Source: @jtate
#screenwriting #film #sales
“Title: White House Down
Date: Friday, March 30, 2012
Logline: No logline given.
Writer: James Vanderbilt
Genre: Thriller , Action
Saletype: Pitch
Studio: Sony Studios
Production Company: Mythology
Producer: James Vanderbilt, Bradley Fischer, Laeta Kalogridis
Agent: WME and McKuin Frankel (Vanderbilt)
Price: $3 million
Title: Triplets
Date: Friday, March 30, 2012
Logline: No logline given.
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Sequel
Studio: Universal Studios
Production Company: Montecito Picture Co
Producer: Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuk, Tom Pollock, Ali Bell
More: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eddie Murphy and Danny DeVito attached to star.
Title: Nathan Decker
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Logline: The story centers on a politician who is caught in an affair and returns to his hometown to confront his past.
Writer: Dan Fogelman
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Script
Studio: Warner Bros.
More: Ben Affleck is attached to star.
Title: Untitled Comedy
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Logline: The story is about a San Diego news anchor Ron Burgundy.
Writer: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Sequel
Studio: Paramount Studios
Executive Overseeing: Adam Goodman
Production Company: Gary Sanchez Productions, Judd Apatow Productions
Producer: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Judd Apatow
More: Adam McKay attached to direct. Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Chris Parnell, Fred Willard, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd attached to star.
Title: Grown Ups 2
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Logline: The tale of a group of childhood friends who reunite as adults.
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Sequel
Studio: Sony Studios
Producer: Jack Giarraputo, Adam Sandler
More: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Maya Rudolph, Oliver Cooper and Salma Hayek attached to star. Dennis Dugan attached to direct.
Title: Grudge Match
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Logline: The story follows two boxers, who fifty years after their last fight, are coaxed out of retirement for one final match.
Writer: Doug Ellin
Genre: Comedy , Sports
Saletype: Rewrite
Studio: Warner Bros.
Producer: Billy Gerber, Mark Steven Johnson
Agent: CAA and Ziffren Brittenham (Ellin)
More: Pete Segel is attached to direct.
Title: You Are Here
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Logline: Story centers on a weatherman who is dependent on a best friend for his good times. When the friend inherits a business and some land from his father, the weatherman is forced to get his own life in order.
Writer: Matthew Weiner
Genre: Dark Comedy
Saletype: Script
Producer: Matthew Weiner, Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, Scott Hornbacher
More: Matthew Weiner attached to direct. Zach Galifianakis and Owen Wilson attached to star.
Title: The Great Unknown
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Logline: The story about a slacker’s attempt to find the people responsible for raiding his thoughts.
Writer: Duncan Rouleau
Genre: Sci-Fi
Saletype: Comic , Adaptation
Studio: Man of Action Studios
Production Company: Image Comics, Mark Gordon Co.
Producer: Duncan Rouleau……(more)”
Will Ferrell sends up spaghetti westerns
Source: @latimes
#screenwriting #film #comedy
“Andrew Steele has known Will Ferrell since they worked together as writer and actor on “Saturday Night Live” back in the day. So Steele can speak with some authority about his friend’s predictably unpredictable career arc.
“If you know Will,” Steele said recently, “that’s his favorite thing. He loves all of his fans to go ‘Did you hear what he’s doing now?’” Or, as Ferrell might put it in “Casa de Mi Padre,” qué pasa,dude?
In the absurdist spaghetti-western spoof, which opened in theaters Friday, Ferrell stars as Armando Alvarez, a sweetly obtuse Mexican rancher’s son who….”
