{"id":6249,"date":"2016-06-17T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/making-a-murderer-duo-teams-with-george-clooney-for-serialized-drama\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:48:58","slug":"making-a-murderer-duo-teams-with-george-clooney-for-serialized-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/making-a-murderer-duo-teams-with-george-clooney-for-serialized-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Murderer Duo Teams with George Clooney for Serialized Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Sonar Entertainment has entered into a first-look deal with Smokehouse Pictures, founded by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and the first project under the new arrangement will be a drama series with <em>Making a Murderer<\/em> filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos.<\/p>\n<p>Ricciardi and Demos, along with Nicki Paluga, will be adapting a serialized <em>Huffington Post<\/em> article by journalist Steven Brill as a scripted drama. <em>America\u2019s Most Admired Lawbreaker<\/em> is the true story of a venerable pharmaceutical company that created a powerful drug and marketed it aggressively to children and the elderly while allegedly manipulating and hiding data about its terrible side effects. Ricciardi and Demos will also be directing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more excited to be in business with George and Grant and their talented team at Smokehouse,\u201d said Thomas Lesinski, CEO of Sonar Entertainment. \u201cSmokehouse has a stellar track record of delivering commercial and critically acclaimed content. Smokehouse will be a great partner for Sonar Entertainment, as the two companies align perfectly in our approaches to premium TV programming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clooney and Heslov\u2019s Smokehouse Pictures is continuing its push into TV with this Sonar deal. Under the arrangement, the company will produce drama and comedy series for cable and streaming outlets. Smokehouse already has <em>Ms<\/em>, a miniseries about Gloria Steinem and the founding of <em>Ms Magazine,<\/em> in the works at HBO, and <em>The Studio<\/em>, an ongoing series about a movie studio in the 1990s, set up at Showtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Sonar Entertainment has entered into a first-look deal with Smokehouse Pictures, founded by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and the first project under the new arrangement will be a drama series with Making a Murderer filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":6250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1008,1009,1010,1011,1012,1013,810],"class_list":["post-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-george-clooney","tag-grant-heslov","tag-laura-ricciardi","tag-making-a-murderer","tag-moira-demos","tag-smokehouse-pictures","tag-sonar-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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