Network Talks Underway to Develop “Momo” into Weekly TV Series
September 28 2009 - 4:15PM
Business Wire
“Momo” executive producers Dimitri Logothetis and Nicholas
Celozzi have announced that talks are underway with networks in the
U.S. and Canada to develop the project as a weekly series for
television. “Momo” is one of six titles for which Diverse Media
Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: DVME) has optioned to purchase a 30%
interest from Elio Pictures, Ltd.
Diverse Media Group CEO Chris Nassif calls the development “a
huge step forward in our company’s transition to a complete
entertainment and media services provider.”
Logothetis and Celozzi have been working for seven years on the
life story of infamous mob boss Sam Giancana. After securing the
exclusive story rights from Francine Giancana to her father’s life
story, they originally set the project up at Warner Bros. and
Turner as a mini-series. Logothetis calculates development costs to
date at $75,000. With the success of the 60's-based AMC series “Mad
Men,” they decided that “Momo” could also satisfy weekly audience
interest in that period of Americana. Giancana was born in 1908 and
killed in 1974.
Celozzi describes the series as real-life “Sopranos” meets “The
Gangster Chronicles.” Sam Giancana was a very compelling
personality. As a family man, Sam lost his wife to a rheumatic
heart disease, raised three daughters, supported an extended family
and was one of the most powerful men of the twentieth century.
Through union ties Giancana helped swing the Illinois vote during
the Kennedy/Nixon election. He was the first mobster to claim his
rights to the Fifth Amendment in front of live television cameras
while questioned by Bobby Kennedy during the McClellan committee
hearings. Sam had a long-standing friendship with Frank Sinatra,
the leader of the so called “Rat Pack,” who played in Chicago
nightclubs run by Giancana.
The other Elio Pictures titles optioned by Diverse Media Group
include “The Lost Angel” (2005) with Judd Nelson and Celozzi,
“Framed by Seduction” (2004) starring Robert Patrick, “Nightmare
Boulevard” (2004) starring Claudia Christian and Corbin Bernsen,
“7-10 Split” (2007) featuring Tara Reid and Rachel Hunter, and
“Senior Skip Day” (2008) with Lea Thompson and Norm MacDonald.
The option is being purchased with 25 million shares of Diverse
Media Group restricted common stock, valued at $50,000. The Company
has until March 30, 2010, to exercise its option for a cash price
of an additional $400,000.
About Diverse Media Group
Diverse Media Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: DVME)
(http://www.diversemediagroupinc.com) is an entertainment company
that aggregates resources and expertise across all aspects of the
media industry. At its core is the subsidiary Diverse Talent Group,
which for nearly three decades has provided representation and
project packaging to a wide-ranging, award-winning slate of actor
and literary clients working in motion pictures, broadcast and
cable network series and commercials; in 2008, it was ranked the
10th largest talent agency in Hollywood in the annual Los Angeles
Business Journal survey. In
2000, Nassif created Diverse Media Group to extend the agency’s
rich expertise and deep industry relationships and create
entertainment properties and content that would span all emerging
media platforms. The Diverse subsidiary Talent Quest America, Inc.,
a multimedia project to identify emerging talent, will launch in
2009.
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