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Rayna McClendon is now with UTA.
The writer and producer inked with the agency for worldwide representation in all areas. The signing comes as McClendon is at work adapting William Hayashi’s The Darkside Trilogy novels as a series for Netflix. She was previously in the writer’s room for Marvel’s Armor Wars project at Disney for which she receives a co-executive producer credit.
In other Lucasfilm universe news, McClendon served as a supervising producer on the upcoming series Willow for Lucasfilm and Disney+ and was a consulting producer on the Obi-Wan Kenobi series.
McClendon’s other credits include The Walking Dead: The World Beyond, Briarpatch, Deadly Class and Damnation, the latter of which was her first staffing job after she graduated from the NBC Writers on the Verge Program. She continues to be repped by manager Scott Stoops at Good Fear...
Rayna McClendon is now with UTA.
The writer and producer inked with the agency for worldwide representation in all areas. The signing comes as McClendon is at work adapting William Hayashi’s The Darkside Trilogy novels as a series for Netflix. She was previously in the writer’s room for Marvel’s Armor Wars project at Disney for which she receives a co-executive producer credit.
In other Lucasfilm universe news, McClendon served as a supervising producer on the upcoming series Willow for Lucasfilm and Disney+ and was a consulting producer on the Obi-Wan Kenobi series.
McClendon’s other credits include The Walking Dead: The World Beyond, Briarpatch, Deadly Class and Damnation, the latter of which was her first staffing job after she graduated from the NBC Writers on the Verge Program. She continues to be repped by manager Scott Stoops at Good Fear...
- 11/10/2022
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Father Stu Review — Father Stu (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Rosalind Ross and starring Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, Jacki Weaver, Faith Jefferies, Annet Mahendru, Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ruiz, Winter Ave Zoli, Cody Fern, Ned Bellamy, Alain Uy, Niko Nicotera, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Annie Lee, Michael Fairman, Danielle K. Golden, [...]
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- 4/17/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Plastics, meet Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne.
Paramount has hired the filmmakers, who are married, to direct the movie adaptation of “Mean Girls: The Musical.” The upcoming version isn’t a remake of Tina Fey’s 2004 modern cult classic — about cliquey high schoolers for whom the limit does not exist — but rather a cinematic take of the song-and-dance version that opened on Broadway in 2018.
Paramount Players, the studio’s division that’s developing the film, is keeping the exact logline under wraps, even though the stage version was faithful to the original source material. The cast has not been set yet. However, Fey, who wrote the screenplay and adapted it into a musical, previously told Variety the original Broadway actors — Erika Henningsen, Taylor Louderman and Ashley Park — won’t reprise their roles on screen. Lindsey Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried played the core clique, who call themselves the Plastics,...
Paramount has hired the filmmakers, who are married, to direct the movie adaptation of “Mean Girls: The Musical.” The upcoming version isn’t a remake of Tina Fey’s 2004 modern cult classic — about cliquey high schoolers for whom the limit does not exist — but rather a cinematic take of the song-and-dance version that opened on Broadway in 2018.
Paramount Players, the studio’s division that’s developing the film, is keeping the exact logline under wraps, even though the stage version was faithful to the original source material. The cast has not been set yet. However, Fey, who wrote the screenplay and adapted it into a musical, previously told Variety the original Broadway actors — Erika Henningsen, Taylor Louderman and Ashley Park — won’t reprise their roles on screen. Lindsey Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried played the core clique, who call themselves the Plastics,...
- 9/21/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Husband-wife team Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne have signed on to direct the film adaptation of Mean Girls the Musical for Paramount Players. The film will be produced by Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey with a script by Fey and featuring music by Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin, who did the music from the Broadway production.
Erin David, Caroline Maroney, and Micah Frank are overseeing for Broadway Video and Eric Gurian for Little Stranger.
While the details behind this latest adaptation are being kept under wraps, the film that started it all was written by Fey and starred Fey, Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams in a high school comedy about a new girl fitting with the A-list clique at her new school only to have slowly backfire after she falls for the leader’s ex-boyfriend.
The Fey script would later be adapted at the Broadway level...
Erin David, Caroline Maroney, and Micah Frank are overseeing for Broadway Video and Eric Gurian for Little Stranger.
While the details behind this latest adaptation are being kept under wraps, the film that started it all was written by Fey and starred Fey, Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams in a high school comedy about a new girl fitting with the A-list clique at her new school only to have slowly backfire after she falls for the leader’s ex-boyfriend.
The Fey script would later be adapted at the Broadway level...
- 9/21/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Amazon Studios, 3Ad and Motoko Kimura are teaming up to develop the feature film This Is Always with Mina Shum writing and directing and Daniel Dae Kim in talks to star.
The film, which is based on a successful Japanese television series Pure Soul from Ytv, follows two forty-somethings who feel perfectly content living their lives free of commitment until they meet one another. When a tragic unforeseen incident turns their lives upside down, can they still be perfect for each other?
Shum will executive produce, with Kim and John Cheng producing via 3Ad. Kimura will also produce. Pure Soul was created and produced by Kimura while she was working for Ytv.
Shum has written and directed five award-winning feature films that all had World Premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, and two films with U.S. premieres at Sundance. Shum’s first feature Double Happiness starring Sandra Oh...
The film, which is based on a successful Japanese television series Pure Soul from Ytv, follows two forty-somethings who feel perfectly content living their lives free of commitment until they meet one another. When a tragic unforeseen incident turns their lives upside down, can they still be perfect for each other?
Shum will executive produce, with Kim and John Cheng producing via 3Ad. Kimura will also produce. Pure Soul was created and produced by Kimura while she was working for Ytv.
Shum has written and directed five award-winning feature films that all had World Premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, and two films with U.S. premieres at Sundance. Shum’s first feature Double Happiness starring Sandra Oh...
- 8/19/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix is teaming up with The Batman writer-director Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho and Burn director Mike Gan on the Black List survival thriller previously known in industry circles as Dead Of Winter.
Burn producer Sukee Chew is also producing the untitled project for her management and production banner Hopscotch Pictures. Script comes from Sarah Conradt-Kroehler, whose recent adaptation of Belgian feature Mother’s Instinct is set to star Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain.
The film will chart how a family’s vacation in the mountains becomes a fight for survival when they’re confronted by a dangerous criminal on the run.
USC Film School grad Gan made his feature debut two years ago on thriller Burn, starring Josh Hutcherson, Suki Waterhouse, and Tilda Cobham Hervey. He also co-wrote and directed the ‘School Spirit’ episode of Hulu/Blumhouse series Into The Dark.
Anton Corp boarded Conradt-Kroehler Mother’s Instinct script...
Burn producer Sukee Chew is also producing the untitled project for her management and production banner Hopscotch Pictures. Script comes from Sarah Conradt-Kroehler, whose recent adaptation of Belgian feature Mother’s Instinct is set to star Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain.
The film will chart how a family’s vacation in the mountains becomes a fight for survival when they’re confronted by a dangerous criminal on the run.
USC Film School grad Gan made his feature debut two years ago on thriller Burn, starring Josh Hutcherson, Suki Waterhouse, and Tilda Cobham Hervey. He also co-wrote and directed the ‘School Spirit’ episode of Hulu/Blumhouse series Into The Dark.
Anton Corp boarded Conradt-Kroehler Mother’s Instinct script...
- 1/14/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Euro financier Anton is launching sales on buzzy AFM package Mothers’ Instinct, which will star Oscar-nominee Jessica Chastain and Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway as 1960’s housewives whose relationship takes a dark turn.
The psychological thriller will follow best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway) who both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
Writer-director Olivier Masset-Depasse will helm the feature, which is an English-language remake of his 2018 Belgian movie Duelles, which won a record nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian Academy including Best Film and Best Director.
The film is based on the novel Derrière La Haine by novelist Barbara Abel. Writer Sarah...
The psychological thriller will follow best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway) who both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
Writer-director Olivier Masset-Depasse will helm the feature, which is an English-language remake of his 2018 Belgian movie Duelles, which won a record nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian Academy including Best Film and Best Director.
The film is based on the novel Derrière La Haine by novelist Barbara Abel. Writer Sarah...
- 10/29/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Dwayne Johnson, Awkwafina, director Bong Joon Ho, Hadestown actress Eva Noblezada, and Deadline associate editor Dino-Ray Ramos are on this year’s list 100 most esteemed and impactful Asians in entertainment and media, fashion and lifestyle, technology, business, and social activism, as chosen by The Asian American and Pacific Islander (Aapi) collective Gold House.
The annual A100 List was announced today by Aapi, in partnership with the 2020 Census. Also included on the 3rd annual list are Keanu Reeves, Ken Jeong, Lilly Singh and Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang.
More from DeadlineHasan Minhaj, Sen. Kamala Harris, Dave Chapelle And More Board All Americans Movement To Support Marginalized Communities Impacted By Covid-19'Nora From Queens' Season Finale: Ep Teresa Hsiao On How Awkwafina Comedy Brings Fresh Perspective On Asian Identity And Plans For Season 2'Godfather Of Harlem' Producer Nina Yang Bongiovi Teams With Twitch's Kevin Lin, Gold House's Bing Chen...
The annual A100 List was announced today by Aapi, in partnership with the 2020 Census. Also included on the 3rd annual list are Keanu Reeves, Ken Jeong, Lilly Singh and Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang.
More from DeadlineHasan Minhaj, Sen. Kamala Harris, Dave Chapelle And More Board All Americans Movement To Support Marginalized Communities Impacted By Covid-19'Nora From Queens' Season Finale: Ep Teresa Hsiao On How Awkwafina Comedy Brings Fresh Perspective On Asian Identity And Plans For Season 2'Godfather Of Harlem' Producer Nina Yang Bongiovi Teams With Twitch's Kevin Lin, Gold House's Bing Chen...
- 5/1/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Universal Cable Productions has set four female directors to helm key pilots and new series for the studio — Steph Green, Ana Lily Amirpour, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, and Kari Skogland.
The hirings are significant, given continued industry trends toward underrepresentation for female directors. According to data from NBCUniversal research, of the 242 scripted pilots across broadcast, cable, and streaming that currently have directors attached, only 17% are women. For current series, the women make up 21% of all directors across television and streaming.
According to Ucp co-president Dawn Olmstead, the studio has long seen pilots as an area of focus for female inclusion at the director level.
“This wasn’t a place where we needed to start an initiative to open people’s minds to giving more of these pilot swings to female directors,” Olmstead said. “It was kind of in the ether already — which for someone like me was awesome, or else I...
The hirings are significant, given continued industry trends toward underrepresentation for female directors. According to data from NBCUniversal research, of the 242 scripted pilots across broadcast, cable, and streaming that currently have directors attached, only 17% are women. For current series, the women make up 21% of all directors across television and streaming.
According to Ucp co-president Dawn Olmstead, the studio has long seen pilots as an area of focus for female inclusion at the director level.
“This wasn’t a place where we needed to start an initiative to open people’s minds to giving more of these pilot swings to female directors,” Olmstead said. “It was kind of in the ether already — which for someone like me was awesome, or else I...
- 8/1/2018
- by Daniel Holloway
- Variety Film + TV
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