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Professional Motion Picture Production and Distribution NEWS
Screen Gems and Miramax Announce Production of Jeremy Garelick Comedy to Star Kevin Hart and Josh Gad
By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Jul 3, 2013, 13:54 |
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Screen Gems and Miramax announced today that they are collaborating on a currently
UNTITLED comedy that will star Kevin Hart (Think Like a Man, Let Me Explain
and Ride Along) and Josh Gad (Love & Other Drugs and 21). Jeremy Garelick
will direct the film, which was also written by Garelick (The Break-Up, Police
Academy and An Ex to Grind) together with Jay Lavender (The Break-Up) and was
developed at Miramax.
In the film, Jimmy (Hart) provides best man services for socially challenged
guys, who – for whatever reason – have no one close enough to agree
to stand by them on the day of their wedding. Doug (Gad) a groom-to-be, has
found himself in just such a situation, but, to make matters worse, he fabricates
the names of not only a best man but nine groomsmen as well. When all else fails,
Doug seeks out Jimmy’s services to carry out a charade designed to make
Doug look his best, but threatens to destroy everything if it fails.
Miramax’s Adam Fields and Will Packer are producing the film. Screen
Gems’ President, Clint Culpepper, will oversee the project on behalf of
Screen Gems.
Hart will next be seen in his concert film Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain being
released in July. Gad can be seen in the recent release The Internship as well
as upcoming feature films Jobs and Thanks for Sharing.
Garelick and Lavender previously wrote the screenplay for the comedy The Break-Up
starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. Garelick’s writing credits
also include script contributions to The Hangover, and he will also direct the
upcoming project Sick Day which is currently in development.
Hart is represented by UTA and 3 Arts. Gad is represented by ICM Partners. Garelick
is represented by UTA. Lavender is represented by Verve Talent and Literary
Agency.
ABOUT SCREEN GEMS
Screen Gems is the specialty production division at Sony Pictures Entertainment,
which was created to finance and produce moderately budgeted films that are
marketed to targeted audiences.
ABOUT MIRAMAX
Miramax is a leading worldwide film and television studio with a library of
more than 700 motion pictures. The Miramax library holds some of the world’s
most original and acclaimed independent films including Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare
in Love, Chicago, Good Will Hunting, The English Patient, No Country for Old
Men, Kill Bill Volumes I and II, Life is Beautiful, Reservoir Dogs, Sex, Lies
and Videotape, Cinema Paradiso and My Left Foot – as well as scores of
commercially successful films such as Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bad Santa,
and the Scream, Hellraiser, Scary Movie and Spy Kids franchises. Collectively,
the Miramax library has received 284 Academy Award® nominations and 68 Oscars®,
including four Best Picture awards.
Miramax is headquartered in Santa Monica, California with a sales office in
London. For more information, please visit www.miramax.com,
“like” the company on www.facebook.com/miramax
and follow Miramax on Twitter @Miramax.
Resources:
www.miramax.com
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