Action-comedy pitch from Ken Kaufman and David Agosto
Ken Kaufman and David Agosto have sold an action-comedy pitch -- for the moment coroneted "Wardogs" -- to MGM with "Get Smart" helmer Peter Segal attached to direct. Although several studios were vying for the project, MGM picked it up for $1 million.
Segal and his Callahan Filmworks partner Michael Ewing ar producing along with Andrew Lazar.
The producers are keeping quiet on the plot, but Lazar said that "it's an action ensemble comedy in the vein of 'Ocean's Eleven,' where the casting becomes an event."
Added Ewing, "It is a bunch of these terrific actors getting together and having a good time� it's that kind of thing."
MGM, with CEO Harry Sloan recently re-upping for another three-year stretch in the top slot, continues to compete with the early majors for material.
The CAA-repped Segal and Ewing worked with MGM Worldwide Motion Picture Group chairman Mary Parent when she co-ran Universal on "Nutty Professor II: The Klumps."
Kaufman, repped by Endeavor, wrote the screenplays for "Curious George" and "The Missing," and he co-wrote "Space Cowboys." Last year, he sold his comedy pitch "Stone Kings" to Warner Bros., with Jay Roach attached to direct.
Agosto, also an Endeavor customer, has worked on several scripts with Kaufman, including "Curious George." Lazar was a producer of "Space Cowboys" and "Get Smart" along with Ewing.
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
An Environmental Study Into The Office Of The Future
�Mayo Clinic endocrinologist James Levine, M.D., Ph.D., has continued his research in environment-changing innovations with a six-month study of a real-life office that was re-engineered to increase casual physical activity or NEAT (non-exercise activeness thermogenesis). The study began in late 2007 and ended in 2008 at SALO, LLC, a Minneapolis-based financial staffing firm. Of the 45 employee volunteers involved in the scientific study, 18 were studied for weight loss and other changes.
Re-engineering included:
� Removing chairs and traditional desk seating
� Introducing walk tracks
� Educating and encouraging staff to conduct walking meetings
� Replacing traditional phones with mobile sets
� Adding desks attached to treadmills
� Introducing games in the workplace
� Providing high technology activity monitors
� Advising staff virtually nutrition
Results:
� The 18 individuals lost a total of 156 pounds, 143 of that in body fat.
� Individuals missed an mean of 8.8 pounds -- 90 percent of that was fat. Triglycerides decreased by an mean of 37 percent.
� The nine participants who had expressed a desire to lose weight lost an average of 15.4 pounds.
Another key determination -- no productivity was lost due to the new surround. In fact, company officials say revenue rose nearly 10 percentage during the first trey months of the study, and the company recorded its highest-ever monthly gross in January 2008 -- the study's midpoint.
Conclusion:
This "power of the future" is a functional environment that can likewise enhance weight loss and maintain wellness.
B-roll available at Pathfire:
-- SALO workplace -- female employee working at a walkstation
-- SALO's conference room
-- C.J. Dube, Oberon (a SALO Company) head, getting organic structure metrics deliberate in "The Bod Pod"
-- SALO's movement-oriented federal agency includes an active game room and employees/gamers playing foosball, puddle and hoops during breaks
-- Workplace wellness enterprise also includes walking meetings in nearby parks in good weather (and skyways during the cold months)
- SALO co-founders Amy Langer and John Folkestad let a walking meeting through Minneapolis' Loring Park.
Mayo Clinic uses Pathfire's Digital Media Gateway (DMG) for video distribution, streamlining our services and providing content that is easily accessible. On the DMG independent page, appear for the Mayo Clinic branded page in the left navbar, or click on the VNF Master Locator and search for mayoclinic0082. If you have questions or problems in locating the story, contact Pathfire Customer Support at 888-345-0489 or support@pathfire.com. If you do non have access to Pathfire's DMG, and would like access to Mayo Clinic's video resources by satellite or other means, please call 507-538-1092 or e-mail lkelly@mayo.edu.
Source - Robert Nellis
Mayo Clinic
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Re-engineering included:
� Removing chairs and traditional desk seating
� Introducing walk tracks
� Educating and encouraging staff to conduct walking meetings
� Replacing traditional phones with mobile sets
� Adding desks attached to treadmills
� Introducing games in the workplace
� Providing high technology activity monitors
� Advising staff virtually nutrition
Results:
� The 18 individuals lost a total of 156 pounds, 143 of that in body fat.
� Individuals missed an mean of 8.8 pounds -- 90 percent of that was fat. Triglycerides decreased by an mean of 37 percent.
� The nine participants who had expressed a desire to lose weight lost an average of 15.4 pounds.
Another key determination -- no productivity was lost due to the new surround. In fact, company officials say revenue rose nearly 10 percentage during the first trey months of the study, and the company recorded its highest-ever monthly gross in January 2008 -- the study's midpoint.
Conclusion:
This "power of the future" is a functional environment that can likewise enhance weight loss and maintain wellness.
B-roll available at Pathfire:
-- SALO workplace -- female employee working at a walkstation
-- SALO's conference room
-- C.J. Dube, Oberon (a SALO Company) head, getting organic structure metrics deliberate in "The Bod Pod"
-- SALO's movement-oriented federal agency includes an active game room and employees/gamers playing foosball, puddle and hoops during breaks
-- Workplace wellness enterprise also includes walking meetings in nearby parks in good weather (and skyways during the cold months)
- SALO co-founders Amy Langer and John Folkestad let a walking meeting through Minneapolis' Loring Park.
Mayo Clinic uses Pathfire's Digital Media Gateway (DMG) for video distribution, streamlining our services and providing content that is easily accessible. On the DMG independent page, appear for the Mayo Clinic branded page in the left navbar, or click on the VNF Master Locator and search for mayoclinic0082. If you have questions or problems in locating the story, contact Pathfire Customer Support at 888-345-0489 or support@pathfire.com. If you do non have access to Pathfire's DMG, and would like access to Mayo Clinic's video resources by satellite or other means, please call 507-538-1092 or e-mail lkelly@mayo.edu.
Source - Robert Nellis
Mayo Clinic
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