Kay Cannon is set to direct the treasure hunting comedy 79ers, which will be produced by Lionsgate, Point Grey and Gary Sanchez. In the film, a group of estranged friends are forced back together after 20 years to complete a treasure hunt they attempted as misfit teens, but never completed. Dylan Meyer has been…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has set Gary Sanchez Productions and sister label Gloria Sanchez into a new three-year first look feature deal. Gary Sanchez Productions is led by principals Will Ferrell and Adam McKay with producer Jessica Elbaum heading Gloria Sanchez. This comes as Paramount percolates the Demetri…

In a very competitive situation involving a four-way bidding, CBS has landed Things You Should Already Know, an ensemble single-camera comedy about millennials from Ben Schwartz (House Of Lies), Laura Moses, Gary Sanchez Prods. and CBS TV Studios. The project is part of a first-look deal Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has acquired an untitled pitch for a comedy that will star Will Ferrell and Aquaman‘s Jason Momoa. Andy Mogel & Jarrad Paul will write it and Nick Stoller and Gary Sanchez will produce. They are keeping the logline under wraps but when it was being pitched, sources described it as Galaxy Quest…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has landed Operation Prince Of Freedom, a spec script package for a comedy that will be helmed by Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates director Jake Szymanski. Chernin Entertainment will produce with Gary Sanchez. The script is by Michael Kvamme and Jordan Dunn, and Gary Sanchez’s Adam McKay, Will Ferrell…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures just picked up an untitled action comedy pitch from Lauryn Kahn with Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates director Jake Szymanski attached to helm and Gary Sanchez's Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and Kevin Messick on to produce. The story is about two FBI agents who go deep undercover as a married…

Funny Or Die is expanding its content creation operation, announcing this morning that exec Chris Bruss has received a promotion to President of Digital Content, while Gary Sanchez Creative Director Owen Burke has been hired as the company’s first-ever Editor in Chief of Content. Bruss joined Funny or Die in 2009…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has made a pre-emptive deal for I’m In Love With The DJ, a romantic comedy spec by Lauryn Kahn that will be produced by Gary Sanchez's Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and Kevin Messick. Deal comes right after Gary Sanchez made a Sony deal for Border Guards, a comedy that will star Ferrell and John C…

BREAKING: Gary Sanchez Productions, the film and television production company founded by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Chris Henchy, has hatched a sister label. Gloria Sanchez Productions will generate female-driven film and TV projects. Longtime Gary Sanchez exec Jessica Elbaum will head the label and will court…

BREAKING: Universal Pictures has acquired a comic pitch from Leah Rachel that’s being called the rather self explanatory Untitled Threesome Comedy. Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Kevin Messick and Chris Henchy are producing through their Gary Sanchez banner. It’s the first big studio sale for Rachel, a new comic voice. She…

Justin Malen has been hired to rewrite The Manny for Gary Sanchez and Red Wagon at Sony. Malen is hot off his  script Bastards, which sold last summer to Paramount with Montecito & H2F producing. The Manny is an R-rated comedy about an unemployed (and soon-to-be homeless) recent college grad who, after exhausting all…

2929 Productions is financing Tim And Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, a comedy by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim that’s being produced by Funny Or Die creators at Gary Sanchez Productions. The film company sent out a press release with what I felt was a lame attempt to humorously paint itself as the priciest film ever…