RMG client Jeff Woolnough has received a Best Director nomination in the Television Movie/Miniseries category for his work on Keep Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story at the 9^th Annual Directors Guild of Canada Awards, being held on Saturday, September 25, 2010 in the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. In addition, Keep Your Head Up Kid is also up for Best Television Movie/Miniseries, Best Editor, and Best Sound Editor.

Keep Your Head Up Kid tells the life story of Don Cherry, a former hockey player and coach. Part one starts with Cherry’s childhood and takes us through his career in the minor leagues, including his one and only NHL game with the Boston Bruins. Part two explores the years he spent coaching the Rochester Americans and the Boston Bruins, and then his transition to a career in broadcasting.

Woolnough also received a nomination for Best Television Series (Drama) for his outstanding direction of Being Erica, Episode 109 – “Everything She Wants”.  All of us here at Rain Management Group wish Jeff and his crew the best of luck come award night.

LIFETIME’S THE PREGNANCY PACT BECOMES AD-SUPPORTED CABLE’S NUMBER ONE RATED MOVIE AMONG WOMEN 18-34 IN OVER 10 YEARS

Original Movie about Teen Pregnancy also Becomes Cable’s Most Watched Film in Women 18-34 Since 1994, Women 18-49 Since 2001 and Adults 18-34 Since 2002,

Generating Highest Delivery Among Multiple Demos in Network’s 26 Year History

4.3 Rating in Women 18-49 Places Film in Top Five of all Original Movies Ever for Network

With 4.2 Household Rating, The Pregnancy Pact Averages 5.9 Million Total Viewers

Lifetime Television’s Original Movie The Pregnancy Pact, directed by RMG client Rosemary Rodriguez (Acts of Worship, Rescue Me, Castle) and starring Camryn Manheim, Nancy Travis and Thora Birch, generated strong ratings in its January 23 world premiere, including a 4.3 rating among Women 18-49, a 4.8 in Women 18-34, a 3.7 Women 25-54 rating, a 3.65 among Women 18+ and a 4.2 in Households.  The Pregnancy Pact’s impressive performance propelled the film to become the number one rated movie on ad-supported cable in over 10 years among Women 18-34 since 1998, in over three years among Women 18-49 since 2006, as well as Adults 18-34 (3.1) since 2004.

In delivery, it was the most watched movie on ad-supported cable in over 15 years among Women 18-34 since 1994 (1,371,272 viewers), among Women 18-49 since 2001 (2,476,310) and Adults 18-34 since 2002 (1,772,952).  It also is the most watched Lifetime Original Movie premiere in Lifetime’s 26 year history among Women 18-34, Women 18-49, Adults 18-34 and Adults 18-49 (3,220,994).  The film averaged 5,855,624 Total Viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.

The Pregnancy Pact was also the second highest rated Original Movie premiere for the network ever among Women 18-34 and Adults 18-34.  In addition, of the 214 Lifetime Original Movies, the film ranked as the 4^th highest rated movie among Women 18-49 in Lifetime’s history.

Online, The Pregnancy Pact significantly increased traffic to the network’s official website, myLifetime.com, which generated more than 3.8 million page views over the weekend, the second most trafficked weekend in the site’s history.

Our director client Rosemary Rodriguez (Castle, Rescue Me, Acts of Worship) will be premiering her new movie, The Pregnancy Pact, this Saturday, January 23 at 9:00 PM on the Lifetime Channel.

The Pregnancy Pact stars Thora Birch (American Beauty, Alaska) as an on-line magazine journalist returning to her old town to investigate the sudden rise of teenage pregnancies. Also starring is Camryn Manheim (Ghost Whisperer, The Practice) as the school nurse in the town. The story is set against the real-life news reports out of Gloucester, Massachusetts of a stark rise in teenage pregnancy.

Check out the trailer from Lifetime below!

More information on The Pregnancy Pact can be found on Lifetime’s website, or by clicking here.

RMG client and director Wayne McClammy will direct CBS Films’ romantic comedy, “Pumas”.  Jennifer Aniston is attached to star in the film, and Melissa Stack will write the screenplay.  Aniston will also produce along with Jon Gordon, Scott Z. Burns and Kristin Hahn.

The story takes centerstage with a couple of thirty-something women who make a habit of romancing younger men and take a French skiing vacation that defies their romantic expectations.

“Pumas” marks the first major feature helmed by McClammy, who received great notoriety and acclaim from his work on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” with his sketches, I’m F’ing Matt Damon – and the aptly titled follow-up, I’m F’ing Ben Affleck.

ABC Family tackles the world of competitive gymnastics in their latest original series, Make It or Break It.  Client Steve Miner (The Wonder Years, Dawson’s Creek, Wildfire) directed the pilot episode, which aired last night and is already available for online viewing HERE.

The show has been well-received, leading critics like Mary McNamara of the L.A. Times to note, “ I know a new family-friendly show is doing its job if my kids beg me to play the pilot when their friends are over.”

You can also check out some other reviews at Slate.com and Variety.  Make It or Break It airs every Monday on ABC Family at 9/8c.

Director Rosemary Rodriguez becomes the first woman to direct F/X’s smash hit Rescue Me, starring Denis Leary.  Tomorrow night’s episode, airing at 10 p.m., is the first of three episodes from this season that were shot by our client.

“Rescue Me revolves around the lives of the men in a New York City firehouse, the crew of 62 Truck. Examining the fraternal nature and relationships of firefighters, the series tackles the daily drama of the life-and-death situations associated with being a firefighter, while exploring the ways the men use dark humor to protect their true emotions.”

To learn more about this tremendously popular series, catch up on past episodes, or get the scoop on this new season please visit the show’s homepage here.

We will be sure to keep you updated on Rosemary’s other two episodes that will air in July.

Client Rosemary Rodriguez (Rescue Me, Without A Trace, Third Watch) directed tonight’s episode of The Unusuals, airing at 10 p.m./9c on ABC.  The show stars Amber Tamblyn as Detective Casey Shraeger, Jeremy Renner as Detective Jason Walsh, Harold Perrineau as Detective Leo Banks, Monique Gabriela Curnen as Detective Allison Beaumont, Josh Close as Detective Henry Cole, Kai Lennox as Detective Eddie Alvarez, with Terry Kinney as Sgt. Harvey Brown and Adam Goldberg as Detective Eric Delahoy.

Everyone should also check out Rosemary’s feature film, Acts of Worship, which is available now on DVD.  You can buy it from Amazon here.

Clients Kristin Hanggi (Best Direction of a Musical, Rock of Ages) and Marc Kudisch (Best Featured Actor in a Musical, 9 to 5: The Musical) both received well-deserved Tony nominations this morning.  We could not be more excited for Kristin and Marc for all their accomplishments!

Rock of Ages received 5 nominations total, including Best Musical.  9 to 5: The Musical was right behind Rock with 4 nominations of its own, including Allison Janney, Best Leading Actress in a Musical, and Dolly Parton for Best Original Score.

You can see the full list of nominees and other Tony news here.