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http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/pit...n-tune-with-tina-fey-for-uni-comedy-the-nest/
http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/amy-poehler-the-nest-tina-fey/
Pitch Perfect Helmer Jason Moore In Tune With Tina Fey For Uni Comedy The Nest
By MIKE FLEMING JR
EXCLUSIVE: After a breakout turn helming the sleeper comedy Pitch Perfect, Jason Moore is in negotiations to direct The Nest, a Universal Pictures comedy that shapes up as an imminent post-30 Rock star vehicle for Tina Fey. The comedys based on an original idea by Paula Pell, who wrote the script. Fey is producing through her Little Stranger Inc banner.
In the comedy, two thirtysomething sisters come home to find their parents house has been put up for sale. They spend a last wild weekend together, bonding and feuding and finally growing up.
It will be next for Moore and possibly next for Fey after she wrapped seven seasons as creator, writer, producer and star of 30 Rock. Pell worked with Fey as a writer for Saturday Night Live, where Fey was longtime Weekend Update host and the shows head writer. Pell has been at SNL 17 years, and is still a part-time writer there. Since The Nest is Pells first feature script, it makes her an overnight success after nearly two decades. She was an exec producer on Judd Apatows most recent comedy This Is 40, and she has just set up a follow up script with Apatow and Benderspink called Business Trip.
Fey will soon be seen starring in the Focus Features comedy Admission, and comes off a killer turn hosting the Golden Globes with Amy Poehler.
Moore made his feature directing debut on Pitch Perfect, the Anna Kendrick-Rebel Wilson starrer that Universal released in October. Pitch Perfect, which cost $17 million, has grossed north of $108 million worldwide. Moores best known for his extensive Broadway work, directing such stage hits as Shrek The Musical, Avenue Q, and Steel Magnolias, as well as Jerry Springer: The Opera At Carnegie Hall. He is currently working on Tales Of The City, which has music from the Scissor Sisters and which opens on Broadway in 2014 after premiering at the American Conservatory Theatre. He also helmed episodes of Dawsons Creek, Everwood, One Tree Hill and Brothers And Sisters.
Moore, Pell and Fey are repped by WME, and Feys also repped by 3 Arts and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie.
http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/amy-poehler-the-nest-tina-fey/
Fey and Poehler together is always a good thing. Add to that Paula Pell writing the screenplay and it's even better. Tina has gone on the record saying that some of the best stuff to come out of SNL in her day came from Pell.Amy Poehler Joins Tina Fey As Partying Sisters In Universals The Nest
By THE DEADLINE TEAM
The once and future Golden Globes hosts are teaming up again, this time for the big screen. Amy Poehler is in final negotiations to star alongside Tina Fey in Universals comedy The Nest. Theyll play thirtysomething sisters who come home to find their parents house has been put up for sale. They spend a last wild weekend together, bonding and feuding and finally growing up. Fey is producing through her Little Stranger banner along with Jay Roach and his Everyman Pictures. Poehler also will executive produce. Pitch Perfect helmer Jason Moore will direct The Nest from a screenplay by Paula Pell. SVP Production Erik Baiers and creative executive Chloe Yellin are overseeing for the studio.
Longtime former SNL comrades Poehler and Fey also starred together in the 2008 comedy Baby Mama. In October they signed a two-year deal to host the Golden Globe Awards, and their stint in January drew the shows biggest TV audience in a decade. Poehler continues to star on NBCs Parks And Recreation, and her recent film credits include They Came Together which premiered at Sundance You Are Here and A.C.O.D. She co-created the NBC comedy pilot Old Soul and exec produces Welcome To Sweden, which stars her brother Greg Poehler and premieres July 10 on NBC, and Comedy Centrals Broad City. Poehler was at Mip-TV in Cannes on Monday talking about the latter show, which got a second-season pickup in February. She is repped by WME and 3 Arts Entertainment.
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