Shane Black Developing Animated Comedy For Fox Based On Crag Banyon Mysteries
Iron Man 3 writer and director Shane Black is moving into animation with a new comedy project at Fox. Black, who also wrote the first two Lethal Weapon movies, is developing Crag Banyon P.I., based on James Mullaney’s book series. Black and Mullaney will write and exec produce the project, which will also be exec produced by David Silverman, Stampede Ventures’, Greg […]
Colour Associates’ 2nd Annual Next Up List
Please join us in celebrating our 2020 cohort! These ten individuals have been working hard to be NEXT UP in the entertainment industry. This list celebrates the diversity we see in the corporate-creative business today. “We are thrilled to share our 2nd annual NEXT UP list because we truly believe we are shining a light on […]
Stampede Ventures & ‘Wind River’ Producer Savvy Media Team For Franchise Hopeful ‘Mr. Croup’ About Former Brit Secret Agent
By Andreas Wiseman EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Greg Silverman and Jon Berg of Stampede Ventures have optioned the rights to screenwriter Ward Parry’s spec script, Mr. Croup. Matthew George’s Savvy Media Holdings, whose credits include Wind River and A Private War, will produce the film alongside former Warner Bros execs Berg and Silverman. Mr. Croup is described to us an original spy-thriller with franchise potential, […]
Lynne Ramsay To Direct ‘The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon’ Adaptation For Village Roadshow Pictures
By Amanda N’Duka Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay has been tapped to direct The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, the film adaptation to the 1999 psychological horror novel by Stephen King, which is set up at Village Roadshow Pictures. Ramsay, who wrote and directed the Joaquin Phoenix-starring drama, You Were Never Really Here, also penned the screenplay for The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon with […]
Lionsgate Developing Horror Film ‘Video Nasty’ With Seth Rogen, Greg Silverman Producing
By Dave McNary Lionsgate has acquired the horror spec script “Video Nasty” for Seth Rogen’s Point Grey and Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures to produce, Variety has learned exclusively. “Video Nasty,” written by Chris Thomas Devlin, centers on three teens who rent a cursed VHS and are pulled into an ’80s slasher movie that threatens to trap them forever. Point Grey’s […]
MTV Studios Acquires Coming-Of-Age Film ‘Pink Skies Ahead’ Prior To Its World Premiere At The AFI Film Festival
By Justin Kroll EXCLUSIVE: MTV Studios has acquired the worldwide rights to Stampede Ventures’ coming-of-age film Pink Skies Ahead from writer/director Kelly Oxford. The film will make its worldwide premiere at the AFI Film Festival tomorrow. Set in Los Angeles in 1998, the film follows Winona, who after dropping out of college and moving back home to live with her parents, […]
Eva Longoria to Direct Action-Comedy ‘Spa Day’ at Sony Pictures (EXCLUSIVE)
By Matt Donnelly Eva Longoria is checking in for “Spa Day,” an action comedy feature she will direct and co-star in at Sony Pictures. Variety has learned that Longoria, who has two other films lined up as director at Searchlight and Universal, is also producing the project with her partner Ben Spector at their banner UnbeliEVAble Entertainment. Greg Silverman […]
AFI Fest Adds Four World Premieres, Including Errol Morris’ Leary Doc ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’
The virtual festival has also added buzzy titles from Florian Zeller, Werner Herzog, and Mira Nair. Ryan Lattanzio Sep 21, 2020 2:00 pm “My Psychedelic Love Story” Showtime Documentary Films In keeping with the festival’s continuing tradition of showcasing television, AFI Fest has added filmmaker Errol Morris’ Showtime Documentary Films feature “My Psychedelic Love Story” as the virtual […]
AFI Fest To Close With World Premiere Of Errol Morris’ ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’
By Anthony D’Alessandro The 34th annual AFI Fest said Monday that Showtime’s Errol Morris-directed documentary My Psychedelic Love Story will close the festival next month. The movie follows LSD high priest Timothy Leary and how he became a narc in 1974 and abandoned the millions he urged to turn on, tune in and drop out. Was his “perfect love” Joanna Harcourt-Smith a […]
CBS Studios Inks International First-Look Deal With Stampede Ventures, Adapting Ragnar Jónasson’s ‘The Darkness’
By Peter White September 16, 2020 8:00am EXCLUSIVE: CBS Studios has struck a global first-look deal with Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures International and has set its first project – an adaptation of Ragnar Jónasson’s best-selling Nordic noir book The Darkness. The two companies will work together to source, acquire and develop premium scripted content for the international market that […]
