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fakeempire:

Would you like to own a piece of Gossip Girl? Have some money just burning a hole in your pocket? Interested in donating to a good cause?

Then check out this auction featuring one-of-a-kind reproductions created by APF artists especially for Gossip Girl sets (Lily’s stairwell, Chuck’s kitchen, Serena’s bedroom) and benefiting the APF (Art Production Fund):

http://www.paddle8.com/auctions/apf

The online auction runs through April 23rd, and all proceeds benefit the APF’s public art initiatives, which endeavor to reach new audiences and expand awareness through contemporary art.

fakeempire:

We’ve always thought of Gossip Girl as a love letter to New York City. So it was wonderful to get some love back from New York journalists when the show wrapped in December. Below, three of our favorite farewells:

VULTURE (Stephanie and other insiders flip the script on GG’s most fervent recappers)

http://www.vulture.com/2012/12/gossip-girl-insiders-pay-tribute-to-the-reality-index.html

NEW YORK TIMES (Josh and Stephanie talk about what makes a satisfying series finale)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/arts/television/30-rock-and-gossip-girl-say-goodbye.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

NEW YORKER (writer Emily Greenhouse offers a thoughtful tribute)

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/12/farewell-gossip-girl.html

Thanks for the love, NYC!

“You’re nobody until you’re talked about.” - Dan Humphrey

Writers / Producers

• Josh Schwartz @JoshSchwartz76
• Joshua Safran ‏@Anthologist
• Amy Kaufman ‏ @AJKaufman
• natalie krinsky ‏ @nataliekrinsky
• Jake Coburn Reuther ‏ @CoburnReuther
• dansteele ‏ @dansteele
• Annemarie Navar Gill ‏ @annienavar
• Fake Empire ‏ @fakeempireteam

Directors

• Joe Lazarov ‏ @joelazarov
• Norman Buckley ‏ @norbuck
• Bart Wenrich ‏ @Bart150

Costume

• Eric Daman @EricDaman_Style

Music

• Eduardo Ponsdomenech ‏ @edpons
• Alexandra Patsavas / Chop Shop Music @chopshopmusic 

Showrunners 2012: ‘Gossip Girl,’ ‘Hart of Dixie’s’ Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage

From their obsessive rituals (Peppermint Patties! Oatmeal! Bruce Springsteen!) to the parts of their jobs they hate most (killing characters off, dealing with agents), TV’s most influential writer-producers featured on The Hollywood Reporter’s annual list of the Top 50 Showrunners come clean about the people, things and quirky habits that keep them — and their shows — alive. 

Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, Gossip Girl, Hart of Dixie (CW) 

The show that inspired me to write:
Schwartz:The Muppet Show. Family Ties.

My big break:
Schwartz: My retrospective on the career of Steven Spielberg for my camp newsletter when I was seven.  When you are not a gifted athlete you must find other ways to impress the campers.

My TV Mentor:
Schwartz: Bob DeLaurentiswas hired to help me run my first series, The O.C.  He taught me about balancing the insanity of television with the sanity of life. Also, Stephanie Savage has taught me a ton over the years. Her taste and work ethic are simultaneously daunting and inspiring.
Savage: John McNamara, Bob DeLaurentis, Shaun Cassidy. And Josh Schwartz gave me my first script, which is the job that changed my life. 

My proudest accomplishment this year:
Schwartz: That would have to be Stella, my nine-month-old daughter.  Also I directed my first movie Fun Size, which comes out in October for Paramount. Both have been tremendous experiences for growth and learning. Only one requires diaper changing at 6:30 in the morning. 
Savage: Gossip Girl finishing, The Carrie Diaries starting and our movie Fun Size coming out — all in the same week. 

My toughest scene to write this year:
Savage: The final scene of Gossip Girl. Tears make it hard to see the keyboard.

My most absurd note I’ve ever gotten:
Schwartz: Pitching the pilot story of [NBC’s] Chuck to a network executive who just looked at me when I finished and said, “Why would you want to write that?”
Savage: “Could one of them be a cop/doctor/lawyer?” Writing serial dramas, we actually get that a lot.

The aspect of my job as showrunner that I’d rather delegate:
Schwartz: I am a firm believer that the key to surviving showrunning is delegating. On all our Fake Empire shows, we have incredible showrunners in place who are passionate, talented and surrounded by good people.
Savage: Anything that requires appearing in front of the camera.

My preferred method for breaking through writers’ block:
Schwartz: Asking someone else to write it.
Savage: Writers’ block is not really an option when you’re shooting eight pages a day, five days a week, nine months a year.

The show I’m embarrassed to admit I watch:
Schwartz: I make teen dramas, I’m not embarrassed to admit I watch anything.
Savage: I don’t believe in “guilty” pleasure.  MSNBC’s Lockup, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, every single show on Discovery ID — if it feels good, do it.

The three things you need in order to write:
Schwartz: An idea, some time and the knowledge that failing to deliver could result in a network airing color bars.
Savage: I’ve written with a broken wrist, with pneumonia. I finished a script sitting at a bus stop on Banff Avenue during a snow storm. So long as I have headphones, a playlist and my laptop, I’m good.

If I could scrub one credit from your resume, it would it be:
Schwartz: I think the healthy answer to this is they have all been learning experiences.  
Savage: None. You fall in love with everything you make.

The producing team behind the hit CW series Gossip Girl is taking on another best-selling young adult novel — and this one is bound for the big screen.

Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage of the Paramount-based Fake Empire shingle and Alloy Entertainment’s Leslie Morgenstein and Bob Levy have set up The Luxe at Paramount and have tapped Bess Wohl to pen the screenplay.

A sort of The Age of Innocence meetsGossip Girl, Luxe tracks four teens set in 19th century New York and features conflicts between old money and new money, the upper class and lower class, and star-crossed lovers. Four of the Alloy Entertainment books by Anna Godbersen have been published, all hitting the New York Times best-seller list.

The producers see the movie as a youngMoulin Rouge, a music-driven story featuring contemporary artists and fashion set against a period backdrop.

Fake Empire has been active lately. On the TV side, in addition to Gossip and the NBC seriesChuck, the company will launch Hart of Dixie on the CW in the fall. It is also in the middle of production on Fun Size, a Halloween comedy starring Victoria Justicethat was written byColbert Report scribe Max Werner and is serving as Schwartz’s feature directing debut. The company also is producing an adaptation of Joe Schreiber’s Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick and Let it Snow, based on a YA novel.

Alloy, a producer on Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants as well as ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars and the CW’s Vampire Diaries, is developing Sweep at Universal Pictures andDuplikate at Fox 2000. The Robot, an Alloy book due out later this month, is being developed internally as a film project.

Email: Borys.Kit@thr.com

Twitter: @Borys_Kit