In today’s film news roundup, Channing Tatum and Roy Lee are developing “The Maxx,” Leslie Uggams has joined “The Ravine” and Safehouse Pictures is expanding.
Project Launch
Channing Tatum and Roy Lee are teaming up to produce a movie or television show based on the Image Comics series “The Maxx.”
Tatum will produce through his Free Association, along with principals Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan. Lee will produce though his Vertigo Entertainment. Sam Kieth, who created the series in the 1990s, will also produce with partner Tal Vigderson.
The Maxx appears in both the real world as a homeless man and in an alternate reality as a powerful masked character protecting the Jungle Queen — who’s also a social worker named Julie Winters who frequently works to help the homeless man. The comic led to a 13-episode cartoon series on MTV, which won an Annie Award for best animated series.
Project Launch
Channing Tatum and Roy Lee are teaming up to produce a movie or television show based on the Image Comics series “The Maxx.”
Tatum will produce through his Free Association, along with principals Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan. Lee will produce though his Vertigo Entertainment. Sam Kieth, who created the series in the 1990s, will also produce with partner Tal Vigderson.
The Maxx appears in both the real world as a homeless man and in an alternate reality as a powerful masked character protecting the Jungle Queen — who’s also a social worker named Julie Winters who frequently works to help the homeless man. The comic led to a 13-episode cartoon series on MTV, which won an Annie Award for best animated series.
- 11/23/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell’s Safehouse Pictures is expanding its team by bringing on Kelly Burnett as Vice President and Ariane Ackerberg as Creative Executive to help service those deals in both film and television. Both will report to Tunnell, Harold, and Executive Vice President Matt Schwartz, who has extended his contract with the company.
Burnett comes to Safehouse after four years at Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers where she brought in and worked on multiple film and TV projects. Prior to that, she worked for UTA and Warner Bros Theatrical Marketing. Ackerberg, a graduate of UCLA Producers Program, was an executive assistant at 20th Century Fox where she helped oversee a variety of projects in active development.
Safehouse, the company behind the Guy Ritchie-directed King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and Robin Hood with
Taron Egerton, currently holds a two-year first-look deal at Amblin Partners as well as television pact with Legendary Television Studios.
Burnett comes to Safehouse after four years at Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers where she brought in and worked on multiple film and TV projects. Prior to that, she worked for UTA and Warner Bros Theatrical Marketing. Ackerberg, a graduate of UCLA Producers Program, was an executive assistant at 20th Century Fox where she helped oversee a variety of projects in active development.
Safehouse, the company behind the Guy Ritchie-directed King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and Robin Hood with
Taron Egerton, currently holds a two-year first-look deal at Amblin Partners as well as television pact with Legendary Television Studios.
- 11/22/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
This indie black comedy certainly kept me on my toes! The Family Tree is a twisted glimpse into the lives of a not so twisted family.
Jack Burnett (Dermot Mulroney) and his wife Bunnie (Hope Davis) are burnt out. They are unhappy in their marriage, find little thrill in life, and seem to have settled on their daily routine. What’s worse, is that this has affected their children.
Eric Burnett (Max Thieriot) is obsessed with religion, and shooting guns. His pastor, Reverend Diggs (Keith Carradine), has been his inspiration, teaching him how to shoot. And even giving him guns as gifts. Did I mention that Reverend Diggs is also quite the pot smoker? As for Kelly Burnett (Brittany Roberts), she is a good girl pretending to be bad. She has given herself a bad reputation, when in reality she’s a good girl.
Luck strikes this family (since therapy obviously didn’t work!
Jack Burnett (Dermot Mulroney) and his wife Bunnie (Hope Davis) are burnt out. They are unhappy in their marriage, find little thrill in life, and seem to have settled on their daily routine. What’s worse, is that this has affected their children.
Eric Burnett (Max Thieriot) is obsessed with religion, and shooting guns. His pastor, Reverend Diggs (Keith Carradine), has been his inspiration, teaching him how to shoot. And even giving him guns as gifts. Did I mention that Reverend Diggs is also quite the pot smoker? As for Kelly Burnett (Brittany Roberts), she is a good girl pretending to be bad. She has given herself a bad reputation, when in reality she’s a good girl.
Luck strikes this family (since therapy obviously didn’t work!
- 9/2/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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