Jennifer Aniston Forms a Production Company
Filed under: Deals, Scripts, DIY/Filmmaking
It was just last month that word broke about Virginia Madsen starting her own production company. Now Variety reports that Jennifer Aniston is, as well, along with producer, filmmaker, and friend Kristin Hahn. The company is called Echo Films, and it's gearing up with a first-look deal at Universal. Where Madsen's company is more about the production aspects, than her own work as an actress, it seems that this company will focus on starring vehicles for Aniston. So you should expect a lot more cinematic work from the actress in the coming years.Hahn says: "We particularly like working from books and real-life stories about distinct characters that embody something relatable and relevant about human nature's double-sided coin of vulnerability and mettle." This, Aniston says, is what inspired their company's name: "to echo back an idea, a challenge, something that resonates through all of us."
But on to the all projects they've nabbed:
Getting Rid of Matthew -- A book written by Jane Fallon, wife of Ricky Gervais, it follows a "hard-charging publicist whose lusty affair with a married man is ruined by his decision to leave his wife and two children for her. She invents a new persona, befriends the spurned wife, and attempts to patch up the marriage so she can be rid of him. In the process, she develops a thing for his oldest son."
The Divorce Party -- Based on a novel by Laura Dave, that will be published this May, the project will focus on a couple who celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary by having a party and announcing their divorce. "It creates complications for their son, who returns home with his commitment-shy fiancee." Gwyn Lurie will write the script.
Counter-Clockwise -- Coming from a script by Paul Bernbaum, this project is based on the true story of a study by a Harvard prof and psychologist to reverse aging by "re-creating the era of their prime."
Love:Todd -- This one won't have Aniston acting in it, but she will produce the drama about tennis coach, who used to be a pro, and "gets schooled by a precocious teen tennis phenom." Kristen Stavola wrote the script.
Chemistry -- A dramedy by David Sussman, the project focuses on "the fact that romantic love and obsessive compulsive disorder demonstrate similar brain chemistry."
The Goree Girls -- Read more about it here.
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6-20-2008 @ 11:34AM
Lori Sanders said...
I would like to mail a resume for an Executive Staff position
and I am requesting the mailing address of the Echo Film Company and the contact person I would mail it to.
Thank you.
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6-29-2008 @ 1:06AM
Serg G said...
Hello dear ladies and gentlemen!
I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson (actress) actually is a clone from original person, who has nothing with acting career. That clone was created illegally by using stolen biological material. Original person is very nice (not d**n sexy), most important - CHRISTIAN young lady!
I'll tell you guys more, that clones (it's not only one) made in GERMANY - world leader manufacturer of humans clones, it is in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, North Bavaria, Mr. Helmut Kohl home town. You can not even imaging the scale of the cloning activity. But warning! Helmut Kohl clone staff 100% controlling all their clones spreading around the world, they are very accurate with that, some of them are still NAZI type disciplined and mind controlled clones, so be careful get close with clones you will be controlled as well. Think wise..
Apparently those clones are very actively shown on your website. This is just a warning, because original person is not happy about those images and video, rumors and etc., in that way it would be really nice if you try slow down that ''actress'' career development on your website, original Scarlett's parents will really appreciated that. Please do that, do not wait until FBI agent give you a call with questions. Please remember that original family did not authorize any activity with stolen biological materials, no matter what form it was created, it all need to be return back to original family control to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Original Scarlett is not engage!
Her close friend Serg G.
P.S.
H.R. 534, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003, was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives on February 5, 2003. After discussion, it was passed on February 27 by a vote of 241-155. It now moves on to the Senate for consideration. This bill makes it unlawful for any person or entity to perform or participate in human cloning, or to ship or receive embryos produced by human cloning. The penalties are imprisonment of up to 10 years and fines of $1 million or more.
These now join other nations as diverse as Norway, Australia, and Germany, which had already added cloning for any purpose to their criminal code. And in Germany where it carries a penalty of five years imprisonment they know a thing or two about unethical science.
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