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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…

As NBC is prepping its live staging of Peter Pan, the network has bought another project inspired by the J. M. Barrie classic. Single-camera comedy Wendy And Peter, which has received a script commitment plus penalty from NBC, hails from writer-actress Marisa Coughlan, Rashida Jones & Will McCormack’s Le Train Train…

In its first development season, Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s Le Train Train production company set up several high-profile half-hour projects and landed a series order for NBC’s romantic comedy A to Z. Now the Warner Bros. TV-based banner is signaling an expansion to hourlong projects with its first sale of the…