The Max series based on DeuxMoi’s novel “Anon Pls” has attached Diablo Cody and Ryan O’Connell to serve as writers, Variety has learned from sources.
As initially reported in May 2022, the project is currently set up at Max with a script-to-series commitment. It is being developed as a one-hour drama series via Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Reps for Max and Warner Bros. Television declined to comment.
Cody is best known for writing the critically-acclaimed comedy feature “Juno,” for which she won the Academy Award for best original screenplay in 2008. Her other films include “Jennifer’s Body,” “Tully,” and “Young Adult.” She also co-created the Amazon comedy series “One Mississippi” alongside Tig Notaro and Showtime’s “United States of Tara” starring Toni Collette.
She is repped by WME, Mxn, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
O’Connell previously created and starred in the semi-autobiographical Netflix series “Special,” based on his...
As initially reported in May 2022, the project is currently set up at Max with a script-to-series commitment. It is being developed as a one-hour drama series via Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Reps for Max and Warner Bros. Television declined to comment.
Cody is best known for writing the critically-acclaimed comedy feature “Juno,” for which she won the Academy Award for best original screenplay in 2008. Her other films include “Jennifer’s Body,” “Tully,” and “Young Adult.” She also co-created the Amazon comedy series “One Mississippi” alongside Tig Notaro and Showtime’s “United States of Tara” starring Toni Collette.
She is repped by WME, Mxn, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
O’Connell previously created and starred in the semi-autobiographical Netflix series “Special,” based on his...
- 11/27/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival opened with the premiere of Swarm, the dark tale of Dre (Dominique Fishback), a stan whose obsession with a Beyoncé-esque pop idol turns deadly. And the Prime Video series’ fourth episode treated audiences to a little surprise: Billie Eilish’s screen acting debut as Eva, the leader of a Nxivm-like cult whose indoctrination of Dre ends in disaster. Not to be outdone, Halsey’s entrée into the world of movies left the crowd at the Texas fest hooting and hollering.
In Tony Tost’s crime-western Americana,...
In Tony Tost’s crime-western Americana,...
- 3/18/2023
- by Marlow Stern
- Rollingstone.com
Halsey makes her official big-screen debut in the Tony Tost film Americana, which will premiere at SXSW on Friday (though she previously starred in the film If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, accompanying her album of the same name). On “Girl Is a Gun,” a deep cut from the record, the singer boasts about her hardened exterior, warning: “I come loaded with the safety switched off.” In the first sneak peek trailer for Americana, in which she stars opposite Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney, the theatrical edge she displays...
- 3/16/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
“The Players Table” TV series starring Halsey and Sydney Sweeney has landed at HBO Max, with the project in the development stage at the WarnerMedia-owned streaming service, TheWrap has learned.
Based on Jessica Goodman’s novel “They Wish They Were Us,” the potential series, which would mark Halsey’s TV debut, is a co-production between HBO Max and Endeavor Content.
Here’s the logline for “The Players Table”: The truth may as well be arbitrary in a world where no one says what they mean. In the affluent town of Gold Coast, Long Island — a community sustained by lies, complicity, and absolute moral decay — two young women (Sweeney and Halsey) come of age as they unravel the mystery of a classmates’ murder. But in order to understand what happened to their friend, they must first confront what’s happened to them.
Annabelle Attanasio is set to direct, write and executive produce the project.
Based on Jessica Goodman’s novel “They Wish They Were Us,” the potential series, which would mark Halsey’s TV debut, is a co-production between HBO Max and Endeavor Content.
Here’s the logline for “The Players Table”: The truth may as well be arbitrary in a world where no one says what they mean. In the affluent town of Gold Coast, Long Island — a community sustained by lies, complicity, and absolute moral decay — two young women (Sweeney and Halsey) come of age as they unravel the mystery of a classmates’ murder. But in order to understand what happened to their friend, they must first confront what’s happened to them.
Annabelle Attanasio is set to direct, write and executive produce the project.
- 2/11/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Exclusive: HBO Max has put in development The Players Table, a TV series based on Jessica Goodman’s bestselling debut novel They Wish They Were Us, starring Euphoria‘s Sydney Sweeney and singer-songwriter Halsey in her television acting debut. The project, which was recently taken out by Endeavor Content, hails from Sweeney’s Fifty-Fifty Films, Jean-Marc Vallée and Nathan Ross’ Crazyrose. Annabelle Attanasio (Mickey and the Bear) is attached to write, direct and executive produce the project, which will be a co-production between HBO Max and Endeavor Content.
In The Players Table, the truth may as well be arbitrary in a world where no one says what they mean. In the affluent town of Gold Coast, Long Island — a community sustained by lies, complicity, and absolute moral decay — two young women (Sweeney and Halsey) come of age as they unravel the mystery of a classmates’ murder. But in order to...
In The Players Table, the truth may as well be arbitrary in a world where no one says what they mean. In the affluent town of Gold Coast, Long Island — a community sustained by lies, complicity, and absolute moral decay — two young women (Sweeney and Halsey) come of age as they unravel the mystery of a classmates’ murder. But in order to...
- 2/11/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Matt Nix is doing double duty for Warner Bros. Pictures. The studio has acquired the scribe's comedy pitch Boss Go Home in a pre-emptive purchase for Warners-based Jon Shestack and Danica Radovanov to produce. The story centers on an upwardly mobile young executive who is forced to deal with his boss moving in with him because of a midlife crisis. The pitch, brought in by Radovanov, was inspired by a junior studio exec being called on unexpectedly to use his shabby car to transport the top exec at a studio. Warners' Jessica Goodman and Matt Riley are overseeing for the studio.
- 1/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Writer-producer David Ayer is in final negotiations to direct an update of The Wild Bunch for Warner Bros. Pictures based on his own script. Jerry Weintraub is producing for his Warner Bros.-based shingle Jerry Weintraub Prods. Weintraub Prods.' Susan Ekins and Mark Vahradian are executive producing. Jessica Goodman is overseeing production. Wild Bunch, originally directed by Sam Peckinpah in 1969, followed an aging group of outlaws looking for a last score in the fading American West. Ayer's update is described as a thriller involving heists, drug cartels and the CIA, set in contemporary Mexico.
- 11/7/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Writer-producer David Ayer is in final negotiations to direct an update of The Wild Bunch for Warner Bros. Pictures based on his own script. Jerry Weintraub is producing for his Warner Bros.-based shingle Jerry Weintraub Prods. Weintraub Prods.' Susan Ekins and Mark Vahradian are executive producing. Jessica Goodman is overseeing production. Wild Bunch, originally directed by Sam Peckinpah in 1969, followed an aging group of outlaws looking for a last score in the fading American West. Ayer's update is described as a thriller involving heists, drug cartels and the CIA, set in contemporary Mexico.
- 11/4/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Peter Chelsom is in negotiations to direct The Food of Love for Warner Bros. Pictures. Denise Di Novi is producing the feature, which is based on the novel by Tony Strong, whose pen name is Anthony Capella. Set in Rome, the romantic comedy involves an art-history student seduced by the supposed culinary skills of a waiter masquerading as a chef, who turns out to be a Cyrano de Bergerac type named Bruno. Valerie Breiman adapted the book. Jessica Goodman is overseeing for the studio. Chelsom most recently directed Shall We Dance? for Miramax Pictures. His credits include Serendipity, with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, and Funny Bones. Chelsom is repped by Endeavor.
- 4/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired the movie rights to The Ha-Ha: A Novel, by first-time writer Dave King, for Akiva Goldsman to produce and possibly direct. The book, published last month, is written from the perspective of a brain-damaged Vietnam veteran who can't speak or write. When his high-school sweetheart, for whom he still pines, dumps her 9-year-old son on his doorstep so she can enter drug rehab, the vet is forced to break out of his sheltered routine. Jessica Goodman and Geoff Shaevitz are shepherding the project for the studio. Goldsman won on Oscar for writing A Beautiful Mind; his other credits include The Da Vinci Code, Cinderella Man, I, Robot and Batman & Robin. Through his Warners-based Weed Road Pictures, Goldsman is one of the producers on Constantine. The Ha-Ha would be his directorial debut. He is repped by CAA.
- 2/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros. Pictures has beat out stiff competition by paying mid-six against seven figures for Cristi Limm's black comedy Maid of Dishonor. Denise DiNovi and Alison Greenspan are producing Maid, with Jessica Goodman overseeing for Warners. Goodman is understood to have brought the project into the studio. Maid follows a jilted bride-turned-anti-romantic who must return home to be the maid of honor in her sister's wedding party. Limm's credits include the Scott Rudin thriller The Kindness of Strangers at Paramount Pictures. She is repped by Endeavor and attorneys at Colden, McKuin and Frankel.
- 6/11/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Catherine Zeta-Jones is joining the all-star ensemble cast of Ocean's Twelve, the sequel to 2001's Ocean's Eleven, for Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures. The film is being directed by Steven Soderbergh, who worked with the actress in 2000's Traffic, and produced by Jerry Weintraub in association with Section Eight. Ocean's Twelve, written by George Nolfi, reunites the original cast of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle in another crime caper, this time with an international flavor. Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Vincent Cassel, Elliott Gould, Eddie Jemison and Carl Reiner also return for a story set in Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Monte Carlo, Italy's Lake Como, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Zeta-Jones will play a Europol agent and potential love interest to Pitt's character. "Catherine is a great star, and this is a star-studded cast," Weintraub said. "I needed someone as important as the other stars, and I've found that person. With Julia and Catherine, I think I have the two most beautiful women in the world in this movie." Jessica Goodman is overseeing the project for the studio, which is aiming for an April start date. Zeta-Jones won a best supporting Oscar last year for her performance in Chicago. She first gained attention in The Mask of Zorro and most recently appeared in Intolerable Cruelty. Zeta-Jones, who is repped by CAA, will next be seen in Terminal.
- 2/11/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Secretary star Maggie Gyllenhaal is in negotiations to join John C. Reilly and Diego Luna in the Warner Bros. Pictures feature Criminal (aka Nine Queens) for Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney's Section Eight Prods. The project, a remake of an Argentine feature, begins production next month with Gregory Jacobs directing. Criminal is a caper thriller about two men (Reilly and Luna) who team on a scam involving a forged set of extremely valuable stamps, the Nine Queens. Gyllenhaal would play the sister of Reilly's character, whom he swindles out of her inheritance. Jacobs, Soderbergh's longtime first assistant director, co-wrote with Soderbergh the English version of the screenplay. Soderbergh and Clooney will produce, with Section Eight's Jennifer Fox and Ben Cosgrove executive producing. Warners vp production Jessica Goodman will oversee the project on behalf of the studio, which acquired remake rights to Criminal two months ago (HR 2/6). Gyllenhaal, repped by CAA and Benderspink's Courtney Kivowitz, next stars in Revolution Studios' Mona Lisa Smile opposite Julia Roberts and IFC Films' Casa de Los Babys for writer-director John Sayles.
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri has come aboard to rewrite Warner Bros. Pictures' A Season in Central Park under the supervision of the film's director, Mike Newell. Outlaw Prods. is producing. The project reteams Khouri with the same studio for which she wrote and directed Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Central Park is about a wealthy man in a relationship with a woman, but unbeknownst to him, his best friend wants to be with her as well. The best friend teams with a working-class girl -- who has her sights set on the wealthy man -- in an attempt to drive a wedge between the couple and make way for each to be with their object of desire. What the schemers do not plan on, though, is falling in love with each other. Aline Brosh-McKenna and Ron Bass had written the previous drafts of the script. Outlaw's Robert Newmyer, Jeffrey Silver and Scott Strauss are producing the project. Warners exec Jessica Goodman is overseeing. Khouri, repped by CAA and Industry Entertainment, won a screenplay Oscar for Thelma & Louise.
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