Whit Stillman's shot an Amazon Studios pilot for The Cosmopolitans in Paris with Chloë Sevigny and Adam Brody. You can watch a behind-the-scenes featurette at Vanity Fair (2'18"). As Katie Rife reports at the Av Club, The Cosmopolitans is one of five potential series Amazon will be introducing on August 28 and, "as in the past, the fate of each series will be heavily influenced by viewers." The other four: Marc Forster's Hand of God with Ron Perlman, Shaun Cassidy and Otto Bathurst's Hysteria with Mena Suvari, David Gordon Green's Red Oaks with Craig Roberts (and produced by Steven Soderbergh) and Jay Chandrasekhar's Really with Sarah Chalke and Selma Blair. Plus news on more projects in the works from Alejandro González Iñárritu, Spike Jonze and Jonah Hill—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/14/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Whit Stillman's shot an Amazon Studios pilot for The Cosmopolitans in Paris with Chloë Sevigny and Adam Brody. You can watch a behind-the-scenes featurette at Vanity Fair (2'18"). As Katie Rife reports at the Av Club, The Cosmopolitans is one of five potential series Amazon will be introducing on August 28 and, "as in the past, the fate of each series will be heavily influenced by viewers." The other four: Marc Forster's Hand of God with Ron Perlman, Shaun Cassidy and Otto Bathurst's Hysteria with Mena Suvari, David Gordon Green's Red Oaks with Craig Roberts (and produced by Steven Soderbergh) and Jay Chandrasekhar's Really with Sarah Chalke and Selma Blair. Plus news on more projects in the works from Alejandro González Iñárritu, Spike Jonze and Jonah Hill—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/14/2014
- Keyframe
Six months after its first entries were announced, Amazon's third pilot season is set to debut. On August 28th, the web retailer's digital studio will debut the first episodes of five different series. The five series included in this round of Amazon's pilot season are The Cosmopolitans, a dramedy with Adam Brody and Chloe Sevigny; Hand of God, a drama with Ron Perlman; Really, a comedy from director Jay Chandrasekhar; Hysteria, a drama starring Mena Suvari; and Red Oaks, a comedy produced by Steven Soderbergh and directed by David Gordon Green. As in Amazon's previous competitions, viewers will be invited to view each pilot and offer their ratings for each. Later, Amazon will use this viewer feedback to help choose which of the competing series to green-light. The launch of the five pilots will kick off a busy period for Amazon Studios. In September, the first new series to emerge...
- 8/11/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Big news today: We’re excited to announce Amazon Studios’ third pilot season, beginning August 28th and featuring three half hour comedies The Cosmopolitans, Really and Red Oaks, and two hour-long dramatic thrillers Hand of God and Hysteria. For one month, it will be up to you to watch, rate and comment – ultimately helping us decide which of them get the greenlight.
“There is something for everyone in this season,” says Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. The glamorous life of modern day expats in Paris. The hijinks of a summer job at a country club in 1980s New Jersey. The visions of a vigilante judge who appears to be channeling God. The complexities of marriage and friendship among a circle of friends in suburban Chicago. And the mysteries behind a psycho-physiological illness spreading through a small town in Texas.
You can help choose which of these stories should get “picked up” to become shows.
“There is something for everyone in this season,” says Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. The glamorous life of modern day expats in Paris. The hijinks of a summer job at a country club in 1980s New Jersey. The visions of a vigilante judge who appears to be channeling God. The complexities of marriage and friendship among a circle of friends in suburban Chicago. And the mysteries behind a psycho-physiological illness spreading through a small town in Texas.
You can help choose which of these stories should get “picked up” to become shows.
- 8/11/2014
- Hollywonk
Amazon is gearing up for its third pilot season, in which it will present five new shows for users to watch, rate, and review. Starting on August 28, three half-hour comedies and two hour-long dramas will be made available on Amazon Instant Video in both the U.S. and the UK. Users will be able to watch the pilots, rate them, and even comment on them. By the end of the pilot season, that feedback helps choose which shows become an Amazon Original series.
Here’s a quick rundown of this year’s pilots:
Hand of God: An hour-long drama,...
Here’s a quick rundown of this year’s pilots:
Hand of God: An hour-long drama,...
- 8/11/2014
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW - Inside TV
Amazon has set an Aug. 28 premiere for its third pilot season, at which time viewers can screen and vote on a total of five new projects, featuring familiar faces such as Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy), Dana Delany (Body of Proof), Chloe Sevigny (Big Love) and T.R. Knight (Grey’s Anatomy).
This past April, Amazon customers had a role in greenlighting six series, including the Jeffrey Tambor-fronted dramedy Transparent, X-Files creator Chris Carter’s The After and the novels-to-screen adaptation Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. (Premiere timetables for those shows can be found here.)
Related Amazon Sets Premieres for Chris Carter Drama,...
This past April, Amazon customers had a role in greenlighting six series, including the Jeffrey Tambor-fronted dramedy Transparent, X-Files creator Chris Carter’s The After and the novels-to-screen adaptation Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. (Premiere timetables for those shows can be found here.)
Related Amazon Sets Premieres for Chris Carter Drama,...
- 8/11/2014
- TVLine.com
The world of online television (is it really television? Nothing's being broadcast, technically...) is getting more and more interesting with each passing moment: Netflix is obviously killing it, with their stellar line-up of critical and commercial darlings ("House of Cards," "Orange is the New Black") and Yahoo is about to seriously get into the game by taking a page from the Netflix handbook and resurrecting a wonderfully cultish TV series ("Community," in the spirit of "Arrested Development"). Also: Hulu keeps plugging along. And while Amazon certainly has made strides, with several original shows developed in the last few years, it has yet to really breakthrough. That could change later this month, with its new "third wave" of pilots that boast an impressive line-up of exciting, starry projects.
As Variety notes, the site will debut five pilots as part of its third "pilot season" - they will all debut on August...
As Variety notes, the site will debut five pilots as part of its third "pilot season" - they will all debut on August...
- 8/11/2014
- by Drew Taylor
- Moviefone
Is moving online the new moving to TV? For a decade, film actors, writers and directors have moved to television while explaining that TV is where some of the best work is. Now they're moving online, again praising the creative freedom of their new medium. Also read: Steven Soderbergh Comedy ‘Red Oaks’ Gets Amazon Pilot Order The cast and creator of Amazon's “Transparent” say it's been a very easy transition. Sundance Best Director winner Jill Soloway, who created the series, says Amazon has given her the biggest budget she's ever had. The series focuses on a Los Angeles family whose patriarch,...
- 7/12/2014
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
There’s a lot of news today about television efforts from Steven Soderbergh. First, there was the cast info for his Amazon pilot Red Oaks, which Soderbergh is producing and David Gordon Green will direct. Now we’ve got a set of character posters for Soderbergh’s Cinemax show The Knick, which premieres later this year. The show […]
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- 7/7/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
The '80s are coming back, sorta, with the help of Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh and "Dirty Dancing" actress Jennifer Grey. The iconic '80s star is joining Paul Reiser, Craig Roberts, Richard Kind and Oliver Cooper in "Red Oaks," a new Amazon pilot that will be programmed as part of the nascent streaming service's third pilot season. Helming the first episode will be filmmaker David Gordon Green ("Pineapple Express," "Eastbound & Down"), who's set to direct from a script by Gregory Jacobs ("The Knick") and Joe Gangemi ("Eliza Graves"). “Greg Jacobs told me this idea on the set of 'Behind the Candelabra' and I told him it was great and that he should start working on it immediately,” said executive-producer Soderbergh in a statement. “Then, while we were on the set of 'The Knick' he gave me the script he wrote with Joe Gangemi and I said,...
- 7/7/2014
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Steven Soderbergh‘s new home is the small screen. The director may not be interested in making theatrical movies at this point, but his transition from film to TV started with Behind the Candelabra, made for HBO, and continues soon with the Cinemax show The Knick. Now Soderbergh is working as a producer on a show […]
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- 7/7/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
A very familiar face is about to join the Florrick/Agos family.
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Taye Diggs (Private Practice, currently Murder in the First) will recur on the upcoming sixth season of The Good Wife. Diggs will play Dean Levine-Wilkins, an equity partner at Lockhart/Gardner who decides to join this person (spoiler alert!) at Alicia and Cary’s new firm.
E! Online was the first to report the news.
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Taye Diggs (Private Practice, currently Murder in the First) will recur on the upcoming sixth season of The Good Wife. Diggs will play Dean Levine-Wilkins, an equity partner at Lockhart/Gardner who decides to join this person (spoiler alert!) at Alicia and Cary’s new firm.
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- 7/7/2014
- TVLine.com
The field for Amazon Video's third pilot competition has been set. The final entrant announced by the burgeoning web video platform is Red Oaks, a comedy produced by Hollywood heavyweight Steven Soderbergh and directed by Pineapple Express helmsman David Gordon Green. Red Oaks will star Craig Roberts as a tennis-playing country club employee who is at a crossroads in his life. The series boasts an impressive supporting cast, with both Paul Reiser and Richard Kind set to appear. Writer Greg Jacobs is a frequent Soderbergh collaborator who most recently teamed up with the director for Behind the Candelabra. "Greg Jacobs told me this idea on the set of Behind the Candelabra and I told him it was great and that he should start working on it immediately," said Soderbergh in a press release. "Then, while we were on the set of The Knick he gave me the script he wrote...
- 7/7/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
In a new interview with Steven Soderbergh at Esquire, the director of the upcoming Cinemax television show "The Knick" discussed the "biggest reason" he got out of movies, which was, "It stopped being fun." The fact that it became a story at all is because of Matt Damon. He remembered verbatim a drunk conversation we had in Chicago and repeated it to USA Today. I'd talked about it before and nobody gave a sh*t. It wasn't until Matt said that I had a plan to get out. The bottom line when people talk about all the reasons, you know the biggest reasonc It stopped being fun. It just stopped being fun. It really wasn't. That's a big deal to me. It may sound like "Why do you have to have fun to go to workc" I don't know. I like to be in a good mood. The ratio of...
- 7/7/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Amazon has confirmed it has ordered a pilot episode of the Steven Soderbergh-produced comedy series "Red Oaks". David Gordon Green ("Pineapple Express," "Joe") will direct.
Penned by Gregory Jacobs ("The Knick") and Joe Gangemi ("Eliza Graves"), Craig Roberts ("Submarine") plays an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey in 1985.
Paul Reiser ("Aliens"), Richard Kind ("Luck"), Jennifer Grey ("Dirty Dancing") and Oliver Cooper ("Californication") also star. The project will be one of several pilots that make up Amazon's third pilot season.
Customers will watch and give feedback on it - after that it will be determined whether to pick it up to series. Other pilots it will compete with include the Whit Stillman-produced "The Cosmopolitans," Marc Forster-produced "Hand of God," the Shaun Cassidy-produced "Hysteria," and the Sarah Chalke comedy"Really."
Source: The Wrap...
Penned by Gregory Jacobs ("The Knick") and Joe Gangemi ("Eliza Graves"), Craig Roberts ("Submarine") plays an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey in 1985.
Paul Reiser ("Aliens"), Richard Kind ("Luck"), Jennifer Grey ("Dirty Dancing") and Oliver Cooper ("Californication") also star. The project will be one of several pilots that make up Amazon's third pilot season.
Customers will watch and give feedback on it - after that it will be determined whether to pick it up to series. Other pilots it will compete with include the Whit Stillman-produced "The Cosmopolitans," Marc Forster-produced "Hand of God," the Shaun Cassidy-produced "Hysteria," and the Sarah Chalke comedy"Really."
Source: The Wrap...
- 7/7/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
With not one but two TV projects either about to hit Us cable (medical drama The Knick) or in development (a small screen spin-off of The Girlfriend Experience), Steven Soderbergh is seemingly busier than ever, and that’s saying something. Now he will also spend time producing a third show, Red Oaks, for Amazon. And he’s recruited Craig Roberts, Paul Reiser, Richard Kind and Oliver Copper to star.As with The Girlfriend Experience show, Soderbergh won’t actually direct the pilot for the new potential series, though he’s hired someone more than capable: David Gordon Green. And the show represents him collaborating once again with The Knick writer Greg Jacobs. “Greg Jacobs told me this idea on the set of Behind The Candelabra and I told him it was great and that he should start working on it immediately,” says Steven Soderbergh in a statement picked up by The Wrap.
- 7/7/2014
- EmpireOnline
Amazon Studios has announced the cast for "Red Oaks," the Steven Soderbergh-produced comedy set to join the company's third pilot round later this year. Craig Roberts ("Submarine") will star as David Myers, a college student who works as an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in New Jersey in 1985. Starring alongside Roberts are Paul Reiser, Richard King, Jennifer Grey and Oliver Cooper. David Gordon Green ("Pineapple Express") will direct the pilot, which is written by longtime Soderbergh producer Gregory Jacobs ("The Knick" is coming this month on Cinemax August 8) and Joe Gangemi ("Eliza Graves"). All three will executive produce on the project, along with Soderbergh. Jacobs pitched Soderbergh the idea for "Red Oaks" on the set of HBO's "Behind the Candelabra" and later shared the pilot script with the director while they were working on "The Knick." Although...
- 7/7/2014
- by Jacob Combs
- Thompson on Hollywood
Steven Soderbergh is getting in the Amazon business: The company has added his new comedy to its third pilot season.
Red Oaks, a coming-of-age comedy set in 1985, stars Craig Roberts as a college student who gets a summer job as an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey. While there, he meets a colorful cast of misfit co-workers and wealthy club members, including ...
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Red Oaks, a coming-of-age comedy set in 1985, stars Craig Roberts as a college student who gets a summer job as an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey. While there, he meets a colorful cast of misfit co-workers and wealthy club members, including ...
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- 7/7/2014
- by Robyn Ross
- TVGuide - Breaking News
David Gordon Green is set to direct the pilot episode of "Red Oaks" for Amazon with Steven Soderbergh producing. The show is set in 1985, and features college student David Myers (Craig Roberts pictured) who is both reeling from his father's heart attack and conflicted about what major to declare in the fall. Myers gets a summer job as an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey and while there, he meets a colorful cast of misfit co-workers and wealthy club members including an alluring art student named "Skye" (Alexandra Socha) and her corporate raider father "Getty" (Paul Reiser). A coming-of-age comedy set in the "go-go" 80s that is equal parts hijinks and heartfelt, Red Oaks is about enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end--and the future begins. Richard Kind ("Spin City"), Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) and Oliver Cooper (Runner Runner) co-star...
- 7/7/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Amazon has ordered a pilot for “Red Oaks,” a comedy produced by Steven Soderbergh and directed by “Eastbound & Down” vet David Gordon Green. As is Amazon's tradition, customers will watch and give feedback on which of the site's pilots they want turned into full series. Written by Gregory Jacobs (“The Knick”) and Joe Gangemi (“Eliza Graves”), “Red Oaks” stars Craig Roberts as an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey in 1985. Also read: ‘Portlandia’ Star Carrie Brownstein Joins Amazon Dramedy ‘Transparent’ (Exclusive) Paul Reiser (“Mad About You”), Richard Kind (“Luck”), Jennifer Grey (“It's Like,...
- 7/7/2014
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Amazon today announced it has added the comedy pilot "Red Oaks," produced by Steven Soderbergh and directed by David Gordon Green, to its third pilot season, setting it for a debut later this year on Amazon Instant Video. Customers will once again be invited to watch and provide feedback on the shows they want to see turned into full series, which will then become available on Prime Instant Video.
- 7/7/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Clearly, “retirement” means something else in Soderberghland.
Though the Academy Award-winning director has stuck to his promise to stop directing feature films since 2012 (when he shot Behind the Candelabra), Soderbergh has hardly stopped making art in the intervening years. Recent projects include directing Cinemax’s 10-episode period drama The Knick (premiering this summer), helming an Off-Broadway play starring Chloe Grace Moretz, editing together a mashup of Hitchcock’s Psycho and Gus Van Sant’s Psycho, executive producing a TV series based on his 2009 indie film The Girlfriend Experience for Starz—and, now, overseeing another TV show, this time for Amazon.
Though the Academy Award-winning director has stuck to his promise to stop directing feature films since 2012 (when he shot Behind the Candelabra), Soderbergh has hardly stopped making art in the intervening years. Recent projects include directing Cinemax’s 10-episode period drama The Knick (premiering this summer), helming an Off-Broadway play starring Chloe Grace Moretz, editing together a mashup of Hitchcock’s Psycho and Gus Van Sant’s Psycho, executive producing a TV series based on his 2009 indie film The Girlfriend Experience for Starz—and, now, overseeing another TV show, this time for Amazon.
- 7/7/2014
- by Hillary Busis
- EW - Inside TV
Amazon has added the Steven Soderbergh-produced and David Gordon Green-directed comedy Red Oaks to its third pilot season. The show is set in 1985 and centers on Craig Roberts’ David Myers, a college student reeling from his father’s heart attack and conflicted about what major to declare in the fall. He gets a summer job as an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey. The coming-of-age comedy also stars Jennifer Grey, Mad About You alums Paul Reiser and Richard Kind and Californication’s Oliver Cooper. The pilot was written by Gregory Jacobs,
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- 7/7/2014
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amazon Studios today announced it has added the Steven Soderbergh (Behind the Candelabra) produced and David Gordon Green (Eastbound & Down) directed comedy Red Oaks to its third pilot season, which will debut later this year on Amazon Instant Video.Red Oaks is the final show to join Amazon’s highly-anticipated third pilot season which includes The Cosmopolitans, Hand of God, Hysteria, and Really. Customers will once again be invited to watch and provide feedback on the shows they want to see turned into full series, which will then become available on Prime Instant Video. Written by Gregory Jacobs (The Knick)and Joe Gangemi (Eliza Graves), Red Oaks stars Craig Roberts (Submarine)as “David,” an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey. Paul Reiser (Mad About You), Richard Kind (Luck), Jennifer Grey (It’s Like, You Know)and Oliver Cooper (Californication)also star in the pilot.
- 7/7/2014
- Hollywonk
Pitch Perfect 2
Danish actress Birgitte Hjort Sorensen ("Borgen") has joined Elizabeth Banks' a cappella singing sequel "Pitch Perfect 2" at Universal and Gold Circle Films.
Sorensen will play a member of a competing a cappella group alongside recently cast German YouTube star Flula Borg. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, and Adam DeVine also star. [Source: Deadline]
Black Mass
Kevin Bacon will join Johnny Depp in the film adaptation of the Whitey Bulger book "Black Mass".
Bacon will play FBI special agent Charles McGuire who is in charge of the Boston field office and the boss of Bulger's childhood friend John Connelly. [Source: Boston Globe]
Red Oaks
Craig Roberts ("Submarine," "Being Human") has scored the lead role of twenty-year-old college student David Myers in the Amazon Studios pilot "Red Oaks". Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green will produce.
Roberts plays a young man trying to work out what he wants to...
Danish actress Birgitte Hjort Sorensen ("Borgen") has joined Elizabeth Banks' a cappella singing sequel "Pitch Perfect 2" at Universal and Gold Circle Films.
Sorensen will play a member of a competing a cappella group alongside recently cast German YouTube star Flula Borg. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, and Adam DeVine also star. [Source: Deadline]
Black Mass
Kevin Bacon will join Johnny Depp in the film adaptation of the Whitey Bulger book "Black Mass".
Bacon will play FBI special agent Charles McGuire who is in charge of the Boston field office and the boss of Bulger's childhood friend John Connelly. [Source: Boston Globe]
Red Oaks
Craig Roberts ("Submarine," "Being Human") has scored the lead role of twenty-year-old college student David Myers in the Amazon Studios pilot "Red Oaks". Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green will produce.
Roberts plays a young man trying to work out what he wants to...
- 6/27/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Amazon Studios are continuing their move to strengthen their slate of original programming, with the production of a new comedy pilot – Red Oaks. Directed by David Gordon Green (Prince Avalanche), and written by Gregory Jacobs (Criminal) and Joe Gangemi (Wind Chill), Red Oaks has now added actor Craig Roberts to its cast in the lead role.
Focusing on a 20 year-old man named David Myers (Roberts), the story sees him land a job as an assistant tennis pro at Red Oaks Country Club, which is predominantly Jewish. As he tries to get to grips with his new situation, he must also figure out what kind of life he wants to lead. Roberts joins a cast that already includes Jennifer Grey, Paul Reiser and Richard Kind.
Having got his start on British television shows, such as Young Dracula, The Story Of Tracy Beaker and Casualty, Craig Roberts made the move to the...
Focusing on a 20 year-old man named David Myers (Roberts), the story sees him land a job as an assistant tennis pro at Red Oaks Country Club, which is predominantly Jewish. As he tries to get to grips with his new situation, he must also figure out what kind of life he wants to lead. Roberts joins a cast that already includes Jennifer Grey, Paul Reiser and Richard Kind.
Having got his start on British television shows, such as Young Dracula, The Story Of Tracy Beaker and Casualty, Craig Roberts made the move to the...
- 6/25/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Deadline reports that “Submarine” star Craig Roberts, 23, will lead “Red Oaks,” the Amazon Studios pilot by Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green. Filming began yesterday for the forthcoming pilot, which is set in 1985 and follows David Myers (Roberts), a 20-year-old college student that is hired as an assistant tennis pro at the predominantly Jewish Red Oaks country club in New Jersey, where he tries to figure out what kind of life he wants to lead. Rounding out the cast for “Red Oaks” are Jennifer Grey as David’s mother, Paul Reiser as Getty, and Frank Deal as Skip. In [...]
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- 6/25/2014
- by Alfonso Espina
- UpandComers
Gage Golightly (Teen Wolf, Ringer) has been cast as a regular in Amazon Studios’ comedy pilot Red Oaks, exec produced by Steven Soderbergh and exec produced/directed by David Gordon Green. Set in summer 1985, Red Oaks centers on 20-year-old David Myers, who takes a job as an assistant tennis pro at the predominantly Jewish Red Oaks country club in New Jersey and tries to figure out what kind of life he wants to lead. Golightly, repped by Resolution and Industry Entertainment, will play Karen, David’s girlfriend and co-worker at Red Oaks Country Club. Related: 2014 Amazon Studios Pilots Cold Case alum Thom Barry has joined TNT’s drama series Perception as a recurring. The actor, repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment and Prestige Talent Agency, will play Special Agent In Charge William Parsons, the skeptical and no-nonsense special agent in command of the Chicago FBI office and Kate Moretti’s (Rachel Leigh Cook) boss.
- 6/7/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The Listener co-star Ennis Esmer has been cast in Amazon Studios’ single-camera comedy pilot Red Oaks, exec produced by Steven Soderbergh and exec produced/directed by David Gordon Green. Set in the summer of 1985, Red Oaks centers on 20-year-old David Myers who takes a job as an assistant tennis pro at the predominantly Jewish Red Oaks country club in New Jersey and tries to figure out what kind of life he wants to lead. Esmer will play Nash, the roguish and mischievous head tennis instructor who teaches David the ins and outs of country club life. Canadian Esmer, repped by Berwick & Kovacik and The Characters Talent Agency, recurred on the CTV/CW series The L.A. Complex. Minni Jo Mazzola has been cast in ABC Family drama pilot Stitchers. Written by Jeffrey A. Schechter, Stitchers follows a young woman recruited into a covert government agency to be “stitched” into the minds of the recently deceased,...
- 6/5/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Spin City alum Richard Kind is set for a lead role in Amazon Studios’ single-camera comedy pilot Red Oaks, exec produced by Steven Soderbergh and exec produced/directed by David Gordon Green. Set in the summer of 1985, Red Oaks centers on 20-year-old David Myers who takes a job as an assistant tennis pro at the predominantly Jewish Red Oaks country club in New Jersey and tries to figure out what kind of life he wants to lead. Kind, repped by Innovative and Forster Entertainment, plays David’s dad Sam Myers, who expects David to become an accountant and who, believing he is about to die while suffering a heart attack, confesses some shocking secrets to David that make things awkward between the two going forward. Jenessa Grant (Reign) is set as a series regular in Amazon’s drama pilot Hysteria, from Shaun Cassidy, Alcon and Universal TV. It centers on Dr.
- 6/3/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
While David Gordon Green has a plethora of Lost, Unmade & Abandoned Projects, that's only because the filmmaker tends to have a handful of irons in the fire at any one time, hoping one will spark into his next project. He's certainly not one willing to sit idle for too long. With "Joe" dropping in theaters this spring, the director has already lined up the Steven Soderbergh-produced comedy series "Red Oaks" over at Amazon Studios. And it seems the streaming world holds another opportunity for Green, who apparently has another gig in the works. Speaking with Grantland, Don Johnson reveals he's written something that he'll star in, with Green behind the camera. "I’ve actually written something that David Gordon Green is attached to direct. I’m gonna do it for streaming," Johnson said. "It’s called 'Score' and it’s set in the ’80s, and it’s about the rise of big-time college football.
- 5/23/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Amazon Studios traditionally doesn’t announce its pilots until they’re fully cast and starting production. That is why it this morning confirmed the first two pilots from its third pilot season — half-hour dramatic comedy The Cosmopolitans, from Whit Stillman, and one-hour drama Hand Of God, from executive producers Marc Forster, Ben Watkins, Ron Perlman, Brian Wilkins and Jeff King. Both were greenlighted in January. The Cosmopolitans, about young American expatriates in Paris searching for love and friendship, stars Adam Brody and Chloë Sevigny. Hand Of God stars Ron Perlman as a hard-living powerful judge-turned vigilante and co-stars Dana Delany and Garret Dillahunt. Yet to be confirmed are three other Amazon pilots ordered this year, single-camera comedy Red Oaks, executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and executive produced and directed by David Gordon Green, Shaun Cassidy’s drama Hysteria and Samuel Baum’s dramedy Cocked. Here are detailed descriptions and credits...
- 4/9/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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