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Deals

Rashida Jones and Writing Partner Will McCormack Sign a Two-Year TV Deal

by | February 1st, 2013

Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones and her writing partner Will McCormack just signed a two-year development deal with Warner Bros. Television. As writers, the duo is best known for penning the screenplay to the movie Celeste & Jesse Forever, starring Jones and Andy Samberg, which premiered at Sundance last year and received generally positive reviews. In addition to the Warner Bros. deal, Jones and McCormack are writing the movie version of Jones's graphic novel miniseries Frenemy of the State, about a 20something socialite working undercover for the CIA. Under their new TV deal, Jones and McCormack will write and produce comedy and drama shows for both network [...]

trade roundup

Trade Roundup: Ben Stiller, Paul Feig, Celeste and Jesse, For A Good Time

by | January 24th, 2012

Ben Stiller will star in, direct, and executive produce a comedy pilot for HBO called All Talk. Written by Jonathan Safran Foer, it's about "the daily and life-altering dramas of a Jewish family in Washington, DC" and is being called “politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually irreverent.” That is a lot of ways to be irreverent. Let's see if I can be irreverent in all those ways in one sentence: "Hey Obama, Jesus, Broadway and Noam Chomsky: wanna fuck?" NAILED IT.

Paul Feig is on board to direct and executive produce an HBO pilot of his own, from Darren Star, the creator of Sex and the City. The [...]

Interviews

Rashida Jones on Celeste and Jesse Forever and If She'll Write a Parks Script

by | January 23rd, 2012

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack are totally Armisen-Brownsteining it, world. (That's shorthand for "being a cool platonic man-woman best friend writing team.") First they dated, then they broke up, then they wrote Celeste and Jesse Forever, and then they did this interview about it, describing it "sort of as an Apatow movie, but for a girl." I plan to start chanting "this year's Bridesmaids" over and over for ten minutes every hour on the hour, gradually getting louder and louder until the trailer comes out.

Plus, now that she's got all this writing street cred, it sounds like only a matter of time before Rashida Jones joins [...]

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