Leslie Bibb (Jupiter’s Legacy) has been tapped as the female lead opposite Keegan-Michael Key and Johnny Knoxville in Reboot, Hulu’s comedy pilot from Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan. Also cast in the project are Rachel Bloom, in her return to series television after her starring turn on her CW series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Michael McKean and Krista Marie Yu.
In Reboot, when Hulu reboots an early-2000s family sitcom, its dysfunctional cast is forced back together and now must deal with their unresolved issues in today’s fast-changing world.
Calum Worthy also stars.
Bibb plays Bree, a former pageant girl from rural Virginia turned sitcom star who left the country after the show to marry a prince.
Bloom plays Hannah, the young, hip writer with a fresh take on old sitcom Step Right Up.
McKean plays Gordon, the hacky, narcissistic creator of late 90’s sitcom Step Right Up.
Yu plays...
In Reboot, when Hulu reboots an early-2000s family sitcom, its dysfunctional cast is forced back together and now must deal with their unresolved issues in today’s fast-changing world.
Calum Worthy also stars.
Bibb plays Bree, a former pageant girl from rural Virginia turned sitcom star who left the country after the show to marry a prince.
Bloom plays Hannah, the young, hip writer with a fresh take on old sitcom Step Right Up.
McKean plays Gordon, the hacky, narcissistic creator of late 90’s sitcom Step Right Up.
Yu plays...
- 9/22/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
LisaGay Hamilton (To Kill A Mockingbird), Michaela Watkins (Werewolves Within), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (NOS4A2), Kevin Sussman (The Big Bang Theory), Sam Straley (Hala) and Shaun J. Brown are set for recurring roles opposite Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout, Hulu’s limited series about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. The series hails from Liz Meriwether, Searchlight Television and Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television.
Created and executive produced by Meriwether, who also serves as showrunner, The Dropout is based on the ABC News/ABC Radio podcast. Holmes (Seyfried), the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation. Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. The story of Holmes and Theranos is...
Created and executive produced by Meriwether, who also serves as showrunner, The Dropout is based on the ABC News/ABC Radio podcast. Holmes (Seyfried), the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation. Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. The story of Holmes and Theranos is...
- 9/14/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
APA has promoted senior vice president of talent Sheva Cohen, vice president of scripted literary Jack Leighton, and senior vice president of physical production Julian Savodivker to partner.
“It is with great pride that we promote Sheva Cohen, Jack Leighton and Julian Savodivker to partner,” said APA CEO Jim Gosnell and APA president Jim Osborne in a joint statement. “Their passion, leadership, integrity, teamwork and unwavering support of our world-class talent exemplifies the strength of our core values and the high standard of excellence that has enabled our clients and this company to thrive during one of the most challenging and disruptive periods in the history of our industry.”
Cohen began her career interning for top youth agent Bonnie Liedtke. She started in the APA mailroom in 2006 before joining the agency’s Agent Training Program. Promoted to agent in 2010 and named senior vice president of talent in 2018, Cohen continues to...
“It is with great pride that we promote Sheva Cohen, Jack Leighton and Julian Savodivker to partner,” said APA CEO Jim Gosnell and APA president Jim Osborne in a joint statement. “Their passion, leadership, integrity, teamwork and unwavering support of our world-class talent exemplifies the strength of our core values and the high standard of excellence that has enabled our clients and this company to thrive during one of the most challenging and disruptive periods in the history of our industry.”
Cohen began her career interning for top youth agent Bonnie Liedtke. She started in the APA mailroom in 2006 before joining the agency’s Agent Training Program. Promoted to agent in 2010 and named senior vice president of talent in 2018, Cohen continues to...
- 5/14/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
APA has promoted a trio of its executives to partner. Newly promoted are SVP Talent Sheva Cohen, VP Scripted Literary Jack Leighton and SVP Physical Production Julian Savodivker.
“It is with great pride that we promote Sheva Cohen, Jack Leighton and Julian Savodivker to Partner,” agency CEO Jim Gosnell and President Jim Osborne said in a joint statement. “Their passion, leadership, integrity, teamwork and unwavering support of our world-class talent exemplifies the strength of our core values and the high standard of excellence that has enabled our clients and this company to thrive during one of the most challenging and disruptive periods in the history of our industry.”
Cohen began her career interning for top youth agent Bonnie Liedtke and started in the APA mailroom in 2006 before joining the agency’s Agent Training Program. Promoted to agent in 2010 and named SVP Talent in 2018, she continues to represent numerous established and...
“It is with great pride that we promote Sheva Cohen, Jack Leighton and Julian Savodivker to Partner,” agency CEO Jim Gosnell and President Jim Osborne said in a joint statement. “Their passion, leadership, integrity, teamwork and unwavering support of our world-class talent exemplifies the strength of our core values and the high standard of excellence that has enabled our clients and this company to thrive during one of the most challenging and disruptive periods in the history of our industry.”
Cohen began her career interning for top youth agent Bonnie Liedtke and started in the APA mailroom in 2006 before joining the agency’s Agent Training Program. Promoted to agent in 2010 and named SVP Talent in 2018, she continues to represent numerous established and...
- 5/14/2021
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jack Kilmer, known for his breakout role in Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto and for his performance in the acclaimed 2019 Sundance film Hala, among others, has signed with Gersh for representation.
Kilmer’s star has been rising since his 2013 feature film debut in Palo Alto, based on James Franco’s short story collection of the same name. He portrayed Teddy alongside Franco, Emma Roberts, Nat Wolff and Zoe Levin. Kilmer, son of Val, also stars opposite Odessa Young and Ben Schnetzer in indie feature The Giant.
Kilmer also can be seen in Vice Films’ Lords of Chaos, opposite Emory Cohen and Rory Culkin which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and Woodshock, directed by Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy. He will next be seen in Eugene Kotlyarenko’s Wobble Palace, as well as Becca Gleason’s Summer 03 opposite Joey King and Andrea Savage, both of which premiered at SXSW.
Kilmer’s star has been rising since his 2013 feature film debut in Palo Alto, based on James Franco’s short story collection of the same name. He portrayed Teddy alongside Franco, Emma Roberts, Nat Wolff and Zoe Levin. Kilmer, son of Val, also stars opposite Odessa Young and Ben Schnetzer in indie feature The Giant.
Kilmer also can be seen in Vice Films’ Lords of Chaos, opposite Emory Cohen and Rory Culkin which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and Woodshock, directed by Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy. He will next be seen in Eugene Kotlyarenko’s Wobble Palace, as well as Becca Gleason’s Summer 03 opposite Joey King and Andrea Savage, both of which premiered at SXSW.
- 12/17/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Dylan Sprouse is returning to TV.
The former Disney Channel star has signed on for Mindy Kaling’s HBO Max series “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” Variety has learned exclusively, marking his first big television role since his Disney days ended in 2011.
He joins previously announced leads Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp and Alyah Chanelle Scott in the series which revolves around four roommates at Essex College, a prestigious New England university.
Sprouse will play a character named Nico, a junior at Essex who interacts with the four roommates in question, who are Kimberly (Chalamet), the valedictorian of a working-class public high school in a humble Arizona suburb, Bela (Kaur), a comedy-obsessed, super confident cornball from the affluent suburbs of northern New Jersey, Leighton (Rapp), who would describe herself as a normal, classy girl from a great family, and finally Whitney (Scott), the soon-to-be star of the Essex soccer team.
The former Disney Channel star has signed on for Mindy Kaling’s HBO Max series “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” Variety has learned exclusively, marking his first big television role since his Disney days ended in 2011.
He joins previously announced leads Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp and Alyah Chanelle Scott in the series which revolves around four roommates at Essex College, a prestigious New England university.
Sprouse will play a character named Nico, a junior at Essex who interacts with the four roommates in question, who are Kimberly (Chalamet), the valedictorian of a working-class public high school in a humble Arizona suburb, Bela (Kaur), a comedy-obsessed, super confident cornball from the affluent suburbs of northern New Jersey, Leighton (Rapp), who would describe herself as a normal, classy girl from a great family, and finally Whitney (Scott), the soon-to-be star of the Essex soccer team.
- 12/16/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Apa has promoted Sheva Cohen to Senior Vice President in the agency’s Talent department.
A Los Angeles native, Cohen began her career during her junior and senior years of college, interning for producer-writer Mike Fleiss, working on the daily syndicated show Extra, and for top youth agent Bonnie Liedtke. Shortly after her graduation from Colorado State University where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, Cohen started in Apa’s mailroom before joining the agency’s Agent Training Program. She was promoted to agent in 2010.
Cohen’s current list of clients includes Tiffany Haddish, Evanna Lynch (Harry Potter franchise), Dexter Darden (Maze Runner franchise), Bre-z (All-American), Ryan Potter (DC’s Titans), Adeline Rudolph (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), and Blair Redford (The Gifted).
“Over the past several years, Sheva has played an instrumental role in the overall growth and success of our talent department,...
A Los Angeles native, Cohen began her career during her junior and senior years of college, interning for producer-writer Mike Fleiss, working on the daily syndicated show Extra, and for top youth agent Bonnie Liedtke. Shortly after her graduation from Colorado State University where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, Cohen started in Apa’s mailroom before joining the agency’s Agent Training Program. She was promoted to agent in 2010.
Cohen’s current list of clients includes Tiffany Haddish, Evanna Lynch (Harry Potter franchise), Dexter Darden (Maze Runner franchise), Bre-z (All-American), Ryan Potter (DC’s Titans), Adeline Rudolph (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), and Blair Redford (The Gifted).
“Over the past several years, Sheva has played an instrumental role in the overall growth and success of our talent department,...
- 12/7/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, “Green Book” gets a festival honor, the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild names lifetime achievement winners, and indies “Tyger Tyger” and “Sons of the Cross” are heading into production.
Honors
The Palm Springs International Film Festival will present the drama “Green Book” with the Vanguard Award at its annual film awards gala on Jan. 3.
The Vanguard Award is a group honor for a film’s cast and director in recognition of their collective work on an exceptional film project. Actors Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali as well as director Peter Farrelly are expected to attend.
“Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are an on-camera dream team in the crowd-pleasing film ‘Green Book,’ inspired by a true friendship, about a New York City bouncer hired to drive and protect pianist Dr. Don Shirley on a concert tour in the Deep South,” said festival chairman Harold Matzner.
Honors
The Palm Springs International Film Festival will present the drama “Green Book” with the Vanguard Award at its annual film awards gala on Jan. 3.
The Vanguard Award is a group honor for a film’s cast and director in recognition of their collective work on an exceptional film project. Actors Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali as well as director Peter Farrelly are expected to attend.
“Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are an on-camera dream team in the crowd-pleasing film ‘Green Book,’ inspired by a true friendship, about a New York City bouncer hired to drive and protect pianist Dr. Don Shirley on a concert tour in the Deep South,” said festival chairman Harold Matzner.
- 11/21/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Veteran talent representative Bonnie Liedtke has left Principato-Young Entertainment, where she was a talent manager, and has joined Authentic Talent & Literary Management. Her last day at Pye was Friday, and her first day at Authentic was today. Liedtke’s departure from Pye is said to be amicable, coming at the end of her contract. “It was an amazing experience,” she said of her time at Pye. The majority of her clients are expected to follow her to Authentic. The list of…...
- 11/7/2017
- Deadline TV
Zoe Levin has joined the cast of the independent movie Palo Alto Stories directed by Gia Coppola who adapted from the collection of stories by James Franco. Levin recently wrapped Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s The Way Way Back with Steve Carell and Sam Rockwell. She also appeared in Blue Potato, written and directed by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly. Earlier credits include Trust directed by David Schwimmer. Levin is repped by Kami Putnam Heist at CAA and Bonnie Liedtke of Principato Young. Pretty Little Liars regular Troian Bellisario has been cast in C.O.G., an independent film directed and written by Kyle Patrick Alvarez. It’s the first film adaptation of writing by the humorist David Sedaris. In this particular essay, Sedaris travels to work in the apple orchards of Oregon and is confronted by migrant workers and God-fearing churchgoers. Jonathan Groff, Corey Stoll, Casey Wilson and Dean Stockwell also star.
- 11/3/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Veteran talent agent Bonnie Liedtke is leaving Wme to transition to management. She will join Principato-Young Entertainment. “Bonnie’s track record of breaking young talent and her wealth of experience will be an incredible asset to our firm. We’re thrilled to have her join our team,” Peter Principato and Paul Young said. Liedtke — who has launched the careers such young actors who went on to become stars as Leonardo DiCaprio, Hilary Swank and Zac Efron — joined Wma as a talent agent in 2007, specializing in young talent. She was previously a partner and owner of both Gold/Liedtke and TalentWorks. It is yet unclear who of Liedtke’s clients will continue with her on the management side. The hire of Liedtke continues Principato-Young’s expansion into the young talent business. Earlier this year, the company acquired Nils Larsen’s Elements Entertainment whose clients include Shailene Woodley, Jason Dolley and Haley Kiyoko.
- 9/21/2011
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Bonnie Liedtke and Thor Bradwell have joined WMA's talent department.
Liedtke is well known in industry circles for specializing in the representation of young actors and discovered and repped the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Hilary Swank and Chad Michael Murray.
At WMA, Liedtke and Bradwell will work on growing the agency's young talent department, helping the company make a concerted push into the burgeoning tween marketplace across all entertainment platforms.
Liedtke headed the young adult department at TalentWorks, splitting from the agency that had been her home for the past 18 years in December. She had been heavily courted by other agencies. Bradwell also comes from TalentWorks and was promoted to agent by Liedtke in 2005.
Among the clients joining WMA include Zac Efron ("Hairspray"), Thomas Dekker ("The Sarah Connor Chronicles"), Corbin Bleu ("High School Musical"), Joy Lauren ("Desperate Housewives"), Mitchel Musso ("Hannah Montana"), Janel Parrish ("Bratz"), Aidan Mitchell ("The Riches"), Jesse Plemons ("Friday Night Lights") and April Bowlby ("Two and a Half Men").
The actors will join WMA's stable of young talent that includes Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine"), Vanessa Hudgens ("High School Musical"), Keke Palmer ("Akeelah and the Bee") and Spencer Breslin ("The Shaggy Dog"), among others.
Liedtke is well known in industry circles for specializing in the representation of young actors and discovered and repped the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Hilary Swank and Chad Michael Murray.
At WMA, Liedtke and Bradwell will work on growing the agency's young talent department, helping the company make a concerted push into the burgeoning tween marketplace across all entertainment platforms.
Liedtke headed the young adult department at TalentWorks, splitting from the agency that had been her home for the past 18 years in December. She had been heavily courted by other agencies. Bradwell also comes from TalentWorks and was promoted to agent by Liedtke in 2005.
Among the clients joining WMA include Zac Efron ("Hairspray"), Thomas Dekker ("The Sarah Connor Chronicles"), Corbin Bleu ("High School Musical"), Joy Lauren ("Desperate Housewives"), Mitchel Musso ("Hannah Montana"), Janel Parrish ("Bratz"), Aidan Mitchell ("The Riches"), Jesse Plemons ("Friday Night Lights") and April Bowlby ("Two and a Half Men").
The actors will join WMA's stable of young talent that includes Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine"), Vanessa Hudgens ("High School Musical"), Keke Palmer ("Akeelah and the Bee") and Spencer Breslin ("The Shaggy Dog"), among others.
- 5/24/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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