Ryan Reynolds and Channing Tatum are set to play wayward brothers in the upcoming action comedy ‘Calamity Hustle.’
Filmmaking brothers Aaron and Adam Nee are penning the script alongside taking over the director’s chair.
The logline, according to sources, concerns a down-on-his-luck former Los Angeles detective-turned-private investigator who, after being shaken down by a vicious crime lord, must track down his estranged brother who is responsible for interfering with a diamond heist.
Also in news – Andrew Koji, Richard Dormer and T’Nia Miller join the third series of ‘Gangs of London’
Reynolds and Tatum would star and produce via their respective banners, Maximum Effort and Free Association. Also producing is Kevin Walsh, who is currently in the awards season mix with Napoleon, as are the Nees via their banner Persons Attempting.
A bidding war is still underway for the project with Legacy studio Warner Bros. and streaming giants Amazon and Netflix amongst the highest bidders.
Filmmaking brothers Aaron and Adam Nee are penning the script alongside taking over the director’s chair.
The logline, according to sources, concerns a down-on-his-luck former Los Angeles detective-turned-private investigator who, after being shaken down by a vicious crime lord, must track down his estranged brother who is responsible for interfering with a diamond heist.
Also in news – Andrew Koji, Richard Dormer and T’Nia Miller join the third series of ‘Gangs of London’
Reynolds and Tatum would star and produce via their respective banners, Maximum Effort and Free Association. Also producing is Kevin Walsh, who is currently in the awards season mix with Napoleon, as are the Nees via their banner Persons Attempting.
A bidding war is still underway for the project with Legacy studio Warner Bros. and streaming giants Amazon and Netflix amongst the highest bidders.
- 12/5/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Humanitas, the organization that annually honors film and television writers whose work best explores the human condition, has revealed its 2023 winners.
Among the prizewinners is Craig Mazin, who scripted Season 1 The Last of Us episode “Long Long Time” that starred Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett. Mazin won in the Drama Teleplay category, beating out fellow semifinalists that included Peter Gould who was up for the series-finale episode of Better Call Saul.
Other Humanitas category winners in TV included Amy Sherman-Palladino for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Comedy Teleplay), and Tony Phelan & Joan Rater for the pilot of A Small Light in Limited Series.
On the movie side, winners included Tyler Perry for his Tyler Perry: A Jazzman’s Blues in the Drama Feature Film category, over Rebecca Lenkiewicz for She Said and Michael Reilly & Keith Beauchamp and Chinonye Chukwu for Till. Cooper Raiff won Comedy Feature Film for his indie Cha Cha Real Smooth,...
Among the prizewinners is Craig Mazin, who scripted Season 1 The Last of Us episode “Long Long Time” that starred Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett. Mazin won in the Drama Teleplay category, beating out fellow semifinalists that included Peter Gould who was up for the series-finale episode of Better Call Saul.
Other Humanitas category winners in TV included Amy Sherman-Palladino for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Comedy Teleplay), and Tony Phelan & Joan Rater for the pilot of A Small Light in Limited Series.
On the movie side, winners included Tyler Perry for his Tyler Perry: A Jazzman’s Blues in the Drama Feature Film category, over Rebecca Lenkiewicz for She Said and Michael Reilly & Keith Beauchamp and Chinonye Chukwu for Till. Cooper Raiff won Comedy Feature Film for his indie Cha Cha Real Smooth,...
- 8/16/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: After clubbing 43 homers including nine in the span of one week, Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton ended his 2012 season as a free agent. The same can no longer be said for his incredible life story, which has been acquired and will be turned into a feature film by Relativity Media. Relativity has closed a rights deal with Hamilton, along with a deal for Casey Affleck to write and direct. Thunder Road Pictures’ Basil Iwanyk will produce along with The Walsh Company’s Kevin Walsh. Thunder Road’s Kent Kubena will executive produce and Hamilton and his wife Katie will co-produce along with Hamilton’s business manager Steve Reed. Relativity has also closed a deal for rights to the book that Hamilton co-authored, Beyond Belief: Finding The Strength To Come Back. Back in June, I wrote about this feature package that Iwanyk and Affleck were trying to build around Hamilton.
- 11/15/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING JR.
- Deadline
Casey Affleck is set to pen and direct a biopic of famed baseball slugger Josh Hamilton for Thunder Road Pictures and The Walsh Company says Deadline.
A bonafide prodigy at 15, Hamilton was the first player chosen in the 1999 Major League Baseball draft and signed with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for a then record $4 million.
After a car accident, he ended up living on his own for the first time and didn't handle it well - turning to booze and cocaine which destroyed his career. Years later he came to terms with the error of his ways and is slowly regaining his trust and potential.
Basil Iwanyk and Kevin Walsh will produce alongside Hamilton, his wife Katie and Hamilton’s business manager Steve Reed.
A bonafide prodigy at 15, Hamilton was the first player chosen in the 1999 Major League Baseball draft and signed with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for a then record $4 million.
After a car accident, he ended up living on his own for the first time and didn't handle it well - turning to booze and cocaine which destroyed his career. Years later he came to terms with the error of his ways and is slowly regaining his trust and potential.
Basil Iwanyk and Kevin Walsh will produce alongside Hamilton, his wife Katie and Hamilton’s business manager Steve Reed.
- 6/22/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Josh Hamilton’s rise from the depths of an addiction to crack to become the American League’s most feared slugger is dramatic enough to have been scripted. Sure enough, Hamilton has entrusted his rights to producer Basil Iwanyk and Thunder Road Pictures to be shopped for a feature that will be written and directed by Casey Affleck. Iwanyk has partnered with Kevin Walsh and The Walsh Company on the film, which he and Affleck will pitch to the town shortly. The best way to describe Hamilton’s journey is to liken him to Roy Hobbs of The Natural, because Hamilton fits that description. The difference: Hamilton’s fall from grace was self-inflicted. A bonafide prodigy who was throwing a 96 mph fast ball by age 15, Hamilton was the first player chosen in the 1999 Major League Baseball draft, signing with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for a record $4 million. His...
- 6/22/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Jim Rash and Nat Faxon‘s Black List script The Way Back, now titled The Way, Way Back to presumably avoid confusion with Peter Weir’s epic, is finally making some headway. After getting tangled up in the 2007 WGA strike, producer Kevin Walsh has since obtained the rights to the project, with the aforementioned scribes making their directorial debut. According to Variety, Steve Carell and Toni Collette will be reuniting for the indie project.
The Little Miss Sunshine actors will be joining Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney and Annasophia Robb for a story that “follows a teen boy who struggles to find himself as he comes to terms with his unattentive mother and cheating stepfather during summer vacation.” Collette will be playing the mother, with Carell playing the horrid stepfather, who runs on the wild side in terms of drugs, alcohol and being promiscuous. Sounds a little out of his element,...
The Little Miss Sunshine actors will be joining Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney and Annasophia Robb for a story that “follows a teen boy who struggles to find himself as he comes to terms with his unattentive mother and cheating stepfather during summer vacation.” Collette will be playing the mother, with Carell playing the horrid stepfather, who runs on the wild side in terms of drugs, alcohol and being promiscuous. Sounds a little out of his element,...
- 4/18/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
It's funny what a gold statue can do. "The Descendants" screenwriters Jim Rash and Nat Faxon have had their screenplay "The Way, Way Back" stuck in development for years, with it finally surfacing late last year. Now that the duo has won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, however, "The Way, Way Back" is moving forward quickly with Steve Carell and Toni Collette cast as the leads.
Originally set for director Shawn Levy ("Real Steel") in 2007, "The Way, Way Back" was first delayed by the WGA strike of that year and was stuck in limbo until producer Kevin Walsh salvaged it last year. The script follows a teenage boy who, over the course of a summer vacation, strikes up a friendship that gives him the courage to stand up to his carousing, boozing stepfather and reconnect with his mother. With Rash and Faxon ready to make their directorial debut on the project,...
Originally set for director Shawn Levy ("Real Steel") in 2007, "The Way, Way Back" was first delayed by the WGA strike of that year and was stuck in limbo until producer Kevin Walsh salvaged it last year. The script follows a teenage boy who, over the course of a summer vacation, strikes up a friendship that gives him the courage to stand up to his carousing, boozing stepfather and reconnect with his mother. With Rash and Faxon ready to make their directorial debut on the project,...
- 4/18/2012
- by Ryan Gowland
- The Playlist
"Little Miss Sunshine" actors Steve Carell and Toni Collette are reuniting on the indie comedy "The Way, Way Back" reports Variety.
The story follows a teen boy who struggles to find himself as he comes to terms with his inattentive mother (Collette) and cheating stepfather (Carell) during summer vacation.
Jim Rash and Nat Faxon make their directorial debut on the film which Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney and Annasophia Robb are already attached to star in.
Kevin Walsh is producing, shooting kicks off this Summer.
The story follows a teen boy who struggles to find himself as he comes to terms with his inattentive mother (Collette) and cheating stepfather (Carell) during summer vacation.
Jim Rash and Nat Faxon make their directorial debut on the film which Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney and Annasophia Robb are already attached to star in.
Kevin Walsh is producing, shooting kicks off this Summer.
- 4/18/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Kristen Wiig is attached to a new action comedy from the writers of The Descendants. Variety reports that Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have sold the film rights to Indian Paintbrush. The original concept will be produced by Kevin Walsh via his banner, the Walsh Co., along with Indian Paintbrush's Steven Rales and Mark Roybal. Faxon and Rash are also serving as executive producers. Wiig's deal is not officially final, but she has a strong relationship with Faxon and Rash that goes back to their days performing with Los Angeles improv troupe the Groundlings. Faxon and Walsh are currently writing a another script for Fox Searchlight and Alexander Payne. The duo will make their directorial debut this summer with The Way, Way Back, starring Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney. Rash also stars in NBC's Community, and Faxon was recently cast as the co-lead in the Fox comedy pilot Ned Fox is My Manny.
- 3/1/2012
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Jake Gyllenhaal is reportedly in talks for the lead role in "The Way, Way Back" for producer Kevin Walsh and Mandate Pictures reports Variety (via The Playlist).
The story follows a teenage boy who, over the course of an extraordinary summer, forms a friendship that gives him the strength to stand up to his bullying stepfather and reconnect with his mother.
The project began life years ago with a script by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash ("The Descendants") which landed on the desk of "Night at the Museum" director Shawn Levy. He was committed to direct the film for Fox Searchlight, but then the WGA strike happened.
Two years later Mandate Pictures scored it and Tom Bezucha ("Monte Carlo") became attached to helm. That version didn't take off either. Now Faxon and Rahs are directing the project themselves, while Levy will produce.
The story follows a teenage boy who, over the course of an extraordinary summer, forms a friendship that gives him the strength to stand up to his bullying stepfather and reconnect with his mother.
The project began life years ago with a script by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash ("The Descendants") which landed on the desk of "Night at the Museum" director Shawn Levy. He was committed to direct the film for Fox Searchlight, but then the WGA strike happened.
Two years later Mandate Pictures scored it and Tom Bezucha ("Monte Carlo") became attached to helm. That version didn't take off either. Now Faxon and Rahs are directing the project themselves, while Levy will produce.
- 11/13/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Reason Pictures has acquired the untitled Teen Brainwashing project, a feature pitch from writers Kevin Walsh and Gotham Chopra. The story revolves around a group of troubled high school students who are remanded to a "finishing school" that is actually remote detention center where they are disciplined and placed under lockdown as they plot an escape attempt.
- 10/9/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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