Project Greenlight Returns for Third Season

Posted on January 30, 2004

Miramax Television has joined forces with Bravo for a new season of Project Greenlight, the Emmy nominated filmmaking contest. The show is a behind-the-scenes filmmaking documentary TV series that chronicles the challenges of first-time-writers and directorse. For the show's third season, partners LivePlanet and Miramax are hopeful they will be able to create a series and a film that will revolve around a genre script such as horror or thriller. The past two season's films were based on coming of age stories. The agreement with Bravo calls for nine, one-hour episodes to air on the network.

"Project Greenlight has tapped into this country's appetite for wanting to know how a film gets made, with all of the ups and downs that are a regular part of the process and thus we want to continue to bring this compelling series to audiences," said Miramax Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein. "Once it was decided to move the show to a network with a broader household reach, Bravo became a clear choice. We are proud to add Greenlight to our wide ranging relationship with Bravo as we have seen what they have done to create a groundswell for some of their other series and we are confident they will be able to help us create similar interest in this series as well. The potential of a horror or thriller film is a great way to infuse a new angle into the show, just as we did last year by separating the screenwriter from the directors."

Project Greenlight contest rules and dates will be announced shortly. Plans call for the contest winners to be selected by mid 2004 and the film is anticipated to begin production in late summer/early fall of the same year. The series is slated to begin airing on Bravo in early 2005.

"We're thrilled to be partnered with Miramax and producers Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chris Moore on the next installment of Project Greenlight," said Bravo President Jeff Gaspin. "We have long admired Miramax's contribution to film and television, and this show represents our companies desire to offer viewers risk-taking and exciting programming. This glimpse into the creative process of filmmaking is a perfect fit for our brand and we're thrilled with the prospect of providing Project Greenlight the kind of elevated platform it deserves on Bravo, as well as adding a new twist by focusing on a genre film."

Project Greenlight is executive produced for Miramax Television by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore and Sean Bailey of LivePlanet along with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz of Magical Elves. William Morris is packaging the series. The agreement for Bravo and Project Greenlight was negotiated on behalf of Miramax by Bob Osher, co-president of production, and Alan Duke, executive vice president of business affairs, TV & home video, and for Bravo by Mitch Salem. The series will be overseen for Miramax by Eli Holzman, vice president of television. Executive producers for Bravo are Frances Berwick and Jamila Hunter.

Bravo, an NBC Cable Network since December 2002, is currently seen in 75 million homes and was the first service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. Today, Bravo offers arts and entertainment programming featuring original series, feature films (both independent and mainstream), theater, dance, music and documentaries. Bravo programming includes Inside the Actors Studio hosted by James Lipton, Emmy Award-winning Cirque du Soleil Fire Within and this summer's breakout hit Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.



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