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  WME Signs ‘Legally Blonde’ Tandem Kirsten Smith & Karen McCullah

  June 11, 2013 / Articles, News

  By Mike Fleming Jr | Tuesday May 14, 2013 @ 10:44am PDT EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed the screenwriting team of Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Karen McCullah, whose breakout came off the spec 10 Things I Hate About You and whose other credits include Legally Blonde, The Ugly Truth, The House Bunny and She’s The Man. They’ve established themselves as the go-to chicks for chick fare, and they are currently scripting The Expendabelles, the female spinoff of Millennium Films’ The Expendables [...]

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  Jaret Clients & Legally Blonde Scribes Set Up Script

  July 30, 2012 / Articles, News

  ‘Legally Blonde’ scribes option script Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith enter ‘Panic Zone’ By Jeff Sneider McCullahSmith “Legally Blonde” scribes Karen McCullah and Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith have written a new original comedy script titled “Panic Zone” that has been optioned by Barnaby Thompson and his London-based Ealing Studios. Thompson will produce the film with Marc Platt, Adam Siegel and the two scribes. James Spring of Ealing and Ben Latham-Jones of Londinium Films will exec produce. “Karen and Kiwi wrote a hilarious [...]

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  Fox Sets Scribe Team McCullah & Smith For ’29′

  January 24, 2012 / Articles, News

  Via Dealine: 20th Century Fox has hired Karen McCullah & Kirsten Smith to adapt 29, the novel by Adena Halpern. John Davis is producing. The book is a high concept comedy about an elderly woman who wakes up in the body of her 29-year old self and finally has the chance to do things right. McCullah & Smith’s credits include Legally Blonde and The House Bunny. In addition to solo projects, they are scripting Love It Or Leave It for [...]

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  Sam Trammell joins ‘Long Time Gone’

  September 27, 2011 / Articles, News

  Via Variety: Sam Trammell of “True Blood” has joined the cast of indie drama “Long Time Gone” opposite Virginia Madsen and Anthony LaPaglia. Smokewood Entertainment is producing “Long Time Gone,” with co-founder and producer Sarah Siegel-Magness (“Precious”) making her directorial debut. Production began Sept. 12 in Los Angeles. Trammell began work Monday. “Long Time Gone” also stars Zach Gilford, Amanda Crew and newcomer Graham Rogers. Karen McCullah (“The Ugly Truth”) wrote the screenplay based upon April Stevens’ novel “Angel, Angel.” [...]

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  Virginia Madsen joins “Long Time Gone”

  September 26, 2011 / Articles, News

  Via Virginia Madsen’s Blog: New upcoming project for Virginia Madsen has been confirmed! She has joined the cast of of Smokewood Entertainment’s “Long Time Gone”. Virginia will star in Sarah Siegel-Magness’ drama film, joining the already announced cast of Amanda Crew, Aly Michalka, Madeline Zima and Zach Gilford. “Precious” producer Sarah Siegel-Magness makes her directorial debut with the pic, which stars Virginia Madsen as Augusta, a woman who suffers a nervous breakdown after her cheating husband leaves her. Zach Gilford [...]

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  From the Set of LONG TIME GONE — Week One

  September 24, 2011 / Articles, Videos

  From the First Week of production of Long Time Gone. Taken by Writer/Producer Karen McCullah. This was a beautiful location and a perfect setting for the scene being filmed. Karen and I celebrated the first week of production on a project that has been nine years in the making! Phew.

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  Photos from the set of Long Time Gone

  September 22, 2011 / Articles, Videos

  Via Sierra Madre Patch: Production crews transformed the Taylor’s parking lot into a Maryland grocery store Tuesday morning as they began production on an independent film called Long Time Gone. The film stars Academy Award nominee Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Golden Globe winner Anthony LaPaglia (Without a Trace), and Zach Gilford of Friday Night Lights fame. Echoing sentiments expressed by the producers of the NBC web series In Gale We Trust, which also films in town, unit publicist Cid Swank said [...]

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  Thesps sign up for ‘Long Time Gone’

  August 30, 2011 / Articles, News

  Via Variety: “Hellcats” star Aly Michalka, model-turned-actor Travis Fimmel and “Californication” thesp Madeline Zima have joined the cast of Smokewood Entertainment’s “Long Time Gone.” “Precious” producer Sarah Siegel-Magness makes her directorial debut with the pic, which stars Meg Ryan as a woman who suffers a nervous breakdown after her cheating husband leaves her. Zach Gilford and Graham Rogers co-star as her two sons who, along with the latter’s live-in girlfriend (Amanda Crew), attempt to comfort Ryan in her time of [...]

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  Graham Rogers plans for ‘Long Time Gone’

  August 25, 2011 / Articles, News

  Via Variety: “Precious” producer Sarah Siegel-Magness has tapped Graham Rogers for her directorial debut “Long Time Gone.” Ryan toplines the Smokewood Entertainment production as a woman who suffers a nervous breakdown after her cheating husband leaves her. Rogers will play Ryan’s 18-year-old son Henry, a good-hearted stoner who has flunked out of high school and is determined to comfort her with the help of his estranged older brother (Zach Gilford, “Friday Night Lights”) and live-in girlfriend (Amanda Crew, “Sex Drive”). [...]

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  Meg Ryan circles ‘Long Time Gone’

  June 13, 2011 / Articles, News

  Via Variety: “Precious” producer Sarah Siegel-Magness is set to make her directorial debut on “Long Time Gone” with Meg Ryan in negotiations to star. Karen McCullah penned the adaptation which is based on the novel “Angel, Angel” by April Stevens. Story follows a broken family which is healed when the girlfriend of the youngest son moves in and changes their lives forever. Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee will cast the pic. Bobbi Sue Luther, Gary Magness and McCullah will produce [...]

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