The Weinstein Co. is strengthening its ties to the agency world, hiring former CAA and ICM rep Rob Scheidlinger as executive vp business affairs and production.
Scheidlinger will be based Los Angeles, reporting to co-chairman Harvey Weinstein and co-president of production Michael Cole. He will work closely with Cole and manage business affairs with Eric Roth, executive vp and co-head of business affairs.
Following a long stint in the agency world, Scheidlinger founded production outfit Omnibus, which had a Fox feature film deal and a Touchstone Television deal. His production credits include Sports Night, The Court and Cousin Bette.
Before that, Scheidlinger was a CAA agent for eight years. His client list included Ang Lee, Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty, Gary Sinise, Aaron Sorkin, Christopher Guest and Michael Bay. He came to CAA after serving as an agent and business affairs attorney at ICM in New York.
Scheidlinger began his career as an entertainment attorney at Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz in New York.
Scheidlinger will be based Los Angeles, reporting to co-chairman Harvey Weinstein and co-president of production Michael Cole. He will work closely with Cole and manage business affairs with Eric Roth, executive vp and co-head of business affairs.
Following a long stint in the agency world, Scheidlinger founded production outfit Omnibus, which had a Fox feature film deal and a Touchstone Television deal. His production credits include Sports Night, The Court and Cousin Bette.
Before that, Scheidlinger was a CAA agent for eight years. His client list included Ang Lee, Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty, Gary Sinise, Aaron Sorkin, Christopher Guest and Michael Bay. He came to CAA after serving as an agent and business affairs attorney at ICM in New York.
Scheidlinger began his career as an entertainment attorney at Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz in New York.
- 11/7/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The producers are not quite sure what to call this movie -- "Speaking of Sex" in Europe, "Mr. Happy" in North America. The title dilemma is emblematic of this sex comedy because it gyrates among numerous satirical targets: sex therapists, lawyers, the insurance industry, big medicine. It's topped by a deliriously loopy supporting performance from Bill Murray as a rabid insurance-defense lawyer. What Murray did for "Rushmore", he's likely to do for John McNaughton's comic sex-capade, which had its world premiere at the 37th annual Chicago International Film Festival.
With Murray's deadpan foolery and enough cunning lingual jokery to fuel 10 seasons of "Sex and the City", the film would seem to have a happy time in college towns and big cities. And, in the jargon of the movie, it could stroke steamy dates as a video rental. Look for Murray to garner critical honors come high awards season, which should further seduce audiences.
Dan and Melinda (Jay Mohr and Melora Walters), a Boise, Idaho, couple, are having sack trouble, which causes Melinda to seek a sex therapist, whom she finds on a bus-stop bench advertisement. Not surprisingly, the sex guru, Dr. Emily Paige Lara Flynn Boyle), is about as helpful as a 976 number. But she at least pawns Melinda off on a depression wiz.
A slightly funny thing happens on the way to the depression guy: Melinda has elevator sex, and it turns out it's with the shrink she was going to see, Dr. Klink (James Spader). However, Klink has a raging case of male menopause complete with a little red Corvette. When word of his professional dalliance gets back to Emily, she goes nutso, filing a grievance with a watchdog medical organization that is out to cut off the, er, license of any therapist making it with a patient.
While "Sex" flounces along in this jagged, old-style "Love, American Style" plot line crammed with verbal and slapstick boobery, it is stroked with zany asides. Admittedly hyperactive and skewering everything in its path, "Sex" is packed with enough brainy satirical salvos to overcome the overly excited narrative, a credit to screenwriter Gary Tieche's fertile humor.
Buffed, coifed and big-hatted, Murray oozes manipulation and insincerity as trial lawyer Ezri Stovall. With a slick blue tie and faux cowboy hat, Murray doles out lethal high-mountain justice to those who dare to take on the Idaho medical insurance establishment. Murray's droll delivery, dismissive glances and utterly high-handed demeanor are a hoot throughout, easily the high mark of the comedy.
Under McNaughton's direction, the performances are ripe with inspired nuttiness, including most prominently Catherine O'Hara as a lusty corporate lawyer and Spader as the frazzled Freudian.
When jokes flounder and Murray is not around, the comedy is juiced by production designer Joseph T. Garrity's loony concoctions, including Murray's dizzy High Plains lawyer office complete with stuffed bear and pretentious Remington rip-offs. Similarly, Kimberly A. Tillman's wiggy costumes are a droll indictment of the Potato State's unique sartorial splendor.
SPEAKING OF SEX
Studio Canal presents
an Omnibus and Les Film Alain Sarde production
A presentation of Les Films Alain Sarde
Producers: Rob Scheidlinger, Alain Sarde, Pierre Edelman
Director: John McNaughton
Screenwriter: Gary Tieche
Co-producers: David Fanning, Steven A. Jones
Director of photography: Ralf Bode
Production designer: Joseph T. Garrity
Costume designer: Kimberly A. Tillman
Editor: Elena Maganini
Art director: Cathy Phillips
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dr. Roger Klink: James Spader
Dr. Emily Paige: Lara Flynn Boyle
Dan: Jay Mohr
Melinda: Melora Walters
Ezri Stovall: Bill Murray
Connie Barker: Catherine O'Hara
Larry: Paul Schulze
Jennifer Klink: Megan Mullally
Felix: Hart Bochner
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
With Murray's deadpan foolery and enough cunning lingual jokery to fuel 10 seasons of "Sex and the City", the film would seem to have a happy time in college towns and big cities. And, in the jargon of the movie, it could stroke steamy dates as a video rental. Look for Murray to garner critical honors come high awards season, which should further seduce audiences.
Dan and Melinda (Jay Mohr and Melora Walters), a Boise, Idaho, couple, are having sack trouble, which causes Melinda to seek a sex therapist, whom she finds on a bus-stop bench advertisement. Not surprisingly, the sex guru, Dr. Emily Paige Lara Flynn Boyle), is about as helpful as a 976 number. But she at least pawns Melinda off on a depression wiz.
A slightly funny thing happens on the way to the depression guy: Melinda has elevator sex, and it turns out it's with the shrink she was going to see, Dr. Klink (James Spader). However, Klink has a raging case of male menopause complete with a little red Corvette. When word of his professional dalliance gets back to Emily, she goes nutso, filing a grievance with a watchdog medical organization that is out to cut off the, er, license of any therapist making it with a patient.
While "Sex" flounces along in this jagged, old-style "Love, American Style" plot line crammed with verbal and slapstick boobery, it is stroked with zany asides. Admittedly hyperactive and skewering everything in its path, "Sex" is packed with enough brainy satirical salvos to overcome the overly excited narrative, a credit to screenwriter Gary Tieche's fertile humor.
Buffed, coifed and big-hatted, Murray oozes manipulation and insincerity as trial lawyer Ezri Stovall. With a slick blue tie and faux cowboy hat, Murray doles out lethal high-mountain justice to those who dare to take on the Idaho medical insurance establishment. Murray's droll delivery, dismissive glances and utterly high-handed demeanor are a hoot throughout, easily the high mark of the comedy.
Under McNaughton's direction, the performances are ripe with inspired nuttiness, including most prominently Catherine O'Hara as a lusty corporate lawyer and Spader as the frazzled Freudian.
When jokes flounder and Murray is not around, the comedy is juiced by production designer Joseph T. Garrity's loony concoctions, including Murray's dizzy High Plains lawyer office complete with stuffed bear and pretentious Remington rip-offs. Similarly, Kimberly A. Tillman's wiggy costumes are a droll indictment of the Potato State's unique sartorial splendor.
SPEAKING OF SEX
Studio Canal presents
an Omnibus and Les Film Alain Sarde production
A presentation of Les Films Alain Sarde
Producers: Rob Scheidlinger, Alain Sarde, Pierre Edelman
Director: John McNaughton
Screenwriter: Gary Tieche
Co-producers: David Fanning, Steven A. Jones
Director of photography: Ralf Bode
Production designer: Joseph T. Garrity
Costume designer: Kimberly A. Tillman
Editor: Elena Maganini
Art director: Cathy Phillips
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dr. Roger Klink: James Spader
Dr. Emily Paige: Lara Flynn Boyle
Dan: Jay Mohr
Melinda: Melora Walters
Ezri Stovall: Bill Murray
Connie Barker: Catherine O'Hara
Larry: Paul Schulze
Jennifer Klink: Megan Mullally
Felix: Hart Bochner
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
FX is developing an original film exploring a possible Middle Eastern terrorist link to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The film would be based on the book The Third Terrorist, by Jayna Davis, a former reporter for an NBC-affiliated station in Oklahoma City. The producer is Rob Scheidlinger (SportsNight). In Terrorist, Davis investigates the connection between convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh and a group of Iraqi expatriates living in Oklahoma City in 1995. However, the FBI has not lent credence to her findings. "The film asks, why did everyone ignore what this woman was saying again and again?" Scheidlinger said. Scheidlinger also is attached to an original biopic about 1940s-era gangster Mickey Cohen in development at TNT. Robert Towne (Chinatown) is attached to produce and potentially direct.
- 4/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The producers are not quite sure what to call this movie -- "Speaking of Sex" in Europe, "Mr. Happy" in North America. The title dilemma is emblematic of this sex comedy because it gyrates among numerous satirical targets: sex therapists, lawyers, the insurance industry, big medicine. It's topped by a deliriously loopy supporting performance from Bill Murray as a rabid insurance-defense lawyer. What Murray did for "Rushmore", he's likely to do for John McNaughton's comic sex-capade, which had its world premiere at the 37th annual Chicago International Film Festival.
With Murray's deadpan foolery and enough cunning lingual jokery to fuel 10 seasons of "Sex and the City", the film would seem to have a happy time in college towns and big cities. And, in the jargon of the movie, it could stroke steamy dates as a video rental. Look for Murray to garner critical honors come high awards season, which should further seduce audiences.
Dan and Melinda (Jay Mohr and Melora Walters), a Boise, Idaho, couple, are having sack trouble, which causes Melinda to seek a sex therapist, whom she finds on a bus-stop bench advertisement. Not surprisingly, the sex guru, Dr. Emily Paige Lara Flynn Boyle), is about as helpful as a 976 number. But she at least pawns Melinda off on a depression wiz.
A slightly funny thing happens on the way to the depression guy: Melinda has elevator sex, and it turns out it's with the shrink she was going to see, Dr. Klink (James Spader). However, Klink has a raging case of male menopause complete with a little red Corvette. When word of his professional dalliance gets back to Emily, she goes nutso, filing a grievance with a watchdog medical organization that is out to cut off the, er, license of any therapist making it with a patient.
While "Sex" flounces along in this jagged, old-style "Love, American Style" plot line crammed with verbal and slapstick boobery, it is stroked with zany asides. Admittedly hyperactive and skewering everything in its path, "Sex" is packed with enough brainy satirical salvos to overcome the overly excited narrative, a credit to screenwriter Gary Tieche's fertile humor.
Buffed, coifed and big-hatted, Murray oozes manipulation and insincerity as trial lawyer Ezri Stovall. With a slick blue tie and faux cowboy hat, Murray doles out lethal high-mountain justice to those who dare to take on the Idaho medical insurance establishment. Murray's droll delivery, dismissive glances and utterly high-handed demeanor are a hoot throughout, easily the high mark of the comedy.
Under McNaughton's direction, the performances are ripe with inspired nuttiness, including most prominently Catherine O'Hara as a lusty corporate lawyer and Spader as the frazzled Freudian.
When jokes flounder and Murray is not around, the comedy is juiced by production designer Joseph T. Garrity's loony concoctions, including Murray's dizzy High Plains lawyer office complete with stuffed bear and pretentious Remington rip-offs. Similarly, Kimberly A. Tillman's wiggy costumes are a droll indictment of the Potato State's unique sartorial splendor.
SPEAKING OF SEX
Studio Canal presents
an Omnibus and Les Film Alain Sarde production
A presentation of Les Films Alain Sarde
Producers: Rob Scheidlinger, Alain Sarde, Pierre Edelman
Director: John McNaughton
Screenwriter: Gary Tieche
Co-producers: David Fanning, Steven A. Jones
Director of photography: Ralf Bode
Production designer: Joseph T. Garrity
Costume designer: Kimberly A. Tillman
Editor: Elena Maganini
Art director: Cathy Phillips
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dr. Roger Klink: James Spader
Dr. Emily Paige: Lara Flynn Boyle
Dan: Jay Mohr
Melinda: Melora Walters
Ezri Stovall: Bill Murray
Connie Barker: Catherine O'Hara
Larry: Paul Schulze
Jennifer Klink: Megan Mullally
Felix: Hart Bochner
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
With Murray's deadpan foolery and enough cunning lingual jokery to fuel 10 seasons of "Sex and the City", the film would seem to have a happy time in college towns and big cities. And, in the jargon of the movie, it could stroke steamy dates as a video rental. Look for Murray to garner critical honors come high awards season, which should further seduce audiences.
Dan and Melinda (Jay Mohr and Melora Walters), a Boise, Idaho, couple, are having sack trouble, which causes Melinda to seek a sex therapist, whom she finds on a bus-stop bench advertisement. Not surprisingly, the sex guru, Dr. Emily Paige Lara Flynn Boyle), is about as helpful as a 976 number. But she at least pawns Melinda off on a depression wiz.
A slightly funny thing happens on the way to the depression guy: Melinda has elevator sex, and it turns out it's with the shrink she was going to see, Dr. Klink (James Spader). However, Klink has a raging case of male menopause complete with a little red Corvette. When word of his professional dalliance gets back to Emily, she goes nutso, filing a grievance with a watchdog medical organization that is out to cut off the, er, license of any therapist making it with a patient.
While "Sex" flounces along in this jagged, old-style "Love, American Style" plot line crammed with verbal and slapstick boobery, it is stroked with zany asides. Admittedly hyperactive and skewering everything in its path, "Sex" is packed with enough brainy satirical salvos to overcome the overly excited narrative, a credit to screenwriter Gary Tieche's fertile humor.
Buffed, coifed and big-hatted, Murray oozes manipulation and insincerity as trial lawyer Ezri Stovall. With a slick blue tie and faux cowboy hat, Murray doles out lethal high-mountain justice to those who dare to take on the Idaho medical insurance establishment. Murray's droll delivery, dismissive glances and utterly high-handed demeanor are a hoot throughout, easily the high mark of the comedy.
Under McNaughton's direction, the performances are ripe with inspired nuttiness, including most prominently Catherine O'Hara as a lusty corporate lawyer and Spader as the frazzled Freudian.
When jokes flounder and Murray is not around, the comedy is juiced by production designer Joseph T. Garrity's loony concoctions, including Murray's dizzy High Plains lawyer office complete with stuffed bear and pretentious Remington rip-offs. Similarly, Kimberly A. Tillman's wiggy costumes are a droll indictment of the Potato State's unique sartorial splendor.
SPEAKING OF SEX
Studio Canal presents
an Omnibus and Les Film Alain Sarde production
A presentation of Les Films Alain Sarde
Producers: Rob Scheidlinger, Alain Sarde, Pierre Edelman
Director: John McNaughton
Screenwriter: Gary Tieche
Co-producers: David Fanning, Steven A. Jones
Director of photography: Ralf Bode
Production designer: Joseph T. Garrity
Costume designer: Kimberly A. Tillman
Editor: Elena Maganini
Art director: Cathy Phillips
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dr. Roger Klink: James Spader
Dr. Emily Paige: Lara Flynn Boyle
Dan: Jay Mohr
Melinda: Melora Walters
Ezri Stovall: Bill Murray
Connie Barker: Catherine O'Hara
Larry: Paul Schulze
Jennifer Klink: Megan Mullally
Felix: Hart Bochner
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 11/2/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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