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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures' Screen Gems is rebooting Look Who's Talking, the 1989 TriStar comedy that starred Kirstie Alley as a single career woman left alone to give birth to a baby fathered by a married man (George Segal), with John Travolta playing a cab driver who becomes part of this makeshift family, and Bruce…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Garelick, the screenwriter whose work includes The Break-Up, The Hangover and The Wedding Ringer, has teamed up with Mickey Liddell’s LD Entertainment to launch American High. Staked with a $50 million, the new company will generate a slate of high school-set comedy features. Garelick will tap his…

EXCLUSIVE: It came down to Universal, Disney and Paramount. In the end, Universal Pictures stepped up to make the year’s biggest material deal, acquiring the untitled musical comedy feature that The Comedians star Josh Gad and writer-director Jeremy Garelick hatched together, with original music to be provided by…

EXCLUSIVE: How often do you see a package hit the marketplace and receive bids from every major studio? Try never, but that’s what has happened tonight with Josh Gad and writer-director Jeremy Garelick, who are out with an ambitious pitch for an untitled musical comedy that will have Oscar winners Alan Menken writing…

Charlie McDowell, coming off a strong feature directorial debut with indie romantic comedy The One I Love, will make his TV helming debut with HBO’s untitled Sarah Silverman comedy pilot. Written by Secret Diary Of A Call Girl creator Lucy Prebble, the project is described as a comic look at a pathologically honest…

EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Knoxville has come attached to star in Sick Day, the comedy that Jeremy Garelick will direct for Universal Pictures. Jordan Cahan will rewrite the script originated by Garelick, the latter of whom picked Cahan because he is busy in postproduction on The Wedding Ringer, his directorial debut for…

BREAKING: Screen Gems and Miramax are collaborating on a currently untitled comedy that will star Think Like A Man‘s Kevin Hart and The Book Of Mormon‘s Josh Gad. Jeremy Garelick will make his feature directing debut on the film, which was written under The Golden Tux by Garelick and Jay Lavender back when they were…

EXCLUSIVE: The Break-Up scribe Jeremy Garelick has come aboard New Line’s reboot of the Police Academy franchise that launched in the 1980s and spanned seven films through the mid-’90s. The comedy, once again produced by Paul Maslansky, picks up the tale of a group of bumbling police recruits. David Diamond and David…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is in early talks with Jason Bateman to star with Vince Vaughn in The Insane Laws, a comedy that will mark the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Jeremy Garelick. Universal picked up the project in March after Sony Pictures put it into turnaround. Neal Moritz and his Original Film…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jackson, who reportedly earned $275 million posthumously over the past year for his estate, isn’t slowing down anytime soon. I’m told that GK Films is in active negotiations to acquire a package for a film that is being fashioned around his groundbreaking hit song Thriller. The film, which has been…

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Jeremy Garelick has closed two deals. He’ll adapt for 20th Century Fox the Jane Heller novel An Ex To Grind as a star vehicle for Cameron Diaz and Benicio Del Toro. Garelick has separately been signed by Universal Pictures to direct Hassle Man, a comedy that will be written by Eli Jorne and…