Soon-to-launch streamer HBO Max continues to work to bulk up its originals content library.
The WarnerMedia-owned direct-to-consumer platform has set a script development deal for “The Beach,” a one-hour drama based on the book “Beach Lane,” by New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.
Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith are writing and executive producing alongside “Vampire Diaries” co-creator Julie Plec through her My So-Called Company production shingle, Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo of Alloy Entertainment and Jenna Dewan for Everheart Productions. Everheart Productions’ Jean Song is co-producing. Warner Bros. TV is the studio.
The series “follows three local teens who work in the Hamptons’ lavish estates, exclusive beach clubs, and breath-taking boats over one magical summer as their lives and hearts become increasingly intertwined with wealthy families who swoop in from the city for the summer season,” according to HBO Max.
HBO Max will make its debut in May,...
The WarnerMedia-owned direct-to-consumer platform has set a script development deal for “The Beach,” a one-hour drama based on the book “Beach Lane,” by New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.
Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith are writing and executive producing alongside “Vampire Diaries” co-creator Julie Plec through her My So-Called Company production shingle, Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo of Alloy Entertainment and Jenna Dewan for Everheart Productions. Everheart Productions’ Jean Song is co-producing. Warner Bros. TV is the studio.
The series “follows three local teens who work in the Hamptons’ lavish estates, exclusive beach clubs, and breath-taking boats over one magical summer as their lives and hearts become increasingly intertwined with wealthy families who swoop in from the city for the summer season,” according to HBO Max.
HBO Max will make its debut in May,...
- 12/18/2019
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max has put in development The Beach, a one-hour drama based on New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz’s book Beach Lane, from Life Sentence creators Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith and their In Good Company productions, Legacies creator/executive producer Julie Plec, Alloy Entertainment, Everheart Productions and Warner Bros. TV, where Cardillo and Keith are under a deal.
Written by Cardillo and Keith, The Beach follows three local teens who work in the Hamptons’ lavish estates, exclusive beach clubs, and breath-taking boats over one magical summer as their lives and hearts become increasingly intertwined with wealthy families who swoop in from the city for the summer season.
Cardillo and Keith executive produce for In Good Company, along with Plec for My So-Called Company, Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo for Alloy Entertainment and Jenna Dewan for Everheart Productions. Jean Song co-produces for Everheart. Warner Bros. TV is the studio.
Written by Cardillo and Keith, The Beach follows three local teens who work in the Hamptons’ lavish estates, exclusive beach clubs, and breath-taking boats over one magical summer as their lives and hearts become increasingly intertwined with wealthy families who swoop in from the city for the summer season.
Cardillo and Keith executive produce for In Good Company, along with Plec for My So-Called Company, Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo for Alloy Entertainment and Jenna Dewan for Everheart Productions. Jean Song co-produces for Everheart. Warner Bros. TV is the studio.
- 12/18/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Andy Fickman will direct and produce the music-driven romantic comedy “Roomies” with Jenna Dewan via her company, Everheart Productions.
Fickman’s Oops Doughnuts’ Betsy Sullenger and Everheart senior VP Jean Song will also produce.
“Roomies” is based on the 2017 romance novel of the same name by Christina Lauren, about a woman who marries an illegal immigrant in order to keep him in the country and help him get his dream job of starring in a Broadway musical. The story follows the couple as their marriage of convenience evolves from awkward roommates to besotted lovers. Christina Lauren, the combined pen name of Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, will adapt their own novel.
Andy Fickman has directed and executive produced CBS’s “Kevin Can Wait” and Netflix’s stand up special “Never Don’t Give Up,” both starring Kevin James. He also helmed James in “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2,” Disney Channel’s “Liv & Maddie,...
Fickman’s Oops Doughnuts’ Betsy Sullenger and Everheart senior VP Jean Song will also produce.
“Roomies” is based on the 2017 romance novel of the same name by Christina Lauren, about a woman who marries an illegal immigrant in order to keep him in the country and help him get his dream job of starring in a Broadway musical. The story follows the couple as their marriage of convenience evolves from awkward roommates to besotted lovers. Christina Lauren, the combined pen name of Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, will adapt their own novel.
Andy Fickman has directed and executive produced CBS’s “Kevin Can Wait” and Netflix’s stand up special “Never Don’t Give Up,” both starring Kevin James. He also helmed James in “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2,” Disney Channel’s “Liv & Maddie,...
- 5/4/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Novelist Jenny Han’s Ya book To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before is en route to the big screen just two months after it hit shelves. Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment has picked up rights to the NY Times bestseller about high schooler Lara Jean Song, who writes love letters to the five boys she’s ever loved and keeps them locked away in a hatbox until the day her letters are mailed, upending her real-life love life. Adapting the book will be writer Annie Neal, who made the Black List last year with her script Beauty Queen, about an unhappily […]...
- 6/26/2014
- Deadline
Straight to the penthouse, please.
Summit Entertainment is in the process of scooping up former DreamWorks exec Marc Haimes' original screenplay "Elevator Men." The producer deals are still in flux but would include Mark Gordon Prods. execs Gordon and Josh McLaughlin ("12 Rounds"). Gordon took the script into Summit.
Summit's Erik Feig and Jean Song will oversee for the studio.
The dark thriller, which likely will change titles, takes a less romanticized look at the human-vampire interactions depicted in such recent movies and series as Summit's "Twilight" and HBO's "True Blood."
"It's a reaction to all of these stories now -- TV shows and movies -- that play this kind of romantic, fantastical, sexy aspect of getting involved with monsters," Haimes said. "This is the dark, sinister version of what really happens when you decide you're going to get close to really bad things. That fantasy element is something I...
Summit Entertainment is in the process of scooping up former DreamWorks exec Marc Haimes' original screenplay "Elevator Men." The producer deals are still in flux but would include Mark Gordon Prods. execs Gordon and Josh McLaughlin ("12 Rounds"). Gordon took the script into Summit.
Summit's Erik Feig and Jean Song will oversee for the studio.
The dark thriller, which likely will change titles, takes a less romanticized look at the human-vampire interactions depicted in such recent movies and series as Summit's "Twilight" and HBO's "True Blood."
"It's a reaction to all of these stories now -- TV shows and movies -- that play this kind of romantic, fantastical, sexy aspect of getting involved with monsters," Haimes said. "This is the dark, sinister version of what really happens when you decide you're going to get close to really bad things. That fantasy element is something I...
- 3/26/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Rose Byrne has landed the lead role opposite Nicolas Cage in the sci-fi thriller Knowing for Summit Entertainment and Escape Artists.
Byrne will play the daughter of a woman who buried a 1962 time capsule bearing the dates of the assassinations of historical figures, the hotel fire death of the wife of a professor (Cage) and an imminent world apocalypse. After the professor discovers its contents and alerts her, the initially skeptical Byrne begins remembering strange incidents from her childhood.
Alex Proyas (I, Robot) will direct the screenplay by Ryne Douglas Pearson, with script revisions by Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Stuart Hazeldine and Proyas. Escape's Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black and Steve Tisch will produce with Topher Dow. Norm Golightly and David Bloomfield are exec producers.
Summit will fully finance and distribute the film, with Erik Feig and Jean Song overseeing the project for the studio. Production is set to begin March 25 in Melbourne, Australia.
Byrne will play the daughter of a woman who buried a 1962 time capsule bearing the dates of the assassinations of historical figures, the hotel fire death of the wife of a professor (Cage) and an imminent world apocalypse. After the professor discovers its contents and alerts her, the initially skeptical Byrne begins remembering strange incidents from her childhood.
Alex Proyas (I, Robot) will direct the screenplay by Ryne Douglas Pearson, with script revisions by Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Stuart Hazeldine and Proyas. Escape's Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black and Steve Tisch will produce with Topher Dow. Norm Golightly and David Bloomfield are exec producers.
Summit will fully finance and distribute the film, with Erik Feig and Jean Song overseeing the project for the studio. Production is set to begin March 25 in Melbourne, Australia.
Rose Byrne (pictured inside; 28 Weeks Later, Sunshine) has landed the lead role opposite Nicolas Cage in the sci-fi thriller Knowing for Summit Entertainment and Escape Artists. Byrne will play the daughter of a woman who buried a 1962 time capsule bearing the dates of the assassinations of historical figures, the hotel fire death of the wife of a professor (Cage) and an imminent world apocalypse. After the professor discovers its contents and alerts her, the initially skeptical Byrne begins remembering strange incidents from her childhood. Alex Proyas (I, Robot, Dark City, The Crow) will direct the screenplay by Ryne Douglas Pearson, with script revisions by Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Stuart Hazeldine and Proyas. Summit will fully finance and distribute the film, with Erik Feig and Jean Song overseeing the project for the studio. Production is set to begin March 25 in Melbourne, Australia.
- 3/4/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
In one of its first script deals since becoming a full-service studio, Summit Entertainment has picked up Sensei, a comedy spec by David Caspe. JC Spink is producing via his Benderspink banner.
The script follows an overweight former karate champion who agrees to a nationally televised rematch with his nemesis to settle a score the two have kept since an historic 1984 showdown. The Karate Kid, perhaps not coincidentally, was released that year.
Summit president of production Erik Feig and vp production Jean Song will oversee for the company.
Benderspink's Jon Silk brought in the script and worked on it with the company's Langley Perer.
Benderspink has the comedies Burt Dickinson set up at New Line, Bob the Musical in development at Disney and This Bill Smith at Columbia.
Caspe moved from Chicago armed with a degree in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York. As an artist, he had his work exhibited in New York and Chicago and also worked as a sculptor before trying his hand at screenwriting.
The script follows an overweight former karate champion who agrees to a nationally televised rematch with his nemesis to settle a score the two have kept since an historic 1984 showdown. The Karate Kid, perhaps not coincidentally, was released that year.
Summit president of production Erik Feig and vp production Jean Song will oversee for the company.
Benderspink's Jon Silk brought in the script and worked on it with the company's Langley Perer.
Benderspink has the comedies Burt Dickinson set up at New Line, Bob the Musical in development at Disney and This Bill Smith at Columbia.
Caspe moved from Chicago armed with a degree in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York. As an artist, he had his work exhibited in New York and Chicago and also worked as a sculptor before trying his hand at screenwriting.
- 9/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Summit Entertainment has nabbed Bear Aderhold and Tom Sullivan's broadly comic spec script Mental and has committed Mandalay Pictures to produce the feature.
Mental follows an orderly who is promised part of a $3 million inheritance from a mentally disturbed patient in his care -- but only if they can break out of an asylum and get to court to collect the loot. On the way from the Pasadena institution to Santa Monica, the seemingly stable patient begins to reveal personality disorders that make for a disastrous road trip.
Summitt president of production Erik Feig and vp production Jean Song are overseeing the project for the studio.
"We were excited to read (the) terrific comic two-hander and to find a second picture to make with our friends at Summit," Mandalay president Cathy Schulman said. Her company also is producing the Summit release Get Some. Mandalay executive vp David Zelon is on location in Orlando overseeing the shoot.
Mental follows an orderly who is promised part of a $3 million inheritance from a mentally disturbed patient in his care -- but only if they can break out of an asylum and get to court to collect the loot. On the way from the Pasadena institution to Santa Monica, the seemingly stable patient begins to reveal personality disorders that make for a disastrous road trip.
Summitt president of production Erik Feig and vp production Jean Song are overseeing the project for the studio.
"We were excited to read (the) terrific comic two-hander and to find a second picture to make with our friends at Summit," Mandalay president Cathy Schulman said. Her company also is producing the Summit release Get Some. Mandalay executive vp David Zelon is on location in Orlando overseeing the shoot.
- 7/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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