Do you have a script you’re dying to get produced? There are more than just acting gigs in Backstage’s casting listings; playwrights and screenwriters (and actors who write!) should keep their eyes peeled when browsing notices. Stay abreast of writing submission opportunities by using the “Writers” filter under “Entertainment Jobs & Crew” on our casting page. Casting listings are regularly updated with information on writing contests, fellowships, and other exciting options for writers at all levels—including the four notices currently available below. Don’t have a play or film ready to go? Click here for advice on how to jumpstart a writing career! The Great Griffon, Inc., New Reading SERIESBeginning in January 2017, David Beck and Natalia Bougadellis of The Great Griffon will be accepting submitted work—screenplays, plays, music compositions, performance art pieces, you name it—for a brand-new monthly reading series in New York City. Formed “as...
- 11/16/2016
- backstage.com
Kevin Reilly, president of TBS & TNT and chief creative officer for Turner Entertainment, has launched a new business strategy unit led by David Beck and Jesse Redniss, the co-founding partners of BRaVe Ventures, a strategic advisory and investment firm specializing in the technology, media and entertainment “(r)evolution.” Turner has acquired BRaVe’s advisory business, with Beck and Redniss, along with key members of their BRaVe Ventures team, joining TBS & TNT as the…...
- 11/16/2016
- Deadline TV
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Spring Street
Logline: Set in the grit of New York City, a private piano teacher’s small life explodes with the arrival of his pregnant, heroin addicted sister and a mysterious piano novice named Ricardo.
Elevator Pitch:
“Spring Street” is an acrid New York tale of lapsed artists who trust too easily, love too quickly, and ultimately end up disillusioned, abandoned, or….In this biting psychological thriller, characters earnestly depend upon one another for survival, but this naive faith in humanity is certainly met with betrayal. Despite this bleak inevitability, these dreamers find much repose in music in this multi-cultural city rife with addiction,...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Spring Street
Logline: Set in the grit of New York City, a private piano teacher’s small life explodes with the arrival of his pregnant, heroin addicted sister and a mysterious piano novice named Ricardo.
Elevator Pitch:
“Spring Street” is an acrid New York tale of lapsed artists who trust too easily, love too quickly, and ultimately end up disillusioned, abandoned, or….In this biting psychological thriller, characters earnestly depend upon one another for survival, but this naive faith in humanity is certainly met with betrayal. Despite this bleak inevitability, these dreamers find much repose in music in this multi-cultural city rife with addiction,...
- 8/24/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Yolo Productions and The Great Griffon will present a rare revival of Animals Out of Paper, by Rajiv Joseph 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist - Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, directed by Merri Milwe, at McAlphin Hall at West Park Presbyterian Church. Starring David Beck, Nairoby Otero, and Maneesh Sasikumar, this limited Off-Broadway engagement opens tonight, February 12. Performances continue through February 28th, 2015 only.
- 2/12/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Yolo Productions and The Great Griffon present a rare revival of Animals Out of Paper, by Rajiv Joseph 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist - Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, directed by Merri Milwe, at McAlphin Hall at West Park Presbyterian Church. Starring David Beck, Nairoby Otero, and Maneesh Sasikumar, this limited Off-Broadway engagement, currently in previews, will open February 12th. Performances continue through February 28th only. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...
- 2/7/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Univision Communications is looking to make its expansive World Cup coverage interactive through a partnership with Facebook that will integrate social media into its broadcasts from Brazil. The broadcaster, which has the exclusive Spanish-language telecast rights to the event in the United States, plans to feature content from Facebook -- including posts from athletes and teams, fan comments, Instagram photos and data about trending topics -- multiple times a day during its coverage across its networks. "We want to give our fans a live experience and a more engaging experience, wherever they are," says David Beck, senior vp social
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- 6/4/2014
- by Natalie Jarvey
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Universal and Warner Bros. co-production Tell No One has found a new director in Gavin O'Connor. Variety reports that the Warrior helmer will take on the remake of the recent French thriller which was, in turn, based on Harlan Coben's 2006 novel, officially described as follows: "Tell No One" is a story of loss and redemption. It begins innocently enough. Dr. David Beck and his beloved wife, Elizabeth, are celebrating the anniversary of their first kiss in the quiet of Lake Charmaine. They grew up together, first kissed at age twelve, and now, twenty-five years old and married less than a year, they return for an idyllic weekend away. Tragedy shatters their solitude. Elizabeth is abducted and murdered, her body found in a ditch. Her killer is caught and...
- 11/21/2013
- Comingsoon.net
ExxonMobil Corp has sued FX Networks over its use of the second “X” in its new, comedy-centric network which, the oil company says, infringes on its interlocking Xx’s. This double-cross brawl may come as a surprise to Dos Equis (that’s Spanish for “Two X”), which also has a double-x logo, and we assume the legal wrangling will be be watched with considerable interest by the Xx chromosome, and the roman numeral for 20. What has world’s largest publicly traded oil company ExxonMobil’s knickers so knotted is the interlocking-ness of Fxx‘s “X’s” in its logo. “ExxonMobil has invested many millions of dollars for more than four decades in advertising and promoting” the logo, David Beck, ExxonMobil’s attorney, said in the filing today in U.S. District Court in Houston, a copy of which was obtained by Deadline (read it here). FX Networks and its studio affiliates,...
- 10/3/2013
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
Singer/songwriter/Scientologist Beck has succeeded in getting a Texas "roots-rock" band called Beck & Cauthen to change its name. You know, so no one confuses Beck, a multiplatinum artist, with this band we're writing about, Beck & Cauthen. The band agreed without a fuss, though it means their record release date is pushed back to November. Here's how offensively-named band member David Beck explained the news to fans on Facebook:
To our surprise, we got a letter last week from representatives of Beck, who asked us to change it. We don't want to create confusion with Beck, or for that matter Jeff Beck, Glenn Beck, Beck's beer, or any other Beck. We hope he listened to some tunes from the new album, also called 'Sons of Fathers!'
It was a sign for us to change the name to something that included the whole band, not just a duo. We are...
To our surprise, we got a letter last week from representatives of Beck, who asked us to change it. We don't want to create confusion with Beck, or for that matter Jeff Beck, Glenn Beck, Beck's beer, or any other Beck. We hope he listened to some tunes from the new album, also called 'Sons of Fathers!'
It was a sign for us to change the name to something that included the whole band, not just a duo. We are...
- 9/14/2011
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Harlan Coben’s thriller novel “Tell No One” was a book before it became a French movie, and now it’s becoming a Ben Affleck-directed movie. “The Town” director is getting back on the crime wagon with “Tell No One”, and will direct for Warner Bros. and Universal, reports Deadline. For a while there, Coben’s novel was at Sony, where they tried to adapt it into a movie (with the now-ubiquitous duo of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci writing) before they eventually gave up. The French took a stab at it, and 2006′s “Tell No One” by Guillaume Canet (and co-starring English beauty Kristin Scott Thomas) was the result. So since the French has already proven that it could be done, Hollywood will now take a second stab at the source material. That’s Hollywood for ya, always taking chances. Ahem. The novel’s premise sounds killer: David Beck and Elizabeth Parker,...
- 6/16/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Despite the fact that Harlan Coben is an American author whose books are primarily published in his home country, the film adaptation of his novel Tell No One was made and first released in France. There’s been word of a U.S. remake since it was released in 2008, with Jesse James helmer Andrew Dominik being rumored at one point to do the remake, but he’s since moved on to Cogan’s Trade. Now, Deadline tells us that a director has been found, and it’s someone to get excited about.
It’s none other than Ben Affleck, who handled a missing person’s story exceptionally well in his feature debut, Gone Baby Gone. Being handled by Warner Bros. and Universal, the script is by Chris Terrio; he wrote Argo, the upcoming hostage thriller that Affleck will be directing next. The original was helmed by Guillaume Canet, and it...
It’s none other than Ben Affleck, who handled a missing person’s story exceptionally well in his feature debut, Gone Baby Gone. Being handled by Warner Bros. and Universal, the script is by Chris Terrio; he wrote Argo, the upcoming hostage thriller that Affleck will be directing next. The original was helmed by Guillaume Canet, and it...
- 6/15/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
We've just recently heard about his interesting pre-production method to get his cast ready to become hostages for his film Argo, but director Ben Affleck already has eyes on his next project. Deadline reports Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures have optioned the rights to Harlan Coben's thriller Tell No One for a film adaptation with Affleck at the helm. Though the novel comes from an American novelist, the book actually first received the feature film treatment back in 2006 when French director Guillaume Canet took a crack at adapting the book. Now audiences i the U.S. will see the story unfold without subtitles. Here's the book's official synopsis: David Beck has rebuilt his life since his wife's murder eight years ago, finishing medical school and establishing himself as a pediatrician, but he's never forgotten the woman he fell in love with in second grade. And ...
- 6/15/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Ben Affleck is just beginning work on his next directorial project, Argo , but now appears to have already found a follow-up. Deadline reports that Affleck will adapt the Harlan Coben novel Tell No One . The novel, adapted in France in 2006 by director Guillaume Canet, is officially described on the author's website as follows: Tell No One is a story of loss and redemption. It begins innocently enough. Dr. David Beck and his beloved wife, Elizabeth, are celebrating the anniversary of their first kiss in the quiet of Lake Charmaine. They grew up together, first kissed at age twelve, and now, twenty-five years old and married less than a year, they return for an idyllic weekend away. Tragedy shatters their solitude. Elizabeth is abducted and murdered, her body found in a...
- 6/15/2011
- Comingsoon.net
With all the interest in Norse sagas because of that movie opening today, we would be remiss if we didn’t remind you about you Hammer Of The Gods, the series from Michael Avon Oeming (Powers) and Mark Wheatley (Ez Street)!
This is the saga of Modi, a young Viking who was given amazing powers from the Norse Gods, literally carrying the power of Mjollnir, the hammer of Thorr… and a destiny to shake the world.
In the original 2004 graphic novel (which was recently reprinted by ComicMix and Idw, and is available for sale now) Modi came to terms with his strengths and weaknesses, fell in love with the Valkyrie, Skogul, and became a hero. As the new series starts, Odin, the king of the Gods, decides to peek in on the world of men. He travels to China, and soon Modi and his men must follow.
In addition to Oeming and Wheatley,...
This is the saga of Modi, a young Viking who was given amazing powers from the Norse Gods, literally carrying the power of Mjollnir, the hammer of Thorr… and a destiny to shake the world.
In the original 2004 graphic novel (which was recently reprinted by ComicMix and Idw, and is available for sale now) Modi came to terms with his strengths and weaknesses, fell in love with the Valkyrie, Skogul, and became a hero. As the new series starts, Odin, the king of the Gods, decides to peek in on the world of men. He travels to China, and soon Modi and his men must follow.
In addition to Oeming and Wheatley,...
- 5/6/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
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