March was supposed to be a big month for National Lampoon.
The content production company that hung out an “Under New Management” sign last year had scheduled a series of 50th anniversary celebrations this year designed to spur its revival. The plan was to use podcasts and live events to introduce a new generation of subversive comedians affiliated with the brand name that helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and others.
One by one, the comeback events carefully plotted by veteran producer and executive Evan Shapiro were canceled. National Lampoon had planned to make a splash at the SXSW festival with a series of live events. A re-imagined version of National Lampoon’s Off Broadway show “Lemmings” was set for showcase performances at the Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub venue on March 14-15. But none of that came to pass as the...
The content production company that hung out an “Under New Management” sign last year had scheduled a series of 50th anniversary celebrations this year designed to spur its revival. The plan was to use podcasts and live events to introduce a new generation of subversive comedians affiliated with the brand name that helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and others.
One by one, the comeback events carefully plotted by veteran producer and executive Evan Shapiro were canceled. National Lampoon had planned to make a splash at the SXSW festival with a series of live events. A re-imagined version of National Lampoon’s Off Broadway show “Lemmings” was set for showcase performances at the Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub venue on March 14-15. But none of that came to pass as the...
- 4/2/2020
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
As soon as we thought we could predict the outcome of the Oscars, here comes another surprise! This one's brought to you by the Writers Guild of America. Picked for Best Original Screenplay was Christopher Nolan's "Inception." The director, famously dissed for not getting a Best Director Oscar nomination, may just win the Best Original Screenplay come Oscar night. Oscar front-runner, "The King's Speech" was not nominated because it didn't quality under union rules which prompted Nolan to say during his WGA acceptance award that he looked forward to a time when he could accept the award "without qualification."
That could be the beginning of a great script Mr. Nolan, go write it :happy
For adapted screenplay, I'm happy to report that Aaron Sorkin's fantastic script won! Based on "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich, "The Social Network" was the only film last year that I predicted to win this very category.
That could be the beginning of a great script Mr. Nolan, go write it :happy
For adapted screenplay, I'm happy to report that Aaron Sorkin's fantastic script won! Based on "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich, "The Social Network" was the only film last year that I predicted to win this very category.
- 2/7/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
On Saturday night, the New York Television Festival capped off a week's worth of screenings and entertainment industry-oriented events with an awards show honoring some of this year's top submissions. Here's a summary of the web series that took home cash and acclaim on Saturday night. Greg & Donny Most of yins are familiar with Geoff Skowron and Matt Yeager from their roles on Williamsburgh's favorite web show, The Burg, but these two Steelers fans from Western Pennsylvania are attracting quite the following for their own series. The creators of the tech-illiterate Greg and Donny won IFC's "Out of the Box" award and received a $25,000 development deal from the cable network. 9Am Meeting This "barely-animated web series" has been a long-time hit amongst New York's Channel 101 crowd, stringing together 10 callbacks in a row (and counting!) at the monthly voter's choice screening. Now MTV has taken notice. Brooklyn-based comedy writer and 9Am creator,...
- 9/27/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
New York, Sept. 25, 2010 –The sixth annual New York Television Festival announced the winners of its Independent Pilot Competition, Nytvf People’s Choice award, Fox-nytvf Comedy Script Contest, IFC “Out of the Box” and MTV Animation awards tonight at a ceremony hosted at the Sva Theatre in Manhattan. The winners of the Fox-nytvf Comedy Script Contest, Austen Earl and Luke Cunningham for “Red Delicious,” received a $25,000 prize and a development deal. IFC’s “Out of the Box” award winners Matt Yeager and Jeff Skowron received a $25,000 development deal for their pilot “Greg and Donny.” The Independent Pilot Competition winners were selected from 42 independent television projects created by writers and producers from across the U.S., Canada and the UK. Here is a complete list of the awards and their winners. Nytvf Special Competition Winners Voted by popular choice at Festival screenings to honor the audience’s favorite submission in the Independent Pilot Competition,...
- 9/26/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Greg & Donny have discovered Farmville. It was only a matter of time. Today the hick comedy web series returns for its second season with “Greg the Farmer,” proving that no internet phenomenon is out of reach of these knuckleheads. Together the duo of Jeff Skowron and Matt Yeager, the creators and stars of the series, make up Puddinhead Brothers on YouTube. Skowron stars as Greg and Yeager as Donny, two Western Pennsylvania yokels discovering the wonders of the internet. Yeager’s also part of the team at Dinosaur Diorama, which brought some of the early NY-based web comedies to national spotlight, like hipster-loving The Burg, RenFaire moc-doc All’s Faire and Vuguru’s branded indie rock road trip The All-For-Nots. Not surprisingly, fellow Burg creator Thom Woodley directs Greg & Donny. Related News:Quick Clicks: ‘The Battery’s’ Streamy, ‘Greg & Donny’, #Streamathon, ‘Alma’ ‘The Burg’ Is Cool Again, Hipsters Back, Yupsters Out...
- 9/8/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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