Exclusive: Skydance Sports has closed a deal with Gary Ross to rewrite and direct Old Time Hockey, from an original screenplay written by Kevin Jakubowski. The film will be produced by Skydance Sports and Jeremy Latcham.
The original screenplay is set in the rust belt of Pennsylvania involving a high school hockey rivalry from the mid-’90s that gets re-kindled 25 years later.
Ross is no stranger to uplifting sports movies as he directed and wrote the hit horse racing pic Seabiscuit, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. The four-time Oscar nominee has made a career out of writing and directing hit pics that include Pleasantville, The Hunger Games, and most recently Ocean’s 8 starring Sandra Bullock.
Jakubowski wrote the Black List feature screenplay 8-Bit Christmas which received both a PGA Award and Humanitas Prize nomination. His other credits include the screenplay for Assassination of a High School President,...
The original screenplay is set in the rust belt of Pennsylvania involving a high school hockey rivalry from the mid-’90s that gets re-kindled 25 years later.
Ross is no stranger to uplifting sports movies as he directed and wrote the hit horse racing pic Seabiscuit, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. The four-time Oscar nominee has made a career out of writing and directing hit pics that include Pleasantville, The Hunger Games, and most recently Ocean’s 8 starring Sandra Bullock.
Jakubowski wrote the Black List feature screenplay 8-Bit Christmas which received both a PGA Award and Humanitas Prize nomination. His other credits include the screenplay for Assassination of a High School President,...
- 11/30/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Billie Lourd, Colin Hanks and Aisling Bea have boarded the transatlantic comedy “And Mrs,” which is set to start shooting in east London this fall.
The British feature centers on Gemma, a woman living in London (Bea) whose American fiancé Nathan (Hanks) dies shortly before their wedding day. When, with some encouragement from her sister-in-law, she decides to go ahead and marry him anyway, she has to overcome public opinion, the law of the land and even her own family’s objections.
Bea is best known for “This Way Up,” “Living With Yourself” and “Doctor Who,” and will soon be headlining the much-anticipated film based on the songs of Take That, “Greatest Day.”
Hanks was recently seen in Paramount+ drama “The Drama,” and will soon star in Peacock’s true crime limited drama series, “A Friend of the Family.”
Lourd, who landed her breakout turn in Olivia Wilde’s feature...
The British feature centers on Gemma, a woman living in London (Bea) whose American fiancé Nathan (Hanks) dies shortly before their wedding day. When, with some encouragement from her sister-in-law, she decides to go ahead and marry him anyway, she has to overcome public opinion, the law of the land and even her own family’s objections.
Bea is best known for “This Way Up,” “Living With Yourself” and “Doctor Who,” and will soon be headlining the much-anticipated film based on the songs of Take That, “Greatest Day.”
Hanks was recently seen in Paramount+ drama “The Drama,” and will soon star in Peacock’s true crime limited drama series, “A Friend of the Family.”
Lourd, who landed her breakout turn in Olivia Wilde’s feature...
- 9/8/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment has promoted Dana Cox and Quincie Li to managers in the literary department.
In addition to bringing in new opportunities to the company’s existing roster, Cox and Li
will represent writers and directors across film and TV, as well as expand the company’s film festival outreach.
Cox was previously the company’s lit coordinator and worked for partner Josh Goldenberg. Cox began her career in theatrical marketing at Paramount Pictures, before moving to New Regency where she assisted the Chairman, Yariv Milchan. “As a second-generation, multi-racial Asian American and the first in her family to graduate college, Cox is committed to challenging the status quo, celebrating diverse storytellers, and finding new ways to create more opportunities for underrepresented voices,” said Kpe’s release. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Li already has built a roster of clients consisting of writers...
In addition to bringing in new opportunities to the company’s existing roster, Cox and Li
will represent writers and directors across film and TV, as well as expand the company’s film festival outreach.
Cox was previously the company’s lit coordinator and worked for partner Josh Goldenberg. Cox began her career in theatrical marketing at Paramount Pictures, before moving to New Regency where she assisted the Chairman, Yariv Milchan. “As a second-generation, multi-racial Asian American and the first in her family to graduate college, Cox is committed to challenging the status quo, celebrating diverse storytellers, and finding new ways to create more opportunities for underrepresented voices,” said Kpe’s release. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Li already has built a roster of clients consisting of writers...
- 3/17/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Paramount TV Studios is developing Voluntary Committal, a psychological supernatural thriller series based on the novella by Locke & Key and NOS4A2 author Joe Hill. The project hails from Hill, writer Brad Caleb Kane (Warrior), Bob Cooper and his Landscape Entertainment.
Written by Kane, Voluntary Committal is based on the story from Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts collection. It is centered on Nolan Lerner and his quest to discover the truth about his autistic brother’s disappearance and its potential connection to a dark secret from their past. The circumstances surrounding Nolan’s investigation will begin to reveal that Nolan isn’t the only person in town hiding a secret, and that there’s a darker undercurrent to this town tracing back to decades of missing persons. The series will concurrently tell the stories of Nolan’s investigation as an adult and that of his...
Written by Kane, Voluntary Committal is based on the story from Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts collection. It is centered on Nolan Lerner and his quest to discover the truth about his autistic brother’s disappearance and its potential connection to a dark secret from their past. The circumstances surrounding Nolan’s investigation will begin to reveal that Nolan isn’t the only person in town hiding a secret, and that there’s a darker undercurrent to this town tracing back to decades of missing persons. The series will concurrently tell the stories of Nolan’s investigation as an adult and that of his...
- 2/17/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
An inaugural screenwriting lab co-founded by Margot Robbie, designed to help women writers break into the action and franchise film market, has seen a stunning 100% sales return on six original pitches.
Each of the six women writers in the room marked their first major sale following the workshop, all in the action or genre arena and all with commitments for distribution. It’s not only a win for representation in a male-dominated space, it’s a victory for feature film sales at a time when coronavirus has plunged the theatrical market into chaos.
The program is titled The Lucky Exports Pitch Program, and was created by Christina Hodson and Morgan Howell of Hodson Exports and Robbie, Josey McNamara, and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap Entertainment. The six writers include Sue Chung, Charmaine DeGraté, Eileen Jones, Faith Liu, Dagny Looper, and Maria Sten. .
The writers room was a monthlong process that kicked...
Each of the six women writers in the room marked their first major sale following the workshop, all in the action or genre arena and all with commitments for distribution. It’s not only a win for representation in a male-dominated space, it’s a victory for feature film sales at a time when coronavirus has plunged the theatrical market into chaos.
The program is titled The Lucky Exports Pitch Program, and was created by Christina Hodson and Morgan Howell of Hodson Exports and Robbie, Josey McNamara, and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap Entertainment. The six writers include Sue Chung, Charmaine DeGraté, Eileen Jones, Faith Liu, Dagny Looper, and Maria Sten. .
The writers room was a monthlong process that kicked...
- 10/14/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Former Wme motion picture literary agent Mike Fera has joined Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment as a manager. He starts today.
Fera was among a number of seasoned Wme agents in play amid the recent cuts at the Hollywood agency. He met with multiple agencies and management companies before making a deal with Kaplan/Perrone. Fera is the latest Wme agent to transition to management. Over the past couple of weeks, Wme talent agent and partner Duncan Millership joined Anonymous Content, and TV lit agent and partner Matt Solo joined 3 Arts Entertainment.
Fera spent the past decade at Wme representing writers and directors. Some of the clients he worked with there include Rafael Kasal, Timo Tjahjanto, Mark Mylod, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Wes Tooke, Jay Karas, Emily Cohn and Ashley Miller.
Kaplan/Perrone, which marked its 20-year anniversary this year, also hired ICM Partners agent Andrew Murphy in March. Additionally, the...
Fera was among a number of seasoned Wme agents in play amid the recent cuts at the Hollywood agency. He met with multiple agencies and management companies before making a deal with Kaplan/Perrone. Fera is the latest Wme agent to transition to management. Over the past couple of weeks, Wme talent agent and partner Duncan Millership joined Anonymous Content, and TV lit agent and partner Matt Solo joined 3 Arts Entertainment.
Fera spent the past decade at Wme representing writers and directors. Some of the clients he worked with there include Rafael Kasal, Timo Tjahjanto, Mark Mylod, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Wes Tooke, Jay Karas, Emily Cohn and Ashley Miller.
Kaplan/Perrone, which marked its 20-year anniversary this year, also hired ICM Partners agent Andrew Murphy in March. Additionally, the...
- 5/18/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment has promoted manager Josh Goldenberg to partner. Goldenberg has been with the firm for eight years, repping writers and directors in film, TV and theater. He joined after spending seven years as a film executive.
Goldenberg’s list includes showrunners Marja-Lewis Ryan (L Word) and Michael MacLennan (Tiny Pretty Things) and screenwriters Chris Bremner (Bad Boys 3), Brad Caleb Kane (Tokyo Vice), April Prosser (Plus One), and Oscar winners Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz (BlacKkKlansman). He also works with filmmakers Mark Raso (Kodachrome) and Erica Watson (L Word) and playwrights including Rajiv Joseph (Little America).
He began his career as an executive for Mike Karz and then a VP for Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher, before Kaplan and Perrone called him with the idea of management.
“Josh started working with us with no clients, a supply closet for an office, and a desk from Ikea he had...
Goldenberg’s list includes showrunners Marja-Lewis Ryan (L Word) and Michael MacLennan (Tiny Pretty Things) and screenwriters Chris Bremner (Bad Boys 3), Brad Caleb Kane (Tokyo Vice), April Prosser (Plus One), and Oscar winners Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz (BlacKkKlansman). He also works with filmmakers Mark Raso (Kodachrome) and Erica Watson (L Word) and playwrights including Rajiv Joseph (Little America).
He began his career as an executive for Mike Karz and then a VP for Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher, before Kaplan and Perrone called him with the idea of management.
“Josh started working with us with no clients, a supply closet for an office, and a desk from Ikea he had...
- 1/31/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Update with final ranked list: The 15th annual Black List was released Monday, with Ken Kobayashi’s romance screenplay Move On leading the coveted rundown of unproduced screenplays in Hollywood with 29 votes.
The screenplay follows Teddy, who thinks he’s the only living person left in a world where humanity is frozen in time. That is until his ex-girlfriend, Leyna, shows up at his doorstep. Together, they venture to find the cause behind the freeze and in the process, confront the issues that plagued their relationship before it’s too late.
Some titles on this year’s list have already been snatched up by studios. Don’t Worry Darling, with 19 votes on today’s list, had 18 bids going for it over the summer, with New Line winning and Olivia Wilde directing and starring as exclusively reported by Deadline. Also as exclusively reported by Deadline this morning, Netflix snapped up for high six figures First Ascent,...
The screenplay follows Teddy, who thinks he’s the only living person left in a world where humanity is frozen in time. That is until his ex-girlfriend, Leyna, shows up at his doorstep. Together, they venture to find the cause behind the freeze and in the process, confront the issues that plagued their relationship before it’s too late.
Some titles on this year’s list have already been snatched up by studios. Don’t Worry Darling, with 19 votes on today’s list, had 18 bids going for it over the summer, with New Line winning and Olivia Wilde directing and starring as exclusively reported by Deadline. Also as exclusively reported by Deadline this morning, Netflix snapped up for high six figures First Ascent,...
- 12/16/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment and Christina Hodson’s Hodson Exports are partnering up for the Lucky Exports Pitch Program (Lepp) to help female writers develop original feature films.
Writers during the four-week program will break, outline and develop their ideas into studio-ready pitches, which must demonstrate their ability to write an action film while gaining some exposure in the process.
The six female-identifying writers were selected through a process where the samples were read blindly and from those, a pool of writers were selected to apply to the program, which will be run by Robbie, Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap and Hodson and Morgan Howell of Hodson Exports. More than a dozen speakers, including actors, directors, producers and writers, will be participating in a Q&a and workshops. These speakers include Sue Kroll, Chris Morgan, Zak Penn, Chad Strahelski, Max Borenstein and Lindsey Beer.
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Writers during the four-week program will break, outline and develop their ideas into studio-ready pitches, which must demonstrate their ability to write an action film while gaining some exposure in the process.
The six female-identifying writers were selected through a process where the samples were read blindly and from those, a pool of writers were selected to apply to the program, which will be run by Robbie, Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap and Hodson and Morgan Howell of Hodson Exports. More than a dozen speakers, including actors, directors, producers and writers, will be participating in a Q&a and workshops. These speakers include Sue Kroll, Chris Morgan, Zak Penn, Chad Strahelski, Max Borenstein and Lindsey Beer.
Also Read: '...
- 11/5/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
LuckyChap Entertainment and Hodson Exports have partnered to launch the Lucky Exports Pitch Program (Lepp). The new initiative has selected six female-identifying writers to participate in the program, in which they will each focus on developing their own idea for an original action feature film.
The program will be run by Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap Entertainment and Christina Hodson and Morgan Howell of Hodson Exports.
LuckyChap Entertainment and Hodson Exports will be attached to produce each project. The four-week writers’ room begins Nov. 4 and runs through Dec. 6. Each of the projects will be original action movies that are producible for $30 million and under.
Over the course of four weeks, the writers will break, outline and develop their ideas into studio-ready pitches. Spanning a range of tones and genres, all the projects will demonstrate the participants’ ability to write action. The ambition of the program is...
The program will be run by Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap Entertainment and Christina Hodson and Morgan Howell of Hodson Exports.
LuckyChap Entertainment and Hodson Exports will be attached to produce each project. The four-week writers’ room begins Nov. 4 and runs through Dec. 6. Each of the projects will be original action movies that are producible for $30 million and under.
Over the course of four weeks, the writers will break, outline and develop their ideas into studio-ready pitches. Spanning a range of tones and genres, all the projects will demonstrate the participants’ ability to write action. The ambition of the program is...
- 11/5/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Updated With Full List Of Scripts, Writers, And Reps: Catherine The Great, about the rise and life of the famous (sometimes notorious) 18th-Century Russian monarch, was the top vote-getter among 70 scripts chosen for the 2014 Black List of the year’s best un-produced scripts. The screenplay, by Los Angeles writer and producer Kristina Lauren Anderson, was announced as part of an hour-plus process on Twitter and YouTube this morning.
Each of the 70 screenplays on this 10th annual list was chosen by a group of 250 development executives, agents and other Hollywood insiders as among the year’s best un-produced scripts in a process overseen by Franklin Leonard of http://www.blcklst.com. Anderson’s screenplay received 51 votes.
Other notables in the list include writer/actor/director Kenneth Lonergan with Manchester-By-The-Sea, which is being produced by Matt Damon and Chris Moore. Randall Green had two scripts make the list, The Swimsuit Issue and Cartoon Girl.
Each of the 70 screenplays on this 10th annual list was chosen by a group of 250 development executives, agents and other Hollywood insiders as among the year’s best un-produced scripts in a process overseen by Franklin Leonard of http://www.blcklst.com. Anderson’s screenplay received 51 votes.
Other notables in the list include writer/actor/director Kenneth Lonergan with Manchester-By-The-Sea, which is being produced by Matt Damon and Chris Moore. Randall Green had two scripts make the list, The Swimsuit Issue and Cartoon Girl.
- 12/15/2014
- by David Bloom and Jen Yamato
- Deadline
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