Andrew Mason and Lakeshore Entertainment's Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi. Screen Gems is pegging a 2005 release. Chestnut is repped by CAA. He has a long history with Screen Gems after starring in the specialty arm's releases The Brothers, Two Can Play That Game, Half Past Dead and the upcoming films Breakin' All the Rules and Anacondas: The Hunt for the Black Orchid. Cibrian is repped by CAA. The Third Watch series regular has been seen on the big screen in But I'm a Cheerleader and Say It Isn't So. Steinberg, West and Hunt are all repped by ICM. Steinberg is additionally repped by 9 yards Entertainment.
- 3/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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