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The Weinsteins Hear the Neon Lights Are Bright on Broadway
Bob and Harvey Go Legit: Having run out of hapless Hollywood executives to devour with soul-crushing fury, Bob and Harvey Weinstein have turned their bottomless rage to Broadway. (Truth be told, we’re not giving them enough credit, as the Weinstein Company was a minority co-producer in both August: Osage County and Boeing-Boeing, two plays that enjoyed seven Tonys between them.) Now the Weinsteins will dig through the Miramax catalogue and kick off their run with Finding Neverland in 2010, followed by a stage version of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Shakespeare in Love, Chocolat, Cinema Paradiso, and Shall We Dance. Psst, Harvey, you forgot Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. [Variety]
Open-Mike Night for Carrey: Serious dramatic actor Jim Carrey has signed on to an untitled comedy project with Lisa Lampenelli at HBO. In the series, a serious woman unexpectedly inherits a comedy club and must play a motherly role to the resident comics. Since it’s no longer 1997, we can only assume Carrey will play the serious woman. [Variety]
My One and Only Bacon: We have an update on My One and Only, George Hamilton’s childhood adventure movie that no one under 60 could possibly care about! Guess who’s joining the cast! It’s — no, it’s not Lawrence Welk. No, we’re pretty sure Donna Reed is dead. Okay, fine — it’s Kevin Bacon! [Variety]
MGM Buys a New Le Car: MGM has purchased a comedy spec from Wayne McClammy and Will Burke, both Jimmy Kimmel writers, McClammy having directed “I’m Fucking Matt Damon†and its Ben Affleck sequel. Their script is designed to “unspool as a found film made in the 1980s,†about CIA agents who try to stop an “evil car†from blowing up the Lake Placid Olympics. [HR]
Universal Starts a Family: Universal has snatched up The Family Bond, an adventure spec by Jeff Lowell (John Tucker Must Die) about a “girl who goes on an adventure to rescue her mother, with the father she never knew she had, a Bond-like spy.†Yes, this is exactly like Spy Kids. [HR]
History Repeating for Johnson: Have you just stopped caring, Universal? Dave H. Johnson sold Uni a comedy pitch, Repeat After Me, about a “couple who realize they are reliving their disastrous wedding day again and again.†How about a movie about a studio that just keeps making Groundhog Day over and over again? [HR]