Jerry Bruckheimer Television has signed a three-year overall deal with CBS TV Studios. The move comes more than a year after the super-producer ended a 15-year contract at Warner Bros. TV.
Jerry Bruckheimer is producing the high-concept movie, which follows an aging assassin who finds himself battling his own clone, who is much younger, faster and stronger.
*UPDATED February 27th* As the project now goes into all buyers, more talent circles and offers start to come in! Gearing up for a star-studded Oscar weekend, one spec script has taken the town by storm as A-list talent and Producers fight for a piece of the pie.
Iconic 1980 film American Gigolo is getting the television treatment as Paramount TV and Jerry Bruckheimer have set up an adaptation in development at Showtime. Playwright Neil LaBute has been tapped to pen the script.
Craig Robinson and Grace Gummer sign on to season two of Mr. Robot. Jenna Fischer set to star as Matt LeBlanc’s on-screen wife. Mad Men alum, Kevin Rahm joins Lethal Weapon.
Lily James has signed on to star as the record-breaking swimmer, Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, based on the book Young Woman And The Sea by Glenn Stout. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing the film for Paramount Pictures.
The daughter of a German butcher from Manhattan, Ederle was a competitive swimmer, an Olympic athlete who won gold in the 1924 Games when she decided to attempt crossing the channel.
Damien Lewis’s non-fiction book about the creation of black ops during WWII is in final negotiations to be acquired by Paramount Pictures. Jerry Bruckheimer will produce for the studio.
The story takes place in 1939, with Germany destroying mainland Europe, Winston Churchill decided to change tactics: stop fighting under accepted gentlemanly rules of engagement.
After a long wait at Disney, Jerry Bruckheimer is finally making headway with the adaptation of Doug Stanton’s book at Lionsgate.
A round-up of this week’s pilot and series TV casting and sales!
Antoine Fuqua and Jerry Bruckheimer are teaming up to bring Training Day to television. The classic crime thriller, which featured Ethan Hawke as a rookie cop and Denzel Washington as his corrupt mentor, will be turned in a series adaptation from Warner Bros. TV.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” producer will team with Spike TV on a new drama.
A round-up of the week’s TV news!
The producer has sold his new dramedy script to the teen-centric network.
A recap of the week’s TV News!
A recap of the week’s TV News!
Follows a group of special forces and CIA agents who, after 9/11 secretly invaded Afghanistan on horseback.
Logline: Centers on a small band of humans and robots facing off in a battle on Earth, the moon, and Mars.
Logline: Pitched as “Die Hard” in a hospital, tells the story of a cop who must defend himself and others while mobsters try to steal bank account information from a fellow patient.
Logline: A tour guide discovers that the White House is haunted and must stop an evil curse from inflicting the first family.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but serves as the next installment in the Bad Boys franchise.
JJ Abrams gets yet another show on the air, with one of the first series orders of 2011, Salman Rushdie eyes TV as his next challenge, Michael Bay & Jerry Bruckheimer eye Cocaine for their next series, BBC gives us more Elba, and two deals are lined up for vets and freshmen alike!
Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as a space action/adventure.
ABC takes another stab at a Nicole Richie show, Fox gets the Hard Nelson, Lifetime steps into Close Quarters, NBC picks up a Battlestar EP series on the open sea, IFC adds 8 to the slate, and HBO puts down Kathryn Bigelow’s Miraculous Year.
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