Barry Levinson

Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino is continuing his working relationship with HBO and is set to star as former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in an untitled movie from Barry Levinson. Paterno, who was regarded as the best coach in college football history, made headlines in 2011 when he became embroiled in Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal.

The 1997 political satire Wag the Dog is getting the television treatment from HBO, with original director Barry Levinson and star Robert de Niro returning for this small-screen adaptation. Rajiv Joseph is on board to adapt and executive produce.

After a former Broadway composer discovers a high school in Staten Island is staging his most celebrated musical, he sets out to shut them down.

When a burnt-out music producer travels to Afghanistan with his last client, he discovers a young girl with an incredible voice and enrolls her in the local talent show “The Afghan Star.”

When a burnt-out music producer travels to Afghanistan with his last client, he discovers a young girl with an incredible voice and enrolls her in the local talent show “The Afghan Star.”

A round-up of the week’s TV News!

Follows a famous stage actor in decline who is revived when he retires to his upstate New York farmhouse and takes up with a much younger woman.

Logline: When a burnt out music producer travels to Afghanistan with his last client, he discovers a young girl with an incredible voice and enrolls her in the local talent show “The Afghan Star.”

Producer/Director one again saddles up with ICM.

Logline: Set during the Jewish prisoner escape from Leningrad and the Japanese invasion of Shanghai.

Logline: Judy Garland finds herself being courted by two men as her life nears the end.

On July 4, 2009, a biological disaster is unleashed from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. An isopod parasite, carrying untreatable, mutated diseases, jumps from fish to human host and replaces them with itself. Seven years later, the true horror and scope of the event, captured mainly on home videos by the town’s now long-dead victims, is revealed to the public for the first time.

Logline: Story will follow the young Holmes and Watson as they solve mysteries and have adventures.

Logline: In the early 1970s, baseball legend Hank Aaron strives to beat Babe Ruth’s home run record.

Logline: Follows a famous stage actor in decline who is revived when he retires to his upstate New York farmhouse and takes up with a much younger woman.

Levinson accepts an offer he can’t refuse!

Logline: Follows Matt McCarthy, a pitcher who came out of the worst Yale squad in history to be drafted to the Anaheim Angels in the 26th round, and spend a year in Mormon Country with their minor league team, Provo Angels.

“Rain Man” director signs on for Timothy McVeigh Drama.

Logline: The musical tale centers on an ambitious and unrelenting stage mother driven to turn her two daughters into Vaudeville stage stars, but only succeeds in pushing them out of her life.

Logline: Follows the relationship between John Gotti, Jr. and his infamous mobster father who was head of the Gambino crime family.

Barry Levinson’s sci-fi thriller, ISOPOD, has received a name change to THE BAY. Oren Peli and Steven Schneider has also joined on as producers.

Logline: On July 4, 2009, a biological disaster is unleashed from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. An isopod parasite, carrying untreatable, mutated diseases, jumps from fish to human host and replaces them with itself. Seven years later, the true horror and scope of the event, captured mainly on home videos by the town’s now long-dead victims, is revealed to the public for the first time.

Logline: True story of an idealist man who leaves the priesthood for a life on the streets, which allows him to successfully wage a one man war to elevate the issue of human rights, and become one of the most well known human rights activists in the world.

Logline: Follows the 1950’s test pilots who broke altitude records in helium balloons.

Logline: Set in Paris and London, in the late 18th century during the French Revolution. The story of English aristocrat Sydney Carton’s sacrifice of his own life for his unrequited love Lucie Manette and Frenchman Charles Darnay.