Blog Profile / Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily
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EMMYS: Comedy Farewells
Ray Richmond is an AwardsLine contributor.
A pair of long-running NBC comedies — 30 Rock and The Office — will be attempting a rare feat this year: They’ll be trying to win a top series Emmy in their final season. Both have tasted victory...Show More Summary
HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’ Will Go Camping With Cincinnati Bengals Again
In the 12-year, eight-season history of HBO’s Hard Knocks, only one franchise – the Dallas Cowboys, often cited as “America’s Team” – has been featured twice. Make that two. The premium network on Monday officially tapped the Cincinnati Bengals to star on its popular series chronicling life at an NFL training camp. Show More Summary
EMMYS: ‘Modern Family’ Scribes
Diane Haithman is an AwardsLine contributor.
How many writer-producers does it take to make an Emmy-winning comedy? In the case of Modern Family, it’s a staff of 12 including co-creators/executive producers Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd. Show More Summary
Global Showbiz Briefs: Éclair Group Raises $16.6M; OWN Heads To Oz; Depardieu Breaks Silence; LoveFilm Streams Dis Pics
France’s Éclair Group Raises $16.6M Digital Switch, Development
Here’s some good news for France’s troubled postproduction sector. The Éclair Group has raised €12.4M ($16.6M) to complete its digital transition and speed up development across all of its businesses. Show More Summary
EMMYS: ‘Big Bang Theory’s Science
Diane Haithman is an AwardsLine contributor. Undergrads from UCLA’s Honors Physics 1B — who take this class because ordinary physics just isn’t difficult enough — were in for a surprise when they took a field trip to Warner Bros. Studios to be part of the live studio audience for CBS’ The Big Bang Theory. Show More Summary
Has Summit Pulled A Rabbit Out Of The Hat With Dean Parisot And Houdini?
EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment is in early negotiations with Dean Parisot to direct the Noah Oppenheim-directed feature about Harry Houdini that Summit has been developing the project for several years. It’s based on the William Kalush and Larry Sloman book The Secret Life of Houdini, The Making of America’s First Superhero. Show More Summary
Hot Trailer: ‘Killing Season’
Academy Award winner Robert De Niro and Oscar nominee John Travolta face off in Millennium Entertainment‘s Killing Season, the latest from helmer Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil, Ghost Rider). De Niro plays an military retiree huntedShow More Summary
James Franco Seeks Crowdfunding For ‘Palo Alto’ Films
James Franco has launched a new crowdfunding project to finance three feature films about teenage life in his hometown of Palo Alto, CA, adapted from his own 2010 book of short stories, Palo Alto. The multi-hyphenate has tapped NinaShow More Summary
Scoot McNairy Shores Up ‘Black Sea’ Role
EXCLUSIVE: Scoot McNairy is set star with Jude Law in Black Sea, the underwater adventure film for Focus Features that Kevin Macdonald is directing. Law plays a rogue skipper who gathers a crew and a submarine in order to search for sunken treasure in the Black Sea. Show More Summary
‘Client List’ Season 3 Pickup In Limbo Over Storyline Standoff With Jennifer Love Hewitt
EXCLUSIVE: Last night marked the second season finale of Lifetime’s drama series The Client List. Last year, the network renewed the show a month into its freshman run, upping the order from 10 to 15 for Season 2. This time around, the...Show More Summary
New Myth, Toonz Entertainment Help Launch Epiphany, A $200 Million Film Fund
EXCLUSIVE: Well it didn’t take long to find out where New Myth will be finding the money to make tent pole sized movies. A group of investors and distributors led by New Myth and Toonz Entertainment Pte Ltd have launched Epiphany, aShow More Summary
Amazon Orders Cop Drama Pilot Based On Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch Novels
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is moving quickly to expand its original slate. After focusing on comedies and kids programming in its first batch of 14 pilots, five of which — two comedies and 3 kids shows — were picked up to series three weeks ago, the company is already setting its sights on the next target — launching a drama series. Show More Summary
Third Point Raises Stake In Sony And Presses To Join Its Board
The hedge fund’s CEO Daniel Loeb disclosed the change, and reiterated his desire for Sony to sell a minority interest in its entertainment assets, in a letter today to Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai. Loeb says that he now controls 70M shares valued at $1.4B, up from the $1.1B stake he held last month. Show More Summary
Lotus Entertainment Lands Thriller Spec ‘Revelation’
EXCLUSIVE: It has begun to feel like that pre-holiday slumber time, but here is a spec script that just sold in a competitive situation. Lotus Entertainment has landed the rights to Hernany Perla’s spec, Revelation, for a low to mid six figures. Show More Summary
New Myth Entertainment Forms With ‘X-Men/Transformers’ Tom DeSanto; Goal To Hatch Tent Poles
EXCLUSIVE: Tom DeSanto has teamed with David Ranes, Grace Roeder Oppenheimer, and Wayne Duband to form New Myth Entertainment. The intention is to hatch tent pole fare, along with some filmmaker driven small films. DeSanto’s writingShow More Summary
David Thewlis And Brendan Gleeson Join Millennium’s ‘Eliza Graves’
The Brad Anderson-directed thriller Eliza Graves is based on a short story by Edgar Allen Poe and begins production next week. If it makes it, the Millennium Films project will mark the end of a long road for screenwriter Joseph Gangemi,...Show More Summary
Lionsgate Acquires Pulitzer Prize Winner ‘Devil In The Grove;’ Seminal Civil Rights Case For Thurgood Marshall
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has acquired screen rights to Devil In The Grove: Thurgood Marshall, The Groveland Boys, And The Dawn Of A New America, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Gilbert King about the effort of Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP’s legal team to save the lives of four black men falsely accused of raping a white woman in Florida in 1949. Show More Summary
Jack Paglen In Talks To Pen ‘Prometheus 2?
Jack Paglen‘s had quite a ride since his script Transcendence made the 2012 Black List. That one was picked up by Alcon Entertainment, which hired Christopher Nolan collaborator and Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister to make his directorial debut. Show More Summary
ABC Executive Quinn Taylor Moves To NBC To Head Long-Form Programming
Another veteran ABC executive is heading to NBC. I’ve learned that Quinn Taylor, SVP, Movies, Miniseries and Acquisitions, ABC Entertainment Group, will be leaving the network after almost 20 years to join rival NBC, which is looking to re-start a long-form division. Show More Summary
EMMYS: Comedy Series Overview
Michael Ausiello is Editor-in-Chief of TVLine. The gap between Modern Family and the rest of the Emmy comedy field has been so wide that even an imperfect third season landed the ABC family comedy a third consecutive best series win last year. Show More Summary