Warner Bros has dropped the first trailer for summer shark pic The Meg. The Jason Statham-starrer is a sci-fi thriller about a prehistoric 75-foot-long predator, the Megalodon, who threatens the lives of a research team trapped underwater — and, yes, the fate of the ocean itself. As far as summer popcorn fare, the…
The Jon Turbeltaub-directed movie Meg has a big shark, and now it has a big star. Jason Statham is in negotiations to star in the adaptation of the novel of the same name that Warner Bros is moving forward with in conjunction with China-based Gravity. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing along with Belle Avery and…
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Turteltaub could soon be swimming with a shark, a great big historic toothy critter. He’s now circling Meg, an adaptation of the novel that Warner Bros is moving forward with in conjunction with China-based Gravity, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing. This is a film 20 years in the making, and…
EXCLUSIVE: Disney has set the scribe team of Tim Rasmussen & Vince Di Meglio to script It’s A Small World, a family film based on the 50-year-old theme park attraction. The scribes, whose credits include License To Wed, Smother and Marmaduke and who wrote on Meet The Fockers and The Girlfriend Equation, board a…
CBS has put in development Jet Set, a drama from National Treasure helmer Jon Turteltaub and CBS TV Studios. Turteltaub is executive producing through his Junction Entertainment banner. J.P. Lavin and Chad Damiani are co-writing and executive producing.
In Jet Set, a young, rich socialite partners with a blue-collar…
The director of one blockbuster action-adventure feature franchise, National Treasure, is set to direct the TV adaptation of another, Rush Hour. National Treasure helmer Jon Turteltaub has signed on to direct and executive produce the hourlong CBS pilot Rush Hour, based on New Line’s buddy movies.
Written by Cougar Tow…
After taking a comedic turn in features with sleeper hit Last Vegas for CBS Films, Jon Turteltaub is doing the same on the TV side for the film studio’s sibling CBS. Turteltaub, executive producer of CBS drama series Harper’s Island and Jericho, is executive producing Letters To My Daughter’s Future Therapist, a…
EXCLUSIVE: Appropriate considering today is the 50th anniversary of the creation of the It’s A Small World attraction that has been such a staple of the Disney theme parks, the movie studio has hired Jon Turteltaub to direct a feature based on the venerable family film ride with the catchy tune. Jared Stern pitched Sma…
EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development Alleged, a drama from CBS TV Studios and Jon Turteltaub‘s studio-based Junction Entertainment. Written by playwright/TV writer David Rambo and Pat Gilfillan, the project centers on a defense attorney who takes on the most important case of his life: defending his own brother, a…
EXCLUSIVE: Top literary managers David Lonner and Larry Shuman are in serious talks to merge their companies, Oasis Media Group and The Shuman Co, respectively. In the scenario being discussed, Shuman and Lonner and his Oasis partner John Mass would join forces under the Oasis umbrella, tied to an effort to secure…
Jon Turteltaub is in negotiations to direct CBS Films and Mandate Pictures’ comedy Last Vegas, which revolves around four best friends in their late 60s who decide to escape retirement and throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who stayed single. Dan Fogelman wrote the script; the project will be…
EXCLUSIVE: ABC has bought drama pitch Haunted from feature writer Cory Goodman (The Priest), with National Treasure helmer Jon Turteltaub attached to direct. It hails from ABC Studios, Jon Turteltaub’s Junction Entertainment and producer Adam Goldworm (Masters of Horror). Haunted is a supernatural character procedural…
