Paramount Pictures has acquired the upcoming film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical “Spamalot” from Fox, according to an insider with knowledge of the project.
Eric Idle, who penned the music and lyrics for the original musical, wrote the screenplay. Broadway veteran Casey Nicholaw, who choreographed the musical, is set to direct the film adaptation. Dan Jinks is producing the project with Idle. Executives Jon Gonda and Mike Ireland are overseeing the project for Paramount.
The “Spamalot” film adaptation was previously set up at Fox, but was set aside when Disney acquired Fox in 2019.
The 2005 Broadway musical “Spamalot” was adapted from the 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” a comedic parody of the King Arthur quest.
The late Mike Nichols directed the original Broadway production, which went on to receive 14 Tony Award nominations and won in three categories, including Best Musical. “Spamalot” became a commercial success and grossed more than $175 million.
Eric Idle, who penned the music and lyrics for the original musical, wrote the screenplay. Broadway veteran Casey Nicholaw, who choreographed the musical, is set to direct the film adaptation. Dan Jinks is producing the project with Idle. Executives Jon Gonda and Mike Ireland are overseeing the project for Paramount.
The “Spamalot” film adaptation was previously set up at Fox, but was set aside when Disney acquired Fox in 2019.
The 2005 Broadway musical “Spamalot” was adapted from the 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” a comedic parody of the King Arthur quest.
The late Mike Nichols directed the original Broadway production, which went on to receive 14 Tony Award nominations and won in three categories, including Best Musical. “Spamalot” became a commercial success and grossed more than $175 million.
- 1/6/2021
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Paramount Pictures is getting in on the business of Monty Python. The studio has acquired “Spamalot,” the upcoming movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical.
The film was previously set up at Fox, but the project was sidelined when Disney acquired Rupert Murdoch’s film empire in 2019.
“Spamalot,” which has been a mainstay in the theater world for years, is based on the seminal 1975 comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Both the movie — which starred Python members Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle — and the Broadway musical parody the legend of King Arthur, though the stage and screen versions differ plot-wise in many ways.
Casey Nicholaw, a Broadway veteran who choreographed the original “Spamalot,” as well as “The Book of Mormon,” “Aladdin” and “Mean Girls,” is directing the movie adaptation. Dan Jinks will serve as a producer, along with Eric Idle, the show’s...
The film was previously set up at Fox, but the project was sidelined when Disney acquired Rupert Murdoch’s film empire in 2019.
“Spamalot,” which has been a mainstay in the theater world for years, is based on the seminal 1975 comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Both the movie — which starred Python members Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle — and the Broadway musical parody the legend of King Arthur, though the stage and screen versions differ plot-wise in many ways.
Casey Nicholaw, a Broadway veteran who choreographed the original “Spamalot,” as well as “The Book of Mormon,” “Aladdin” and “Mean Girls,” is directing the movie adaptation. Dan Jinks will serve as a producer, along with Eric Idle, the show’s...
- 1/6/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Paramount Pictures has acquired Spamalot, and the studio will be the one to mount a movie production based on the hit Broadway musical.
The project comes to Paramount from Fox, where both chairman/CEO Jim Gianopulos and Motion Pictures Group president Emma Watts were when it landed there. The film lost steam when Disney acquired Fox. The good news is the picture is fully developed, with a screenplay by Monty Python troupe member Eric Idle, with songs by Idle and John DuPrez. The director is Casey Nicholaw, who was the choreographer of the original Broadway production. He has worked on this project awhile, and in the interim has become the hottest director and choreographer on Broadway. His credits include Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Mean Girls, The Prom, The Drowsy Chaperone and Something Rotten!
The film will be produced by Dan Jinks (American Beauty and Big Fish) and Idle. Jon Gonda,...
The project comes to Paramount from Fox, where both chairman/CEO Jim Gianopulos and Motion Pictures Group president Emma Watts were when it landed there. The film lost steam when Disney acquired Fox. The good news is the picture is fully developed, with a screenplay by Monty Python troupe member Eric Idle, with songs by Idle and John DuPrez. The director is Casey Nicholaw, who was the choreographer of the original Broadway production. He has worked on this project awhile, and in the interim has become the hottest director and choreographer on Broadway. His credits include Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Mean Girls, The Prom, The Drowsy Chaperone and Something Rotten!
The film will be produced by Dan Jinks (American Beauty and Big Fish) and Idle. Jon Gonda,...
- 1/6/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr and Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Paramount Pictures is looking to revive Paramount Players, a sleepy label it launched to back properties with a contemporary feel in 2017. Jeremy Kramer, a 20th Century Fox executive, is at the top of a shortlist to lead the shingle, but there’s no deal in place.
If Kramer gets tapped, it will mark a reunion with Emma Watts, the motion picture group president who joined Paramount in June after a long run at Fox. Watts had soured on the direction that Fox was taking after it was purchased by The Walt Disney Company and was convinced to make the leap by Paramount chairman Jim Gianopulos, the former Fox studios chief. Other Fox veterans to follow Gianopulos to Paramount include distribution head Chris Aronson and global communications head Chris Petrikin.
Paramount Players was created by Brian Robbins, the founder and former CEO of AwesomenessTV. But when Robbins left the studio to...
If Kramer gets tapped, it will mark a reunion with Emma Watts, the motion picture group president who joined Paramount in June after a long run at Fox. Watts had soured on the direction that Fox was taking after it was purchased by The Walt Disney Company and was convinced to make the leap by Paramount chairman Jim Gianopulos, the former Fox studios chief. Other Fox veterans to follow Gianopulos to Paramount include distribution head Chris Aronson and global communications head Chris Petrikin.
Paramount Players was created by Brian Robbins, the founder and former CEO of AwesomenessTV. But when Robbins left the studio to...
- 10/2/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Paramount Pictures is getting ready to rev up Paramount Players, the shingle that was formed around Brian Robbins several years ago to generate niche, genre and cutting edge films. It hasn’t had a president, or much output, since Robbins left to run Nickelodeon. Emma Watts is looking to revive the label and is down to a few candidates to run it. Deadline hears that Jeremy Kramer, an exec who worked with Watts at Fox and who is now at Disney, is atop the leader board. No comment from Paramount, which is also looking to fill the production president post and word is another exec who worked with Watts at Fox, Mike Ireland, is rumored as a contender for that job.
Films from the Paramount Players label so far include Dora and the Lost City of Gold and Playing With Fire.
Stay tuned.
Films from the Paramount Players label so far include Dora and the Lost City of Gold and Playing With Fire.
Stay tuned.
- 10/2/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Longtime 20th Century Studios executives Jeremy Kramer and Mike Ireland are both being considered for possible posts at Paramount.
If deals make, both Kramer and Ireland would be joining former 20th Century production president Emma Watts, who herself joined Paramount in June as the president of the motion picture group under Jim Gianopulos.
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Kramer would head studio label Paramount Players, which was started by Brian Robbins, who then left to head Nickelodeon. Paramount Players’ movies include What Men Want and Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
Ireland’s position is less clear as chess pieces are ...
If deals make, both Kramer and Ireland would be joining former 20th Century production president Emma Watts, who herself joined Paramount in June as the president of the motion picture group under Jim Gianopulos.
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Kramer would head studio label Paramount Players, which was started by Brian Robbins, who then left to head Nickelodeon. Paramount Players’ movies include What Men Want and Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
Ireland’s position is less clear as chess pieces are ...
- 10/2/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Longtime 20th Century Studios executives Jeremy Kramer and Mike Ireland are both being considered for possible posts at Paramount.
If deals make, both Kramer and Ireland would be joining former 20th Century production president Emma Watts, who herself joined Paramount in June as the president of the motion picture group under Jim Gianopulos.
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Kramer would head studio label Paramount Players, which was started by Brian Robbins, who then left to head Nickelodeon. Paramount Players’ movies include What Men Want and Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
Ireland’s position is less clear as chess pieces are ...
If deals make, both Kramer and Ireland would be joining former 20th Century production president Emma Watts, who herself joined Paramount in June as the president of the motion picture group under Jim Gianopulos.
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Kramer would head studio label Paramount Players, which was started by Brian Robbins, who then left to head Nickelodeon. Paramount Players’ movies include What Men Want and Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
Ireland’s position is less clear as chess pieces are ...
- 10/2/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Last March, Emma Watts, Fox vice chairman and president of production at Twentieth Century Fox Film, was a new recruit to Team Disney, shepherding her crew as they were ingested by another studio. She went along for the ride, hoping for the best.
Last week, after 22 years at Fox, Watts bid Disney good-bye, leaving in charge senior executives Scott Aversano, Mike Ireland, and Steve Asbell. While she ran Fox as a studio, she leaves behind a glorified Disney label. Her resignation memo stated her need to “pursue new opportunities.”
While that’s boilerplate language for high-profile executive exits, here it has the added benefit of being true. “They cut her off at the knees,” said one agent. “Fox remains as a pod for Jim Cameron. It’s another sign of the diminishment and Disneyization of that company. They’re dismantling it.”
When Watts started at Fox as a creative executive more than two decades ago,...
Last week, after 22 years at Fox, Watts bid Disney good-bye, leaving in charge senior executives Scott Aversano, Mike Ireland, and Steve Asbell. While she ran Fox as a studio, she leaves behind a glorified Disney label. Her resignation memo stated her need to “pursue new opportunities.”
While that’s boilerplate language for high-profile executive exits, here it has the added benefit of being true. “They cut her off at the knees,” said one agent. “Fox remains as a pod for Jim Cameron. It’s another sign of the diminishment and Disneyization of that company. They’re dismantling it.”
When Watts started at Fox as a creative executive more than two decades ago,...
- 2/4/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
20th Century Fox has attached Ryan Reynolds to star in Free Guy, with Shawn Levy poised to direct the film. Berlanti Productions’ Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter are producing alongside Reynolds’ Maximum Effort, Levy’s 21 Laps, and Adam Kolbrenner. This will be part of the multi-year film deal that Berlanti signed with Fox, where Maximum Effort and 21 Laps also have deals.
Free Guy, acquired as a Matt Lieberman spec in 2016, is in the vein of The Truman Show, where a bank teller stuck in his routine discovers he’s a background character in a rather brutal open world, action-adventure video game and he is the only one capable of saving his world.
Mike Ireland is overseeing for Fox.
Coming off Deadpool 2, Reynolds next stars in the Michael Bay-directed action film 6 Underground for Netflix, lends the lead voice in Legendary’s Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, and he’s circling...
Free Guy, acquired as a Matt Lieberman spec in 2016, is in the vein of The Truman Show, where a bank teller stuck in his routine discovers he’s a background character in a rather brutal open world, action-adventure video game and he is the only one capable of saving his world.
Mike Ireland is overseeing for Fox.
Coming off Deadpool 2, Reynolds next stars in the Michael Bay-directed action film 6 Underground for Netflix, lends the lead voice in Legendary’s Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, and he’s circling...
- 9/28/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
20th Century Fox distribution boss Chris Aronson during the studio’s CinemaCon presentation unveiled a licensing pact with Kino Industries’ CtrlMovie technology, which will allow in-theater audiences to control characters’ actions throughout a film “allowing them to choose what happens next and see the consequences of those choices play out on the big screen.”
Fox will utilize the technology for its upcoming Choose Your Own Adventure, a film based on the 1980s book series that sold more 265 million copies worldwide. It’s currently in development with John Davis and John Fox of Davis Entertainment, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions, and Shannon Gilligan of the book brand Chooseco attached to produce.
“We’re dedicated to providing incredible motion picture experience,” Aronson said today. “It’s so important that we are genuine partners and not adversaries. There’s a need for collaborators in this industry, not so-called disruptors. There...
Fox will utilize the technology for its upcoming Choose Your Own Adventure, a film based on the 1980s book series that sold more 265 million copies worldwide. It’s currently in development with John Davis and John Fox of Davis Entertainment, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions, and Shannon Gilligan of the book brand Chooseco attached to produce.
“We’re dedicated to providing incredible motion picture experience,” Aronson said today. “It’s so important that we are genuine partners and not adversaries. There’s a need for collaborators in this industry, not so-called disruptors. There...
- 4/26/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Twentieth Century Fox on Thursday announced that it’s partnering with interactive film company Kino Industries to license an app that will allow movie audiences to control the storyline and characters in the upcoming film “Choose Your Own Adventure.”
The studio is licensing Kino Industries’ CtrlMovie technology, which will allow in-theater audiences to control the action throughout a film, Fox said during a CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas. Audiences can use Kino’s app on their smartphones to vote on what the characters will do at pivotal points in the narrative. The same film can have a different plot, ending, and running time depending on the audience preferences and is supposed to happen seamlessly with no breaks in between scenes.
“Bringing game changing, innovative technology to audiences and enhancing the cinematic experience has always been a cornerstone of the Twentieth Century Fox brand and our next venture is the outstanding...
The studio is licensing Kino Industries’ CtrlMovie technology, which will allow in-theater audiences to control the action throughout a film, Fox said during a CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas. Audiences can use Kino’s app on their smartphones to vote on what the characters will do at pivotal points in the narrative. The same film can have a different plot, ending, and running time depending on the audience preferences and is supposed to happen seamlessly with no breaks in between scenes.
“Bringing game changing, innovative technology to audiences and enhancing the cinematic experience has always been a cornerstone of the Twentieth Century Fox brand and our next venture is the outstanding...
- 4/26/2018
- by Ricardo Lopez
- Variety Film + TV
Fox announced at their CinemaCon presentation Thursday that it is creating a new film based on the “Choose Your Own Adventure” book series, and audiences in theaters will be able to use their smartphones to determine the outcome.
The film will be coupled with an app called CtrlMovie, developed and created by Kino. This is the first film in a potential multi-film partnership with Kino.
The technology, which was demonstrated in a trailer shown at CinemaCon, is similar to Telltale’s story-based, quick-decision video games, where players have a few seconds to choose how to respond to a certain situation and their decision having consequences later on in the story. Audiences watching “Cyoa” will be able to vote on different options on the CtrlMovie app, meaning that no two screenings will have the same plot.
The feature is currently in development at Fox with John Davis and John Fox of Davis Entertainment, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions, and Shannon Gilligan of Chooseco, the publisher of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” brand, attached to produce. Kino Industries principals Chady Eli Mattar, Scott C. Silver and Tobias Weber will serve as executive producers. Mike Ireland will oversee the project for Fox.
More to come…
Read original story ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Interactive Movie in Works at Fox At TheWrap...
The film will be coupled with an app called CtrlMovie, developed and created by Kino. This is the first film in a potential multi-film partnership with Kino.
The technology, which was demonstrated in a trailer shown at CinemaCon, is similar to Telltale’s story-based, quick-decision video games, where players have a few seconds to choose how to respond to a certain situation and their decision having consequences later on in the story. Audiences watching “Cyoa” will be able to vote on different options on the CtrlMovie app, meaning that no two screenings will have the same plot.
The feature is currently in development at Fox with John Davis and John Fox of Davis Entertainment, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions, and Shannon Gilligan of Chooseco, the publisher of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” brand, attached to produce. Kino Industries principals Chady Eli Mattar, Scott C. Silver and Tobias Weber will serve as executive producers. Mike Ireland will oversee the project for Fox.
More to come…
Read original story ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Interactive Movie in Works at Fox At TheWrap...
- 4/26/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
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