Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Julianna Baggott and son Finneas Scott have sold their short story “Except You” to Fox Entertainment Studios, for development as a one-hour drama.
Maximum Effort’s Kevin Hill and Molly Milstein are leading the development effort and will exec produce the series alongside Baggott and Scott of Mildred’s Moving Picture Show.
Except You follows Erica, who can’t help but fall in love with everyone she meets. When her ambitious ex, an FBI agent who used Erica’s infatuations to get closer to criminals, goes rogue, she’ll have to help the Feds track down her ex, one mortifying crush at a time.
A prolific short story writer, Baggott previously collaborated with the Brooklyn-based Scott on “Backwards,” a short story that sold to Netflix in a six-way bidding war with Shawn Levy attached to direct. Baggott’s story “Welcome to Oxhead” is in development...
Maximum Effort’s Kevin Hill and Molly Milstein are leading the development effort and will exec produce the series alongside Baggott and Scott of Mildred’s Moving Picture Show.
Except You follows Erica, who can’t help but fall in love with everyone she meets. When her ambitious ex, an FBI agent who used Erica’s infatuations to get closer to criminals, goes rogue, she’ll have to help the Feds track down her ex, one mortifying crush at a time.
A prolific short story writer, Baggott previously collaborated with the Brooklyn-based Scott on “Backwards,” a short story that sold to Netflix in a six-way bidding war with Shawn Levy attached to direct. Baggott’s story “Welcome to Oxhead” is in development...
- 5/20/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Shawn Levy is reuniting with Ryan Reynolds once again, this time for the high-profile, untitled global heist project that landed at Netflix on Wednesday.
The streaming giant won the feature package in what was described as an eight-company bidding war. Dana Fox will writie the script.
Levy will direct the feature as well as produce via his 21 Laps production banner. He joins a producing ensemble that includes Reynolds, via his Maximum Effort, and Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon through their banner, Genre Films. Ashley Fox and Johnny Pariseau of Maximum Effort are also producing.
Details are being kept locked in a vault but the project as being touted as a high-concept globally set caper flick a la Ocean’s Eleven.
Fox came up with the initial concept, with her and Kinberg further developing it before bringing it to Reynolds. The project hit the town last week and quickly escalated into a competitive situation,...
The streaming giant won the feature package in what was described as an eight-company bidding war. Dana Fox will writie the script.
Levy will direct the feature as well as produce via his 21 Laps production banner. He joins a producing ensemble that includes Reynolds, via his Maximum Effort, and Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon through their banner, Genre Films. Ashley Fox and Johnny Pariseau of Maximum Effort are also producing.
Details are being kept locked in a vault but the project as being touted as a high-concept globally set caper flick a la Ocean’s Eleven.
Fox came up with the initial concept, with her and Kinberg further developing it before bringing it to Reynolds. The project hit the town last week and quickly escalated into a competitive situation,...
- 12/14/2023
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One day after Deadline revealed that Netflix beat out seven other bidders for an untitled international heist comedy package built around Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy has boarded as director and the 21 Laps principal has joined the roster of producers headed by Genre Films’ Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon, Reynolds through his Maximum Effort banner, and Dana Fox, the Lost City scribe who will write the script.
Levy is currently directing Reynolds in Deadpool 3, which Kinberg is producing. Levy and Reynolds also teamed on The Adam Project, which is the third most viewed Netflix film in the streamer of that history. Levy just directed all the episodes and was EP through his 21 Laps on the Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See, which just received a Golden Globe nomination.
Molly Milstein and Margy Love will be exec producers. Kira Goldberg and Ori Marmur are overseeing at Netflix.
The pitch is untitled,...
Levy is currently directing Reynolds in Deadpool 3, which Kinberg is producing. Levy and Reynolds also teamed on The Adam Project, which is the third most viewed Netflix film in the streamer of that history. Levy just directed all the episodes and was EP through his 21 Laps on the Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See, which just received a Golden Globe nomination.
Molly Milstein and Margy Love will be exec producers. Kira Goldberg and Ori Marmur are overseeing at Netflix.
The pitch is untitled,...
- 12/14/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Following a competitive auction, Paramount Pictures has landed an original sci-fi comedy pitch Rachel Nevada from Hannah Hafey and Kaitlin Smith. The pair will also pen the script, with Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort producing. George Dewey, Patrick Gooing and Molly Milstein are shepherding the project for Maximum Effort.
Plot details are being kept under wraps.
Hafey & Smith are one of the more sought-after writing duos in town having just wrote St. Mary’s Catholic School Presents The Vagina Monologues at Amazon, which Tanya Wexler is directing with Di Novi Pictures producing after it was on the 2021 Black List. Their spec, Popular, is set up at HBO Max with Maggie Kiley directing and Berlanti/Schechter Films and The Arlook Group producing; it was included on the 2018 Black List. They also sold Misfit City, a TV adaptation of the graphic novel, to HBO Max with Boom! Studios and Kiwi Smith and Kurt Lustgarten producing.
Plot details are being kept under wraps.
Hafey & Smith are one of the more sought-after writing duos in town having just wrote St. Mary’s Catholic School Presents The Vagina Monologues at Amazon, which Tanya Wexler is directing with Di Novi Pictures producing after it was on the 2021 Black List. Their spec, Popular, is set up at HBO Max with Maggie Kiley directing and Berlanti/Schechter Films and The Arlook Group producing; it was included on the 2018 Black List. They also sold Misfit City, a TV adaptation of the graphic novel, to HBO Max with Boom! Studios and Kiwi Smith and Kurt Lustgarten producing.
- 9/27/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
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