ICM London will fittingly change its name to Independent Talent Group.  ITG.  We are now hearing that this was just a formality, as they have been operating on their own since deciding to buy the firm out from ICM almost five years ago. 

I’m sure by now, you’re all sick of hearing about the changes at ICM… But we continue on… We are now hearing that ICM London will soon become independent… The focusing of ICM’s business continues. 

Tucker Tooley hasn’t wasted much time getting going at Relativity Media as their creative producer.  He has brought in the spec CONTRACTORS written by one half of the WEDDING CRASHERS writing team, Bob Fisher, and his new writing partner David Hemingson.  Relativity will put the film on the fast track to production, and it will [...]

MARLEY AND ME, the movie set to star Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, is rumored to be on very shaky ground, after Wilson’s sad hospitalization for an attempted suicide.  There are serious doubts about whether Wilson will be able to do the film, and with many top stars already committed to their pre-strike movies, it may prove difficult to find [...]

Last year, after ICM talent agent Chris Andrews defected to CAA with actors like Orlando Bloom, Ben Kingsley, and Kelly Preston, ICM agent Michael Rizzo pulled a Jerry Maguire and penned a great letter to the administration about the future of the agency.  I guess they didn’t like his penmanship.  Or more to the point, letting him go, is [...]

This years winners have yet to be decided, so while you’re waiting, why not check out one of the 2006 winners written by a couple of very funny stand-up comics-turned-screenwriters.  Hearing it’s already in at Disney.
38 MERCURY
Representation: Brant Rose & Toochis Morin (The Brant Rose Agency) & manager David Baird
Written by: Al Carpenter & Mark Matusof
When a [...]

We told you about it way back in February, and the project below has now been set up at Overture with Lawrence Bender Productions attached to produce.  Bender has a first look deal with the mini.  Hey, we all think AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH is an important film, etc…, but it’s nice to see the Pulp Fiction/Reservoir Dogs producer [...]

Well, after pushing hard to land Ed Limato and failing, we are hearing that Sam Gores settled for second best and has landed Limato’s former assistants turned ICM agents, Richard Konigsberg and Jim Osborne.  The Mighty O-Z has landed.  And we are sure that both he and Rich will be hungry to prove to ICM that they made [...]

CAMP FIRE GALS
Representation: Sheryl Petersen (APA)
Written by: Aimee Pitta & Melissa Peterman
Comedy.  The individual lives of three women in their thirties have just fallen apart… so they attend an extreme camp where they learn to overcome their fears and rebuild their lives.  PRIVATE BENJAMIN meets CITY SLICKERS.

WMA has closed a deal for Noah Lukeman’s spec HILL 427 first reported here at trackingb.com (see GREAT SPEC.) WMA’s young guns Mike Esola and Ken Freimann made the sale to The Film Department.  Mark Gill and Neil Sacker will produce the contemporary update on General Patton’s brigade liberating the first POW camp in WWII.

Here’s what we’re hearing: 
Holly Bario, Executive VP of Production at Universal, is reportedly considering a move to Dreamworks.
Matt Milam, current CE at Mandate Pictures, was chosen for the much coveted new CE spot at Warner Bros.
Samantha Pickett, Manager of Production at Paramount Vantage, will be the new DOD at Focus Features.
Mike Pruss, former Vantage assistant, will follow [...]

RED RAIN
Representation: Amber Leone (The Bohrman Agency)
Written by: Shane Bitterling
Story by: Justin Shanley & Shane Bitterling
GOTHIKA in tone.  A young woman returns to her hometown to discover the truth about her father’s murder… But the townspeople aren’t happy because what follows her is a deadly force of possessed rain.