CBS has also ordered a one hour
drama pilot from Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, the team behind Grey's Anatomy and Madam Secretary.
Not exact matches
It's the
drama of Chinatown with the inflatable emergency
pilot from Airplane taking over for Jack Nicholson.
It could turn out to be one of the fall's most enjoyable new series, a nice mix of family
drama and light comedy, if the faint air of smug self - righteousness that emanates
from tonight's
pilot can be extinguished.
Of the world premieres, the major gets for Toronto include Freeheld, Peter Sollett's LGBT
drama starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page; Stonewall, Roland Emmerich's
drama about the birth of the gay rights movement; Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, which is rumored to feature an awards - worthy performance
from Maggie Smith; Jay Roach's film Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston as the famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in the 1940s; Terence Davies's anticipated follow - up to The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song; Charlie Kaufman's first stop - motion film, Anomalisa; and Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood's thriller about
piloted aircraft warfare, starring Aaron Paul and Helen Mirren.
The network has ordered a
pilot for «Mixtape,» a musical
drama from former «Smash» showrunner Josh Safran, who's giving the genre a second go.
But it's clear
from the very first moment that «Aloha» is a complete misfire: a tiresome, dull romantic comedy /
drama about a celebrated military contractor (Bradley Cooper), who returns to Honolulu and tries to reconnect with his former love, who is now a mom and married to a
pilot.
We have already seen the first official trailer for Spielberg's latest, but this new version packs more footage
from the intense - looking
drama and also includes Austin Stowell as real - life U-2
pilot Francis Gary Powers and his training before being shot down while on an espionage mission over Soviet territory in 1960.
CBS has given put -
pilot commitments to two
dramas from Greg Berlanti, executive producer of «Arrow,» «The Flash» and «Supergirl.»
NBC has ordered a
pilot for this one - hour
drama from producer Carol Mendelsohn (CSI) written by David Hudgins (Parenthood, Friday Night Lights) about an attorney whose climb to the top is short circuited when his past returns to haunt him.
While «Masters of Sex,» the Michael Sheen / Lizzy Caplan period
drama premiering September 29th, may be the glitzier - looking of Showtime's two new
dramas, it's Liev Schreiber vehicle «Ray Donovan» that attracted a lot of praise
from journalists shown an early cut of the
pilot before TCA in January.
Paramount Pictures has released the first clip
from Flight, director Robert Zemeckis» real - life
drama about an emergency landing that puts a commercial airline
pilot under suspicion of being intoxicated during a flight.
And yet it clearly doesn't matter because «Rectify» holds you captive just the way it is, void of star power (the biggest «get» is a brief appearance by Hal Holbrook, who starred across
from McKinnon in the winning 2009
drama That Evening Sun) and exciting licensed music (Stone Temple
Pilots» «Creep» is probably the most recognizable needle drop).
The previous film
from legendary director Robert Zemeckis, 2012's airplane
pilot drama «Flight», featured a memorable sequence early on with Denzel Washington landing a 747 upside down.
Fox gives put
pilot commitment to
drama Frankenstein
from Howard Gordon and Rand Ravich (Deadline).
From there, the film morphs from courtroom drama to espionage thriller as Donovan finds himself flying to Berlin in order to secretly negotiate a prisoner exchange with the Russians: they'll get Abel, and the US will receive recently downed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in ret
From there, the film morphs
from courtroom drama to espionage thriller as Donovan finds himself flying to Berlin in order to secretly negotiate a prisoner exchange with the Russians: they'll get Abel, and the US will receive recently downed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in ret
from courtroom
drama to espionage thriller as Donovan finds himself flying to Berlin in order to secretly negotiate a prisoner exchange with the Russians: they'll get Abel, and the US will receive recently downed U-2
pilot Francis Gary Powers in return.
One of the best plane crash sequences in all of film highlights this
drama about a gifted
pilot, suffering
from alcoholism, on a collision course with authorities and his own illness.
Drone -
pilot indie
drama Good Kill, directed by Andrew Niccol and starring Ethan Hawke, suffered
from an uncertain positioning between arthouse and mainstream.
ABC has given
pilot orders to
dramas from House creator David Shore, Modern Family star Sofia Vergar...
Amazon has announced its initial lineup of
pilots for 2015, which include four hourlong
dramas, two half - hour comedies and a half - hour docu - series
from The New Yorker.
The Studio has a number of future projects set up at TNT, including a
pilot production order for an untitled
drama set in the unpredictable world of the Florida cocaine trade in the 1970s,
from Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay and Michelle Ashford, and is in development on «Titans,»
from Academy Award - winner Akiva Goldsman and Marc Haimes, based upon the DC Comics characters.