2929 Productions is financing Tim And Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, a comedy by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim that’s being produced by Funny Or Die creators at Gary Sanchez Productions. The film company sent out a press release with what I felt was a lame attempt to humorously paint itself as the priciest film ever. There are interesting details, like that 2929 money men Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner will appear in the film. I invited them to furnish some serious details this morning, but they never came. So Deadline readers can eyeball the original knee-slapper of a press release and decide: Funny or Die?
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2929 Productions Funds 'Tim And Eric's Billion Dollar Movie'; Here's Hoping The Movie's Funnier Than The Press Release
Lord Of The Dance: 3D On St. Paddy Day
Michael Flatley is finally filming his Lord Of The Dance stage show and in 3D. SuperVision Media is handling the U.S. limited-engagement theatrical release scheduled for St. Patrick’s Day 2011. UK-based Nineteen Fifteen Productions is producing in association with ITN Productions, part of ITV. Lord Of The Dance has been a huge hit for Flatley: he sold out 13 consecutive nights at Radio City Music Hall in New York and did a 21-night run at London’
STRIKE DRAMA: IATSE Promises Its Pickets Will Face Strike-Breakers At 'Biggest Loser' Monday; Shame On NBC And Liz Murdoch
As you know, Deadline TV Editor Nellie Andreeva has been keeping you up-to-date on every development of this breaking labor story. (‘Biggest Loser’ Production To Resume On Monday With Replacements) Now here’s my opinion: NBC needs to put an immediate stop to this disgusting situation before someone gets hurt. Shame on the broadcast network for embracing a show that’s now bringing in scab workers on Monday to replace striking IATSE members. NBC can and should put its foot down after 10 seasons of airing The Biggest Loser and use its influence with Shine Group’s Reveille Productions and 25/7 Productions, and JD Roth’s and Todd Nelson’s Eyeworks-owned 3 Ball Productions, to stop the confrontation. And I’m calling on NBC Universal Television Group President/COO Jeff Gaspin to get personally involved. I’m also calling on Shine’s Elizabeth Murdoch to consider her prominence in the entertainment biz and do the right thing. What else should be on the horizon? Hollywood guilds leadership from AFTRA and the DGA which already have agreements with the production, as well as SAG and the WGA, should ask their members to help picket and think about staging a one-day walkout to express their unity. (Of course, IATSE opposed the WGA’s strike. And the writers guild wants to sign up all of reality TV’s so-called ”editor/producers” now repped by IATSE, but that’s not this issue. Here’s a chance to heal old wounds now that IATSE … Read More
Jersey Shore Cast Members Are Replaceable!
At least that’s what producers think!
After the cast of Jersey Shore went on strike on Sunday, producers of the hit show are ready to let go of dead weight.
A source with 495 Productions said, “The show is not about famous rich people with managers coming to the Shore.”
But they should get something extra for the [...]
Financiers Welcome Oz Funding Boost
Practitioners I’