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Parkes/MacDonald Land Buchsbaum & Riley Secret Service Comedy
EXCLUSIVE: Producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald have acquired an untitled action-comedy set in the world of the Secret Service. Aaron Buchsbaum & Teddy Riley are writing the script....
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Global Showbiz Briefs: Malala Yousafzai Documentary; Danny O’Donoghue Exits...
Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald Prep Documentary On Malala Yousafzai Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are to produce a feature-length documentary chronicling the story of 15-year-old Malala...
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Parkes/MacDonald And Image Nation Abu Dhabi Seal New Five-Year Deal
Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and Image Nation Abu Dhabi are extending their deal for another five years and have named Evan Hayes as president of production at Parkes/Macdonald. Hayes was...
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Parkes+MacDonald Sets Black Magic Drama At NBC, Wrestling Soap At Fox
Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald have been ramping up their TV operation under new head of television Owen Shiflett, who joined four months ago. The company has sold two drama projects, Smoke Sex...
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Parkes + MacDonald Option ‘If All Roads Were Blind’ Novel By...
EXCLUSIVE: With several upcoming releases on the 2016 calendar, the husband/wife producing duo of Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald have just brought in another project to their production shingle....
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Parkes + Macdonald & Image Nation Abu Dhabi Acquire Rights To Iconic French...
EXCLUSIVE: Parkes + Macdonald and Image Nation Abu Dhabi have acquired exclusive rights from the Cousteau Foundation to develop a film and/or TV series based on iconic French naval explorer Jacques...
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‘Sneakers’ Hacker Drama Based On Movie In Works At NBC From Walter Parkes,...
NBC has put in development Sneakers, a hacker drama based on the 1992 movie starring Robert Redford, from former The Mentalist executive producer Tom Szentgyorgyi, husband/wife producing duo Walter...
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Studiocanal, Parkes+MacDonald ImageNation Team On Four Euro-Centric Films:...
EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal and Parkes+MacDonald Productions partners Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald have teamed on four feature films that cover disparate subjects but have one connection: They all are...
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Amy Schumer Playing ‘Barbie’
Amy Schumer is in negotiations to play the title role in Barbie, the live-action Sony Pictures film based on the venerable Mattel toyline. The PG movie will begin production in the spring for a global...
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NBC Buys Supreme Court Drama From Chuck Rose & Parkes + MacDonald
NBC has given a script commitment plus penalty to The Outsider, a legal drama thriller from The Art of More creator Chuck Rose, husband/wife producing duo Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, and...
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Sony Sets ‘Men In Black’ Spinoff For Summer, 2019; Script by ‘Iron Man’ Team...
EXCLUSIVE: The Men in Black are back. Sony Pictures has fast tracked a spinoff of its billion-dollar alien franchise. The studio today will stake out a May 17, 2019, release date for an untitled film...
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NBC Buys Legal Drama ‘Relative Justice’ From Barbara Curry & Parkes+MacDonald
NBC has put in development Relative Justice, a legal drama from The Boy Next Door scribe Barbara Curry, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. The studio is Universal TV, where the husband-and-wife...
View Article‘Men In Black’ Spinoff Firming: F Gary Gray In Talks To Direct Sci-Fi Franchise
EXCLUSIVE: F. Gary Gray is the choice to direct the Men In Black film that will relaunch the franchise for Sony and Amblin. Negotiations are underway toward a deal. Gray is enjoying a mid-career...
View ArticleBaltasar Kormakur & Hugh Jackman Circling ‘The Good Spy’ For Parkes +...
EXCLUSIVE: Adrift helmer Baltasar Kormakur and Hugh Jackman are circling The Good Spy, Kai Bird's biography of CIA operative Robert Ames that Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation set up in 2014. Script is by...
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