Director-producer Adam Shankman is tapping into his background as a dancer and choreographer with The Nutcracker, a two-hour television movie based on the classic ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is one of two projects Shakman and Jennifer Gibgot’s Offspring Entertainment has in the works at NBC, along with Love, Sex And Neighbors, a dramedy from writer Gail Gilchriest (Dallas). Both projects are set at Warner Bros. TV, where Offspring is under an overall deal, with…...
- 10/30/2015
- Deadline TV
Last night, TNT served up the new promo/spoiler clip (below) for their upcoming "Dallas" episode 13 of season 3 ,and it appears to be very drama-filled and wild as Bobby has to make a startling decision. More violence goes down with the kidnapping, and more! The episode is titled, "Boxed In." In the new,13th episode, Bobby is going to end up, putting everything on the line to save lives. John Ross and Pamela will cook up a light truce. Elena, who's been in hiding with Nicolas, will finally find out the truth about his connections to the cartel, which will send her spiraling. Christopher is going to frantically look for Elena, thinking her safety is heavily compromised. And Bobby will have to make a decision he never expected. The episode was directed by Rodney Charters and it was written by Gail Gilchriest. David Jacobs created it and it was developed by Cynthia Cidre.
- 9/9/2014
- by Andre
- OnTheFlix
Recently, TNT released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Dallas" episode 13 of season 3. The episode is entitled, "Boxed In," and it sounds like things will get very drama-filled and intense as Bobby damn near loses his own life to save others, and more! In the new, 13th episode press release: In the wake of a devastating family kidnapping, Bobby will put everything on the line to save lives. John Ross and Pamela are going to form a truce of sorts. Elena, who's been in hiding with Nicolas, is going to finally learn the truth about his connections to the cartel, which will send her spiraling. Christopher will desperately search for Elena, fearing for her safety. And Bobby is going to be forced to make a choice he never anticipated. The episode was directed by Rodney Charters and it was written by Gail Gilchriest. David Jacobs created it and...
- 9/8/2014
- by Megan
- OnTheFlix
Perfect Weekend Kris Kristofferson and Sammi Hanratty in ‘The Greening of Whitney Brown.’
“The Greening of Whitney Brown” started as a screenplay of a very different story. What it became was a wholesome, entertaining movie about the misadventures of Whitney Brown, a privileged and popular Philadelphia teenager whose world is upended when her parents experience sudden economic problems that necessitate a family move to Whitney’s grandparents’ old farm in the country. There, far from her dizzying world of shallow girlfriends,...
“The Greening of Whitney Brown” started as a screenplay of a very different story. What it became was a wholesome, entertaining movie about the misadventures of Whitney Brown, a privileged and popular Philadelphia teenager whose world is upended when her parents experience sudden economic problems that necessitate a family move to Whitney’s grandparents’ old farm in the country. There, far from her dizzying world of shallow girlfriends,...
- 10/27/2011
- by Ed Fitts
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
USA is developing a series about a modern-day Robin Hood in addition to its usual crop of crime procedurals and legal dramas.
The network announced seven projects in development on Monday, including content from Steve Carell ("The Office"), Anthony Edwards ("ER") and John Michael Higgins ("Best in Show").
"With the proven power of the 'Characters Welcome' brand guiding our development, USA has produced a stunning track record of No. 1 new original series for four consecutive years, and has grown the network into a trusted destination for quality programming," said Jeff Wachtel, president of original programming at USA. "These new projects all combine strong characters and superior storytelling, offering viewers the kind of exceptionally written, aspirational originals they won't find anywhere else."
In "Robyn," an updated gender-twist on "Robin Hood," a young woman who decides she has done nothing with her life commits to rob from the upper class and giving to the poor.
The network announced seven projects in development on Monday, including content from Steve Carell ("The Office"), Anthony Edwards ("ER") and John Michael Higgins ("Best in Show").
"With the proven power of the 'Characters Welcome' brand guiding our development, USA has produced a stunning track record of No. 1 new original series for four consecutive years, and has grown the network into a trusted destination for quality programming," said Jeff Wachtel, president of original programming at USA. "These new projects all combine strong characters and superior storytelling, offering viewers the kind of exceptionally written, aspirational originals they won't find anywhere else."
In "Robyn," an updated gender-twist on "Robin Hood," a young woman who decides she has done nothing with her life commits to rob from the upper class and giving to the poor.
- 4/5/2010
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
More details emerged Wednesday on the pilot scripts released by Fox and CW on Tuesday.
The list of about two dozen projects terminated by Fox is said to include a drama from writer Dan Connolly, 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based producers Marty Adelstein and Michael Thorn; a dramedy from British writer Anthony Horowitz, Sony Pictures TV and Darren Star Prods.; a drama from the writing duo of Stuart Zicherman and Raven Metzner and Warner Bros. TV; a drama from AnaLisa LaBianco and Fox TV Studios; as well as drama projects from writers Keith Eisner, Erik Bork, Jeff Eastin and the writer-director team of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Dinner.
On the half-hour side, Fox released the animated comedy Superzeroes, from Warner Bros. TV and Good Humor, and Gail Gilchriest's multicamera comedy Everyone's Got One, from WBTV and the Jinks/Cohen Co.
The CW's dozen terminated scripts are said to include Jared Stern's single-camera comedy Human Nature from WBTV and producer David Janollari as well as projects from writers Diane Ruggiero and Jacob Epstein.
The list of about two dozen projects terminated by Fox is said to include a drama from writer Dan Connolly, 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based producers Marty Adelstein and Michael Thorn; a dramedy from British writer Anthony Horowitz, Sony Pictures TV and Darren Star Prods.; a drama from the writing duo of Stuart Zicherman and Raven Metzner and Warner Bros. TV; a drama from AnaLisa LaBianco and Fox TV Studios; as well as drama projects from writers Keith Eisner, Erik Bork, Jeff Eastin and the writer-director team of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Dinner.
On the half-hour side, Fox released the animated comedy Superzeroes, from Warner Bros. TV and Good Humor, and Gail Gilchriest's multicamera comedy Everyone's Got One, from WBTV and the Jinks/Cohen Co.
The CW's dozen terminated scripts are said to include Jared Stern's single-camera comedy Human Nature from WBTV and producer David Janollari as well as projects from writers Diane Ruggiero and Jacob Epstein.
- 1/24/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Real estate has proven as hot a pilot setting this season as the Los Angeles real estate market. NBC has given a cast-contingent pickup to the 20th Century Fox TV/Brad Grey TV single-camera comedy Hot Property, about three amoral real estate agents in Houston. The announcement comes on the heels of ABC ordering the Warner Bros. TV-produced Hot Properties, a workplace comedy from writer-producer Suzanne Martin about four women working in a real estate office. (HR 2/3) NBC's Hot Property was written by Gail Gilchriest (My Dog Skip), who will exec produce with. On the drama side, ABC is currently casting a WBTV pilot set at an upscale real estate agency on Los Angeles' Westside.
"My Dog Skip" is a story easily understood in just about any culture. This memoir of a boyhood in a Mississippi backwater town during World War II and how one dog changes a boy's life touches on things elemental to all coming-of-age experiences.
But it's unclear if a theatrical market exists anymore for such a movie. Seemingly better suited to cable TV, "My Dog Skip" should at least receive encouraging pats on the head by critics, which will help once it reaches ancillary markets.
The film derives from the 1995 memoir of the same name by Willie Morris, a Rhodes scholar and former editor of Harper's magazine. Written by Gail Gilchriest and directed by Jay Russell, the story that unfolds, at a leisurely pace befitting its rural Southern roots, concerns young Willie (Frankie Muniz), a shy and awkward only child growing up in Yazoo, Miss.
His dad (Kevin Bacon), who lost his leg in the Spanish Civil War, tends to be overprotective of his son, but a knowing mom (Diane Lane) is determined to compensate for her husband's tendencies. So for his ninth birthday, Willie receives Skip, a Jack Russell terrier puppy, from his mom over his dad's protestations. This proves to be the key to unlocking his personality.
As Willie recalls those days (in a superb voice-over narration by Harry Connick Jr.), the dog "teaches" him many lessons in life as they grow up together. Skip brings Willie out of his shell to become one of the guys and gain confidence to speak to girls or to spend a night in the cemetery on a dare.
Most crucially, Skip becomes what this young boy needs most -- a steady, true friend. His first friend, Dink (Luke Wilson), the sports hero who lived next door, has gone overseas to fight Hitler, and many of his male classmates prefer to pick on Willie rather than bring him into their inner circle. But with Skip by his side, the world feels different to Willie. He ventures outside, even crossing into the colored section of Yazoo in those days of segregation, since dogs, "being smarter than people," see no boundaries.
These lessons are touched on lightly in the course of the two pals' adventures. In fact, this light touch while keeping the movie from veering into an "After School Special" also softens and mutes the environment. This is an idealized, hospitable Mississippi where backward attitudes do not exist and no one would dream of using the "N" word in referring to its black citizens.
The main actors -- meaning Muniz and the various canines who play Skip -- are terrific. Willing to take roles that recede into the background from time to time, Bacon and Lane make for well-meaning, good-hearted parents. Wilson's sports hero-turned-war coward gives the film its only darkness, more of which could have been explored.
Production designer David Bomba is blessed in the town of Canton, Ohio, subbing for Yazoo. Here is a place that has changed little since midcentury, and he has the town nicely decked out with old cars and billboards. Cinematographer James Carter films all this so you almost forget the ferocious heat and biting bugs.
This is, of course, a memoir, and as Willie Morris himself notes, memory plays tricks on the mind. A man who grew up to become a top editor could scarcely have not noticed, even at age 9, the ruthless injustices that permeated his society. So things may not have happened this way. They do so in memory.
MY DOG SKIP
Warner Bros.
Alcon Entertainment
Producers:Mark Johnson, John Lee Hancock, Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson
Director:Jay Russell
Writer:Gail Gilchriest
Based on the book by:Willie Morris
Executive producer:Marty Ewing, Jay Russell
Director of photography:James Carter
Production designer:David Bomba
Music:William Ross
Costume designer:Edi Giguere
Editors:Harvey Rosenstock, Gary Winter
Color/stereo
Cast:
Willie Morris:Frankie Muniz
Jack Morris:Kevin Bacon
Ellen Morris:Diane Lane
Dink Jenkins:Luke Wilson
Rivers Applegate:Caitlin Wachs
Big Boy Wilkinson:Bradley Coryell
Henjie Henick:Daylan Honeycutt
Spit McGee:Cody Linley
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
But it's unclear if a theatrical market exists anymore for such a movie. Seemingly better suited to cable TV, "My Dog Skip" should at least receive encouraging pats on the head by critics, which will help once it reaches ancillary markets.
The film derives from the 1995 memoir of the same name by Willie Morris, a Rhodes scholar and former editor of Harper's magazine. Written by Gail Gilchriest and directed by Jay Russell, the story that unfolds, at a leisurely pace befitting its rural Southern roots, concerns young Willie (Frankie Muniz), a shy and awkward only child growing up in Yazoo, Miss.
His dad (Kevin Bacon), who lost his leg in the Spanish Civil War, tends to be overprotective of his son, but a knowing mom (Diane Lane) is determined to compensate for her husband's tendencies. So for his ninth birthday, Willie receives Skip, a Jack Russell terrier puppy, from his mom over his dad's protestations. This proves to be the key to unlocking his personality.
As Willie recalls those days (in a superb voice-over narration by Harry Connick Jr.), the dog "teaches" him many lessons in life as they grow up together. Skip brings Willie out of his shell to become one of the guys and gain confidence to speak to girls or to spend a night in the cemetery on a dare.
Most crucially, Skip becomes what this young boy needs most -- a steady, true friend. His first friend, Dink (Luke Wilson), the sports hero who lived next door, has gone overseas to fight Hitler, and many of his male classmates prefer to pick on Willie rather than bring him into their inner circle. But with Skip by his side, the world feels different to Willie. He ventures outside, even crossing into the colored section of Yazoo in those days of segregation, since dogs, "being smarter than people," see no boundaries.
These lessons are touched on lightly in the course of the two pals' adventures. In fact, this light touch while keeping the movie from veering into an "After School Special" also softens and mutes the environment. This is an idealized, hospitable Mississippi where backward attitudes do not exist and no one would dream of using the "N" word in referring to its black citizens.
The main actors -- meaning Muniz and the various canines who play Skip -- are terrific. Willing to take roles that recede into the background from time to time, Bacon and Lane make for well-meaning, good-hearted parents. Wilson's sports hero-turned-war coward gives the film its only darkness, more of which could have been explored.
Production designer David Bomba is blessed in the town of Canton, Ohio, subbing for Yazoo. Here is a place that has changed little since midcentury, and he has the town nicely decked out with old cars and billboards. Cinematographer James Carter films all this so you almost forget the ferocious heat and biting bugs.
This is, of course, a memoir, and as Willie Morris himself notes, memory plays tricks on the mind. A man who grew up to become a top editor could scarcely have not noticed, even at age 9, the ruthless injustices that permeated his society. So things may not have happened this way. They do so in memory.
MY DOG SKIP
Warner Bros.
Alcon Entertainment
Producers:Mark Johnson, John Lee Hancock, Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson
Director:Jay Russell
Writer:Gail Gilchriest
Based on the book by:Willie Morris
Executive producer:Marty Ewing, Jay Russell
Director of photography:James Carter
Production designer:David Bomba
Music:William Ross
Costume designer:Edi Giguere
Editors:Harvey Rosenstock, Gary Winter
Color/stereo
Cast:
Willie Morris:Frankie Muniz
Jack Morris:Kevin Bacon
Ellen Morris:Diane Lane
Dink Jenkins:Luke Wilson
Rivers Applegate:Caitlin Wachs
Big Boy Wilkinson:Bradley Coryell
Henjie Henick:Daylan Honeycutt
Spit McGee:Cody Linley
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 1/10/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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