Chip Johannessen has been tapped as executive producer/showrunner on CBS' upcoming drama series Moonlight.
He replaces David Greenwalt, who left the series last week for personal and health reasons.
Moonlight, from Warner Bros. TV and Silver Pictures TV, centers on a private investigator (Alex O'Loughlin) who is a vampire.
Johannessen's credits include ABC's Empire and Fox's Dark Angel and Millennium.
He replaces David Greenwalt, who left the series last week for personal and health reasons.
Moonlight, from Warner Bros. TV and Silver Pictures TV, centers on a private investigator (Alex O'Loughlin) who is a vampire.
Johannessen's credits include ABC's Empire and Fox's Dark Angel and Millennium.
NBC is looking for its own hit mystery/adventure drama set on an island with Isla Du Sol, a drama from Empire creator/executive producer Tom Wheeler. The project is one of two dramas Wheeler is writing under a two-script deal with Warner Bros. Television. The other one-hour show, a contemporary take on the '80s adventure drama The A-Team, is set up at CW. Isla Du Sol, a co-production with Heyday Prods., centers on a young woman who, to fulfill her aunt's dying wish, travels to the mysterious Brazilian Isla Du Sol and discovers a past she never knew. Wheeler and Harry Potter producer David Heyman are executive producing the project, which has received a script commitment plus penalty from the network.
Guillermo Del Toro has come on board to executive produce Jorge Olguin's horror film The Call of the Sea. The film, which marks Chilean helmer Olguin's third feature, stars Leonor Varela (Innocent Voices) and Santiago Cabrera (Empire). Chile Films is financing. Penned by Olguin, Call of the Sea is based on a legend about a ghost ship that navigates the cold waters of a mysterious Chilean island in search of the souls of local fisherman. The story centers on a marine biologist (Varela) who discovers that many of the legends are related to her family's past.
- 4/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Cinema Audio Society revealed its nominees Wednesday for outstanding achievement in sound mixing in 2005. Lionsgate's Crash, Universal Pictures' King Kong, Columbia Pictures' Memoirs of a Geisha, 20th Century Fox's Walk the Line, and Paramount Pictures' War of the Worlds were cited in the motion picture race. The 42nd Annual C.A.S. Awards will be presented Feb. 25 at Millennium-Biltmore in Los Angeles. Quentin Tarantino will be there to receive the first C.A.S. filmmaker award. Rerecording mixer Michael Minkler also will be honored with a career achievement award. In the television movies and miniseries category are CBS' Category 7: "The End of the World," ABC's Empire: Episode 1, HBO's Lackawanna Blues, Showtime's Sleeper Cell: "Part 10, Youmud Din" and USA's Three Wise Guys.
- 1/25/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CBS' new summer series Rock Star: INXS saw its fortunes improve in its second outing on Tuesday but Fox appears to have easily taken the night with its live coverage of Major League Baseball's annual All-Star Game. The 10 p.m. airing of Rock Star brought in 6.3 million viewers and 3.1 rating/8 share in the adults 18-49 demographic. The show was topped in its time slot in viewers by NBC's repeat of Law & Order: SVU (8.8 million, 2.8/7), but more importantly for CBS, it improved on Monday's lackluster premiere numbers and did a respectable job of holding its 18-49 demo lead-in from 9 p.m.'s Big Brother 6 (8.5 million, 3.4/10). Reliable national estimates for Fox's live game coverage won't be available until later today, but preliminary estimates indicate a healthy, if not spectacular, turnout for baseball's annual mid-season showcase bout. NBC saw more modest returns for Average Joe (5.1 million, 2.2/7) and I Want to Be a Hilton (4.2 million, 1.9/5), as did ABC for its 10 p.m. summer drama Empire (4.7 million, 1.6/4). CBS placed second for the night behind Fox with an average of 8 million viewers and 2.9/9 in adults 18-49.
- 7/13/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It was a rough launch for ABC's big-budget limited series Empire and the return of NBC's Average Joe franchise Tuesday. On a night when the network's schedules were disrupted by the coverage of a speech by President Bush, both shows opened to disappointing numbers. Also squeezing the broadcasters was the annual BET special 2005 BET Awards, which outrated all six networks in the 18-49 demographic in primetime. The 9-11 p.m. premiere of the Ancient Rome-themed drama Empire averaged 6.4 million viewers and a 1.9 rating/5 share among adults 18-49, finishing third in the demo in the 9-10 p.m. hour and second from 10-11 p.m.
- 6/30/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dennis Haysbert is back on Fox's 24. After leaving the Imagine TV/20th Century Fox TV drama last season following his character president David Palmer's dramatic decision not to seek re-election, Haysbert has been tapped to return for the final six episodes this season. Additionally, Haysbert has landed a role in Sam Mendes' upcoming feature Jarhead for Universal Pictures. For the past three seasons of 24, Haysbert starred opposite Kiefer Sutherland as soft-spoken senator-turned-president, a role that earned him a Golden Globe nomination in 2003. 24 has a habit of bringing back characters, especially villains. Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke) and president Palmer's conniving wife, Sherry (Penny Johnson Jerald), both made several comebacks until their demise this past season. Haysbert, who next will be seen in ABC's limited series Empire, is repped by the Gersh Agency and manager Michael Levine.
- 1/19/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- Faulty wiring is being cited as the probable cause of a fire that ravaged Roma Studios on Wednesday, but Italian investigators and law enforcement officials said they are continuing their investigation. According to Italian press reports, the fire ravaged 3,000 square meters of sets, including that of ABC's $30 million epic miniseries Empire, which had been shooting at the studio since April. The fire was likely ignited by overheating at a large electrical quad and was able to spread rapidly via wood floorboards and other incendiary set materials, officials said. No injuries were reported. Ten teams of firefighters were dispatched to the fire, which took five hours to control, officials said. Roma Studios was founded in the 1960s by famed Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis and in 1991 was acquired by the company Raimondo Pisa.
- 7/23/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Quo vadis, Empire? Rumors were swirling Tuesday about problems on ABC's Julius Caesar limited-run series. The series, which began production in Rome on April 19, a day before a massive executive shakeup at ABC, has been marked with a series of staff changes, including the departure of the production designer, line producer and first assistant director and a last-minute recruitment of Tony Jonas as an executive producer. Sources said that the eight-episode Empire is running over its blockbuster $30 million budget in part because of fluctuations in the currency exchange rate. There has been additional pressure on the project since it had to compete for cast, crew, locations and props with HBO/BBC's lavish Caesar series, Rome, which also is filming in Rome. With the project's main champions, former ABC chairman Lloyd Braun and former ABC entertainment president Susan Lyne out, there is uncertainty about the future of the series, and a possible reduction of the series' order is being discussed, sources said. Reps for ABC and Touchstone stressed that the series is still in production and declined further comment.
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