New Line Cinema is developing and will produce a big-screen account of professional hockey player Sean Avery's experiences in the fashion world, including his stint as a summer intern at a fashion magazine. Avery, who considers himself something of a fashion jock, in May began a summer internship at Vogue, where, among other duties, he served as guest editor of MensVogue.com. The movie will be a romantic comedy. New Line execs Richard Brener and David Neustatder will oversee.
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Producer-director Barry Sonnenfeld is kind of a big deal. And really busy. Here's what he's working on:
an adaptation of the Argentinean drama series "The Pretenders" for Fox, with writer Jorge Zamacona, about a team of con artists solving ordinary people's problems; brought to the U.S. in June by Argentine network Telefe
a superhero family show for ABC with feature writer Peter Steinfeld and Dee Steinfeld; tentatively titled "The Nelsons," is a live-action one-hour in the vein of the Disney/Pixar animated feature "The Incredibles"; co-produced by Sarah Timberman's Sony TV-based 25C Prods
"My World, and Welcome to It," a comedy at CBS with "Frasier" writer Jay Kogen; a period family comedy set in the 1960's based on humorist James Thurber's collection of essays; "about what it is to be a dad when you're surrounded by a family where you feel like an outsider"
developing projects based on the books "Things a Man Should Never Do Past 30" and "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea"
prepping and directing the HBO pilot "Suburban Shootout"
serves as an exec producer on the ABC/Warner Bros. TV series "Pushing Daisies," for which he won a DGA Award
recently produced the Disney feature "Enchanted"
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Fox 2000 has emerged from a competitive bidding situation with the rights to "Water for Elephants," Sara Gruen's best-selling historical love story. Fox 2000 beat out Warner Bros., Universal and Paramount for the project, in part because the producing team and director were won over by the company's passion and track record with literary adaptations and the attention it gives them. The book centers on a 90-year-old man reminiscing about his life and is set during the Depression, when he found work at a B-level circus taking care of the animals. He sees the brutality of circus life while falling for the wife of an abusive animal trainer. The book was on the 2006 New York Times best-seller list for 12 weeks and made the list again last year when it was released in paperback. More than 2 million paperbacks have been sold. Francis Lawrence is attached to direct ("I Am Legend"), and Richard LaGravenese repped by CAA, is one of the town's most in-demand adapters. He wrote the recent book-to-film translations of "P.S. I Love You" and "Freedom Writers." Pic will be produced by Andrew Tennenbaum, Gil Netter and Erwin Stoff. Fox 2000 president Elizabeth Gabler is overseeing the project, along with SVP of production Rodney Ferrell.
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Fox is developing a contemporary take on the classic Walt Disney tale of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" from producers Chris Brancato and Bert Salke, feature writers David Weissman and David Diamond and director Ken Kwapis, who most recently directed the upcoming feature comedy "He's Just Not That Into You." Kwapis also helmed the pilot for NBC's "The Office." Tentatively titled "Georgia and the Seven Associates," the hourlong dramedy, produced by ABC Studios, is tonally described as "The Devil Wears Prada" meets "Taxi" set in Los Angeles' legal circles. It centers on Georgia Burnett, a young lawyer who is banished from a top law firm run by her stepmother and forced to team up with seven quirky lawyers at a storefront legal office. Some of the legal cases will be modernized fairy tales, like one about three people whose homes were taken away by Wolf Corp. ABC Studios-based Brancato and Salke got the inspiration for the project from the view from their offices on the Disney lot, which oversee the Team Disney executive building that features a fascia of the seven dwarfs holding up the roof. "Georgia" has a put pilot commitment from Fox.
