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Binder has plans for 'Friday Night'
By Tatiana Siegel and Borys Kit
April 10, 2007
Mike Binder has been tapped to adapt Kate Jacobs' novel "The Friday Night Knitting Club" for Universal Pictures and producers Christine Peters and Julia Roberts.
There is no director attached yet.
The film will star Roberts as a single mom who juggles the demands of running a knitting store with raising her teen daughter. Her regular customers gather once a week to work on their latest projects and chat. When a tragedy occurs, the customers are forced to realize they've created more than just a knitting club.
Universal's Holly Bario will oversee the project for the studio, while Bradford Smith will shepherd for CFP Prods. Lisa Gillan and Phil Rose are shepherding for Roberts' Red Om Prods.
Binder most recently wrote and directed the Adam Sandler starrer "Reign Over Me." He also penned and helmed "Man About Town" and "The Upside of Anger."
He is repped by Endeavor, 3 Arts and attorney David Weber.
It's 'Spring' time for Par
Peters to develop 'Jane'
By DAVE MCNARY
Paramount Pictures has acquired feature rights to Sharon Krum's novel "The Thing About Jane Spring" for producer Christine Peters' CFP Prods. to develop.
The romantic comedy, published by Viking, centers on a career woman raised by a widowed general without a female role model. An assertive prosecutor who's unlucky at love, she learns, through watching a film marathon featuring Hollywood's leading ladies, how to use her femininity to get her way.
Fox optioned Krum's first novel "Walk of Fame" several years ago.
CFP Prods. prexy Bradford W. Smith will supervise development with creative exec Petersen Harris. Marc Evans will oversee for the studio. Peters is developing the project about self-empowerment as well as a commentary on misconceptions and expectations in the dating world.
CFP is developing sequel to Peters' "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days""How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days" called "How to Tell He's Not the One in 10 Days"; two projects with Midway Video Games, "Area 51" and John Singleton's "Fear and Respect"; and "Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief."
Date in print: Tue., Oct. 25, 2005, Los Angeles
Oct. 25, 2005
'Spring' here early for CFP, Paramount
By Tatiana Siegel
Paramount Pictures has acquired film rights to Sharon Krum's novel "The Thing About Jane Spring" for producer Christine Peters' CFP Prods. to develop.
The novel, published in July by Viking, is a romantic comedy that centers on a woman who was raised by a widowed four-star general father and has grown up to be a ball-breaking prosecutor for the district attorney's office in New York.
"This story is a classic romantic comedy about self-empowerment as well as a devilish commentary on the current state of misconceptions and expectations in the dating world," Peters said.
CFP Prods. president Bradford W. Smith will supervise development with creative executive Petersen Harris. Paramount's Marc Evans and Anson Avellar will oversee for the studio.
Peters produced Paramount's hit romantic comedy "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey, which also was optioned as a book. CFP Prods. is developing the sequel, "How to Tell He's Not the One in 10 Days." The shingle also is developing two projects that have come from its deal with Midway Video Games: "Area 51" and "Fear & Respect."
Krum, who also wrote the novel "Walk of Fame," is repped by Barbara Zitwer.
A 'Guy' thing for Par
Studio sets scribe for romantic laffer sequel
By DAVE MCNARY
Paramount has tapped producer-turned-writer Julie Durk to script the romantic comedy "How to Tell He's Not the One in 10 Days", the sequel to "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," for producers Lynda Obst and Christine Peters.
Durk's deal is her first as a writer following stints as president of Shuler-Donner and Deep River Prods. She had producer credits on "The Honeymooners" and "Laws of Attraction" and exec produced "You've Got Mail."
Studio's keeping the logline under wraps and aims to be in production by spring.
Obst told Daily Variety the project's being developed as a vehicle for "How to Lose a Guy" stars Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey.
Par's seeking to repeat the success of the 2003 pic, produced by Obst, Peters and Robert Evans and based on the book of the same name by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long. Original topped $105 million at the domestic box office.
Senior VP Michelle Raimo and Elizabeth Raposo are shepherding for Paramount; Peters' president of production Bradford W. Smith and Obst's exec VP Michael Nash are overseeing for the shingles.
Peters launched development of the sequel last year by optioning the follow-up "How to Tell He's Not the One in 10 Days (and Other Warning Signs)," also by Alexander and Long.
Christine Peters, the longtime production head for Robert Evans who produced "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" with Evans and Lynda Obst, has established CFP Productions. The Paramount-based shingle will concentrate on hatching romantic comedies geared toward under-25 audiences.
Peters said her new venture will operate as an offshoot of Evans's Paramount deal. While she will share office space with her mentor on the Par lot, she will have autonomy and development fund. Peters has hired former CAA agent and Phoenix Pictures exec Bradford Smith to be CFP prexy, named Oliver Obst development director and Randy Tat exec veep. She as already begun assembling a slate that starts with an another collaboration with Lynda Obst on "Expecting Nicole," a romantic comedy scripted by Patti Carr and Lara Runnels. The duo write for the sitcom "Reba."
"A young woman is about to lose her job as a proofreader at a publishing house, so her best friend saves her by telling the boss she's pregnant," Peters said in describing the plot of "Expecting Nicole." She then can't be legally fired, but a big novelist for the publishing house who had a fling with her believes he's the father."
Peters has commissioned "Van Wilder" scribe Walt Becker and Vaun Wilmott to write "Bull Rider," the story of a bull Gotham ad exec who tries to sigh a top Texas female bull rider and realized he's not the macho man he thought. She I developing "Princess the Royal Corgi" with Rob Minkoff as a live action/CGI pic and adapting Laren Stover novel
"The Bombshell: Manual of Style" and the Lyn Messina novel "Fashionistas." Peters herself is scripting a romantic comedy called "Pathological Liar."
Peters is also shepherding a remake of "Let's Scare Jessica to Death." Though the film's thriller plot veers from a slate full of guy-gets-the-girl pics, Peters said the pic has been reconceived with scribe David Loucka to hit the same youthful audience demo.
"From "How to Lose a Guy" to "Fifty First Dates," there is a real appetite for these kind of movies, and Bob was really gracious in allowing me to have my own company," said Peters, who she herded such films as "Phantom," "Jade" and "The Saint" while Evans Co. prexy. She as also an editor at Talk magazine and began her career in foreign distribution at Intercontinental Releasing Corp.
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