DreamWorks stays active in acquisition market by picking up comedy pitch “Doggy Day Care from writer Laurie Craig:
The comedy is about what really happens when dogs get together without human supervision. Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas (“Mona Lisa Smile”) and Julie Goldstein (“Chicago”), who created the original story with Craig, are producing.Craig, who is repped by Original Artists, wrote the screenplay for the DreamWorks feature “Paulie” and co-wrote “Ella Enchanted.” She also co-wrote the adaptation of the Beverly Cleary book, “Ramona and Beezus,” which Fox 2000 is producing for an August release.
Craig is repped by Original Artists.
The pitch must have been picked up solely on the basis of the prior work of the writer…if I were a studio exec inundated with thousands of pitches, treatments and scripts a year this would have been first on my rejection pile.