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Today, RMG client/writer Andre Bormanis begins the first of 22 episodes of Tron, the Disney Animated Series, in company with showrunners Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, series writers for LOST. Spawned from the highly anticipated TRON: LEGACY feature , set to arrive in theaters this December,  the animated series will follow a ten episode TRON miniseries and will premiere sometime in 2012.

Andre Bormanis  is best known for writing and advising on a number of Star Trek Enterprise, and Voyager episodes in addition to his technical advising for the Star Trek feature film, “Insurrection.” Most recently, Andre was a supervising producer for the television series, “Legend of the Seeker.” Andre’s intense background in rocket science and space exploration as well as his long history in television made him the perfect candidate for the animated series.

It all began in 1982 when the original Tron feature film hit theaters. An arcade video game shortly followed. Now, in the new age of advanced technology and special effects, Disney is retackling the project to give audiences what they have been craving since the ’82 was released.

RMG congratulates clients Roger Schulman and Michael Curtis for their 2010 Primetime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Children’s Program, “Jonas,” starring the Jonas Brothers. We wish them as well as Co-Executive Producer Ivan Menchell the very best of luck.

This is the second Primetime Emmy nomination for Curtis and first for Schulman, creators of  “Jonas”, which follows Nick, Kevin, and Joe in their attempts to balance their rock star careers with their teenage lifestyles.

Support the entire Jonas group by watching the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, August 29^th.

For more Jonas information, visit http://jonasworld.org/?p=17247 .

Be sure to pick up the latest issue of The New Yorker and read Tim Long’s new piece, “Long, Hot Summer”.  Here’s a small preview of the article and a link to read the rest on the official website:

LONG, HOT SUMMER by Tim Long

“It’s summer again in the city—or so the calendar would have us believe. But, to those of us who lived through it, the only real New York summer occurred in 1977, when the city was ravaged by drugs, drugged by corruption, corrupted by murder, and murdered by ravagement. Here are a few selections from my journal that summer.

MAY 27th: Arrived at Port Authority with a brand-new diploma in one hand and a suitcase full of dreams in the other. Immediately robbed of diploma and suitcase by knife-wielding, glue-sniffing teen-agers. Am now filing report with Officer Raymond O’Malley, a strapping (six feet six!) N.Y.P.D. officer who really seems to care. Not all New Yorkers are bad!

MAY 27th (evening): Officer O’Malley turned out to be two knife-wielding, glue-sniffing teens inside a cop costume. They stole my wallet and undergarments. All New Yorkers are bad.” …….