Exclusive: Camila Mendes (Riverdale) has signed on to star opposite Rudy Mancuso in the film Música, which he is directing for Amazon Studios and Wonderland Sound and Vision.
The Prime Video title going into production this summer is billed as a fresh spin on the rom-com. It follows a young man (Mancuso), plagued by the music in his head, who has to come to terms with an uncertain future while balancing love, family and Brazilian culture in Newark, New Jersey. It’s the latest romance to come from Wonderland, on the heels of its success with titles including Love Hard, Holidate and Tall Girl. (The sequel to the latter became Wonderland’s seventh in a row to reach #1 on Netflix upon its release in February.)
Mancuso wrote the script with American Vandal‘s Dan Lagana, and will also compose the film’s original score and soundtrack. McG and Mary Viola...
The Prime Video title going into production this summer is billed as a fresh spin on the rom-com. It follows a young man (Mancuso), plagued by the music in his head, who has to come to terms with an uncertain future while balancing love, family and Brazilian culture in Newark, New Jersey. It’s the latest romance to come from Wonderland, on the heels of its success with titles including Love Hard, Holidate and Tall Girl. (The sequel to the latter became Wonderland’s seventh in a row to reach #1 on Netflix upon its release in February.)
Mancuso wrote the script with American Vandal‘s Dan Lagana, and will also compose the film’s original score and soundtrack. McG and Mary Viola...
- 4/27/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Six years since “Inside Amy Schumer” ended, the popular comedian is making her return to scripted television with Hulu’s “Life & Beth.”
Directed by, written by and starring Schumer, “Life and Beth” follows its titular character in two pivotal periods of her life: as a teenager, played by Violet Young, and as a successful wine distributor approaching 40, played by Schumer. When a sudden incident forces the adult Beth to reexamine whether she wants the life she built for herself, she begins to look back at her childhood in an attempt to discover how she became who she is and figure out who she wants to become.
In addition to Schumer and Young, Michael Cera portrays Beth’s love interest and farmer named John, and Michael Rapaport plays her father. The cast is rounded out by Yamaneika Saunders and Laura Benanti. Schumer will executive produce alongside Kevin Kane, Daniel Powell and Ryan McFaul.
Directed by, written by and starring Schumer, “Life and Beth” follows its titular character in two pivotal periods of her life: as a teenager, played by Violet Young, and as a successful wine distributor approaching 40, played by Schumer. When a sudden incident forces the adult Beth to reexamine whether she wants the life she built for herself, she begins to look back at her childhood in an attempt to discover how she became who she is and figure out who she wants to become.
In addition to Schumer and Young, Michael Cera portrays Beth’s love interest and farmer named John, and Michael Rapaport plays her father. The cast is rounded out by Yamaneika Saunders and Laura Benanti. Schumer will executive produce alongside Kevin Kane, Daniel Powell and Ryan McFaul.
- 2/8/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Cop Out writer Robb Cullen is working on a dark comedy drama inspired by his own life for BET+.
The streamer has teamed with Cullen and McG on Average Joe.
The project, which has received a cast contingent script-to-series order, is a darkly comedic, one-hour ensemble set in The Hill district of Pittsburgh.
It follows blue-collar plumber, Joe Washington, who discovers his recently deceased father lived a secret, second life and stole millions of dollars from dangerous people just before he died. Now those people think Joe knows where it is. A bloody and violent confrontation triggers a chain of events that force Joe and his close-knit circle of family and friends out of their very average and mundane lives into a life or death race against time to find the truth and the millions.
Average Joe is written and created by Cullen, who has created series including ABC...
The streamer has teamed with Cullen and McG on Average Joe.
The project, which has received a cast contingent script-to-series order, is a darkly comedic, one-hour ensemble set in The Hill district of Pittsburgh.
It follows blue-collar plumber, Joe Washington, who discovers his recently deceased father lived a secret, second life and stole millions of dollars from dangerous people just before he died. Now those people think Joe knows where it is. A bloody and violent confrontation triggers a chain of events that force Joe and his close-knit circle of family and friends out of their very average and mundane lives into a life or death race against time to find the truth and the millions.
Average Joe is written and created by Cullen, who has created series including ABC...
- 2/7/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The material marketplace is beginning to perk up. Deadline hears that Wonderland has Annie Mumolo and Emily Goldwyn co-writing Bad Habit, a proposed comedy series that would star Mumolo about nuns who get into the pot-selling business.
When a convent in California’s Central Valley is rocked by a scandal that puts it on the brink of bankruptcy, a resourceful group of nuns struggles to keep it afloat in a community that desperately needs them. On a wing and a prayer, they get into cultivating and selling marijuana in the name of the Catholic Church. This nuns navigate local drug cartels, the church, their friendships, their longstanding spiritual beliefs and, most importantly, how to grow the dankest weed west of the Mississippi.
Goldwyn separately is adapting Mergers and Acquisitions for Sony’s 3000 Pictures, and her series...
When a convent in California’s Central Valley is rocked by a scandal that puts it on the brink of bankruptcy, a resourceful group of nuns struggles to keep it afloat in a community that desperately needs them. On a wing and a prayer, they get into cultivating and selling marijuana in the name of the Catholic Church. This nuns navigate local drug cartels, the church, their friendships, their longstanding spiritual beliefs and, most importantly, how to grow the dankest weed west of the Mississippi.
Goldwyn separately is adapting Mergers and Acquisitions for Sony’s 3000 Pictures, and her series...
- 1/13/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Amidst allegations of misconduct on the set of Showtime’s Smilf and potential WGA complaints, the premium cabler has no intention of pulling the plug on the Frankie Shaw-created series’ Season 2 premiere next month.
“We’re 100% completely behind her,” an insider at the David Nevins run outlet told Deadline after reports of showrunner and star Shaw being investigated on the apparent mishandling of video of nude scenes on the show emerged Monday. “There’s nothing changing, “ the source said of the January 20 return of the Golden Globe-nominated show that is also facing non-formalized complaints made to the Writers Guild about credit on the series and the designation of minority scribes.
Sources at the WGA say that the Guild is working with producers ABC Studios to learn more about the informal complaints and whether further action will be taken. The Guild is limited in its reach if writers do not...
“We’re 100% completely behind her,” an insider at the David Nevins run outlet told Deadline after reports of showrunner and star Shaw being investigated on the apparent mishandling of video of nude scenes on the show emerged Monday. “There’s nothing changing, “ the source said of the January 20 return of the Golden Globe-nominated show that is also facing non-formalized complaints made to the Writers Guild about credit on the series and the designation of minority scribes.
Sources at the WGA say that the Guild is working with producers ABC Studios to learn more about the informal complaints and whether further action will be taken. The Guild is limited in its reach if writers do not...
- 12/17/2018
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Snapchat is getting more serious about its original programming initiatives. To that end, the messaging app, whose claim to fame is content which disappears after a short time frame, has hired Marcus Wiley as new Head of Program Planning and Development.
Wiley will be in charge of the Snap Channel, Snapchat’s original programming vertical on its own content platform Discover. According to Deadline, Wiley will work with the Snap Channel team to develop short-form narrative series in scripted, musical, and experimental formats, aimed at the app’s 13- to 34-year-old users.
The Snap Channel programming developed by Wiley will succeed Snapchat’s previous original content initiatives, such as the Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn-starring Literally Can’t Even (which has been renewed for a second season on the ephemeral messaging platform). All new Snapchat original programming will live alongside branded content from Discover publishing partners such as Espn,...
Wiley will be in charge of the Snap Channel, Snapchat’s original programming vertical on its own content platform Discover. According to Deadline, Wiley will work with the Snap Channel team to develop short-form narrative series in scripted, musical, and experimental formats, aimed at the app’s 13- to 34-year-old users.
The Snap Channel programming developed by Wiley will succeed Snapchat’s previous original content initiatives, such as the Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn-starring Literally Can’t Even (which has been renewed for a second season on the ephemeral messaging platform). All new Snapchat original programming will live alongside branded content from Discover publishing partners such as Espn,...
- 5/26/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Snapchat is moving forward with more of its own original content. The ephemeral messaging app has renewed its first web series Literally Can’t Even for a second season.
Literally Can’t Even is written by and stars Sasha Spielberg (daughter of Hollywood director Steven Spielberg) and Emily Goldwyn (daughter of film producer John Goldwyn). In the Snapchat series, Spielberg and Goldwyn deal with somewhat fictionalized, comical versions of their Los Angeles-based mishaps and unique adventures.
“We’re very excited about ‘Literally Can’t Even,’ especially the creative storytelling and the unique, made-for-mobile, vertical video format,” a Snapchat spokeswoman said to The Wrap, who originally reported the news.
The first season of Literally Can’t Even debuted on January 31, 2015. Like all other Snapchat content, all nine episodes of the series’ first season disappeared after 24 hours of their release every Saturday. Critics mostly gave Literally Can’t Even negative reviews, but...
Literally Can’t Even is written by and stars Sasha Spielberg (daughter of Hollywood director Steven Spielberg) and Emily Goldwyn (daughter of film producer John Goldwyn). In the Snapchat series, Spielberg and Goldwyn deal with somewhat fictionalized, comical versions of their Los Angeles-based mishaps and unique adventures.
“We’re very excited about ‘Literally Can’t Even,’ especially the creative storytelling and the unique, made-for-mobile, vertical video format,” a Snapchat spokeswoman said to The Wrap, who originally reported the news.
The first season of Literally Can’t Even debuted on January 31, 2015. Like all other Snapchat content, all nine episodes of the series’ first season disappeared after 24 hours of their release every Saturday. Critics mostly gave Literally Can’t Even negative reviews, but...
- 4/20/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Snapchat has renewed its first original series “Literally Can’t Even” for Season 2. The mobile series starring Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn — offspring of Hollywood heavyweights Steven Spielberg and producer John Goldwyn — follows the (mostly) fictionalized misadventures of the two young women in Los Angeles. Spielberg and Goldwyn, who have been friends since age 6, have each uniquely embraced the entertainment industry — Sasha is in a band named Wardell with older brother Max while Emily is a writer’s assistant at HBO and previously worked on NBC’s “Up All Night.” And now with “Literally Can’t Even,” the duo...
- 4/18/2015
- by Lia Haberman
- The Wrap
Snapchat Renews Sasha Spielberg-Emily Goldwyn Series “Literally Can’t Even” for Season 2 (Exclusive)
Snapchat’s original mobile series “Literally Can’t Even” has been renewed, a company spokeswoman confirmed exclusively to TheWrap. Season 2 of the show featuring Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn and their (mostly) fictionalized misadventures in Los Angeles will premiere this summer. Season 1 of the series, which debuted on Jan. 31, consisted of nine episodes which aired on Saturdays. In keeping with Snapchat’s ephemeral nature, each five-minute (or so) episode disappears after 24 hours. “We’re very excited about ‘Literally Can’t Even,’ especially the creative storytelling and the unique, made-for-mobile, vertical video format,” Snapchat’s spokeswoman said. Also Read: 15 Famous Snapchat...
- 4/17/2015
- by Lia Haberman
- The Wrap
New Hollywood royalty takes on a new medium: Sasha Spielberg (Steven's daughter) and Emily Goldwyn (John's daughter) will make Snapchat's first official web series. Literally Can't Even will focus on the misadventures of the two L.A.-based comedians and appear on Snapchat's new "Snap Channel" (the one that pissed off all the teens) as part of "Discover" — the place where they'll likely start to wrap in media partners and advertising deals. If you're wondering whether the web series will disappear just like a regular Snapchat might, the answer is yes: "The episodes will disappear after 24 hours." No reruns for this web series. If you want a sense of what this Snapchat web series might look like, don't worry — the girls already use other cool, young, and hip social-media platform Vine:...
- 1/30/2015
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
Snapchat has had a whirlwind last few weeks, covering global New Year’s Eve celebrations and launching its Discover platform. Now, the messaging application popular for fleeting content and rumored to be developing its own programming has announced original web series Literally Can’t Even from Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn, debuting on January 31, 2015.
Spielberg, daughter of acclaimed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, and Goldwyn, daughter of film producer John Goldwyn, are the co-creators and writers of Literally Can’t Even. The two women will also star in the series as comical versions of themselves dealing with crazy adventures across Los Angeles. The Hollywood Reporter (THR) originally broke the news.
Snapchat’s media production director Rylee Ebsen serves as director for Literally Can’t Even. She told THR that Snapchat’s own channel is designed to “promote interesting content that will surprise its users.” “Snapchatters consume and create and we've always embraced that,...
Spielberg, daughter of acclaimed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, and Goldwyn, daughter of film producer John Goldwyn, are the co-creators and writers of Literally Can’t Even. The two women will also star in the series as comical versions of themselves dealing with crazy adventures across Los Angeles. The Hollywood Reporter (THR) originally broke the news.
Snapchat’s media production director Rylee Ebsen serves as director for Literally Can’t Even. She told THR that Snapchat’s own channel is designed to “promote interesting content that will surprise its users.” “Snapchatters consume and create and we've always embraced that,...
- 1/30/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Writers Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn, the daughters of powerhouse producers Steven Spielberg and John Goldwyn, have inked a deal to produce a series for mobile social platform Snapchat, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap.
The series, called “Literally Can’t Even,” is loosely based on the girl’s own real-life experiences in Los Angeles.
The duo will mine their relationship misadventures for content. Spielberg is recently single after a long relationship, and Goldwyn goes on a six-month cleanse.
Also Read: Snapchat Launches First Scripted Series ‘SnapperHero’
The Snapchat show premieres Saturday, Jan. 31, on the mobile app’s new Discover channel,...
The series, called “Literally Can’t Even,” is loosely based on the girl’s own real-life experiences in Los Angeles.
The duo will mine their relationship misadventures for content. Spielberg is recently single after a long relationship, and Goldwyn goes on a six-month cleanse.
Also Read: Snapchat Launches First Scripted Series ‘SnapperHero’
The Snapchat show premieres Saturday, Jan. 31, on the mobile app’s new Discover channel,...
- 1/30/2015
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
Snapchat is making a web series. Literally Can't Even comes from writers Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn, the daughters of Steven Spielberg and John Goldwyn, respectively. The series stars the friends and writing partners as comedic versions of themselves — Spielberg recently single after a long relationship and Goldwyn embarking on a six-month cleanse — and follows them on a series of misadventures in Los Angeles. Literally Can't Even will premiere Saturday, Jan. 31, on Snapchat's new Snap Channel, which was unveiled earlier this week as part of Discover, a feature where media partners such as Comedy Central, Espn and
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- 1/30/2015
- by Natalie Jarvey
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: ABC has put in development the half-hour single-camera sitcom Girls Without Boys from Warner Bros Television. Emily Goldwyn & Sasha Spielberg will write the project, and Caroline Williams will be the showrunner and executive produce along with Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. Jeff Grosvenor of Jones and McCormack’s Le Train Train will produce. The premise: Three brilliant but socially challenged girls navigate the world outside of single sex education with the help of their eccentric teachers and parents. The show was hatched by Goldwyn and Spielberg, who are the daughters of John Goldwyn and Steven Spielberg, respectively. They based the concept loosely on their own shared experiences of attending the prestige Marlborough school, located in Los Angeles near a co-ed school. Marlborough may have given them a first-class education, but not about things like being able to talk to boys. Goldwyn was an assistant to Up All Night co-exec producer Williams,...
- 9/26/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: ABC has put in development the half-hour single-camera sitcom Girls Without Boys from Warner Bros Television. Emily Goldwyn & Sasha Spielberg will write the project, and Caroline Williams will be the showrunner and executive produce along with Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. Jeff Grosvenor of Jones and McCormack’s Le Train Train will produce. The premise: Three brilliant but socially challenged girls navigate the world outside of single sex education with the help of their eccentric teachers and parents. The show was hatched by Goldwyn and Spielberg, who are the daughters of John Goldwyn and Steven Spielberg, respectively. They based the concept loosely on their own shared experiences of attending the prestige Marlborough school, located in Los Angeles near a co-ed school. Marlborough may have given them a first-class education, but not about things like being able to talk to boys. Goldwyn was an assistant to Up All Night co-exec producer Williams,...
- 9/26/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
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