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In the Weinstein Co's first major move in scripted television since launching a TV division in January and tapping Meryl Poster to run it, the company is finalizing a deal with ABC for a TV version of The Nanny Diaries to be written by Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and executive produced by Ryan Seacrest. This marks the first foray into scripted TV for reality mogul Seacrest, who signaled earlier this year his intention to expand into comedy and drama. Seacrest is executive producing the hourlong project with Harvey Weinstein and Sherman-Palladino. The Nanny Diaries, which will be laid off at ABC Studios, will be based on the 2002 bestselling book by former Manhattan nannies Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, which the Weinstein Co. turned into a feature in 2007 with Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti starring. It is a satiric look at upper-class Manhattan society through the eyes of...

"The Lincoln Lawyer" and "The Nanny Diaries" may both live again at ABC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The network has ordered a script for "Lincoln." Based on the hit Lionsgate film starring Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Phillippe, the TV version of "Lincoln Lawyer" will be co-written by the film's scribes John Romano and Michael Connelly (who also wrote the novel). Gary Luchessi would act as producer for the potential drama series. Meanwhile, "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is adapting the 2003 novel "The Nanny Diaries" by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus as a potential drama series. ABC is close to ordering...

Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is busy working on a new drama project for ABC. Sherman-Palladino is looking to adapt the 2002 book The Nanny Diaries into a TV series for the network.

ABC is close to ordering a script from Sherman-Palladino through its sister studio, ABC Studios, which is behind the project. The Nanny Diaries centers on a group of nannies who work for upper class Manhattan parents; Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus wrote the book, which was published in 2002. (A sequel, Nanny Returns, was released in 2009.)...

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"The Nanny Diaries" is the second feature film by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the writing-directing team who created the memorable grunge-comic epic "American Splendor". The comedy has several inspired moments and a genuine flair for the satiric, but overall the film leaves you cold. Maybe it's the subject matter -- the woes and tribulations of a nanny working for a narcissistic and entitled Upper East Side family. Naturally, you scorn the family and would sympathize with a poor nanny from, say, Guatemala who desperately needs this job. But the film's nanny is glamorous Scarlett Johansson, a college grad who uses the job to drop out of life for a while to sort out her goals and identity despite having no skills as a nanny.

The Weinstein Co. film has kicked around the release schedule for a while, and it's easy to see why. Satire is hard to market. But at this point, you wonder why no one wanted to wait for September and school to begin. Friday's release might be good counterprogramming, but the film isn't likely to develop legs to carry it much beyond Labor Day.

The movie starts off well. Berman and Pulcini's screenplay, derived from the 2002 satirical novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, imagines that its nanny, Annie Braddock, is an anthropology major from New Jersey. Thus, she scrutinizes her new environment as if she were studying the strange culture and tribal rituals of these overprivileged Manhattan natives. She even envisions them in diorama cases in the Museum of Natural History -- species of an exotic world with only a vague connection to what most people would consider real life.

Another image and constant reference throughout the movie is Mary Poppins. This iconic nanny is everyone's movie connection to the world of nannies, yet she is of course a children's fairy tale heroine. A real nanny, Annie soon discovers, is a baby sitter, maid, dresser, dishwasher, delivery person and dog walker.

Many of these anthropological observations are sharp and comic, yet you can't build a movie around them. Somewhere along the line, the family has to emerge from the world of caricature or it will possess no dramatic life. Unfortunately, it never does.

Annoyingly but tellingly, no one has a real name here. The family consists of Mr. and Mrs. X. The handsome and wealthy university grad upstairs is Harvard Hottie (Chris Evans). Even Annie soon becomes, simply, Nanny. Anyway, Mrs. X (Laura Linney, all-too-deadly accurate) is smug, selfish, snotty and entirely self-possessed yet blind to her husband's indifference to her. Mr. X (Paul Giamatti, excellent yet wasted) is a total bastard, too consumed with mergers of the corporate and extramarital kind to play the role of paterfamilias.

Nicholas Reese Art plays the young son with adorable precociousness, but he has no real character. He's a brat for a while and then, in a remarkable transformation a real-life nanny can only dream about, becomes a little angel. Nanny's secret? She lets him eat peanut butter from a jar, apparently something no one on the Upper East Side would ever do.

Things heat up with Harvard Hottie, yet this feels like a tacked-on relationship having little to do with the movie, unless the filmmakers are suggesting that Annie's best option is to become a trophy wife. Ditto her relationship with a best girl pal -- played well by songstress Alicia Keys -- that goes nowhere.

Johansson is game. There's nothing to criticize in this performance, but there's nothing to get excited about, either. It's solid though uninspired work.

The same can be applied to this film. Unlike "American Splendor", "Nanny" feels formulaic with a few cute touches but unmarked by the fierce wit of "Splendor".

Production credits are smooth as silk as befit its haughty milieu.

THE NANNY DIARIES

MGM/the Weinstein Co.

FilmColony

Credits:

Screenwriters-directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

Producer: Richard N. Gladstein

Executive producers: Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Kelly Carnichael, Dany Wolf

Director of photography: Terry Stacey

Production designer: Mark Ricker

Music: Mark Suozzo

Costume designer: Michaeal Wilkinson

Editor: Robert Pulcini

Cast:

Annie Braddock: Scarlett Johansson

Mrs. X: Laura Linney

Mr. X: Paul Giamatti

Grayer: Nicholas Reese Art

Lynette: Alicia Keys

Harvard Hottie: Chris Evans

Running time -- 105 minutes

MPAA rating: PG-13...

This review was written for the festival screening of "The Nanny Diaries"."The Nanny Diaries" is the second feature film by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the writing-directing team who created the memorable grunge-comic epic "American Splendor". The comedy has several inspired moments and a genuine flair for the satiric, but overall the film leaves you cold. Maybe it's the subject matter -- the woes and tribulations of a nanny working for a narcissistic and entitled Upper East Side family. Naturally, you scorn the family and would sympathize with a poor nanny from, say, Guatemala who desperately needs this job. But the film's nanny is glamorous Scarlett Johansson, a college grad who uses the job to drop out of life for a while to sort out her goals and identity despite having no skills as a nanny.

The Weinstein Co. film has kicked around the release schedule for a while, and it's easy to see why. Satire is hard to market. But at this point, you wonder why no one wanted to wait for September and school to begin. Friday's release might be good counterprogramming, but the film isn't likely to develop legs to carry it much beyond Labor Day.

The movie starts off well. Berman and Pulcini's screenplay, derived from the 2002 satirical novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, imagines that its nanny, Annie Braddock, is an anthropology major from New Jersey. Thus, she scrutinizes her new environment as if she were studying the strange culture and tribal rituals of these overprivileged Manhattan natives. She even envisions them in diorama cases in the Museum of Natural History -- species of an exotic world with only a vague connection to what most people would consider real life.

Another image and constant reference throughout the movie is Mary Poppins. This iconic nanny is everyone's movie connection to the world of nannies, yet she is of course a children's fairy tale heroine. A real nanny, Annie soon discovers, is a baby sitter, maid, dresser, dishwasher, delivery person and dog walker.

Many of these anthropological observations are sharp and comic, yet you can't build a movie around them. Somewhere along the line, the family has to emerge from the world of caricature or it will possess no dramatic life. Unfortunately, it never does.

Annoyingly but tellingly, no one has a real name here. The family consists of Mr. and Mrs. X. The handsome and wealthy university grad upstairs is Harvard Hottie (Chris Evans). Even Annie soon becomes, simply, Nanny. Anyway, Mrs. X (Laura Linney, all-too-deadly accurate) is smug, selfish, snotty and entirely self-possessed yet blind to her husband's indifference to her. Mr. X (Paul Giamatti, excellent yet wasted) is a total bastard, too consumed with mergers of the corporate and extramarital kind to play the role of paterfamilias.

Nicholas Reese Art plays the young son with adorable precociousness, but he has no real character. He's a brat for a while and then, in a remarkable transformation a real-life nanny can only dream about, becomes a little angel. Nanny's secret? She lets him eat peanut butter from a jar, apparently something no one on the Upper East Side would ever do.

Things heat up with Harvard Hottie, yet this feels like a tacked-on relationship having little to do with the movie, unless the filmmakers are suggesting that Annie's best option is to become a trophy wife. Ditto her relationship with a best girl pal -- played well by songstress Alicia Keys -- that goes nowhere.

Johansson is game. There's nothing to criticize in this performance, but there's nothing to get excited about, either. It's solid though uninspired work.

The same can be applied to this film. Unlike "American Splendor", "Nanny" feels formulaic with a few cute touches but unmarked by the fierce wit of "Splendor".

Production credits are smooth as silk as befit its haughty milieu.

THE NANNY DIARIES

MGM/the Weinstein Co.

FilmColony

Credits:

Screenwriters-directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

Producer: Richard N. Gladstein

Executive producers: Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Kelly Carnichael, Dany Wolf

Director of photography: Terry Stacey

Production designer: Mark Ricker

Music: Mark Suozzo

Costume designer: Michaeal Wilkinson

Editor: Robert Pulcini

Cast:

Annie Braddock: Scarlett Johansson

Mrs. X: Laura Linney

Mr. X: Paul Giamatti

Grayer: Nicholas Reese Art

Lynette: Alicia Keys

Harvard Hottie: Chris Evans

Running time -- 105 minutes

MPAA rating: PG-13...

The release date of Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson's new movie has been delayed for five months, in order to stand a better chance for next year's awards ceremonies. The Nanny Diaries - an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus - stars Johansson alongside Laura Linney and Chris Evans; the comedy was originally due for release later this month. But production bosses have now pushed back the film's release to September, in the hope that it will benefit come awards time from better scheduling. A source tells PageSix, "It's better for awards consideration. This is a better plan."...

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Singer Alicia Keys is teaming up with Lost in Translation actress Scarlett Johansson for the big screen version of The Nanny Diaries. Johansson stars as a working-class woman who becomes a nanny to a wealthy New York City family, while Keys takes the part of her best friend. This is the second movie role for the singer - she has just finished filming Smokin' Aces with Ben Affleck, Don Cheadle and Jason Bateman. The film, based on the best-selling book by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin, will begin shooting in New York City this month.

Actress Laura Linney has signed on to star alongside Scarlett Johansson in the big screen version of hit book The Nanny Diaries. Hollywood producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein will adapt the best-seller by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus for the big screen. The story centers around Annie Braddock, a college student played by Johansson, who is hired as a nanny for a wealthy New York family and ends up in the elite world of Manhattan's posh Upper East Side residents. The family, whose identity is not disclosed in the book, is only referred to as "the Xs." Linney will star as the highly dysfunctional and neurotic Mrs. X, who makes Annie's life a living hell. The Nanny Diaries will be shot in New York City and will begin production next month.