Director, writer and producer Alex Richanbach, who’s on the commercialmaking/branded content roster at production house Tool, will direct and produce the rom-com feature film Single at the Wedding through his Something Something Pictures for New Line.
Anne Sundell wrote the script on spec from an original idea and developed the film alongside Richanbach. Nikki Ramey and Paulina Sussman will oversee the project for New Line Cinema.
The film introduces us to Allie, the last single person in her group of friends. Allie makes it her mission to find love at her best friend’s wedding with the help of a list of available men, but it turns out she has competition in the form of the groom’s perfect sister.
Richanbach began his career at Funny or Die as a writer/director/producer. His debut feature film We Are Young was released by FOD in 2013. Following Funny Or Die, Richanbach directed the Netflix feature film, Ibiza, written by Lauryn Kahn and produced by Gary Sanchez and Good Universe. Ibiza starred Gillian Jacobs, Vanessa Bayer, Phoebe Robinson, and Richard Madden. Richanbach also has films in development with Point Grey & Hartbeat. Additionally, he has directed award winning commercials starring Julia Roberts, Kevin Hart, Will Smith, Demi Lovato, Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O’Neal, DJ Khaled and many others.
Sundell is an L.A.-based writer and semi-pro wedding attendee (24 weddings and 11 bachelorettes in four years). Sundell began her career as an assistant at Sony Pictures Television and left with a blind script deal with their comedy team. She has an original feature in development at Netflix and has sold two comedy pilots to CBS and one to Roku with Ilana Peña.
ESPN and other channels return to DirecTV with a new Disney deal after a nearly 2-week blackout
DirecTV announced Saturday it had reached a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will restore ESPN and ABC-owned stations to its service after a nearly 2-week dispute that blacked out those networks for millions of viewers across the U.S.
The end of the impasse came in time for sports fans to watch ESPN's slate of college football games on DirecTV. It also will ensure that ABC's telecast of the Emmy Awards on Sunday night will be available in more major markets where viewers subscribe to DirecTV's pay service.
ABC had been unavailable since Sept. 1 on DirecTV in several markets where the station is owned by Disney. Those were located in the San Francisco Bay Area; Fresno, California; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Houston; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
DirecTV's 11 million subscribers abruptly lost access to ESPN, the ABC-owned stations and other Disney-owned channels such as FX and National Geographic during the Labor Day weekend in a dispute over carriage fees and programming flexibility.
Some viewers were watching the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament when ESPN suddenly went dark and others were getting ready to watch a college football showdown between LSU and Southern California.
The impasse also kept the NFL's opening game of Monday Night Football off of DirecTV's service.
Financial details of Disney's new deal with DirecTV weren't disclosed as part of Saturday's announcement. DirecTV's payments to Disney will be based on "market-based" pricing, according to the announcement about the deal.
The agreement also will give DirecTV the ability to offer Disney's video streaming services a la carte as well as in its own bundled packages. DirecTV won the right to include ESPN's forthcoming direct-to-consumer... Read More