The network’s movie arm has optioned The Ex Files, a 2003 chick-lit novel by Jane Moore, a columnist on Murdoch tabloid The Sun. Veteran TV and film producer Leonard Goldberg will produce. The Ex Files is about a a couple who invite all their ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends to their wedding. Goldberg has boiled the title down to The Exes, presumably to avoid confusion with Scully and Mulder, and looks to be mining the same territory as 27 Dresses and Bride Wars and My Best Friend's Wedding. Then again, rom-coms about impending nuptials do tend to perform at the box office. Tally Garner of Curtis Brown negotiated the CBS deal on behalf of Moore. Icm client Sahara Lotti is adapting the novel.
- 7/27/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
Sahara Lotti is set to pen the comedy "The Exes", an adaptation of Jane Moore's best-selling 2003 novel "The Ex Files", for CBS Films reports Risky Business.
The story follows an engaged couple who invite several of their exes to a celebratory wedding weekend on an exotic island. What starts out as a great idea turns into a disaster.
Leonard Goldberg ("Charlie's Angels") is going to produce.
The story follows an engaged couple who invite several of their exes to a celebratory wedding weekend on an exotic island. What starts out as a great idea turns into a disaster.
Leonard Goldberg ("Charlie's Angels") is going to produce.
- 6/2/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
CBS Films has hired Sahara Lotti to write the comedy The Exes , says Risky Business . The film is based on British columnist Jane Moore's 2003 novel "The Ex Files," which is described as follows: After five years spent maneuvering for Mr. Right, beautiful, feisty Faye Parker has finally snared a sensitive cutie named Mark. So when he pops the question, Faye is fully prepared to step out of the dating rat-race, call the caterer, and don the veil. Just as soon as she has one last teensy-weensy little fling. Then comes the dicey issue of the guest list. First there's Nat, Faye's ex.a narcissistic fashion model hell-bent on flaunting his substantial charms in Faye's face, his latest Playboy bunny in tow. Next there's Kate, Mark's ex.a woman so indignant she's not the...
- 6/1/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps Entertainment have scooped up their first project since setting up shop at 20th Century Fox. Levy and 21 Laps president Tom McNulty will produce Back Magick, a wish-fulfillment comedy being written by Sahara Lotti. The story centers on an unpopular boy who, in a misguided effort to improve his seemingly unspectacular life, makes a series of wishes during an eclipse. The wishes don't come true until 20 years later, disastrously upending his successful life. "It's a big-premise comedy that explores shifting priorities and the things that matter at various points in our lives," said Levy, speaking from the set of A Night at the Museum, which 21 Laps is co-producing with 1492 Prods. "It's about the absurdity of getting the things you want in childhood 20 years too late."...
- 3/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For someone named after a desert, Sahara Lotti's screenwriting career is certainly in full bloom. 20th Century Fox has just picked up the scribe's family comedy Dear God, It's Me Rod, with Andrew Gunn producing via his Gunn Films banner. Fox also has signed Lotti to a blind script deal. The story follows a 14-year-old kid who, on Thanksgiving, wishes to be in a family like that of his friend. His dream becomes reality when he wakes up the next morning, but he eventually pines for the life he left behind. "I think that everybody, when they are little, feels the grass is always greener," Lotti said. "It always seems that your friend's family is cooler. I used to think that everybody had it better, but then I grew up."...
- 3/15/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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