Industry News Update
All righty, Wavers. I've removed the voting for the short scenes as it had petered out in a cloud of our-voting-system-sucks. Congratulations to Emily, who truly did write a very worthy short scene. I will find a better way to sort out the voting in the future.
Moving on. Here is some industry news updates for this week ending March 20th, 2009:
In Development
Blacklight
Feature
Fox Atomic, Zombie Studios, Union Entertainment
P: Richard Leibowitz
W: Jason Dean Hall
Sci-fi actioner set 25 years in the future, about an elite covert ops team sent after a rogue American CIA colonel. Project will be developed simultaneously as a feature film, video game and comic book.
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Feature
Walt Disney Pictures, Gunn Films
P: Andrew Gunn
W: Barry Blaustein, Jason Hefter
Family comedy in which a teenage couple planning to run away together is magically transported 20 years into the future, only to discover that their lives did not exactly turn out as envisioned.
Doing Da Vinci
TV pilot; ordered to series
Discovery Channel, Pilgrim Films & TV
EP: Craig Piligian, Rob Katz, Tim Pastore
Reality show in which teams try to rebuild Leonardo da Vinci's inventions using materials from that time period.
A Ribbon of Dreams
Miniseries
HBO, Chase Films
EP: David Chase, Brad Grey
W: David Chase
Epic miniseries following two disparate men who team up to help pioneer the burgeoning movie industry through the early 20th century.
Hot Properties
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
Feature
Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot, Circle of Confusion
Based on the article "The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist" written by Joshua Davis and published in the April 2009 issue of Wired. J.J. Abrams produces.
This Week in Production
start - 3/16/2009
James Franco and David Strathairn star in the story of the 1957 obscenity trial launched to censor Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," the groundbreaking poem of the Beat Generation.
wrap - 3/14/2009
Lifetime TV movie about a woman who questions her sanity when strange events occur, after meeting her soulmate. Shiri Appleby stars.
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3 comments:
I know this is a longshot - but any chance folks have any of these scripts to share? Id love to read blacklight esp......
Wow. The Wired magazine story 'The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist' was only published on the web last week and hasn't appeared in print yet (but will in the next few days).
Julie, do you know how this process moves so quickly?
I can tell you how the process works. With books, for instance, catalogue descriptions go out to the trade (including all film companies) very early, and afterwards bound galleys. So that producers or writers can option or buy well in advance of publication.
Something similar happens with publications, where tear-sheets (i.e. single copies of pieces) often circulate among people in the trade before we lowly members of the public see them.
Sometimes this happens with whole issues of magazines, so that often you'll see reference to a piece in Vanity Fair, when it's a good two weeks before you'll be seeing your copy in your mailbox or newstand. I would suspect this is the case with Wired.
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