Motherhood going to ABC, Rogen's YouTube vid to be feature film
After garnering 137,000 views on YouTube, a mock trailer for a nonexistent film starring Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel is being turned into a feature film by Mandate Pictures, which is looking to duplicate its success with surprise comedy flick Juno. Smacks of turning successful SNL shorts into movies. The clip is here.
Also leaping to a bigger screen: In the Motherhood, a semi-comic, semi-funny web series "conceived by Suave and Sprint" starring Leah Remini, who's wacky scientologist, and Jenny McCarthy, who has big boobs. Motherhood's going to ABC, which is developing the show as a mid-season comedy.
