Audible has struck a significant, multi-project deal with Obb Sound, the audio division of Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil producer Obb Media.
The Amazon-owned audio service has signed a multi-project, two-year deal with Michael D. Ratner’s company. Deadline understands that the deal is for a double-digit number of projects and is worth in the seven-figure range.
The agreement will include a second season of Pursuit of Healthiness with Blake Griffin. The series, hosted by the NBA star returns on March 25, with guests including Kevin Durant, Jessica Alba and Malcom Gladwell.
It has also set The Glowing, a ten-part scripted podcast series. The Glowing is part survival tale and part possession horror which chronicles the story of a young woman undergoing a clinical trial cancer treatment who begins hearing a voice in her head that takes her from her home in the U.S. to a mystery buried...
The Amazon-owned audio service has signed a multi-project, two-year deal with Michael D. Ratner’s company. Deadline understands that the deal is for a double-digit number of projects and is worth in the seven-figure range.
The agreement will include a second season of Pursuit of Healthiness with Blake Griffin. The series, hosted by the NBA star returns on March 25, with guests including Kevin Durant, Jessica Alba and Malcom Gladwell.
It has also set The Glowing, a ten-part scripted podcast series. The Glowing is part survival tale and part possession horror which chronicles the story of a young woman undergoing a clinical trial cancer treatment who begins hearing a voice in her head that takes her from her home in the U.S. to a mystery buried...
- 1/26/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
New Form Digital has released its upcoming slate of pilots from its most recent incubator series, featuring both traditional and web-based stars. The digital studio’s incubator series (now in its fourth run) acts as a showcase for up and coming creators mentored and developed through the program. Pilots that have been sold in the past have included Streamy Award winners “Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures” and “Anna Akana’s Miss 2059”, YouTube Red’s “Single By 30,” “I Ship It,” and the Conan O’Brien produced animated series “Final Space.”
The newest wave of this incubator series includes content from web series stars such as Manon Matthews, Eric Ochoa, Alexa Losey and television stars Melissa Fumero (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) and Lisa Kudrow, who in 2015 signed an exclusive deal with New Form through her production company Is or Isn’t Entertainment.
New Form has a recent track record for including...
The newest wave of this incubator series includes content from web series stars such as Manon Matthews, Eric Ochoa, Alexa Losey and television stars Melissa Fumero (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) and Lisa Kudrow, who in 2015 signed an exclusive deal with New Form through her production company Is or Isn’t Entertainment.
New Form has a recent track record for including...
- 5/5/2017
- by Juan Diaz
- Indiewire
Starz Digital has grabbed U.S rights to Flock of Dudes, an ensemble comedy from first-time director Bob Castrone. Chris D’Elia stars as Adam, a man-child who lives a fun-loving lifestyle with his three lifelong buddies. After being evicted for ruining his house, Adam decides to the only way to grow up is to break up with his friends. Starz Digital plans a theatrical and VOD release in the fall. Castrone, Brian Levin and Jason Zumwalt wrote the script for the film, whose <a href="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/star-digital-logo-2016.png" target="_blank"…...
- 4/27/2016
- Deadline
Pierce Brosnan and his guests sure look like they are having the time of their lives in this first-look pic from Aaron Kaufman's feature debut Urge. A group of friends on an island getaway experiment with a new designer drug that makes them lose their ability to control their urges.Kaufman had played the role of producer prior to this new directing gig. He recently produced Sin City: A Dame To Kill For and Machete Kills. He wrote Urge with Jason Zumwalt (Flock of Dudes) and Jerry Stahl (Bad Boys II)....
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- 2/9/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Pierce Brosnan gets wild in a scene from the upcoming thriller Urge.
In the movie, a group of friends on an island getaway experiment with a new designer drug that makes them lose their ability to control their urges.
Urge also features Ashley Greene (Twilight trilogy) and is directed by Aaron Kaufman (producer on Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, Machete Kills).
The film is written by Aaron Kaufman, Jason Zumwalt, and Jerry Stahl and produced by Skip Williamson (Underworld) and Mark Neveldine (Crank, upcoming The Vatican Tapes).
Brosnan starred last year in The November Man and can be seen in No Escape alongside Owen Wilson and Lake Bell – due in theaters Sept. 2, 2015.
Fortitude International is handling international sales of Urge at the European Film Market.
Variety has it listed as one of the Top Buzz Titles at the Berlin Film Festival.
The post First Look Photo of Pierce Brosnan...
In the movie, a group of friends on an island getaway experiment with a new designer drug that makes them lose their ability to control their urges.
Urge also features Ashley Greene (Twilight trilogy) and is directed by Aaron Kaufman (producer on Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, Machete Kills).
The film is written by Aaron Kaufman, Jason Zumwalt, and Jerry Stahl and produced by Skip Williamson (Underworld) and Mark Neveldine (Crank, upcoming The Vatican Tapes).
Brosnan starred last year in The November Man and can be seen in No Escape alongside Owen Wilson and Lake Bell – due in theaters Sept. 2, 2015.
Fortitude International is handling international sales of Urge at the European Film Market.
Variety has it listed as one of the Top Buzz Titles at the Berlin Film Festival.
The post First Look Photo of Pierce Brosnan...
- 2/9/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With a deadly designer drug at the centre of upcoming thriller, Urge, there’s a steady stream of talent coming aboard who may succumb to its effects. The latest addition to the cast is That ’70s Show star Danny Masterson.
The movie will revolve around a group of friends who jet off for an island adventure. Upon their arrival, they meet a drug designer who lures them into sampling his latest product. The twist here is that the side-effect (or the main effect, however you choose to look at it) of the pill causes people to lose their ability to control their urges. A bit like most drugs, then. Still, with Pierce Brosnan attached as the dodgy drug creator, here’s hoping we’ll get a brilliantly hammy villain who spews crazed soliloquys. Leading the group of friends into their doomed and/or enlightened druggy experience is Twilight‘s Ashley Greene.
The movie will revolve around a group of friends who jet off for an island adventure. Upon their arrival, they meet a drug designer who lures them into sampling his latest product. The twist here is that the side-effect (or the main effect, however you choose to look at it) of the pill causes people to lose their ability to control their urges. A bit like most drugs, then. Still, with Pierce Brosnan attached as the dodgy drug creator, here’s hoping we’ll get a brilliantly hammy villain who spews crazed soliloquys. Leading the group of friends into their doomed and/or enlightened druggy experience is Twilight‘s Ashley Greene.
- 10/7/2014
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Danny Masterson has joined Pierce Brosnan in the thriller feature Urge as cameras get set to roll this month in New York. Producer Aaron Kaufman (Machete Kills, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, Chef) is making his directorial debut with the film, about a group of friends on holiday on an island who get caught up in a dangerous new designer drug that makes them lose their ability to control their urges. Masterson will play Neal, the cutthroat but secretly lonely hedge fund tycoon who treats his friends to the island getaway. The That ’70s Show alum, who most recently starred on TBS’s comedy series Men At Work, is also producing Urge alongside Skip Williamson (Underworld) and Mark Neveldine (Crank) who are producing through their Blackmrkt Incorporated banner. Bridgeworks Media Capital, Tci and Tresoro Ventures are backing the project, with Tim Smith, Alastair Burlingham, Lee Vandermolen, Yoram Barzilai,...
- 10/7/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
• Keegan-Michael Key and Regina Hall have signed on for New Line's Vacation reboot, joining Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Chris Hemsworth, and Leslie Mann. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are directing, marking their directorial debut. They also wrote the script. The film will tell the story of a grown-up Rusty Griswold (Helms) who takes his wife (Applegate) on a cross-country road trip, similar to one he took as a kid. Their destination is Walley World, an amusement park. Key and Hall will play family friends to the Griswolds. David Dobkin is producing through his David Dobkin Productions alongside Chris Bender.
- 9/29/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Urge
Pierce Brosnan has signed on to star in Aaron Kaufman's dramatic thriller "Urge". Kaufman co-penned the script with Jason Zumwalt and Jerry Stahl. Filming begins this October in New York.
The story follows a group of friends holidaying on an island destination who try a new designer drug that makes them lose their ability to control their urges. Brosnan will play the creator and distributor of the narcotic. [Source: Deadline]
Dead Rising
Meghan Ory, Jesse Metcalfe and Virginia Madsen will join the previously announced Dennis Haysbert in Zach Lipovsky's feature length "Dead Rising: Watchtower," an adaptation of the "Dead Rising" videogame franchise from Legendary Digital Media and Crackle. Filming begins September 30th in Vancouver.
Tim Carter penned the script that revolves around a zombie outbreak, and the pursuit of the root of the epidemic when a government vaccine fails to stop the infection. The project is Legendary's first...
Pierce Brosnan has signed on to star in Aaron Kaufman's dramatic thriller "Urge". Kaufman co-penned the script with Jason Zumwalt and Jerry Stahl. Filming begins this October in New York.
The story follows a group of friends holidaying on an island destination who try a new designer drug that makes them lose their ability to control their urges. Brosnan will play the creator and distributor of the narcotic. [Source: Deadline]
Dead Rising
Meghan Ory, Jesse Metcalfe and Virginia Madsen will join the previously announced Dennis Haysbert in Zach Lipovsky's feature length "Dead Rising: Watchtower," an adaptation of the "Dead Rising" videogame franchise from Legendary Digital Media and Crackle. Filming begins September 30th in Vancouver.
Tim Carter penned the script that revolves around a zombie outbreak, and the pursuit of the root of the epidemic when a government vaccine fails to stop the infection. The project is Legendary's first...
- 9/29/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Pierce Brosnan is back! He never strictly went away, but it still feels like it’s been an age since we’ve seen him onscreen. On the heels of his recent thriller, The November Man, he’ll return to ethically-questionable material as he’s set to play a drug creator in Urge.
Aaron Kaufman, who produced Sin City: A Dame To Kill For and Machete Kills, is on board to make his directorial debut based on the script he co-penned with Jerry Stahl and Jason Zumwalt.
Taking place in the middle of nowhere, Urge follows a group of friends on vacation who decide that quad biking, bungee jumping and sex with strangers doesn’t constitute fun. They decide to take a new drug, created by Brosnan’s character, that alters a person’s way of thinking. Yes, most drugs do that. This one removes people’s ability to control their urges.
Aaron Kaufman, who produced Sin City: A Dame To Kill For and Machete Kills, is on board to make his directorial debut based on the script he co-penned with Jerry Stahl and Jason Zumwalt.
Taking place in the middle of nowhere, Urge follows a group of friends on vacation who decide that quad biking, bungee jumping and sex with strangers doesn’t constitute fun. They decide to take a new drug, created by Brosnan’s character, that alters a person’s way of thinking. Yes, most drugs do that. This one removes people’s ability to control their urges.
- 9/29/2014
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
After attempting to recapture his Bond days with action thriller The November Man, Pierce Brosnan is taking aim at a character on an even dodgier moral keel. He’s set to play a drug creator in Urge.Aaron Kaufman, who has worked as a producer with Robert Rodriguez on the likes of Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, is looking to make the movie as his directing debut. He wrote the script with Jason Zumwalt and Jerry Stahl and wants the cameras rolling next month kicking off in New York.The plot follows a group of friends on holiday at a swanky island destination, who throw caution to the wind and take up the offer of a new designer drug that causes them lose the ability to control their urges. So, like many already existing drugs and booze, then? Hopefully this will offer a new twist to the tale,...
- 9/29/2014
- EmpireOnline
Playing with Guns has been picked up to pilot... again. The project, which shot a pilot for Spike TV last year but didn't make the cut to series, has now been greenlighted by another Viacom network, Comedy Central. Back is star Danny Masterson and producers Varsity Pictures and Lionsgate TV as well as writers Bob Castrone, Brian Levin and Jason Zumwalt. But now, Masterson is joined by a new co-lead, My Name Is Earl's Ethan Suplee, who replaces Joey Kern. Playing with Guns centers on two best friends (Masterson, Suplee) who had no idea what they wanted to be when they grew up, so they decided to sign up for a job that allows them to hang out together, run red lights, and best of all -- play with guns. So they became cops, patrolling the suburban town they grew up in and trying to get the most out...
- 2/3/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Spike TV has given the green light to a comedy pilot about slacker suburban cops.
"Playing With Guns" stars Danny Masterson ("That '70s Show") and Joey Kern ("Super Troopers") as childhood best friends who become police officers in their hometown for the everyday perks.
The project is produced by Varsity Pictures' Brian Robbins, who also is set to direct, Sharla Sumpter Bridgett and Lionsgate. Bob Castrone, Brian Levin and Jason Zumwalt are co-executive producing and wrote the pilot.
The project begins shooting this month in North Carolina.
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"Playing With Guns" stars Danny Masterson ("That '70s Show") and Joey Kern ("Super Troopers") as childhood best friends who become police officers in their hometown for the everyday perks.
The project is produced by Varsity Pictures' Brian Robbins, who also is set to direct, Sharla Sumpter Bridgett and Lionsgate. Bob Castrone, Brian Levin and Jason Zumwalt are co-executive producing and wrote the pilot.
The project begins shooting this month in North Carolina.
Got tips on TV-industry news? Contact Hollywood Reporter TV Editor James Hibberd at james.hibberd@thr.com...
- 4/15/2010
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spike TV has finalized a pilot pickup deal for comedy Playing With Guns. Varsity Pictures’ Brian Robbins will direct the pilot as well as produce with Sharla Sumpter Bridgett and Lionsgate TV. Written and co-executive produced by Bob Castrone, Brian Levin and Jason Zumwalt, Guns stars Danny Masterson and Joey Kern as two childhood best friends who had no idea what they wanted to be when they grew up, so they signed up to became cops, patrolling the suburban town they grew up in as they try to get the most out of their badges while doing the least amount [...]...
- 4/15/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline Hollywood
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