Smokehouse has just signed a deal with Sony Pictures Television. The two-year agreement calls for Smokehouse to develop and produce comedy and drama series for broadcast, cable and digital platforms.
According to Smokehouse’s IMDB Pro page, they are not developing any TV project yet. The only TV series they have done is TNT’s Memphis Beat. Smokehouse produced 4 episodes in 2011.
George Clooney Inks Overall Deal With Sony Pictures TV
6/9/2014 THR
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/george-clooney-inks-deal-sony-710491
George Clooney is joining the ranks of big-screen stars heading to the small screen.
The Oscar winner’s Smokehouse Pictures — which he runs with partner Grant Heslov — has inked a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television to develop and produce comedy and drama series for all platforms, including broadcast, cable and digital, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The deal expands Clooney’s relationship with Sony, where Smokehouse has produced features including The Monuments Men, August: Osage County, Argo and more. The company previously had a first-look TV deal with Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Bros. Television. Under the latter, Clooney and the company produced TNT’s Jason Lee cop drama Memphis Beat, which ran for one season on the cable network.
Heslov, meanwhie, has a long roster of TV credits as an actor. As an exec producer, his credits include Memphis Beat, Unscripted and K Street.
At SPT, Clooney joins a roster of producers including Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan, Shawn Ryan (The Shield), David Shore (House), Barry Josephson (Bones) and Televisa, among others.
Clooney becomes the latest big-screen star to ink TV deals. He joins Steve Carell and Jessica Biel (both of whom are based at Universal Cable Productions), among others.
George Clooney & Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures Inks Overall Deal With Sony Pictures TV
6/9/2014 Deadline.com
http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/george-clooney-grant-heslovs-smokehouse-pictures-inks-overall-deal-with-sony-pictures-tv/
Since launching Smokehouse in 2006, Clooney and Heslov have been focused primarily on features, developing and producing films that the two directed, like Leatherheads, The Ides Of March and The Monuments Men (Clooney) and The Men Who Stare At Goats (Heslov) as well as features directed by others, most recently Argo, helmed by Ben Affleck and last year’s August: Osage County, directed by John Wells. Clooney comes from a strong TV background, having started in television as an actor and then producer. CAA-repped Smokehouse has a history at Sony — the company moved its feature deal from Warner Bros. to Sony in 2009.
Feature projects in development (10 feature films):
Coronado High ( Drama)
– A look at the lives of a group of young drug smugglers.
Dangerously Funny (Comedy)
– Folk and comedy duo tom and Dick Smothers Brothers work their way up from 1960s San Francisco clubs to landing their own primetime TV show.
Untitled George Clooney Project (Crime | Thriller)
Starring George Clooney
The Yankee Commandante (Drama) (with Focus Features)
– An American named William Alexander Morgan travels to Cuba in the late 1950s to lead a guerrilla force against President Batista and join sides with Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution.
Director: George Clooney
The Monster of Florence (Crime | Drama | Mystery) (with FOX 2000 Pictures)
– A reconstruction of eight double homicides believed to have been committed single-handedly between 1968 and 1985 in and around Florence, Italy.
Starring George Clooney.
The Innocent Man (Drama)
– The story of Ron Williamson, a man who sat on Oklahoma’s death row for 11 years for a crime he didn’t commit. Based on John Grisham’s “The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town.”
The $700 Billion Man (Drama)
– The true story of a Government bailout manager who moved to a cabin in the woods after the U.S.’s financial meltdown in 2008.
Pioneer (Thriller)
– A man working on an oil pipeline investigates his brother’s death. Based on the Norwegian film ‘Pioneer’.
Our Brand Is Crisis (Comedy | Drama)
– A feature film based on the documentary “Our Brand Is Crisis”, which focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
Starring George Clooney
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (Drama | Thriller) (with Civil Dawn Pictures)
– A thriller set against the backdrop of the war on terror, The Challenge tells the inside story of a historic Supreme Court showdown. At its center are a Navy JAG and a young constitutional law professor who, in the aftermath of 9/11, find themselves defending their nation in the unlikeliest of ways: by suing the president of the United States on behalf of an accused terrorist in order to prevent the American government from breaking the law and violating the Constitution.