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New Line has acquired the high-concept fantasy pitch Crescenthia from Beau Flynn, the producer of the company’s DC movie, Black Adam.
Writing duo Alex Ankeles and Morgan Jurgenson are behind the project which Flynn will be producing through his FlynnPictureCo.
Details are being kept secret but Crescenthia, which is a working title, is described as a fun, new twist on the fantasy genre inspired by magical escapist fare such as Chronicles of Narnia, The Wizard of Oz and The Neverending Story.
FlynnPictureCo.’s Scott Sheldon will executive produce.
FlynnPictureCo.’s most recent release was Black Adam, the Dwayne Johnson-starring adventure movie which has grossed almost 385 million worldwide since its Oct. 21 opening. The banner also produced Netflix’s Red Notice and Disney’s Jungle Cruise. Both movies have sequels in development.
Ankeles and Jurgenson most recently sold a high-concept fantasy adventure to...
New Line has acquired the high-concept fantasy pitch Crescenthia from Beau Flynn, the producer of the company’s DC movie, Black Adam.
Writing duo Alex Ankeles and Morgan Jurgenson are behind the project which Flynn will be producing through his FlynnPictureCo.
Details are being kept secret but Crescenthia, which is a working title, is described as a fun, new twist on the fantasy genre inspired by magical escapist fare such as Chronicles of Narnia, The Wizard of Oz and The Neverending Story.
FlynnPictureCo.’s Scott Sheldon will executive produce.
FlynnPictureCo.’s most recent release was Black Adam, the Dwayne Johnson-starring adventure movie which has grossed almost 385 million worldwide since its Oct. 21 opening. The banner also produced Netflix’s Red Notice and Disney’s Jungle Cruise. Both movies have sequels in development.
Ankeles and Jurgenson most recently sold a high-concept fantasy adventure to...
- 12/8/2022
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Universal has picked up an untitled family adventure-comedy spec script from screenwriting duo Alex Ankeles and Morgan Jurgenson. Davis Entertainment and 1stAve Machine are producing, with John Davis and John Fox producing alongside Ross Siegel of Altogether Entertainment. Davis’ SVP Jeremy Stein will executive produce, as will 1stAveMachine’s Serge Patzak.
Based on an original idea by Siegel, the script’s logline is under wraps but is being described as a four-quadrant family adventure-comedy and a love letter to pop culture and fandom. Jeyun Munford and Christine Sun will oversee the project for Universal.
Jurgenson is most well-known for writing and producing cult horror comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. Since joining up with Ankeles, the team has sold numerous specs and pitches, and worked with various types of IP, most recently adapting the graphic novel Zita the Spacegirl for Fox and penning a feature based on the Bakugan...
Based on an original idea by Siegel, the script’s logline is under wraps but is being described as a four-quadrant family adventure-comedy and a love letter to pop culture and fandom. Jeyun Munford and Christine Sun will oversee the project for Universal.
Jurgenson is most well-known for writing and producing cult horror comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. Since joining up with Ankeles, the team has sold numerous specs and pitches, and worked with various types of IP, most recently adapting the graphic novel Zita the Spacegirl for Fox and penning a feature based on the Bakugan...
- 4/6/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox Animation has acquired the Zita The Spacegirl trilogy of books from award-winning author Ben Hatke for Chernin Entertainment to produce. Screenwriting duo Morgan Jurgenson and Alex Ankeles will adapt the books that follow Zita as she leaps to the rescue when her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult – taking on humanoid chickens, ancient prophecies, doomed planets, and a mystery man along the way who takes a secret interest in her myriad quests. Darlene…...
- 9/14/2016
- Deadline
Gremlins 3 is still inching forward, with news of potential writers, and the direction the project is going...
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It's 30 years now since Joe Dante's wonderful Gremlins first appeared, meaning it's 24 years since his equally terrific sequel landed. As we've recalled several times on this site, one of Dante's cited ambitions with Gremlins 2: The New Batch was to effectively end any chance of there being Gremlins 3. He damn well nearly did it too.
But there's a growing sense that Warner Bros is keen to revisit the Gremlins series, and it sounds as if further progress is being made. Film Divider reports this morning that Morgan Jurgenson (Tucker & Dale Vs Evil) and Alex Ankeles (Subdivision) have pitched for the writing job on the movie, and said pitch "apparently went down a storm". They're said to have the approval of Christopher Columbus' 1492 Entertainment (Columbus penned the original film), and now...
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It's 30 years now since Joe Dante's wonderful Gremlins first appeared, meaning it's 24 years since his equally terrific sequel landed. As we've recalled several times on this site, one of Dante's cited ambitions with Gremlins 2: The New Batch was to effectively end any chance of there being Gremlins 3. He damn well nearly did it too.
But there's a growing sense that Warner Bros is keen to revisit the Gremlins series, and it sounds as if further progress is being made. Film Divider reports this morning that Morgan Jurgenson (Tucker & Dale Vs Evil) and Alex Ankeles (Subdivision) have pitched for the writing job on the movie, and said pitch "apparently went down a storm". They're said to have the approval of Christopher Columbus' 1492 Entertainment (Columbus penned the original film), and now...
- 6/24/2014
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: G.I. Joe: Retaliation helmer Jon M. Chu and Hieu Ho have made a deal to produce Run, a high concept action horror film they’ve set at Lionsgate under their Chu Studios banner. Alex Ankeles & Morgan Jurgenson are writing the script, and John Sacchi is overseeing for Lionsgate. Ankeles is repped by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone; Jurgenson is Apa and Jonathan Hung, while Chu’s repped by Pye, Wme and Smgsb. This is another example of Chu branching out. He started on a musical track, helming Step Up 2: The Streets with Briana Evigan and Channing Tatum, and Step Up 3D, both of which grossed big overseas. Chu then directed Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, before moving into the action arena with the G.I. Joe sequel, which was reframed at a more reasonable price point. Chu’s next is Justin Bieber’s Believe, which Open Road releases this month.
- 12/10/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
1.) Olivia Wilde, Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Nicole Beharie (Shame) will star in the Civil War drama The Keeping Room, the second feature from Harry Brown helmer Daniel Barber. The film centers on two sisters and a slave who have to defend their home from a group of rogue Union soldiers. Harry Brown was noted for its bleak look at the UK underworld, so it's hard to tell if we're in store for a violent, racially charged version of Straw Dogs or some sort of inspirational bonding exercise. THR 2.) Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver will star in the John F. Kennedy feature Parkland. The film will recount the events that took place at the Parkland Hospital in Dallas on the day JFK was assassinated in 1963 and mark the debut of writer/director Peter Landesman. Filming is expected to begin soon with a release date supposedly planned for...
- 10/31/2012
- by Kevin Blumeyer
- Rope of Silicon
Morgan Jurgenson and Alex Ankeles are two of the hottest spec writers in Hollywood right now, and to prove that: Universal Pictures has just picked up the duo’s script Subdivision to be produced and possibly directed by Fast Five‘s Justin Lin.
Although a description of the spec is being kept secret, it’s been labeled a “sci-fi comedy.”
Justin Lin is currently working on Fast Six, and because he’s already attached to a handful of other projects, it’s unclear if Subdivision will be his next movie.
Can’t wait to find out what it’s about!
Source: Variety...
Although a description of the spec is being kept secret, it’s been labeled a “sci-fi comedy.”
Justin Lin is currently working on Fast Six, and because he’s already attached to a handful of other projects, it’s unclear if Subdivision will be his next movie.
Can’t wait to find out what it’s about!
Source: Variety...
- 10/31/2012
- by Matt Granados
- LRMonline.com
A photo of Jai Courtney in Jack Reacher, Bruce Willis and Anthony Hopkins shooting Red 2, and a shot of Jamie Foxx and Roland Emmerich on the set of White House Down.
Posters for Stoker, Hitchcock, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Impossible, On the Road, Les Miserables, and concept art from Monsters University.
"NBC's sitcom 'Community' will premiere its fourth season starting February 7th in its old Thursday 8pm timeslot. '30 Rock', which is currently in that slot, is expected to wrap its final season before then…" (full details)
"Pascal Laugier ('The Tall Man,' 'Martyrs') says he's moving away from horror as his next film is a 'sex movie' and 'I've never filmed people f--king because it's been done so many times and so badly. [The film] is a love story that turns into something very twisted'…" (full details)
"Rockstar Games' much anticipated 'Grand...
Posters for Stoker, Hitchcock, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Impossible, On the Road, Les Miserables, and concept art from Monsters University.
"NBC's sitcom 'Community' will premiere its fourth season starting February 7th in its old Thursday 8pm timeslot. '30 Rock', which is currently in that slot, is expected to wrap its final season before then…" (full details)
"Pascal Laugier ('The Tall Man,' 'Martyrs') says he's moving away from horror as his next film is a 'sex movie' and 'I've never filmed people f--king because it's been done so many times and so badly. [The film] is a love story that turns into something very twisted'…" (full details)
"Rockstar Games' much anticipated 'Grand...
- 10/30/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Hollywood tends to use the failure or success of certain genre blends as a sort of canary in a coal mine. If something dies at the box office, studios tend to back out of that genre tunnel pretty quick. Likewise, if something thrives, everyone piles in that same direction. And so, after the critical and commercial flop that was The Watch (it made $35 million in the U.S. against a $68 million budget), one would think studios would stay away from sci-fi comedies. Not Universal, apparently. The studio has just picked up a sci-fi comedy spec script called Subdivision written by Morgan Jurgenson (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil) and Alex Ankeles. We don't know what the plot of it is this early on, though with a title like that it's hard not to picture sci-fi in a cookie-cutter...
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- 10/30/2012
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
Though Justin Lin is currently hard at work on Fast Six (and maybe another film in the adrenaline fueled franchise according to Vin Diesel), the action director might be moving into sci-fi sometime down the road. He's seemingly not working on a new Terminator any longer, but Variety reports Lin is working with Universal Pictures to produce an original sci-fi film called Subdivision from a spec script by Tucker and Dale vs. Evil writer Morgan Jurgenson and Alex Ankeles. The logline is being kept under wraps, but the title seems to suggest another suburban set sci-fi film, perhaps in the same vein as Attack the Block last year. That's mere speculation on our part, but it's definitely a major spec script sale for the writing duo who sold another script called Hyperdrive to Paramount earlier this year. Since Jurgenson delivered some entertaining horror comedy with Tucker and Dale vs. Evil,...
- 10/30/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Justin Lin isn't going to go on making The Fast And The Furious movies forever - at least we don't think he is - and with the director having turned that franchise into one of the strongest and most financially successful action franchises in cinema history the game is on to get him lined up with whatever may be next. Lin has been linked to new Highlander and Terminator films in the past year but here's a little something else:Universal have just picked up new science fiction comedy script Subdivision from writers Alex Ankeles and Morgan Jurgenson with Lin attached to, at minimum, produce and possibly direct. Ankeles and Jurgenson's previous script, Hyperdrive, was on the 2011 Black List while Jurgenson was also a writer...
- 10/30/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Universal Pictures has acquired a spec script for a sci-fi comedy called Subdivision. The movie was written by Morgan Jurgenson and Alex Ankeles, and Fast Five director Justin Lin is set to produce and direct the film project.
There's no word on what the story of the film will be, it comes from one of the same writers (Jurgenson) that brought us Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, which could give you an idea of the kind of comedy we'll see in the movie. I absolutely loved Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and it'd be awesome if this new movie turned out just as good. Variety points out that this is the second major spec sale this year for Jurgenson and Ankeles, who also sold a sci-fi script to Paramount earlier this year called Hyperdrive.
Lin is currently hard at work directing the sixth film in the Fast and Furious franchise.
There's no word on what the story of the film will be, it comes from one of the same writers (Jurgenson) that brought us Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, which could give you an idea of the kind of comedy we'll see in the movie. I absolutely loved Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and it'd be awesome if this new movie turned out just as good. Variety points out that this is the second major spec sale this year for Jurgenson and Ankeles, who also sold a sci-fi script to Paramount earlier this year called Hyperdrive.
Lin is currently hard at work directing the sixth film in the Fast and Furious franchise.
- 10/30/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Universal Pictures has attached their favorite Fast Five filmmaker Justin Lin to produce a sci-fi comedy Subdivision from writers Morgan Jurgenson and Alex Ankeles.
Lin who continues to helm The Fast and the Furious series will develop the Subdivision project as a potential directing vehicle.
Hot off of the success of Fast Five, Lin has already put together a directing and producing program that includes the action-adventure/spy flick Leading Man; an untitled project about a WWII Japanese American battalion that is the most decorated unit in American history; an untitled sci-fi/crime thriller project to be directed by Robert Glickert; and of course Fast & Furious 6, which is currently filming and already has a release date of May 24th, 2013.
He has inked a two-year first-look deal with the Universal studio for his newly created Barnstorm Pictures banner attached to Subdivision project as well.
Up-and-coming writers Jurgenson and Ankeles sold another sci-fi script,...
Lin who continues to helm The Fast and the Furious series will develop the Subdivision project as a potential directing vehicle.
Hot off of the success of Fast Five, Lin has already put together a directing and producing program that includes the action-adventure/spy flick Leading Man; an untitled project about a WWII Japanese American battalion that is the most decorated unit in American history; an untitled sci-fi/crime thriller project to be directed by Robert Glickert; and of course Fast & Furious 6, which is currently filming and already has a release date of May 24th, 2013.
He has inked a two-year first-look deal with the Universal studio for his newly created Barnstorm Pictures banner attached to Subdivision project as well.
Up-and-coming writers Jurgenson and Ankeles sold another sci-fi script,...
- 10/30/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Fresh off helming perhaps the most gleefully anarchic and exuberant entry in the “Fast and Furious” series with “Fast Five,” the number of directions Justin Lin can explore next looks enviable to say the least. With that film's enormous box office bolstered by critical support, the director proved himself the obvious choice to lead the sixth installment, but along with a number of promising projects lining up on the side, it now seems he'll be treading into sci-fi waters in the near future. Following a bout of fierce competition amongst studios, Universal Pictures has emerged triumphant in acquiring “Subdivision,” a sci-fi comedy spec from writers Morgan Jurgenson ("Tucker and Dale vs. Evil") and Alex Ankeles, with Lin and his Barnstorm Pictures banner attached as well. Along with Barnstorm exec Elaine Chin, Lin took a shine to the script and placed it in Universal's hands as both a potential producing and directing.
- 10/30/2012
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
Universal Pictures and Fast Five director Justin Lin are teaming on Subdivision , a sci-fi comedy from writers Morgan Jurgenson and Alex Ankeles, reports Variety . The project is a potential directing vehicle for Lin, who will produce through his Universal-based Barnstorm Pictures. Barnstorm executive Elaine Chin will produce with Lin. The storyline is being kept under wraps. Subdivision is the second major sale this year for Jurgenson and Ankeles, who sold their sci-fi script Hyperdrive to Paramount earlier this year. Lin is currently directing Fast & Furious 6 for Universal.
- 10/30/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Universal Pictures has acquired the Subdivision sci-fi comedy spec from Morgan Jurgenson and Alex Ankeles and set Fast Five's Justin Lin as director. Variety reports that Lin will produce the film via his Universal-based Barnstorm Pictures alongside Elaine Chin. The logline for Subdivision's been kept under wraps at this time and marks the second script being developed from Jurgenson and Ankeles, the other being Paramount's Hyperdrive, produced by Disruption Entertainment's Mary Parent. Before moving onto Subdivision, Lin's currently shooting the very-eagerly-anticipated Fast and Furious 6, starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Luke Evans, Michelle Rodriguez, Gina Carano, Jordana Brewster, Gal Gadot, Sung Kang and Tyrese Gibson.
- 10/30/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Universal Pictures has acquired the Subdivision sci-fi comedy spec from Morgan Jurgenson and Alex Ankeles and set Fast Five's Justin Lin as director. Variety reports that Lin will produce the film via his Universal-based Barnstorm Pictures alongside Elaine Chin. The logline for Subdivision's been kept under wraps at this time and marks the second script being developed from Jurgenson and Ankeles, the other being Paramount's Hyperdrive, produced by Disruption Entertainment's Mary Parent. Before moving onto Subdivision, Lin's currently shooting the very-eagerly-anticipated Fast and Furious 6, starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Luke Evans, Michelle Rodriguez, Gina Carano, Jordana Brewster, Gal Gadot, Sung Kang and Tyrese Gibson.
- 10/30/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The 2011 Black List, the Top Unproduced Screenplays of the year has been released. The best unproduced screenplays from The Black List 2011 is compiled by votes from over 300 “execs, agency guys, and high-level assistants. Titled The Black List, the compendium highlights both established screenwriters and up-and-comers, and has served as a launching pad in the past for projects like Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, and (500) Days of Summer. Last year’s list included Margin Call, Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Hunger Games, and Snow White and the Huntsman.”
Regarding the validity of The Black List, things to keep in mind:
some of these screenplays have already been acquired and are already in development, though…none will have entered principal photography by December 31, 2011. Also worth pointing out is that, as in previous years, there have been rumors that some of the participants have been accused of using the Black List to promote their own clients or friends.
Regarding the validity of The Black List, things to keep in mind:
some of these screenplays have already been acquired and are already in development, though…none will have entered principal photography by December 31, 2011. Also worth pointing out is that, as in previous years, there have been rumors that some of the participants have been accused of using the Black List to promote their own clients or friends.
- 12/13/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
For the seventh annual year a list of the top unproduced screenplays written in the past 12 calendar months has been made. The Black List is the most recognized and celebritized compilation for screenwriters and unknown movie ideas to be heard. While some prior Black List scripts have gone on to be made (like Juno or 500 Days of Summer), most scripts do not. However, what being on The Black List can do is to give a big push of credibility to a screenwriter hoping to carve out a career in Hollywood.
The Black List recepients are chosen by a committee of 300 individuals working in Hollywood: agents, writers, producers, managers and the like. They read the screenplays that float around the showbiz ecosystem; some are bought and are already in development while others are still seeing the interest of talent of financial backers.
The makers of The Black List are good to...
The Black List recepients are chosen by a committee of 300 individuals working in Hollywood: agents, writers, producers, managers and the like. They read the screenplays that float around the showbiz ecosystem; some are bought and are already in development while others are still seeing the interest of talent of financial backers.
The makers of The Black List are good to...
- 12/13/2011
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
The 2011 Black List has arrived online and there are a bunch of the hottest scripts in Hollywood. Some have already been picked up by studios, while most are still unproduced. Here is the press release: The Black List was compiled from the suggestions of over 300 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2011 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year.
This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the The Black List.
All reasonable effort has been made to confirm the information contained herein. The Black List apologizes for all misspellings, misattributions, incorrect representation identification, and questionable 2011 affiliations.
It has been said many times, but it's worth repeating:
The Black List is not a "best of" list. It is, at best, a "most liked" list.
This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the The Black List.
All reasonable effort has been made to confirm the information contained herein. The Black List apologizes for all misspellings, misattributions, incorrect representation identification, and questionable 2011 affiliations.
It has been said many times, but it's worth repeating:
The Black List is not a "best of" list. It is, at best, a "most liked" list.
- 12/13/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
[1] Each December since 2004, studio executive Franklin Leonard has compiled the best unproduced screenplays of the year, as voted by hundreds of execs, agency guys, and high-level assistants. Titled The Black List, the compendium highlights both established screenwriters and up-and-comers, and has served as a launching pad in the past for projects like Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, and (500) Days of Summer. Last year's list included Margin Call, Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Hunger Games, and Snow White and the Huntsman. It should be noted that the headline is somewhat misleading -- some of these screenplays have already been acquired and are already in development, though according to Leonard none will have entered principal photography by December 31, 2011. Also worth pointing out is that, as in previous years, there have been rumors that some of the participants have been accused of using the Black List to promote their own clients or friends.
- 12/12/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
This year at the Austin Film Festival, studio executive and “Black List” founder Franklin Leonard introduced the opening film, Butter. It’s a fantastic satirical comedy written by Jason Micallef and Leonard’s post-screening Q&A with him was equally hilarious and unconventional.
Sitting in the upper deck at the Paramount Theatre, I was in awe at how Leonard had not only created the list just six years prior but how it provided such legitimacy to emerging screenwriters, like Micallef. He was relatively unknown in ‘08, but his script placed third on the list. Now he has a movie coming out starring Jennifer Garner, his new scripts have Jack Black and Jason Segel attached (separately), and he wrote a movie titled Good Vibrations about, um, marital aids starring Charlize Theron. That’s the power of the Black List.
Simply put, “The Black List” is a collection of the best unproduced screenplays...
Sitting in the upper deck at the Paramount Theatre, I was in awe at how Leonard had not only created the list just six years prior but how it provided such legitimacy to emerging screenwriters, like Micallef. He was relatively unknown in ‘08, but his script placed third on the list. Now he has a movie coming out starring Jennifer Garner, his new scripts have Jack Black and Jason Segel attached (separately), and he wrote a movie titled Good Vibrations about, um, marital aids starring Charlize Theron. That’s the power of the Black List.
Simply put, “The Black List” is a collection of the best unproduced screenplays...
- 12/12/2011
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Paramount Pictures has snagged a hotly sought after sci-fi spec script called Hyperdrive, written by Morgan Jurgenson (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil) and David Daniels (aka Alex Ankeles, Vice President of Production at Panay Films.)
THR reports that Hyperdrive “is the story of a tough cop who recruits a geeky sci-fi author to help him track down a mysterious murder witness. While on their search, they find themselves in the middle of a space opera playing out on Earth” and calls the film “a cross between The Fifth Element and 48 Hrs.”
Mary Parent and Cale Boyter of Disruption Entertainment will produce the project. No production or release date has been set for Hyperdrive yet.
THR reports that Hyperdrive “is the story of a tough cop who recruits a geeky sci-fi author to help him track down a mysterious murder witness. While on their search, they find themselves in the middle of a space opera playing out on Earth” and calls the film “a cross between The Fifth Element and 48 Hrs.”
Mary Parent and Cale Boyter of Disruption Entertainment will produce the project. No production or release date has been set for Hyperdrive yet.
- 10/18/2011
- by Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
- ScifiMafia
Paramount nabs Morgan Jurgenson and Alex Ankeles' Hyperdrive is Men In Black meets Midnight Run. The spec was acquired preemptively by the studio on Wednesday night, reports Variety. Hyperdrive focuses on a touch cop who hires a science fiction writer to find a witness to a murder and is apparently being described as Men in Black meets Midnight Run. Jurgenson co-wrote as well as produced Magnolia Pictures' horror comedy Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, currently on VOD and starring Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk and lovely Katrina Bowden...
- 10/13/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Paramount Pictures has purchased a spec script called Hyperdrive , says a story at The Hollywood Reporter . To be produced by Mary Parent, the script arrives from Morgan Jurgenson and David Daniels and mixes buddy comedy with science fiction, pairing a serious cop with a nerdy sci-fi writer, both of whom move from investigating a murder to the middle of an intergalactic plot. Jurgenson is best known for his recent release, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil , which he co-wrote with that film's director, Eli Craig. Daniels, meanwhile, is said to be the pen name of Alex Ankeles, an executive at Panay Films most recently connected with Disney's The Girlfriend Equation .
- 10/13/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Disney has picked up the comedy spec "Father Figures" from Laurie Craig. Andrew Panay is producing via his Disney-based Panay Films.
In the story, a 10-year-old boy is being handed off from his father to his stepfather for the weekend, but the handoff goes wrong, and the boy gets lost. The father and stepfather, who have never gotten along, are forced to work together to find their son.
Alex Ankeles of Panay Films will oversee the project.
Panay recently set up at Disney an untitled baseball pitch from "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" scribe Allan Loeb with Bradley Cooper attached to star. Panay is producing that dramedy with Loeb and his Scarlet Fire Entertainment partner Steven Pearl.
Craig, repped by Original Artists, has made a name for herself in the family film business. She worked on "Ella Enchanted," starring Anne Hathaway and Hugh Dancy, and "Ramona and Beezus," starring Selena Gomez,...
In the story, a 10-year-old boy is being handed off from his father to his stepfather for the weekend, but the handoff goes wrong, and the boy gets lost. The father and stepfather, who have never gotten along, are forced to work together to find their son.
Alex Ankeles of Panay Films will oversee the project.
Panay recently set up at Disney an untitled baseball pitch from "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" scribe Allan Loeb with Bradley Cooper attached to star. Panay is producing that dramedy with Loeb and his Scarlet Fire Entertainment partner Steven Pearl.
Craig, repped by Original Artists, has made a name for herself in the family film business. She worked on "Ella Enchanted," starring Anne Hathaway and Hugh Dancy, and "Ramona and Beezus," starring Selena Gomez,...
- 10/17/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CORRECTED 4:11 p.m. PT Feb. 12
Dominic Monaghan has landed the lead role in Edna McCallion's psychological thriller "Pet" for MGM.
Monaghan will play Seth, a man who bumps into his old high school crush and quickly becomes obsessed with her. He takes her captive underneath the animal shelter where he works but soon suspects that his old flame is not who she seems to be.
Monaghan appeared on last week's Season 4 premiere of ABC's "Lost" and will star with Ron Perlman in Glenn McQuaid's period zombie flick "I Sell the Dead" for Glass Eye Pix.
"Pet", set to begin shooting in the next few months, is produced by Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone, Steven Schneider and Dan Katzman. MGM's Jason Weiss and Alex Ankeles will oversee production for the studio.
Monaghan ("Lord of the Rings") is repped by APA and attorney Kevin Yorn at Morris Yorn Barnes & Levine.
Gregg Goldstein reported from New York; Carly Mayberry reported from Los Angeles....
Dominic Monaghan has landed the lead role in Edna McCallion's psychological thriller "Pet" for MGM.
Monaghan will play Seth, a man who bumps into his old high school crush and quickly becomes obsessed with her. He takes her captive underneath the animal shelter where he works but soon suspects that his old flame is not who she seems to be.
Monaghan appeared on last week's Season 4 premiere of ABC's "Lost" and will star with Ron Perlman in Glenn McQuaid's period zombie flick "I Sell the Dead" for Glass Eye Pix.
"Pet", set to begin shooting in the next few months, is produced by Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone, Steven Schneider and Dan Katzman. MGM's Jason Weiss and Alex Ankeles will oversee production for the studio.
Monaghan ("Lord of the Rings") is repped by APA and attorney Kevin Yorn at Morris Yorn Barnes & Levine.
Gregg Goldstein reported from New York; Carly Mayberry reported from Los Angeles....
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