Melissa George has been tapped as the female lead opposite Rufus Sewell in ABC’s Richard Lagravenese drama pilot. Also cast in the pilot, in the vein of Dangerous Liaisons, is Elliot Knight. The untitled project is set in New York and revolves around the love and rivalry between two equally matched, powerful socialites, Philip Fitzgerald Julien (Sewell) and Margot Worth Cole (George), who play out their obsessive attraction and seduction of each other through their manipulation of others. Brit Knight, repped by Resolution, Affirmative Entertainment, UK’s Payne Management and Mike Adler, plays Philip’s right-hand man Leo who is loyal to his boss and keeps all of his secrets. This marks the second consecutive ABC/ABC Studios drama pilot for Aussie George, who toplined Gothica last season. She also played the lead in the Cinemax/BBC drama Hunted. Related: 2014 ABC Pilots...
- 3/14/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
In one of the highest-profile pilot castings this season, Viola Davis (The Help, Doubt) is set as the lead of ABC‘s drama pilot How To Get Away With Murder, from ABC Studios and Shondaland. This marks the first series regular role in a decade for the two-time Oscar-nominated actress. In making her foray into pilot season, Davis joins her Help co-star Octavia Spencer, who recently signed on to star in Fox drama pilot The Red Band Society. Written by Peter Nowalk, How To Get Away is described as a sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller that centers on ambitious law students and their brilliant and mysterious criminal defense professor (Davis) who become entangled in a murder plot that could rock their entire university and change the course of their lives. Nowalk is executive producing alongside Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers. Related: 2014 ABC Pilots This is the second consecutive drama pilot in...
- 2/25/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: CAA, on a signing tear of late, has just inked Viola Davis. The actress recently took meetings with all the majors. This follows recent signings of Keira Knightley, Frost/Nixon writer/playwright Peter Morgan, Neil Patrick Harris and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Oscar-nominated for The Help and Doubt, Davis won Tony Awards for the revival of August Wilson’s Fences with Denzel Washington, and for King Hedley II. She had been repped by Apa. Davis will next be seen in the Denis Villenueve-directed Prisoners for Warner Brothers and the Gavin Hood-directed Ender’s Game, which Summit Entertainment releases in November. She continues to be managed by Estelle Lasher at Principal Entertainment and her lawyer is Michael Adler of Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler & Feldman.
- 2/27/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: Mira Sorvino is returning to her comedy roots (she won an Oscar for Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite) with a starring role opposite Jim Gaffigan in his CBS comedy pilot. Written by Gaffigan and Peter Tolan (the two co-wrote the story, and Tolan wrote the script), the project centers on Jim (Gaffigan) a guy who lives with his wife Jeannie (Sorvino) and five kids in a 2-bedroom New York apartment. Sorvino’s Jeannie is a super-wife and super-mom. The mother of five kids, she has a sixth child in the house: her husband Jim. Sony Pictures TV and Fedora are producing, with Gaffigan, Tolan, Michael Wimer and Alex Murray executive producing. The pilot reunites Sorvino with CBS where she toplined drama pilot Trooper last season. (She also reprised her role in the TNT version of the pilot.) In addition to Mighty Aphrodite, Sorvino’s comedic roles include the cult...
- 2/21/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
After a market crash, a magazine is struggling to survive.
It sounds like a contemporary drama but is in fact a period comedy project from writer Andy Bellin in the works at HBO.
Tentatively titled "The Review," the show is set at a New York literary magazine in the immediate aftermath of Black Monday in 1987, just in time to catch the tail end of the decade's "greed is good" excess. It centers on a young guy who leaves banking to work at the magazine right when it existence is threatened by funding cuts.
The project, which former journalist Bellin is exec producing with feature producer Scott Aversano ("Failure to Launch") is loosely based on Bellin's experience as an editor at the Paris Review in the '90s under iconic editor George Plimpton as well as other freelance magazine gigs.
Bellin was on his way to a master's degree in astrophysics...
It sounds like a contemporary drama but is in fact a period comedy project from writer Andy Bellin in the works at HBO.
Tentatively titled "The Review," the show is set at a New York literary magazine in the immediate aftermath of Black Monday in 1987, just in time to catch the tail end of the decade's "greed is good" excess. It centers on a young guy who leaves banking to work at the magazine right when it existence is threatened by funding cuts.
The project, which former journalist Bellin is exec producing with feature producer Scott Aversano ("Failure to Launch") is loosely based on Bellin's experience as an editor at the Paris Review in the '90s under iconic editor George Plimpton as well as other freelance magazine gigs.
Bellin was on his way to a master's degree in astrophysics...
- 11/12/2008
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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