Day: January 9, 2013

Funny or Die website getting into the film production business

Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy’s popular website Funny or Die, along with CAA and others, is teaming with producer Scott Steindorff and Scott Pictures to form a multiyear partnership to create of a slate of feature-length comedy films, according to THR. The goal is to produce two to three pictures a year. Funny ….

Day After Tomorrow and 2012 creators to destroy earth again with secret project + 2 Independence Day sequels

Deadline reports that David Ellison’s Skydance Productions has nabbed the rights to an untitled global disaster film spec script written by Dean Devlin and Paul Guyot, which Devlin will make his feature directing debut. Skydance’s Ellison and Dana Goldberg will produce the sure-to-be-big-budget-tentpole, with Devlin and his Electric Entertainment. The new project marks a return ….