America's Funniest Home Videos executive producer Vin Di Bona has teamed with NBC for Comedy Colosseum, a one-hour reality pilot based on the hit Japanese show Theiromonea.
Hosted by Saturday Night Live alum Dean Edwards and British comedian Olivia Lee, the show features comedians vying for a $10,000 prize in an arena in front of a live audience that decides who wins or loses. Each comedian will be judged solely on the laughter of randomly selected and unsuspecting members of the crowd.
" 'Comedy Colosseum' challenges the creativity and talent of our performers like no other show before us," said Di Bona, who is executive producing the pilot with Peter Schankowitz, Al Edgington and Greg Bellon. It's belly-laugh funny.
Ron de Moraes will direct the pilot for the show, which is based on a format licensed from Tokyo Broadcasting System.
Hosted by Saturday Night Live alum Dean Edwards and British comedian Olivia Lee, the show features comedians vying for a $10,000 prize in an arena in front of a live audience that decides who wins or loses. Each comedian will be judged solely on the laughter of randomly selected and unsuspecting members of the crowd.
" 'Comedy Colosseum' challenges the creativity and talent of our performers like no other show before us," said Di Bona, who is executive producing the pilot with Peter Schankowitz, Al Edgington and Greg Bellon. It's belly-laugh funny.
Ron de Moraes will direct the pilot for the show, which is based on a format licensed from Tokyo Broadcasting System.
- 12/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Vin Di Bona Prods. has acquired feature film rights to Storm on the Horizon, former Marine Infantry officer David Morris' soldier's-eye view of one of the most intense battles of the Persian Gulf War. The deal was brokered by Irene Webb Literary on behalf of the book's agent Agnes Birnbaum of Bleecker Street Associates. The author will be an adviser on the film. "Popular literature would have you believe that Saudi Arabia was never invaded during the Gulf War," said Di Bona head of development Peter Schankowitz, who will be developing the project with Vin Di Bona and documentary filmmaker Michael Schlossman. "But this battle takes place in the Gulf War, where a motley crew of soldiers held off a major army. It's a great story."...
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