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Sunday January 11, 2004 On Thursday, January 15, 2004 Jen will appear on Good Morning America. Check your local listings for time and channel. Saturday January 10, 2004 Tuesday November 25, 2003 Aniston Gets Grizzly on Animal Planet's January 18 World Premiere Special about Celebrity Bears SILVER SPRING, Md., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Jennifer Aniston will star in GROWING UP GRIZZLY 2, a one-hour Animal Planet special event that brings viewers up-to-date with orphaned grizzly bears Bart and Honey-Bump, premiering Sunday, January 18 at 8 PM (ET). The cubs were first introduced in GROWING UP GRIZZLY, starring Brad Pitt. "I thought to myself, why should my husband have all the fun," said Aniston who signed on to the project after Pitt's grizzly experience last year. Pitt got involved in the project after working with professional animal trainers Doug and Lynne Seus while filming Legends of the Fall. Bart and Honey-Bump were adopted by the Seuses after the bears' mother was killed by a hunter when they were cubs. The Seuses are dedicated to preserving America's wildlife, an initiative started fifteen years ago through their non- profit Vital Ground. GROWING UP GRIZZLY 2 will pick up with Bart and Honey-Bump at three-and-a- half years old -- happy, healthy adolescent bears who take a liking to Aniston. She bonds with the bears, runs them through some training drills and leads viewers on a journey across the wild lands of the Northwest to explore the grizzly bears' struggle to survive in their ever-diminishing habitat. GROWING UP GRIZZLY 2 is a production of Arden Entertainment for Animal Planet. For Arden Entertainment, Dan Arden is executive producer and John Greco is producer. For Animal Planet, Alexandra Bennett is executive producer. Animal Planet, available in more than 84 million homes nationwide,
is the only television network dedicated exclusively to the connection
between humans and animals. The network's original programming
brings together people of all ages by tapping into a fundamental
fascination with animals and providing an entertaining mix of
programming including original movies, adventure series, sports,
drama and sitcoms. Discovery Networks, U.S., a unit of Discovery
Communications, Inc., operates and manages the Discovery Channel,
TLC, Animal Planet, the Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel,
Discovery Kids, and a family of newer, targeted channels. The
unit also distributes BBC America. Visit Animal Planet on the
Web by going to Warner Bros. Pictures has hired screenwriter Massy Tadjedin to write the political ensemble thriller The Case Study for Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's Warner Bros.-based Plan B production company. The film, based on an original idea developed by Plan B and Tadjedin, is being developed as a potential starring vehicle for Aniston, who'll also produce. Tadjedin recently penned The Jacket with Marc Rosso for George
Clooney and Steven Soderbergh's Warner Bros.-based Section Eight
and Mandalay Entertainment. She is writing the police suspenser
Lady Gold, which Mel Gibson may direct, at Paramount Pictures.
And Tadjedin is also working on yet another thriller, Voyeur,
set in the Caribbean. Monday, November 3, 2003 Massy Tadjedin, who recently penned the Warner Bros. feature The Jacket, has been brought back by the studio to script the ensemble political thriller The Case Study, with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's studio-based Plan B production shingle on board to produce. Plan B and Tadjedin have been developing the project together, with Aniston eyeing the pic as a potential starring vehicle. Courtney Valenti, Warner's senior vice president of production, will spearhead the development on behalf of the studio. Tadjedin recently penned the indie project Leo, which Mehdi Norowzian is helming. The film, backed by Gold Circle Films, stars Elisabeth Shue and Joseph Fiennes and is now seeking domestic distribution. The ICM-repped Tadjedin is also working on several other projects
around town. She is now penning the suspense drama Lady Gold for
Paramount and Icon Productions and is working on the thriller
Voyeur for Universal. Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road is producing
that project, set in the Caribbean.
Variety today talks about Brad Grey, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's Plan B and the production company's impressive line-up. The trade says that the first Plan B project to start production will be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel that Grey is producing with Richard Zanuck. Pamela Pettler is due to deliver the script in three weeks, and Grey said they've already reserved five soundstages in Pinewood for a spring start with director Tim Burton and star Johnny Depp, who plays Willy Wonka. Pitt's first homegrown Plan B starring effort will be Hatfields and McCoys, a WB drama about the famous feud between the neighboring farmers that began when a Hatfield under Confederate colors killed a McCoy who was fighting for the Union army. Pitt and Grey want The Insider team of screenwriter Eric Roth and director Michael Mann to bring it to the screen. Roth's set to write the script, and Mann's in talks to direct. Pitt is also eyeing as a possible star vehicle Peace Like a River. Kathy McWorter has adapted the Leif Enger novel about a single father who takes his children on the road to search for their fugitive brother. Pitt and Grey are producing with David Brown and Kit Golden. Aniston is eyeing as a star vehicle Zora, the WB-based true story of a woman who is considered a superwoman because of her vast personal accomplishments but finds her true strength when faced with personal crisis. The project started as an Ira Glass report on "This American Life," produced by WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio and distributed to public radio stations nationwide by Public Radio International (PRI.) She's also eyeing Katharine Fugate, a New Line-based tearjerker about a 10-year old boy who tracks down his best friend's birth mother as his pal's dying wish. Plan B is producing the project with Wayne Rice and Mike Karz. The company logo will appear first on Troy, Wolfgang Petersen-directed epic set for release next summer. Pitt stars as Achilles, the warrior who leads the Greeks against Troy. That film crystallized when Grey, Pitt and Aniston made their WB alliance, and the studio kissed them into a project that had been developed by WB and Petersen's Radiant Prods. There are 16 other projects, some of which originated with Brillstein-Grey, some with Pitt and Aniston. Most are new projects acquired within the last year. Right on the heels of "Charlie" will come Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Steve Kloves (the "Harry Potter" films) has adapted and will direct Mark Haddon's novel about an autistic 15-year-old who uses the sleuthing methods of his idol, Sherlock Holmes, to uncover the killer of a neighbor's dog. Plan B's producing with David Heyman's Heyday Films, and the film will shoot in London next summer. Meanwhile, WB has hired Bill Monohan to script Infernal Affairs, the Plan B-produced remake of the Andrew Lau-directed Hong Kong action hit. The original, about planted moles on opposite sides of the law, has already become the second-highest-grossing film in Hong Kong. James Frey is adapting his critically acclaimed memoir A Million Little Pieces, a gritty look at Frey's attempt to kick drugs and alcohol. Pic, which Plan B is producing with John Wells, is expected to hook a prominent young actor to play the lead role. Aniston's The Good Girl director Miguel Arteta will direct and executive produce Book of Joe, an adaptation of the upcoming Jonathan Tropper novel "Bush Falls." Doug Wright is scripting the story of a man who grows up an outcast in a Connecticut town, then moves to Gotham and gains fame as a writer by lampooning his hometown. He's got much to answer for when he returns home to care for his ailing father. Jeremy Leven (The Notebook) has been set by New Line to adapt Audrey Niffenegger novel The Time Traveler's Wife, a love story between a woman and a man, the latter of whom is cursed with a time-travelling gene that causes him to spontaneously appear and disappear at different times. Plan B's producing with Industry Entertainment. Screenwriter Bill Witliff (Lonesome Dove) has been hired to adapt My Losing Season, the Pat Conroy coming-of-age memoir about his senior season as point guard for the Citadel basketball team in 1966-67. It is a bittersweet story as the youth must come to grips with saying goodbye to the sport that provided refuge from his bullying fighter pilot father. Plan B's producing with Gaylord Entertainment. Pulitzer Prize-winning "Top Dog/Underdog" playwright Suzan Lori Parks has been set to script Act V, a fact-based drama about a female director who works with maximum security prisoners to stage act five of "Hamlet." Plan B is teamed with Universal and Nicolas Cage's Saturn Films
on Lou Zamperini, a memoir about the famed Olympian and his harrowing
experience of being captured by the Japanese and singled out for
abuse by a camp commander. The long-in-development pic has Antoine
Fuqua attached to direct and Cage to star. Robert Schenkkan and
Neil Tolkin wrote it. September 4th, 2003 |