{"id":10092,"date":"2020-10-06T10:07:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T14:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/john-requa-glenn-ficarra-tie-fox-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T12:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T16:05:30","slug":"john-requa-glenn-ficarra-tie-up-with-fox-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/john-requa-glenn-ficarra-tie-up-with-fox-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"John Requa &#038; Glenn Ficarra Tie Up with FOX Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOX Entertainment has entered into a broadcast first-look deal with writers, directors and producers John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (<em>NEXT<\/em>, <em>This Is Us<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Requa and Ficarra directed the pilot and serve as executive producers on FOX\u2019s all-new event series <em>NEXT<\/em>, starring John Slattery. Requa and Ficarra will develop series, as well as direct program pilots, for FOX.<\/p>\n<p>Greenlit programs will be owned by FOX Entertainment, and Requa and Ficarra will serve as executive producers under their Zaftig Films banner. Their production partner, Charlie Gogolak, will also executive produce projects developed between FOX Entertainment and Zaftig Films.<\/p>\n<p>Ficarra and Requa are screenwriters (<i>Bad Santa<\/i>,<i> Jungle Cruise<\/i>) and directors (<i>Crazy, Stupid, Love<\/i>;<i> Focus<\/i>;<i> Whisky Tango Foxtrot<\/i>). They were nominated for a WGA Award for their debut film, <i>I Love You Phillip Morris<\/i>, and serve as directors and executive producers on the television shows\u00a0<i>This Is Us<\/i> and <em>NEXT<\/em>.\u00a0 Recent credits, under their banner Zaftig Films, include <i>Smallfoot<\/i>,<i> The Sinner<\/i> and <i>Patriot<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving had the privilege to witness first-hand John and Glenn\u2019s brilliant approach to harnessing the creative process and bringing compelling television to life on <em>This Is Us<\/em> and, most recently, our new drama, <em>NEXT<\/em>, Charlie Collier and I always kept our eyes on the opportunity to build on our budding relationship with them,\u201d said Michael Thorn, president of entertainment at FOX Entertainment. \u201cJohn and Glenn joining FOX Entertainment\u2019s growing portfolio of talent further illustrates the value of our strategy to create innovative models that highlight our independent position in the market and empower our partners to do their best work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added Requa and Ficarra, \u201cWe are over the moon to be in business with Charlie Collier, Michael Thorn and Charlie Andrews in this latest iteration of our continuing creative partnership. Their encouragement, support and trust have inspired us as writers and producers, and we thank them for the chance to work in an entirely new way\u2014directly with the network and with an incredible amount of artistic freedom. Unfortunately, along with our producing partner Charlie Gogolak, emails will be eternally confusing with too many Charlies&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX Entertainment has entered into a broadcast first-look deal with writers, directors and producers John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (NEXT, This Is Us).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":10093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2107],"class_list":["post-10092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-fox-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>John Requa &amp; Glenn Ficarra Tie Up with FOX Entertainment - TVUSA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FOX Entertainment has entered into a broadcast first-look deal with writers, directors and producers John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (NEXT, This Is Us).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/john-requa-glenn-ficarra-tie-up-with-fox-entertainment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Requa &amp; 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