6.04.2012

New Series ‘Mr. Box Office’



  Deadline and the Hollywood Reporter, reports Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios has just started filming Mr. Box Office, starring actor/comedian Bill Bellamy
The show was created and written by Allen and Scott Satin (First Family) centers on actor Marcus Jackson (Bellamy), one of the biggest movie stars in the world who, after pushing a paparazzi, finds himself having to put his film career on hold, while relegated to a long-term community service stint teaching underprivileged high school kids in South Central.
Co-starring in the project is Rick Foxwho will play a physical education teacher at the school, Vivica A. Fox will play a cougar history teacher, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Tim Meadows and Gary Busey.  Allen and Satin are executive producing with Bellamy, Barry Katz and Carolyn Folks.

 Mr. Box Office is aiming at producing a minimum of 104 episodes over two years and eying a primetime launch this fall on the TribuneWeigel and CBS TV station groups.