24 posts tagged Barry Levinson

Production: The Saint (Television) Location: Detroit Employer: NEHST Duration: May-June 2008, starts May 2008 SAG artist contracts Director: Barry Levinson. THE SAINT - SHOOTING IN DETROIT - CASTING IMMEDIATELY on www.screentest.biz The Saint – TV pilot directed by Barry Levinson - a remake of the famous Roger Moore TV series, produced by NEHST Studios.

I’m going to quote two headlines in the Daily Variety today, since they bear out what I’ve been saying about independent films for a few years, even as recently as last week: “Warner slams door on specialty pix” is the first one and, slightly lower down on the page, “‘Speed’ strikes while ‘Iron’

Perhaps it’s a common industry occurrence but a number of prospective TV shows have lost their showrunners early in the development process. The reasons run the gamut but still a theme emerges. These producers needed something more: more time, more control, more money.

Slate's Kim Masters is coming a tad late to the Robert DeNiro career saga. (Patrick Goldstein got there first.) Word is that DeNiro's move from CAA was inspired when Martin Scorsese won the Oscar for The Departed after he left the agency. Apparently, DeNiro does want to move in the direction of quality.

Is Jonah Hill going to be in "Transformers 2" as Shia LeBouf's bff? Maybe he can cockpunch him for us while on set. Of course Michael Bay is claiming all the new casting information is blatant misinformation, but he would say that.

Riding high on the wave that was his self-deprecating, actually funny tribute to Meryl Streep on Monday night, Robert De Niro is reportedly surging into Cannes' closing-night slot next month with his undistributed Hollywood satire What Just Happened?

Barry Levinson’s meta Hollywood comedy What Just Happened?, which premiered at Sundance to a chorus of shrugs and remains undistributed, had been selected to close the Cannes Film Festival. SAG has announced nine interim deals with indie production outfit The Film Department, in an effort to put pressure on the major studios to settle on a new contract in advance of a threatened strike.

"The Saint" is marching back to television via a contemporary take on the Leslie Charteris' books, with James Purefoy in talks to topline as the debonair international thief Simon Templar. Producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, writer Jorge Zamacona, feature producer Bill Macdonald, Roger Moore

Filed under: Independent, Exhibition, Cinematical Indie, AFI DallasThe complete line-up for the second edition of the AFI Dallas International Film Festival has been announced, and beyond the galas and the glitter, the programming team has assembled an intriguing schedule.

Theatrical Trailer from SelecTV.