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- 3/27/2012
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
The Parent’s View: Published last year, Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College, is a humorous memoir by Andrew Ferguson about his quest to help his son get into the perfect college. The book has now been purchased as a possible star vehicle for Will Ferrell, which might give him the opportunity for a good change of pace as a well-meaning parent who gets into funny situations while trying to help his procrastinating son. Or, he might just run around yelling "Let's go streaking!" [Deadline] Millions for “Mommy Porn”: After a bidding war, the movie rights to an erotic series of novels has sold for millions of dollars. E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey, which began life as online fan fiction before becoming a print...
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- 3/27/2012
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
The Butler
Jane Fonda has reportedly been linked to the role of Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels' true story passion project "The Butler" about an African-American butler (played by Forest Whitaker) who served at the White House from 1952 to 1986.
Other actors currently circling roles include the likes of Liam Neeson as Lyndon B. Johnson, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Mila Kunis as Jackie Kennedy and Oprah Winfrey as the butler's wife. [Source: Variety]
Small Time
Christopher Meloni ("Law & Order: Svu") has score the lead in former "24" showrunner Joel Surnow's semi-autobiographical indie drama "Small Time".
The story follows a used car salesman who’s still in love with his ex-wife and has a son who wants to skip college and enter the family business. Dean Norris and Devon Bostick also star. [Source: Variety]
Crazy U
New Line has acquired screen rights to Andrew Ferguson's book "Crazy U" to be developed as a...
Jane Fonda has reportedly been linked to the role of Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels' true story passion project "The Butler" about an African-American butler (played by Forest Whitaker) who served at the White House from 1952 to 1986.
Other actors currently circling roles include the likes of Liam Neeson as Lyndon B. Johnson, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Mila Kunis as Jackie Kennedy and Oprah Winfrey as the butler's wife. [Source: Variety]
Small Time
Christopher Meloni ("Law & Order: Svu") has score the lead in former "24" showrunner Joel Surnow's semi-autobiographical indie drama "Small Time".
The story follows a used car salesman who’s still in love with his ex-wife and has a son who wants to skip college and enter the family business. Dean Norris and Devon Bostick also star. [Source: Variety]
Crazy U
New Line has acquired screen rights to Andrew Ferguson's book "Crazy U" to be developed as a...
- 3/27/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Even as the battle over education spending and costs continues, parents’ quests to make sure their sproglets get into the best colleges and universities becomes ever more frenzied. Now New Line has decided that the soul-sapping death march of test scores, applications, campus tours, interviews and more is prime source material for a cinematic comedy, snapping up the rights to Andrew Ferguson’s book Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College, as a likely project for Will Ferrell.Ferguson’s 2001 book chronicles his adventures in the cutthroat world of college applications while trying to ensure that his son doesn’t make a fatal mistake that could cost him an elite education. That’s even before the Sat scores and tough admissions interviews. Part of the book finds the desperate father looking to cadge a meeting with an expensive private college consultant who can apparently...
- 3/27/2012
- EmpireOnline
• Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis are in final-stage negotiations to join helmers Andy and Lana Wachowki on their new super-secret sci-fi project Jupiter Ascending, the sibs’ first foray into the genre since The Matrix franchise. [Deadline]
• Jane Fonda is set to play First Lady Nancy Reagan in Butler, director Lee Daniels’ biopic about Eugene Allen, the White House butler from 1952 to 1986. Forest Whitaker is nearly set to play Allen, while Oprah Winfrey is in talks to play his wife. Liam Neeson is eyeing the role of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and John Cusack is considering playing Richard Nixon. [Variety]
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• Jane Fonda is set to play First Lady Nancy Reagan in Butler, director Lee Daniels’ biopic about Eugene Allen, the White House butler from 1952 to 1986. Forest Whitaker is nearly set to play Allen, while Oprah Winfrey is in talks to play his wife. Liam Neeson is eyeing the role of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and John Cusack is considering playing Richard Nixon. [Variety]
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- 3/27/2012
- by Lanford Beard
- EW - Inside Movies
If Will Ferrell has a part in something, I want to see it. I hear people say they get tired of him, but I don't. So it's a good thing for me and the rest of the Will Ferrell fan club, that he's signing on to do another movie. The plot doesn't sound particularly exciting unfortunately. The film is titled Crazy U is adapted from Andrew Ferguson's book Crazy U: One Dad.s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College about "a father.s adventures trying to brave the cutthroat competition to...
- 3/26/2012
- by Niki Stephens
- JoBlo.com
Andrew Ferguson’s book “Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College” details the painstaking, nerve-racking process of sending a kid off to college in this modern world of fierce competition and neurotic paranoia. There are how-to books, prep courses, meetings with counselors, financial aid applications, campus tours, application essays, and who knows how many other things that need to be taken care of. Ferguson’s book details the story of an obsessive dad who is going to every length to make sure his kid gets in the best school, and the bonding that occurs between father and son as they collectively lose their minds. Sounds like it could make for a funny movie, no? Well, New Line seems to think so, as they’ve optioned the book and are producing it alongside Gary Sanchez Productions as a starring vehicle for Will Ferrell. Playing the dad of a college-aged kid is a...
- 3/26/2012
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
College life is no stranger to Will Ferrell. The funnyman relived his student life streaking through the quad in "Old School" but in this next picture, he won't be the one doing beer bongs.
New Line is snapping up the rights to Andrew Ferguson's memoir "Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College" to be turned into a starring vehicle for Ferrell. The book chronicles the author's journey in trying to get his soon into a top flight college, and takes the reader through the dizzying admissions process. From the SATs, to hiring an admissions consultant, to talking to high school counselors, Ferguson turned over every rock, and went down every path, in order to make sure his son got the best opportunity available to him. Frankly, that whole process is absurd and ripe for a comedic take (with a bit of drama too), so yeah,...
New Line is snapping up the rights to Andrew Ferguson's memoir "Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College" to be turned into a starring vehicle for Ferrell. The book chronicles the author's journey in trying to get his soon into a top flight college, and takes the reader through the dizzying admissions process. From the SATs, to hiring an admissions consultant, to talking to high school counselors, Ferguson turned over every rock, and went down every path, in order to make sure his son got the best opportunity available to him. Frankly, that whole process is absurd and ripe for a comedic take (with a bit of drama too), so yeah,...
- 3/26/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: New Line Cinema is acquiring screen rights to the Andrew Ferguson book Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College. The film will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Will Ferrell. Misher Films’ Kevin Misher will produce with Gary Sanchez’s Ferrell, Adam McKay and Jessica Elbaum. The book is about one father’s adventures trying to brave the cutthroat competition to get his son accepted into the perfect college. Obsessed with keeping his son from making that one wrong step that could dash the youth’s dreams, dad tries to get an audience with the most sought after and expensive private college consultant in the country, insinuates himself in helping his son past the SATs, and all the campus tours and stressful admissions interviews, all culminating in waiting for the fat envelope that will determine success or failure in getting into...
- 3/26/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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