FaZe Clan, the leading esports organization, is giving aspiring gamers a chance to become one of its own.
On FaZe Up (the show’s working title), Quibi subscribers and aspiring gaming pros will be invited to submit videos showing off their skills, Variety reports. Then, fellow Quibi subscribers will vote on six finalists, who will travel to Los Angeles to compete in a series of both digital and real-life challenges. The FaZe Clan will then choose one winner, who will receive a cash prize in addition to a place on the team.
FaZe Up is being produced for Quibi by digital production studio Whistle. It will be directed by William Silva Reddington and Harrison Nalévansky will serve as showrunner. EPs include: the FaZe Clan, Nathan Gaines, Dennis Lisberger, Mike Basone, Charles Segars, and Nalévansky.
“The FaZe Up show represents our next chapter in content creation with our first premium production...
On FaZe Up (the show’s working title), Quibi subscribers and aspiring gaming pros will be invited to submit videos showing off their skills, Variety reports. Then, fellow Quibi subscribers will vote on six finalists, who will travel to Los Angeles to compete in a series of both digital and real-life challenges. The FaZe Clan will then choose one winner, who will receive a cash prize in addition to a place on the team.
FaZe Up is being produced for Quibi by digital production studio Whistle. It will be directed by William Silva Reddington and Harrison Nalévansky will serve as showrunner. EPs include: the FaZe Clan, Nathan Gaines, Dennis Lisberger, Mike Basone, Charles Segars, and Nalévansky.
“The FaZe Up show represents our next chapter in content creation with our first premium production...
- 2/5/2020
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Call it “America’s Next Top Gamer.”
Quibi pacted with top esports team FaZe Clan for a reality-competition show — giving one lucky Quibi subscriber the chance to join the roster.
Here’s how it will work: Quibi will let viewers of “FaZe Up” (working title) submit videos showing off their gaming skills and making the case to join the team. Then Quibi subscribers will vote to determine six finalists, who will travel to FaZe Clan’s HQ to compete in a series of real-life and gaming challenges. Ultimately, one gamer (selected by FaZe) will be crowned the winner, receiving a slot on the team and a cash prize. It’s produced for Quibi by entertainment and sports media company Whistle.
“The ‘FaZe Up’ show represents our next chapter in content creation with our first premium production effort and in collaboration with innovative partners like Whistle and Quibi,” FaZe Clan head...
Quibi pacted with top esports team FaZe Clan for a reality-competition show — giving one lucky Quibi subscriber the chance to join the roster.
Here’s how it will work: Quibi will let viewers of “FaZe Up” (working title) submit videos showing off their gaming skills and making the case to join the team. Then Quibi subscribers will vote to determine six finalists, who will travel to FaZe Clan’s HQ to compete in a series of real-life and gaming challenges. Ultimately, one gamer (selected by FaZe) will be crowned the winner, receiving a slot on the team and a cash prize. It’s produced for Quibi by entertainment and sports media company Whistle.
“The ‘FaZe Up’ show represents our next chapter in content creation with our first premium production effort and in collaboration with innovative partners like Whistle and Quibi,” FaZe Clan head...
- 2/4/2020
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
James Lipton is is all Q&A’d out. The legendary Inside The Actors Studio frontman is stepping down as host of the venerable interview series, which in Fall 2019 will move from its longtime home at Bravo to Ovation TV. He will be replaced by rotating guest hosts.
“It’s very gratifying to see the legacy of Inside The Actors Studio being carried forward for a new generation to appreciate and enjoy,” said Lipton, who created the thespian hangout in 1994. “I made a vow early on that we would not deal in gossip — only in craft, and Ovation, as a network dedicated to the arts,...
“It’s very gratifying to see the legacy of Inside The Actors Studio being carried forward for a new generation to appreciate and enjoy,” said Lipton, who created the thespian hangout in 1994. “I made a vow early on that we would not deal in gossip — only in craft, and Ovation, as a network dedicated to the arts,...
- 9/24/2018
- TVLine.com
“Inside the Actors Studio” is on the move.
Ovation TV and the Actors Studio have partnered to produce and air future episodes of the award-winning interview series about the art of acting, which has aired on Bravo since its launch in 1994. As part of the agreement, Ovation will also curate content from the series’ extensive library for additional episodes.
Ovation will premiere the new episodes in the Fall of 2019. James Lipton, the series’ creator, original host and executive producer, will turn the microphone over to a number of rotating guest hosts, who are in consideration now by the network and The Actors Studio.
“It’s very gratifying to see the legacy of ‘Inside The Actors Studio’ being carried forward for a new generation to appreciate and enjoy,” said Lipton. “I made a vow early on that we would not deal in gossip — only in craft, and Ovation, as a network dedicated to the arts,...
Ovation TV and the Actors Studio have partnered to produce and air future episodes of the award-winning interview series about the art of acting, which has aired on Bravo since its launch in 1994. As part of the agreement, Ovation will also curate content from the series’ extensive library for additional episodes.
Ovation will premiere the new episodes in the Fall of 2019. James Lipton, the series’ creator, original host and executive producer, will turn the microphone over to a number of rotating guest hosts, who are in consideration now by the network and The Actors Studio.
“It’s very gratifying to see the legacy of ‘Inside The Actors Studio’ being carried forward for a new generation to appreciate and enjoy,” said Lipton. “I made a vow early on that we would not deal in gossip — only in craft, and Ovation, as a network dedicated to the arts,...
- 9/24/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Drama series marks arts network’s first foray into scripted television.
Storyscape Entertainment’s Bob Cooper has set the one-hour scripted series for development at Ovation TV and hired UK-based Simeon Thornton to write the pilot.
Hot Art is based on the book Hot Art: Chasing Thieves And Detectives Through The Secret World Of Stolen Art by Canadian journalist Joshua Knelman.
The story takes place in London as a squad of undercover police officers from Scotland Yard are tasked with solving art crimes and catching the perpetrators.
Cooper will produce for Storyscape with Sandy Shenkman overseeing development. Cate Weber will oversee development for Ovation TV.
“We are thrilled to work with Bob Cooper at Storyscape Entertainment on the first scripted series we are developing at Ovation TV,” Ovation TV CEO Charles Segars said.
“Through their stewardship, we look forward to seeing Hot Art brought to life to join the rest of our high-quality programming such as Versailles...
Storyscape Entertainment’s Bob Cooper has set the one-hour scripted series for development at Ovation TV and hired UK-based Simeon Thornton to write the pilot.
Hot Art is based on the book Hot Art: Chasing Thieves And Detectives Through The Secret World Of Stolen Art by Canadian journalist Joshua Knelman.
The story takes place in London as a squad of undercover police officers from Scotland Yard are tasked with solving art crimes and catching the perpetrators.
Cooper will produce for Storyscape with Sandy Shenkman overseeing development. Cate Weber will oversee development for Ovation TV.
“We are thrilled to work with Bob Cooper at Storyscape Entertainment on the first scripted series we are developing at Ovation TV,” Ovation TV CEO Charles Segars said.
“Through their stewardship, we look forward to seeing Hot Art brought to life to join the rest of our high-quality programming such as Versailles...
- 3/8/2017
- ScreenDaily
"Pixels" and "This Means War" scribe Tim Dowling has been hired to pen a new draft of the time-travel adventure "Stealing Time," an old script by "Jurassic World" director Colin Trevorrow who will executive produce.
The story involves a scientist who flees into the past to protect his time machine from crooks bent on exploiting time travel. This forces his son and grandson to rebuild the device in the present to rescue him.
Bob Cooper and Charles Segars will produce that project, no word as yet when it might go into production.
In other script news, New Line has acquired Michael Gunn's screenplay "The Virginian," a period action thriller about George Washington. Donald De Line will produce.
The story follows a down-and-out young Washington who accepts a dangerous mission to conquer a French fort and save the American colonies.
Sources: Heat Vision & Deadline...
The story involves a scientist who flees into the past to protect his time machine from crooks bent on exploiting time travel. This forces his son and grandson to rebuild the device in the present to rescue him.
Bob Cooper and Charles Segars will produce that project, no word as yet when it might go into production.
In other script news, New Line has acquired Michael Gunn's screenplay "The Virginian," a period action thriller about George Washington. Donald De Line will produce.
The story follows a down-and-out young Washington who accepts a dangerous mission to conquer a French fort and save the American colonies.
Sources: Heat Vision & Deadline...
- 9/24/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
A remake of the TV series “Fame” is in development at Lifetime, TheWrap has confirmed. The re-imagining of the hit 1980 movie and popular television series will focus on a group of adults struggling to balance the high pressures of life at a performing arts college with the trials of their personal lives. MGM Television announced in 2012 that Nigel Lythgoe, the executive producer of “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance,” will re-imagine “Fame” as a new, scripted series. See photos: 27 Movie-to-tv Remakes in the Works: Hollywood's Big Screen to Small Screen Craze Lythgoe will executive produce alongside Chad Gutstein and Charles Segars.
- 6/9/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Head up to the attic and pull your leg warmers out of storage, because Fame is coming back to TV.
Lifetime has picked up a reboot of the ’80s series — which has been in the works since 2012 — with So You Think You Can Dance‘s Nigel Lythgoe attached to executive-produce.
PhotosUnauthorized Full House Story Gets Premiere Date at Lifetime
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the revival — much like the original 1980 film and follow-up NBC series — will revolve around a group of adults struggling to balance the pressures of life at a performing arts college with their personal lives.
Josh Safran (Smash,...
Lifetime has picked up a reboot of the ’80s series — which has been in the works since 2012 — with So You Think You Can Dance‘s Nigel Lythgoe attached to executive-produce.
PhotosUnauthorized Full House Story Gets Premiere Date at Lifetime
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the revival — much like the original 1980 film and follow-up NBC series — will revolve around a group of adults struggling to balance the pressures of life at a performing arts college with their personal lives.
Josh Safran (Smash,...
- 6/9/2015
- TVLine.com
As Svp Programming and Production, Scott Woodward will oversee Ovation’s multi-platform content, including scheduling and program planning, acquisitions, co-productions, development, original programming, on-air promotions, VOD and the networks’s digital operations. He will also oversee the arts network’s in-house multi-platform, production unit, Ovation Studios, which launched last May. The unit has produced the network’s series The Art Of, Culture Pop and Broadway Bash. He will report directly to CEO Charles Segars. Before joining Ovation, Woodward served as VP, Programming and Production at Tvgn and was responsible for the network’s re-launch in 2004. Previously, Woodward was an executive producer at E! Entertainment Television for domestic, international and online series and specials.
- 11/18/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
ITV Studios America has appointed Rob Shaftel as Svp Development (East Coast). Based in ITV Studios America’s New York office, he will develop new programming for the U.S. broadcast and cable markets, reporting to Bruce Robertson, head of development for ITV Studios America. Shaftel was previously VP Development at unscripted production company Leftfield Pictures and worked in program development at Discovery. Entertainment One Reality has tapped Jeff Hevert as VP Current Programming and Development, Alternative Programming U.S. eOne Reality. Based in the Company’s Los Angeles office and reporting to John Morayniss, CEO of eOne Television, and Tara Long, Svp Us Alternative Programming, Hevert will be responsible for developing new series as well as overseeing current programming. He spent the past two years as a development executive on MTV’s West Coast reality team. Robert Weiss has been named Chief Creative Officer of arts network Ovation. Weiss...
- 12/4/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
"American Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance" executive producer Nigel Lythgoe is hopping onboard MGM's planned new TV incarnation of its "Fame" franchise says Deadline.
Alan Parker’s 1980 movie, not to mention the subsequent 1982 TV series and 2009's feature remake, chronicled the lives of talented students paying their dues on the road to success.
The new series is being called a re-imagining that will "strive to embody the spirit" of the originals but update it for a contemporary setting. Kary McHoul, Charles Segars and Chad Gutstein will produce.
Alan Parker’s 1980 movie, not to mention the subsequent 1982 TV series and 2009's feature remake, chronicled the lives of talented students paying their dues on the road to success.
The new series is being called a re-imagining that will "strive to embody the spirit" of the originals but update it for a contemporary setting. Kary McHoul, Charles Segars and Chad Gutstein will produce.
- 8/29/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Hold on to your sweatbands: "Fame" is gonna live forever -- or at least a little longer -- thanks to a Nigel Lythgoe re-imagining of the 1980s film and series about kids striving to succeed in the brutal world of song and dance. MGM Television announced Tuesday that the executive producer of "American Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance" will re-imagine series. He will executive produce with Kary McHoul, president of Nigel Lythgoe Productions, Charles Segars ("National Treasure") and Chad Gutstein.
- 8/28/2012
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
MGM Television has teamed with American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance executive producer Nigel Lythgoe for Fame, a scripted series based on the 1980 MGM film and 1982 MGM TV series that chronicled the lives of talented students paying their dues on the road to success. Lythgoe will serve as executive producer on the project, along with Nigel Lythgoe Prods. president Kary McHoul, Segars Media’s Charles Segars (National Treasure) and Chad Gutstein. According to the producers, the new project is a re-imagening of the original film and series that will strive to embody their spirit. Set against the backdrop of today’s unprecedented access to the world of celebrity, it will expose the gritty struggle, heartache and pain endured in the search for stardom. “This is a great opportunity for MGM to partner with world-class producer Nigel Lythgoe, whose unmatched experience with telling the true stories of talented...
- 8/28/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The unoriginality in Hollywood is well-documented, even expected at this point. 2011 set an all-time record for sequels, accounting for a fifth of the year’s wide releases, and there seems to be no end in sight to the prequels, sequels, remakes, and reboots as studios continue to invest in stale ideas. Unfortunately, it’s spreading. A trend shows the movie industry’s lobotomized, risk-averse decision-making is infecting TV now more than ever.
Previously: “Zombieland” and “The Punisher” TV Series in the Works at Fox
Creative, original, scripted shows already compete for attention with “unscripted” reality programming on thousands of channels, or network remakes of old TV series (like NBC’s upcoming “Munsters” or ABC’s failed “Charlie’s Angels”). Now, TV remakes of popular film titles could crowd the channels until, like the box office, there’s only a fraction of “new” left.
Recent attempts at movie-to-tv adaptations have been flops,...
Previously: “Zombieland” and “The Punisher” TV Series in the Works at Fox
Creative, original, scripted shows already compete for attention with “unscripted” reality programming on thousands of channels, or network remakes of old TV series (like NBC’s upcoming “Munsters” or ABC’s failed “Charlie’s Angels”). Now, TV remakes of popular film titles could crowd the channels until, like the box office, there’s only a fraction of “new” left.
Recent attempts at movie-to-tv adaptations have been flops,...
- 1/18/2012
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
[1] Seth Rogen is probably most familiar from the R-rated comedies he's starred in, many of them involving Judd Apatow. But he's actually got a plenty of experience with family-friendly credits as well, lending his vocal talents to films like Horton Hears a Who! and the Kung Fu Panda films. Now, he's signed on to produce and possibly star in a new project that'll likely fall in the latter category, a Disney spy comedy called The B Team. More details after the jump. Variety [2] reports that the story revolves around an top agent who gets kidnapped and must depend on his nerdy tech support and research team to save him. Disney's had the project in development since 2008, when it acquired the pitch from writers Derek Guiley and David Schneiderman. Charles Segars is set to produce with Rogen, and Guiley and Schneider's manager to executive produce. The B Team is just the...
- 12/23/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
‘Disney’ and ‘Seth Rogen’ are three words you probably wouldn’t expect ever to hear in the same sentence, but the movie industry is full of surprises, and if Robert Rodriguez can include Spy Kids and Sin City in his credits, then there’s nothing to stop Seth Rogen from coming on board to produce a Disney film.
Variety are reporting that Rogen, fresh from his turn in the indie comedy 50/50, which has been doing brilliantly in the past few months, is now set to board Disney’s spy comedy The B Team as a producer, with an eye to star in it too.
The project focuses on,
“a top secret agent being kidnapped, leaving his tech support team and researchers to rescue him.”
Disney picked up the project back in 2008, buying a pitch from the writing team of Derek Guiley and David Schneiderman (Chasing Liberty), with Charles Segars set...
Variety are reporting that Rogen, fresh from his turn in the indie comedy 50/50, which has been doing brilliantly in the past few months, is now set to board Disney’s spy comedy The B Team as a producer, with an eye to star in it too.
The project focuses on,
“a top secret agent being kidnapped, leaving his tech support team and researchers to rescue him.”
Disney picked up the project back in 2008, buying a pitch from the writing team of Derek Guiley and David Schneiderman (Chasing Liberty), with Charles Segars set...
- 12/22/2011
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Mipcom: Those of you who cheered when Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren went mano-a-mano in Roland Emmerich’s 1992 sci-flick Universal Soldier will be pleased to know that it is being rebooted as a TV series. Damian Kindler (Stargate, Sanctuary) is writing the show, which will be produced by FremantleMedia North America, the U.S. arm of the London-based TV producer. Allen Shapiro and Craig Baumgarten, who produced the original movie, will be executive producers. Shapiro is currently chairman of TV Guide Network and was a founder of Mosaic Media Group, while Baumgarten’s movie credits include Hook and Shattered Glass. Baumgarten has a long track record as a studio executive including stints at Paramount, Columbia, Fox and Lorimar. Meanwhile, Fremantle has hired Charles Segars, creator and exec producer of both National Treasure movies, to create Blood & Treasure (working title), a TV drama series about two brothers who go around...
- 10/3/2011
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline TV
Mipcom: Those of you who cheered when Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren went mano-a-mano in Roland Emmerich’s 1992 sci-flick Universal Soldier will be pleased to know that it is being rebooted as a TV series. Damian Kindler (Stargate, Sanctuary) is writing the show, which will be produced by FremantleMedia North America, the U.S. arm of the London-based TV producer. Allen Shapiro and Craig Baumgarten, who produced the original movie, will be executive producers. Shapiro is currently chairman of TV Guide Network and was a founder of Mosaic Media Group, while Baumgarten’s movie credits include Hook and Shattered Glass. Baumgarten has a long track record as a studio executive including stints at Paramount, Columbia, Fox and Lorimar. Meanwhile, Fremantle has hired Charles Segars, creator and exec producer of both National Treasure movies, to create Blood & Treasure (working title), a TV drama series about two brothers who go around...
- 10/3/2011
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline London
Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has come under fire from Charles Segars, the CEO of arts network Ovation, after calling for the defunding of the National Endowment for the Arts on the Fox show "Hannity." Segars lambasted Palin in an official announcement, calling her comments "uninformed rhetoric." "While it's not surprising that those hungry for constant media attention, like Sarah Palin, would use the misguided words of one former NPR employee as fodder to call the entire organization a mouth piece for the Left, I am surprised that she would go...
- 3/14/2011
- The Wrap
Basic Instict director Paul Verhoeven is quite busy man.
He already has that The Hidden Force project bookmarked, and now it looks that another project will go first, and that new project is something titled Eternal.
We have some interesting details about the upcoming Verhoeven story, so make sure to check out…
Eternal centers on “..a married recovering alcoholic who helps a woman threatening to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.
They end up in bed, and in a torrid sexual affair. When he gets home, he’s confronted by his wife and a private investigator, with photos spread across a table.
He thinks he’s busted, but the photos that should have shown him in the clinches with his mistress instead show him alone, drinking alcohol. He initially questions his own sanity, but progressively figures out that this temptress is a ghost who is after his soul.”
The script...
He already has that The Hidden Force project bookmarked, and now it looks that another project will go first, and that new project is something titled Eternal.
We have some interesting details about the upcoming Verhoeven story, so make sure to check out…
Eternal centers on “..a married recovering alcoholic who helps a woman threatening to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.
They end up in bed, and in a torrid sexual affair. When he gets home, he’s confronted by his wife and a private investigator, with photos spread across a table.
He thinks he’s busted, but the photos that should have shown him in the clinches with his mistress instead show him alone, drinking alcohol. He initially questions his own sanity, but progressively figures out that this temptress is a ghost who is after his soul.”
The script...
- 10/31/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Paul Verhoeven ("Basic Instinct," "Total Recall") has signed on to direct the supernatural thriller "Eternal" for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment reports Variety.
The story centers on a recovering alcholic who believes that he's cheated on his wife, only to learn that 'the other woman' is a ghost who is after his soul. Richard D'Ovidio will re-write a script by David Loughery ("Obsessed").
Kimmel, John Penotti, Peter Block and Charles Segars will produce. Shooting kicks off mid-next year, likely after Verhoeven finishes his adaptation of Louis Couperus' historical drama novel "Hidden Force".
The story centers on a recovering alcholic who believes that he's cheated on his wife, only to learn that 'the other woman' is a ghost who is after his soul. Richard D'Ovidio will re-write a script by David Loughery ("Obsessed").
Kimmel, John Penotti, Peter Block and Charles Segars will produce. Shooting kicks off mid-next year, likely after Verhoeven finishes his adaptation of Louis Couperus' historical drama novel "Hidden Force".
- 10/15/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Not to be confused with the three other movies of the same name, Paul Verhoeven Black Book, Basic Instinct, Total Recall, RoboCop, Starship Troopers) has signing to direct the supernatural thriller Eternal for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. The script, penned by Obsessed writer David Loughery, centers on a recovering alcoholic who believes that he's cheated on his wife -- only to discover that the other woman is a ghost who is in pursuit of his soul. Richard D'Ovidio will re-write. Eternal will be produced by Kimmel, John Penotti of Greene Street, Peter Block of A Bigger Boat (Frozen, The Ward) and Charles Segars of Sparkler Entertainment. Verhoeven is also directing The Surrogate for Fox.
- 10/15/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: In a deal that puts him back into that saucy Basic Instinct territory, Paul Verhoeven has made a deal to direct Eternal, a supernatural thriller that is Fatal Attraction -- with a succubus temptress. The film was developed by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment from a pitch by David Loughery (Obsessed), who wrote the script. Verhoeven comes aboard along with Richard D’Ovidio (Exit Wounds), who'll do a rewrite. Eternal shapes up as a possible next project for Verhoeven, with production targeted for next summer. In Eternal, a married recovering alcoholic helps a woman threatening to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. They end up in bed, and in a torrid sexual affair. When he gets home, he’s confronted by his wife and a private investigator, with photos spread across a table. He thinks he’s busted, but the photos that should have shown him in the clinches with his mistress instead show him alone,...
- 10/15/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Director Paul Verhoeven has become known for a lot of things thanks to his film career. He's the kind of director who does not shy away from sex and violence and if we're lucky that's exactly what we're gonna get lots of from his next feature.
According to Deadline New York "Paul Verhoeven has made a deal to direct Eternal, a supernatural thriller that is Fatal Attraction--with a succubus temptress. The film was developed by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment from a pitch by David Loughery (Obsessed), who wrote the script. Verhoeven comes aboard along with Richard D’Ovidio (Exit Wounds), who'll do a rewrite. Eternal shapes up as a possible next project for Verhoeven, with production targeted for next summer.
In Eternal, a married recovering alcoholic helps a woman threatening to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. They end up in bed, and in a torrid sexual affair. When he gets home,...
According to Deadline New York "Paul Verhoeven has made a deal to direct Eternal, a supernatural thriller that is Fatal Attraction--with a succubus temptress. The film was developed by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment from a pitch by David Loughery (Obsessed), who wrote the script. Verhoeven comes aboard along with Richard D’Ovidio (Exit Wounds), who'll do a rewrite. Eternal shapes up as a possible next project for Verhoeven, with production targeted for next summer.
In Eternal, a married recovering alcoholic helps a woman threatening to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. They end up in bed, and in a torrid sexual affair. When he gets home,...
- 10/15/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
By Ira Teinowitz
"Desperate Housewives" star Kyle MacLachlan pitched in as the star spokesman Tuesday for arts groups seeking aid from Congress.
Testimony, to a panel of the House Appropriations Committee, was aimed at supporting the National Endowment for the Arts' $180 million budget request. Other speakers included Charles Segars, CEO of Ovation TV; Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter; Robert Lynch, president-ceo of Americans for the Arts; and actor Jeff Daniels.
“I am...
"Desperate Housewives" star Kyle MacLachlan pitched in as the star spokesman Tuesday for arts groups seeking aid from Congress.
Testimony, to a panel of the House Appropriations Committee, was aimed at supporting the National Endowment for the Arts' $180 million budget request. Other speakers included Charles Segars, CEO of Ovation TV; Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter; Robert Lynch, president-ceo of Americans for the Arts; and actor Jeff Daniels.
“I am...
- 4/13/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
Lakeview Terrace screenwriter David Loughery has sold his latest film pitch, a supernatural thriller called Mourning After. THR describes the project as set in San Francisco and involves a man who falls in love with a woman who harbors a secret. Hey, vampires are in right now; d'you think Loughery's mysterious lady is a bloodsucker? I'm taking odds, place yer bets, place yer bets...
The companies that purchased the pitch are Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, A Bigger Boat and GreeneStreet Films. All three firms will develop Loughery's idea -- which as it turns out originally came from Charles Segars and Steve Ireland and then Loughery pitched it -- as it becomes a screenplay.
Loughery's feature writing career started in 1984 with Dreamscape, a thriller with sci-fi overtones that starred Dennis Quaid and Kate Capshaw. He then wrote Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Passenger 57, the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers, a...
The companies that purchased the pitch are Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, A Bigger Boat and GreeneStreet Films. All three firms will develop Loughery's idea -- which as it turns out originally came from Charles Segars and Steve Ireland and then Loughery pitched it -- as it becomes a screenplay.
Loughery's feature writing career started in 1984 with Dreamscape, a thriller with sci-fi overtones that starred Dennis Quaid and Kate Capshaw. He then wrote Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Passenger 57, the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers, a...
- 9/14/2009
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Screenwriter David Loughery has sold his pitch "Mourning After" to Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, A Bigger Boat and GreeneStreet Films.
With echoes of Hitchcock's "Vertigo," Loughery's supernatural thriller concerns a San Francisco man who ominously falls in love with a beautiful woman with a mysterious secret. The story is based on an original idea from Charles Segars and Steve Ireland.
Ske, Abb and Gsf will co-finance, develop and produce the project. Sparkler Entertainment ("National Treasure: Book of Secrets") brought the pitch to Kimmel and will serve in a production capacity. Sparkler's Andrew Bernstein will serve as exec producer.
The three companies also are collaborating on the crime thriller "Mixed Blood," with Phillip Noyce attached to direct and Samuel L. Jackson set to star.
The Icm-repped Loughery wrote the Screen Gems thrillers "Obsessed" and "Lakeview Terrace" (with Howard Korder). He also worked on the screenplays for "Money Train," "The Three Musketeers" and "Passenger 57.
With echoes of Hitchcock's "Vertigo," Loughery's supernatural thriller concerns a San Francisco man who ominously falls in love with a beautiful woman with a mysterious secret. The story is based on an original idea from Charles Segars and Steve Ireland.
Ske, Abb and Gsf will co-finance, develop and produce the project. Sparkler Entertainment ("National Treasure: Book of Secrets") brought the pitch to Kimmel and will serve in a production capacity. Sparkler's Andrew Bernstein will serve as exec producer.
The three companies also are collaborating on the crime thriller "Mixed Blood," with Phillip Noyce attached to direct and Samuel L. Jackson set to star.
The Icm-repped Loughery wrote the Screen Gems thrillers "Obsessed" and "Lakeview Terrace" (with Howard Korder). He also worked on the screenplays for "Money Train," "The Three Musketeers" and "Passenger 57.
- 9/13/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screenwriter David Loughery has sold his pitch Mourning After to Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, A Bigger Boat and GreeneStreet Films, says The Hollywood Reporter . The supernatural thriller concerns a San Francisco man who ominously falls in love with a beautiful woman with a mysterious secret. The story is based on an original idea from Charles Segars and Steve Ireland. The three companies also are collaborating on the crime thriller Mixed Blood , with Phillip Noyce attached to direct and Samuel L. Jackson set to star.
- 9/13/2009
- Comingsoon.net
Cedric the Entertainer is back at ABC with a comedy pilot.
The network on Wednesday greenlighed "The Law" (working title), a single-camera pilot starring and executive produced by the comedian.
Also on Wednesday, ABC picked up comedy pilot "Canned," "Planet Lucy" and an untitled comedy starring Christian comedian Anita Renfroe and gave the official go-ahead to the Bill Lawrence/Courteney Cox comedy "Cougartown" starring Cox as a newly single 40-year-old mom with a 17-year-old son and to Kelsey Grammer/Tucker Cawley's multicamera comedy pilot starring Grammer as a hotshot Wall Street executive who loses his job and is forced to reconnect with his small-town family.
"The Law," from ABC Studios and DreamWorks TV, revolves around reserve police officers for the Lapd who balance their full-time off-duty lives with the excitement of being weekend cops.
Bob Fisher penned the script and is exec producing the pilot with Cedric and Charles Segars.
The network on Wednesday greenlighed "The Law" (working title), a single-camera pilot starring and executive produced by the comedian.
Also on Wednesday, ABC picked up comedy pilot "Canned," "Planet Lucy" and an untitled comedy starring Christian comedian Anita Renfroe and gave the official go-ahead to the Bill Lawrence/Courteney Cox comedy "Cougartown" starring Cox as a newly single 40-year-old mom with a 17-year-old son and to Kelsey Grammer/Tucker Cawley's multicamera comedy pilot starring Grammer as a hotshot Wall Street executive who loses his job and is forced to reconnect with his small-town family.
"The Law," from ABC Studios and DreamWorks TV, revolves around reserve police officers for the Lapd who balance their full-time off-duty lives with the excitement of being weekend cops.
Bob Fisher penned the script and is exec producing the pilot with Cedric and Charles Segars.
- 2/11/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ovation TV, the network focused on programming about art and personal creativity, has promoted four executives in marketing, programming and production and creative services.
Those being upped are Gaynor Strachan Chun, now senior vp marketing, Rob Canter (vp production and creative services), Debra Balamos (vp affiliate and advertising sales marketing) and Michelle Zajic (vp programming).
Strachan Chun is responsible for developing, implementing and managing brand positioning, messaging strategies, all marketing activities and strategic partnerships with cultural institutions. She plays a key role in shaping the network's arts educational outreach program and manages OvationTV.com. She reports to CEO Charles Segars.
Canter oversees the production of Ovation's original programming, which includes series and specials. He also manages the production of all network promotions and provides production support for affiliate distribution and for advertising sales. He reports to senior vp programming and production Kris Slava.
Balamos, who reports to Strachan Chun, develops and executes strategic affiliate marketing and ad sales initiatives and communication for the network.
Those being upped are Gaynor Strachan Chun, now senior vp marketing, Rob Canter (vp production and creative services), Debra Balamos (vp affiliate and advertising sales marketing) and Michelle Zajic (vp programming).
Strachan Chun is responsible for developing, implementing and managing brand positioning, messaging strategies, all marketing activities and strategic partnerships with cultural institutions. She plays a key role in shaping the network's arts educational outreach program and manages OvationTV.com. She reports to CEO Charles Segars.
Canter oversees the production of Ovation's original programming, which includes series and specials. He also manages the production of all network promotions and provides production support for affiliate distribution and for advertising sales. He reports to senior vp programming and production Kris Slava.
Balamos, who reports to Strachan Chun, develops and executes strategic affiliate marketing and ad sales initiatives and communication for the network.
Benderspink has acquired rights to Area 52, a comic book by Brian Haberlin.
The story follows a group of misfit soldiers stationed at a remote military base in Antarctica who learn that they are guarding a storage facility in which top-secret, otherworldly technologies and weapons are kept and analyzed. A murderous alien, hatched from something believed to be an artifact, stalks the soldiers, who must team to defeat it.
Chris Bender and JC Spink will produce with Quattro partner Jim Strader. Haberlin will executive produce.
Quattro-repped Haberlin, a comic book writer and co-creator, is the editor in chief at Todd McFarlane Prods. He recently developed Badlands at TNT -- based on his upcoming comic -- alongside exec producers Charles Segars and Bob Cooper, and Aria at Sci Fi Channel alongside exec producer David Kirschner.
Strader is developing Hawaiian Dick with producer Craig Perry, based on the comic book from creator B. Clay Moore. Frank Coraci is attached to direct. He also is developing an adaptation of the horror comic The Hunger with Hugh Jackman's Seed Prods....
The story follows a group of misfit soldiers stationed at a remote military base in Antarctica who learn that they are guarding a storage facility in which top-secret, otherworldly technologies and weapons are kept and analyzed. A murderous alien, hatched from something believed to be an artifact, stalks the soldiers, who must team to defeat it.
Chris Bender and JC Spink will produce with Quattro partner Jim Strader. Haberlin will executive produce.
Quattro-repped Haberlin, a comic book writer and co-creator, is the editor in chief at Todd McFarlane Prods. He recently developed Badlands at TNT -- based on his upcoming comic -- alongside exec producers Charles Segars and Bob Cooper, and Aria at Sci Fi Channel alongside exec producer David Kirschner.
Strader is developing Hawaiian Dick with producer Craig Perry, based on the comic book from creator B. Clay Moore. Frank Coraci is attached to direct. He also is developing an adaptation of the horror comic The Hunger with Hugh Jackman's Seed Prods....
- 2/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- The Weinstein Co. and Hubbard Media Group lead a group of private investors who have acquired struggling cable channel Ovation: The Arts Network, the new owners announced Tuesday. Ken Solomon, chairman and CEO of the Tennis Channel, will be chairman of the newly configured network in a nonoperational role and Charles Segars, a founding member and former executive at cable channel Fine Living, will be CEO. Solomon will stay on at Tennis. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Other investors in Ovation include Arcadia Investment Partners, Perry Capital and Corporate Partners II.
- 8/29/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- The Weinstein Co. and Hubbard Media Group lead a group of private investors who have acquired struggling cable channel Ovation: The Arts Network. Tennis Channel chairman and CEO Ken Solomon will be chairman of the newly configured network in a nonoperational role, and Charles Segars, a founding member and former executive at cable channel Fine Living, will be CEO. Solomon will stay on at Tennis. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Other investors in Ovation include Arcadia Investment Partners, Perry Capital and Corporate Partners II. Segars said they are planning on rebranding and relaunching Ovation in the near future and that they will consider changing the name of the network. The focus, though, will remain on fine arts and creativity, an area in which the channel's executives said there is a void in the cable television landscape.
- 8/29/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- The Weinstein Co. and Hubbard Media Group lead a group of private investors who have acquired struggling cable channel Ovation: The Arts Network, the new owners announced Tuesday. Ken Solomon, chairman and CEO of the Tennis Channel, will be chairman of the newly configured network in a nonoperational role and Charles Segars, a founding member and former executive at cable channel Fine Living, will be CEO. Solomon will stay on at Tennis. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Other investors in Ovation include Arcadia Investment Partners, Perry Capital and Corporate Partners II.
- 8/29/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ron Brinkerhoff has been tapped to write Warner Bros. Pictures' Fort Knox, an action-heist movie that Basil Iwanyk's Thunder Road Pictures is producing along with Charles Segars. The story line, which is being kept close to the vest, deals with a team of specialists that is hired to break in to the impenetrable Fort Knox. The project is based on a pitch by Segars (National Treasure). Jeff Phillips is exec producing. Mary Viola, who brought the project in for Thunder Road, is overseeing. Lynn Harris is overseeing for Warners. Matt Reilly is the creative executive.
Hot off the success of National Treasure, Charles Segars has sold his heist pitch Fort Knox to Warner Bros. Pictures for low- against mid-six figures. Studio-based Thunder Road Pictures is set to produce the feature, with the company's Basil Iwanyk producing alongside Segars. Thunder Road vp development Mary Viola brought the project into the studio through Kristi Felton, who will serve as an associate producer. Felton is based at Segars' shingle, Sparkler Prods. Felton developed the pitch with Segars and Segars' producing partner, Jeff Phillips, who will serve as the executive producer on Knox. Further details on the story line were being kept tightly under wraps Monday, but the Fort Knox-set project is said to involve many twists and turns and an unusual plot line. Lynn Harris will oversee for the studio.
- 3/15/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Producers Dean Devlin and Charles Segars have teamed to acquire remake rights to The Doberman Gang franchise. Devlin and Segars acquired rights to the three films -- The Doberman Gang, The Daring Dobermans and The Amazing Dobermans -- from Byron Chudnow, who directed the original films. Chudnow also will serve as executive producer of the remake. Released between 1972-76, the Doberman films focus on a pack of Doberman pinschers trained by a small-time crook to pull off the perfect bank robbery only to see the dogs become crime-fighting heroes.
- 12/5/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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