Exclusive: Sony’s TriStar Pictures has snatched up The Best Friends, a spec script by Chad Kultgen and Amy Rhodes with The Montecito Picture Company producing.
Kultgen and Rhodes previously worked together on NBC’s short-lived comedy, Bad Judge, which was co-created by Kultgen and Anne Heche. This is the first screenplay they’ve sold as a duo.
Plot details on The Best Friends are being kept under wraps though it is described as a high concept, slightly meta take on romantic comedies.
Producers are Montecito’s Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock, and Amie Karp. Hannah Minghella, Nicole Brown, and Shary Shirazi will oversee the project for TriStar.
Kultgen wrote the novel, Men, Women & Children, which was was made into a 2014 feature directed by Jason Reitman and starred Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Timothée Chalamet, and Ansel Elgort. Rhodes served as a writer and correspondent on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and...
Kultgen and Rhodes previously worked together on NBC’s short-lived comedy, Bad Judge, which was co-created by Kultgen and Anne Heche. This is the first screenplay they’ve sold as a duo.
Plot details on The Best Friends are being kept under wraps though it is described as a high concept, slightly meta take on romantic comedies.
Producers are Montecito’s Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock, and Amie Karp. Hannah Minghella, Nicole Brown, and Shary Shirazi will oversee the project for TriStar.
Kultgen wrote the novel, Men, Women & Children, which was was made into a 2014 feature directed by Jason Reitman and starred Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Timothée Chalamet, and Ansel Elgort. Rhodes served as a writer and correspondent on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and...
- 12/7/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
NBC has put in development This is Happening, a single-camera comedy from Universal Television and Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions. Written by Amy Rhodes (Bad Judge), with How To Live With Your Parents creator Claudia Lonow supervising, This Is Happening is about an uptight, unhappy, single woman in her mid-30s whose life changes when she gets a new job working for a popular website and starts hanging out with a group of her twentysomething…...
- 10/20/2015
- Deadline TV
Apparently traumatizing her writer Amy Rhodes and executive producer Andy Lassner with a trip through "The Walking Dead" Universal Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights maze wasn't enough for Ellen DeGeneres. As a follow-up to that haunted adventure, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" host decided to send her employees to preview another Halloween haunted area.
This time she sent Lassner and Rhodes to Queen Mary's Dark Harbor to walk through the Circus Maze, and their responses were even better than for "The Walking Dead." From Rhodes screaming, "We're being attacked by mimes!" to Lassner running as fast as he could back through the maze to get away from actors dressed to terrify them, it's clear that this maze showed them what fear really is.
DeGeneres, of course, couldn't have been more pleased by the whole endeavor. Hopefully she was the one who requested the Queen Mary scare actors terrorize her employees more than they usually do to guests,...
This time she sent Lassner and Rhodes to Queen Mary's Dark Harbor to walk through the Circus Maze, and their responses were even better than for "The Walking Dead." From Rhodes screaming, "We're being attacked by mimes!" to Lassner running as fast as he could back through the maze to get away from actors dressed to terrify them, it's clear that this maze showed them what fear really is.
DeGeneres, of course, couldn't have been more pleased by the whole endeavor. Hopefully she was the one who requested the Queen Mary scare actors terrorize her employees more than they usually do to guests,...
- 10/31/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Ellen DeGeneres wasn't too nice to two of her "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" employees this Halloween season.
As part of a yearly tradition, she makes her writer Amy Rhodes attend various haunted houses in the Los Angeles area. To make 2013 extra special, she sent her executive producer Andy Lassner along with Rhodes to Universal Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights, and hilarity ensued.
Rhodes might scare easily, but it was Lassner who really made this video priceless. Though he started out strong, Lassner was quickly yelling, "Stop it! Stop it now!" at every walker who jumped out at him during "The Walking Dead"-themed maze. At a certain point, he just started hiding behind Rhodes and pushing her in front of him throughout the house. "Stupid. It's finished," he said at the end. "Why do people pay for that?"
Rewatching the video brought DeGeneres to tears, and she now swears that Lassner...
As part of a yearly tradition, she makes her writer Amy Rhodes attend various haunted houses in the Los Angeles area. To make 2013 extra special, she sent her executive producer Andy Lassner along with Rhodes to Universal Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights, and hilarity ensued.
Rhodes might scare easily, but it was Lassner who really made this video priceless. Though he started out strong, Lassner was quickly yelling, "Stop it! Stop it now!" at every walker who jumped out at him during "The Walking Dead"-themed maze. At a certain point, he just started hiding behind Rhodes and pushing her in front of him throughout the house. "Stupid. It's finished," he said at the end. "Why do people pay for that?"
Rewatching the video brought DeGeneres to tears, and she now swears that Lassner...
- 10/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The Young and the Restless tallied 23 nominations as honors were announced this morning for the 40th annual Daytime Emmy Awards. Restless’ impressive take helped CBS lead all networks with 50 overall nominations. PBS and ABC followed, with 44 and 38 nods, respectively.
General Hospital, which earned 19 nominations, joined Restless in the race for Outstanding Drama Series, and Sesame Street received 17 nods, including three for Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo who faces allegations of sexual misconduct.
Good Morning America and Today will bring their ratings rivalry to the Emmys, where they’ll be joined by CBS Sunday Morning in the Outstanding Morning Program category.
General Hospital, which earned 19 nominations, joined Restless in the race for Outstanding Drama Series, and Sesame Street received 17 nods, including three for Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo who faces allegations of sexual misconduct.
Good Morning America and Today will bring their ratings rivalry to the Emmys, where they’ll be joined by CBS Sunday Morning in the Outstanding Morning Program category.
- 5/1/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside TV
The nominations are in! Ellen DeGeneres, The View and General Hospital lead the pack in the 2013 Daytime Emmy nominations.
Sam Champion read the 2013 Daytime Emmy Nominations on Good Morning America on May 1, and it’s a great list! General Hospital and The Young & The Restless were some of the many shows nominated, while Ellen DeGeneres, Katie Couric and the lovely ladies of The View are some of the hosts nominated. Read on for the full list.
Daytime Emmys 2013 — Full List Of Nominations
Outstanding Drama Series
The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS
Bradley P. Bell, Executive Producer
Rhonda Friedman, Edward J. Scott, SupervisingProducers
Ronald W. Weaver, Senior Producer
Mark Pinciotti, Coordinating Producer
Cynthia J. Popp, Colleen Bell, Casey Kasprzyk, Producers
Days of Our Lives, NBC
Ken Corday, Executive Producer
Lisa de Cazotte, Greg Meng, Co-Executive Producers
Janet Drucker, Tim Stevens, Coordinating Producers
Albert Alarr, Producer
General Hospital , ABC
Frank Valentini, Executive Producer
Mary-Kelly Weir,...
Sam Champion read the 2013 Daytime Emmy Nominations on Good Morning America on May 1, and it’s a great list! General Hospital and The Young & The Restless were some of the many shows nominated, while Ellen DeGeneres, Katie Couric and the lovely ladies of The View are some of the hosts nominated. Read on for the full list.
Daytime Emmys 2013 — Full List Of Nominations
Outstanding Drama Series
The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS
Bradley P. Bell, Executive Producer
Rhonda Friedman, Edward J. Scott, SupervisingProducers
Ronald W. Weaver, Senior Producer
Mark Pinciotti, Coordinating Producer
Cynthia J. Popp, Colleen Bell, Casey Kasprzyk, Producers
Days of Our Lives, NBC
Ken Corday, Executive Producer
Lisa de Cazotte, Greg Meng, Co-Executive Producers
Janet Drucker, Tim Stevens, Coordinating Producers
Albert Alarr, Producer
General Hospital , ABC
Frank Valentini, Executive Producer
Mary-Kelly Weir,...
- 5/1/2013
- by Eleanore Hutch
- HollywoodLife
What would you do if someone came up to you as you were browsing at the store and whispered, point blank, "I remember when we broke up, the first time..."
"Ellen" writer Amy Rhodes recited the lyrics to Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," to strangers, and a hidden camera caught all their baffled reactions.
If the idea sounds familiar, it's because it is: Back in October, YouTuber Tommy Wooldridge performed an extremely similar prank. Coincidence?...
"Ellen" writer Amy Rhodes recited the lyrics to Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," to strangers, and a hidden camera caught all their baffled reactions.
If the idea sounds familiar, it's because it is: Back in October, YouTuber Tommy Wooldridge performed an extremely similar prank. Coincidence?...
- 2/6/2013
- by Ross Luippold
- Huffington Post
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