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EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Emanuele has been made a partner at Le Train Train Productions, the banner owned by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. Emanuele will produce alongside the duo and lead development. Emanuele was a founding member of the YouTube Originals team where she developed and oversaw scripted…

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack are getting into business with Lionsgate TV. The prolific duo have signed a first-look producing deal with the studio via their Le Train Train Productions under which they will produce scripted programming for multiple platforms. Their first project in development is romantic comedy Lov…

EXCLUSIVE: The directing team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) will direct The People Upstairs, a film that will be financed by FilmNation. Rashida Jones & Will McCormack wrote the script. David Permut will produce with FilmNation. Production is planned for later this year. The film is an…

With If Anything Happens I Love You, directors Michael Govier and Will McCormack, and producer Maryann Garger set out to examine the grief and suffering caused by school shootings. The Netflix short tells the story of two parents grieving over the loss of their daughter in a school shooting. "We kept reading and…

It's not every day that a short film resonates across the globe, managing to connect emotionally with people of all different ages and backgrounds. But in the case of If Anything Happens I Love You, from directors Will McCormack and Michael Govier, this is precisely what happened. Executive produced by Laura Dern, and…

Quibi continues its recent run on original programming with a series order for Centerpiece, a floral-arrangement docuseries led by floral artist Maurice Harris from executive producers Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. Peter Kline, John Kaplan and Harris also are EPs on the show, which explores the nature of…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney + has acquired the National Book Award-winning Neal Shusterman novel Challenger Deep. The streaming division of Disney has set Toy Story 4 scribe Will McCormack to write the script. The book gracefully covers mental illness. Caden Bosch lives in two worlds; one is a life with family, friends and high…

It’s time to get a new set and put some polish on those tired nails! TNT has released a first look promo for season 3 premiere date for Claws which will debut on June 9 at 9 pm ET/PT. The new teaser video doesn’t show us much, but we do see the ladies of the Nail Artisans of Manatee County salon donned in their finest…

Le Train Train Productions, the company founded by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, has closed a first-look television deal with MRC the indie studio behind series including Netflix’s House of Cards and Ozark and Starz’s Counterpart. Under the pact, Jones and McCormack will create, develop and executive produce new…

EXCLUSIVE: Pixar has put the next adventure of Woody and Buzz Lightyear in the hands of Black List scribe Stephany Folsom. She’s taken over writing the script for Toy Story 4, the latest installment of the juggernaut that helped establish Pixar’s mojo. Who’s Folsom? She made the Black List for a much different and…

After Pixar CCO John Lasseter announced that he would be taking a leave of absence from his post at Disney due to “missteps” he made, it was reported that Rashida Jones and her writing partner Will McCormack stepped down as writers of Toy Story 4 after Lasseter made an “unwanted advance” towards Jones. The two…

TNT has given a pilot order to Claws, an hourlong dramedy set in a South Florida nail salon. The project hails from Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s Le Train Train in association with Warner Horizon Television and TNT Original Productions. Written by Eliot Laurence (Welcome to Me), Claws is a dark, wickedly funny…