Exclusive: The Mark Gordon Co. has sold its sixth project this development season — half-hour comedy Dirty Girls, which has been set up at ABC through ABC, where the the company has an overall deal. Moe Jelline (You Again) will write the project, which is based on the Gillian Telling book Dirty Girls: The Naked Truth About Our Guilty Secrets. The single-camera half-hour revolves around a group of female friends who reveal the dirty truth about the secret lives of women. Gordon, Jelline and Mark Gordon Co.’s Andrea Shay will executive produce. Dirty Secrets joins Mark Gordon Co.’s other projects sold to ABC this season: Sex Diaries, Pros & Cons, Gothica, an untitled family drama co-written by Bob Daily and Pierce Gardner, and the female soap Vain from Make It Or Break It creator Holly Sorensen. Jelline is represented by ICM Partners, which also reps Mark Gordon Co., Kaplan/Perrone and Rick Genow.
- 10/18/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The Mark Gordon Company has sold two more hourlong projects to ABC: Sex Diaries, inspired by New York magazine’s popular weekly feature, and Pros & Cons. Both are executive produced by Gordon and Nicholas Pepper and produced by ABC Studios, where the Mark Gordon Co. has a rich production deal. Sex Diaries, written/executive produced by Tom Spezialy, is a sexy and heartfelt dramedy set in New York City that explores the sex lives, loves, and experiences of 10 characters who are interconnected in surprising ways. Pros & Cons, written/executive produced by Alexi Hawley (Castle), is a light-hearted procedural about a young FBI agent who discovers the father she never knew is a master thief. His unique insight into crime proves invaluable to her work, but is he helping her to make up for his absence from her life, or using their newfound relationship to aid in his criminal career? The...
- 10/11/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Former Desperate Housewives executive producer/showrunner Bob Daily is staying in the ABC/ABC Studios fold, teaming with the executive producer of another hit ABC drama that started as a Desperate Housewives companion, Grey’s Anatomy‘s Mark Gordon. The untitled hourlong drama, from ABC Studios and studio-based Mark Gordon Co., revolves around three diverse families whose lives get gloriously messy when they discover that they share a biological father, a successful bachelor in his 40s who’s completely unprepared to embrace the family he never knew he wanted. Daily will co-write the script with feature writer Pierce Gardner (Dan In Real Life). Daily, Gordon and Nicholas Pepper are the executive producers. Frasier alum Daily joined Desperate Housewives at the beginning of Season 3 as co-executive producer and was upped to executive producer a year later. He quickly established himself as the No.2 to creator/executive producer Marc Cherry, handling...
- 10/5/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Now in theaters is Peter Hedges‘ latest directorial effort, The Odd Life of Timothy Green. The film stars Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton as two parents that are unable to conceive despite numerous procedures and efforts. One night they decide to name everything they want in a kid and later that night, he is born in their garden. Cj Adams stars as Timothy, the garden miracle boy who gives them everything they could have ever wanted and more. Earlier this week I had a chance to speak with Hedges over the phone as we talked about keeping the mystical low-key, working with people you run to work with, and the genesis of the film.
The Film Stage: You have veterans actors in the film surrounding the young boy [Cj Adams]. I’m curious if that is intentional or just a by-product of a studio film?
Peter Hedges: Any time you’re...
The Film Stage: You have veterans actors in the film surrounding the young boy [Cj Adams]. I’m curious if that is intentional or just a by-product of a studio film?
Peter Hedges: Any time you’re...
- 8/15/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
This review was written for the theatrical release of "Dan in Real Life".Peter Hedges has snuck up on us. He is no newcomer to film comedy. At age 45, he has written the novel and screenplay for the offbeat, felicitous "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," penned the screenplay for the sharply observed comic drama "About a Boy", wrote and directed the wonderfully dysfunctional Thanksgiving comedy "Pieces of April" and now has co-written and directed "Dan in Real Life".
This latter film, among many other fine things, provides Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche with comic roles that fit them like designer threads. While not a perfect comedy, "Dan" is certainly a crowd-pleasing, cleverly engineered and well-executed divertissement that should put grins on the faces of movie fans of many ages and execs at Disney and Focus Features.
Hedges' focus, at least up to this point, is the family. He also likes to deploy multiple stories that give you a big, chaotic mess within which smaller, intimate moments of tenderness or romance can exist. Here he brings together a large, boisterous family for an annual fall weekend in Rhode Island.
Dan (Carell) writes a family-advice column, Dan in Real Life. He is a widowed father of three girls, two of which are teens, meaning Dad is the last person you would go to for advice.
So he brings to this gathering mostly cranky daughters: Jane (Alison Pill), who wants to use her new driver's license and to be treated like an adult; Cara (Brittany Robertson), who believes she is the first person in the world to discover love; and 8-year-old Lilly (Marlene Lawston), who is smarter than Dan can possibly realize.
Longtime playboy brother Mitch (stand-up comic Dane Cook) means to introduce his family to his new squeeze, but before he can do So Dan unwittingly makes her acquaintance in a bookstore. He falls head over heels for Marie (Binoche) without realizing that she is his brother's new girlfriend. The sequence plays a little too meet cute but nonetheless features charming acting by Carell and Binoche. This predicament sets up any number of comically awkward situations in a huge, multibedroom seaside house belonging to Mom and Dad (veterans John Mahoney and Dianne Wiest, who cagily play things straight).
What Hedges does here so brilliantly is allow us to see two people fall madly in love in a situation where no one else can be aware of their passion. Eye contact and tugs at the mouth from Carell and Binoche do the trick very nicely, while the animated clan provides an engaging backdrop of familial love, thwarted though intense feelings -- that would be Cara -- longings for recognition -- that would be Jane -- and wounded behavior by the entire group once they realize Dan's deception. There also is a priceless drop-by appearance by beauteous Emily Blunt, who is becoming the queen of comic supporting roles.
The third act is a disappointment. It feels labored and unconvincing in its attempt to wrap up a convoluted situation that the Greeks would have handled with a god descending from the heavens to sort it all out.
No matter. Getting there was all the fun.
DAN IN REAL LIFE
Buena Vista Pictures
Touchstone Pictures/Focus Features
Credits:
Director: Peter Hedges
Screenwriters: Pierce Gardner, Peter Hedges
Producers: Jon Shestack, Brad Epstein
Executive producers: Noah Rosen, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda
Director of photography: Lawrence Sher
Production designer: Sarah Knowles
Music: Sondre Lerche
Co-producer: Dianne Dreyer
Costume designer: Alix Friedberg
Editor: Sarah Flack
Cast: Dan: Steve Carell
Marie: Juliette Binoche
Mitch: Dane Cook
Jane: Alison Pill
Cara: Brittany Robertson
Lily: Marlene Lawston
Nana: Dianne Wiest
Poppy: John Mahoney.
Running time -- 99 minutes
MPAA rating PG-13...
This latter film, among many other fine things, provides Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche with comic roles that fit them like designer threads. While not a perfect comedy, "Dan" is certainly a crowd-pleasing, cleverly engineered and well-executed divertissement that should put grins on the faces of movie fans of many ages and execs at Disney and Focus Features.
Hedges' focus, at least up to this point, is the family. He also likes to deploy multiple stories that give you a big, chaotic mess within which smaller, intimate moments of tenderness or romance can exist. Here he brings together a large, boisterous family for an annual fall weekend in Rhode Island.
Dan (Carell) writes a family-advice column, Dan in Real Life. He is a widowed father of three girls, two of which are teens, meaning Dad is the last person you would go to for advice.
So he brings to this gathering mostly cranky daughters: Jane (Alison Pill), who wants to use her new driver's license and to be treated like an adult; Cara (Brittany Robertson), who believes she is the first person in the world to discover love; and 8-year-old Lilly (Marlene Lawston), who is smarter than Dan can possibly realize.
Longtime playboy brother Mitch (stand-up comic Dane Cook) means to introduce his family to his new squeeze, but before he can do So Dan unwittingly makes her acquaintance in a bookstore. He falls head over heels for Marie (Binoche) without realizing that she is his brother's new girlfriend. The sequence plays a little too meet cute but nonetheless features charming acting by Carell and Binoche. This predicament sets up any number of comically awkward situations in a huge, multibedroom seaside house belonging to Mom and Dad (veterans John Mahoney and Dianne Wiest, who cagily play things straight).
What Hedges does here so brilliantly is allow us to see two people fall madly in love in a situation where no one else can be aware of their passion. Eye contact and tugs at the mouth from Carell and Binoche do the trick very nicely, while the animated clan provides an engaging backdrop of familial love, thwarted though intense feelings -- that would be Cara -- longings for recognition -- that would be Jane -- and wounded behavior by the entire group once they realize Dan's deception. There also is a priceless drop-by appearance by beauteous Emily Blunt, who is becoming the queen of comic supporting roles.
The third act is a disappointment. It feels labored and unconvincing in its attempt to wrap up a convoluted situation that the Greeks would have handled with a god descending from the heavens to sort it all out.
No matter. Getting there was all the fun.
DAN IN REAL LIFE
Buena Vista Pictures
Touchstone Pictures/Focus Features
Credits:
Director: Peter Hedges
Screenwriters: Pierce Gardner, Peter Hedges
Producers: Jon Shestack, Brad Epstein
Executive producers: Noah Rosen, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda
Director of photography: Lawrence Sher
Production designer: Sarah Knowles
Music: Sondre Lerche
Co-producer: Dianne Dreyer
Costume designer: Alix Friedberg
Editor: Sarah Flack
Cast: Dan: Steve Carell
Marie: Juliette Binoche
Mitch: Dane Cook
Jane: Alison Pill
Cara: Brittany Robertson
Lily: Marlene Lawston
Nana: Dianne Wiest
Poppy: John Mahoney.
Running time -- 99 minutes
MPAA rating PG-13...
- 10/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Peter Hedges has snuck up on us. He is no newcomer to film comedy. At age 45, he has written the novel and screenplay for the offbeat, felicitous What's Eating Gilbert Grape, penned the screenplay for the sharply observed comic drama About a Boy, wrote and directed the wonderfully dysfunctional Thanksgiving comedy Pieces of April and now has co-written and directed Dan in Real Life.
This latter film, among many other fine things, provides Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche with comic roles that fit them like designer threads. While not a perfect comedy, "Dan" is certainly a crowd-pleasing, cleverly engineered and well-executed divertissement that should put grins on the faces of movie fans of many ages and execs at Disney and Focus Features.
Hedges' focus, at least up to this point, is the family. He also likes to deploy multiple stories that give you a big, chaotic mess within which smaller, intimate moments of tenderness or romance can exist. Here he brings together a large, boisterous family for an annual fall weekend in Rhode Island.
Dan (Carell) writes a family-advice column, Dan in Real Life. He is a widowed father of three girls, two of which are teens, meaning Dad is the last person you would go to for advice.
So he brings to this gathering mostly cranky daughters: Jane (Alison Pill), who wants to use her new driver's license and to be treated like an adult; Cara (Brittany Robertson), who believes she is the first person in the world to discover love; and 8-year-old Lilly (Marlene Lawston), who is smarter than Dan can possibly realize.
Longtime playboy brother Mitch (stand-up comic Dane Cook) means to introduce his family to his new squeeze, but before he can do So Dan unwittingly makes her acquaintance in a bookstore. He falls head over heels for Marie (Binoche) without realizing that she is his brother's new girlfriend. The sequence plays a little too meet cute but nonetheless features charming acting by Carell and Binoche. This predicament sets up any number of comically awkward situations in a huge, multibedroom seaside house belonging to Mom and Dad (veterans John Mahoney and Dianne Wiest, who cagily play things straight).
What Hedges does here so brilliantly is allow us to see two people fall madly in love in a situation where no one else can be aware of their passion. Eye contact and tugs at the mouth from Carell and Binoche do the trick very nicely, while the animated clan provides an engaging backdrop of familial love, thwarted though intense feelings -- that would be Cara -- longings for recognition -- that would be Jane -- and wounded behavior by the entire group once they realize Dan's deception. There also is a priceless drop-by appearance by beauteous Emily Blunt, who is becoming the queen of comic supporting roles.
The third act is a disappointment. It feels labored and unconvincing in its attempt to wrap up a convoluted situation that the Greeks would have handled with a god descending from the heavens to sort it all out.
No matter. Getting there was all the fun.
DAN IN REAL LIFE
Buena Vista Pictures
Touchstone Pictures/Focus Features
Credits:
Director: Peter Hedges
Screenwriters: Pierce Gardner, Peter Hedges
Producers: Jon Shestack, Brad Epstein
Executive producers: Noah Rosen, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda
Director of photography: Lawrence Sher
Production designer: Sarah Knowles
Music: Sondre Lerche
Co-producer: Dianne Dreyer
Costume designer: Alix Friedberg
Editor: Sarah Flack
Cast: Dan: Steve Carell
Marie: Juliette Binoche
Mitch: Dane Cook
Jane: Alison Pill
Cara: Brittany Robertson
Lily: Marlene Lawston
Nana: Dianne Wiest
Poppy: John Mahoney.
Running time -- 99 minutes
MPAA rating PG-13...
This latter film, among many other fine things, provides Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche with comic roles that fit them like designer threads. While not a perfect comedy, "Dan" is certainly a crowd-pleasing, cleverly engineered and well-executed divertissement that should put grins on the faces of movie fans of many ages and execs at Disney and Focus Features.
Hedges' focus, at least up to this point, is the family. He also likes to deploy multiple stories that give you a big, chaotic mess within which smaller, intimate moments of tenderness or romance can exist. Here he brings together a large, boisterous family for an annual fall weekend in Rhode Island.
Dan (Carell) writes a family-advice column, Dan in Real Life. He is a widowed father of three girls, two of which are teens, meaning Dad is the last person you would go to for advice.
So he brings to this gathering mostly cranky daughters: Jane (Alison Pill), who wants to use her new driver's license and to be treated like an adult; Cara (Brittany Robertson), who believes she is the first person in the world to discover love; and 8-year-old Lilly (Marlene Lawston), who is smarter than Dan can possibly realize.
Longtime playboy brother Mitch (stand-up comic Dane Cook) means to introduce his family to his new squeeze, but before he can do So Dan unwittingly makes her acquaintance in a bookstore. He falls head over heels for Marie (Binoche) without realizing that she is his brother's new girlfriend. The sequence plays a little too meet cute but nonetheless features charming acting by Carell and Binoche. This predicament sets up any number of comically awkward situations in a huge, multibedroom seaside house belonging to Mom and Dad (veterans John Mahoney and Dianne Wiest, who cagily play things straight).
What Hedges does here so brilliantly is allow us to see two people fall madly in love in a situation where no one else can be aware of their passion. Eye contact and tugs at the mouth from Carell and Binoche do the trick very nicely, while the animated clan provides an engaging backdrop of familial love, thwarted though intense feelings -- that would be Cara -- longings for recognition -- that would be Jane -- and wounded behavior by the entire group once they realize Dan's deception. There also is a priceless drop-by appearance by beauteous Emily Blunt, who is becoming the queen of comic supporting roles.
The third act is a disappointment. It feels labored and unconvincing in its attempt to wrap up a convoluted situation that the Greeks would have handled with a god descending from the heavens to sort it all out.
No matter. Getting there was all the fun.
DAN IN REAL LIFE
Buena Vista Pictures
Touchstone Pictures/Focus Features
Credits:
Director: Peter Hedges
Screenwriters: Pierce Gardner, Peter Hedges
Producers: Jon Shestack, Brad Epstein
Executive producers: Noah Rosen, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda
Director of photography: Lawrence Sher
Production designer: Sarah Knowles
Music: Sondre Lerche
Co-producer: Dianne Dreyer
Costume designer: Alix Friedberg
Editor: Sarah Flack
Cast: Dan: Steve Carell
Marie: Juliette Binoche
Mitch: Dane Cook
Jane: Alison Pill
Cara: Brittany Robertson
Lily: Marlene Lawston
Nana: Dianne Wiest
Poppy: John Mahoney.
Running time -- 99 minutes
MPAA rating PG-13...
- 10/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Columbia Pictures has acquired scribe Pierce Gardner's untitled Working Girl pitch for Neal Moritz to produce.
The comedy centers on a divorced mother who is lost at her new job until she realizes that her experience dealing with spoiled toddlers gives her exactly the tools she needs to deal with spoiled executives.
Sony's Andrea Gianetti will shepherd the project for the studio.
Ori Marmur will oversee for Moritz's Sony-based Original Film shingle.
Gardner has become an in-demand writer, having been hired recently to adapt Ben Ryder Howe's book My Korean Deli for New Line Cinema. He also co-wrote the Steve Carell-Dane Cook starrer Dan in Real Life with director Peter Hedges, which will be released in September by Touchstone Pictures.
Gardner is repped by Paradigm and Circle of Confusion.
The comedy centers on a divorced mother who is lost at her new job until she realizes that her experience dealing with spoiled toddlers gives her exactly the tools she needs to deal with spoiled executives.
Sony's Andrea Gianetti will shepherd the project for the studio.
Ori Marmur will oversee for Moritz's Sony-based Original Film shingle.
Gardner has become an in-demand writer, having been hired recently to adapt Ben Ryder Howe's book My Korean Deli for New Line Cinema. He also co-wrote the Steve Carell-Dane Cook starrer Dan in Real Life with director Peter Hedges, which will be released in September by Touchstone Pictures.
Gardner is repped by Paradigm and Circle of Confusion.
- 6/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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