Exclusive: Universal has picked up an untitled family adventure-comedy spec script from screenwriting duo Alex Ankeles and Morgan Jurgenson. Davis Entertainment and 1stAve Machine are producing, with John Davis and John Fox producing alongside Ross Siegel of Altogether Entertainment. Davis’ SVP Jeremy Stein will executive produce, as will 1stAveMachine’s Serge Patzak.
Based on an original idea by Siegel, the script’s logline is under wraps but is being described as a four-quadrant family adventure-comedy and a love letter to pop culture and fandom. Jeyun Munford and Christine Sun will oversee the project for Universal.
Jurgenson is most well-known for writing and producing cult horror comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. Since joining up with Ankeles, the team has sold numerous specs and pitches, and worked with various types of IP, most recently adapting the graphic novel Zita the Spacegirl for Fox and penning a feature based on the Bakugan...
Based on an original idea by Siegel, the script’s logline is under wraps but is being described as a four-quadrant family adventure-comedy and a love letter to pop culture and fandom. Jeyun Munford and Christine Sun will oversee the project for Universal.
Jurgenson is most well-known for writing and producing cult horror comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. Since joining up with Ankeles, the team has sold numerous specs and pitches, and worked with various types of IP, most recently adapting the graphic novel Zita the Spacegirl for Fox and penning a feature based on the Bakugan...
- 4/6/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Commercial production company 1stAveMachine is launching a talent management division on its way to expand its content production business. The company, co-founded by Serge Patzak, will rep talent in film and TV, branded, social, Vr and digital entertainment. Overseeing the management division will be Ross Siegel who previously worked at MGM and Maker Studios. He takes on the role of head of management and development. "With 1stAveMachine Management, we want to…...
- 10/23/2017
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Commercial production company 1stAveMachine is launching a talent management division on its way to expand its content production business. The company, co-founded by Serge Patzak, will rep talent in film and TV, branded, social, Vr and digital entertainment. Overseeing the management division will be Ross Siegel who previously worked at MGM and Maker Studios. He takes on the role of head of management and development. "With 1stAveMachine Management, we want to…...
- 10/23/2017
- Deadline
Exclusive: Universal Pictures has set Max Botkin to write Prosthesis, the visually-driven science fiction film created by Arvind Palep, who’s attached to direct. Universal acquired the property based on a ten-minute teaser trailer, blending VFX with storyboards and live-action footage hatched by 1stAveMachine, the multimedia production company that Palep co-created with Serge Patzak. Latter will produce with Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson, with Gotham’s Peter McHugh exec producing with Sam Penfield. An earlier draft of the screenplay was written by Walking Dead showrunner Scott Gimple. Botkin wrote the Black List script What Happened To Monday, which is percolating at Vendome with Tommy Wirkola directing and Noomi Rapace attached to star. Verve, Eml Entertainment and attorney Larry Kopeikin rep the scribe. Universal’s Anikah McLaren and Chloe Yellin are overseeing. Palep is repped by Wme, The Gotham Group and attorney George Davis.
- 3/5/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Universal is gearing up for Prosthesis, assigning writer and produced Scott Gimple to write the science fiction flick. Variety reports that the studio set up the film in January with 1stAveMachine producing alongside Gotham Group. Arvind Palep is helming the film, which Universal picked up after executives saw the 10-minute teaser presentation which mixes visual effects with live-action stuff and storyboards. 1stAveMachine is co-created by Palep and Serge Patzak, who's set to produce with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein of Gotham and Eric Robinson. Apparently all the details of the world of Prosthesis are being kept under wraps. Gimple wrote the script for Sony's Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance along with Seth Hoffman and David S. Goyer,...
- 4/26/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Universal is gearing up for Prosthesis, assigning writer and produced Scott Gimple to write the science fiction flick. Variety reports that the studio set up the film in January with 1stAveMachine producing alongside Gotham Group. Arvind Palep is helming the film, which Universal picked up after executives saw the 10-minute teaser presentation which mixes visual effects with live-action stuff and storyboards. 1stAveMachine is co-created by Palep and Serge Patzak, who's set to produce with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein of Gotham and Eric Robinson. Apparently all the details of the world of Prosthesis are being kept under wraps. Gimple wrote the script for Sony's Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance along with Seth Hoffman and David S. Goyer,...
- 4/26/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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