In a very competitive situation, Fox has nabbed Sisters, a one-hour drama based on the Endemol Shine Australia series, with a put pilot commitment. The project hails from The Path duo of co-executive producer Annie Weisman and executive producer Jason Katims, as well as the original series’ co-creator Imogen Banks…
13th UPDATE Write thru, Monday 12:42PM Final: Disney has finalized the official opening all-time record for Star Wars: The Force Awakens at $247.97M. Disney chief Bob Iger was floating a $247M figure in his Bloomberg interview, so this afternoon’s actual is just slightly ahead of it. Earlier this morning, industry…
UPDATED WITH OVERSEAS: $185M-$220M opening in the U.S. — that’s where many distributors have Star Wars: The Force Awakens right now, but they’re confident that the Disney film has a very good shot at destroying Jurassic World‘s opening record of $208.8M. Overseas, analysts foresee Star Wars: The Force Awakenseasily…
EXCLUSIVE: Jason Moore, the Pitch Perfect helmer whose Universal comedy Sisters with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opens December 18, has just closed a deal for what he hopes will be his next film. Moore and Sisters producer John Lyons sold an untitled pitch to Elizabeth Gabler at Fox 2000. They will move quickly to set a…
Tina Fey has a list of awards and nominations so long it falls off the page. Among them are this year's Primetime Emmy Awards noms–one for the creation of Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with Robert Carlock, and another for her stint as a guest actress on the show. In December we'll see Fey reunite with Amy Poehler…
It’s kind of weird to think that it’s been seven years since Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were in a movie together, but Baby Mama came out in 2008. The duo is back with a new comedy out this Christmas, and it almost feels like no time has passed at all. Sisters has Fey and Poehler as, well, sisters obviously, who return…
EXCLUSIVE: Horror anthology Tales Of Halloween has recruited director Lucky McKee as the holiday-themed project continues filming in Los Angeles. The director of 2002’s genre favorite May, The Woods, Red and Sundance controversy-maker The Woman most recently helmed last year’s tongue-in-cheek horror comedy All Cheerlea…
