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I hear top unscripted producer Tom Forman, CEO of RelativityReal, is taking out a reality series project based on this year’s hit Sundance documentary Catfish, which is being distributed by Relativity Media’s Rogue Pictures. There is significant interest in the unscripted format, a segmented doc series revolving around relationships that have started online.
Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s documentary Catfish chronicles a 24-year old photographer’s search for the truth after he starts a cyber romance with the sister of a youth who takes an interest in his work but soon becomes suspicious that his online friends may not be who they say they are. The docu was a big crowd pleaser at Sundance and sparked a bidding war before getting snagged by Relativity. The company reportedly payed close to $1.5 million for an U.S. and UK rights to Catfish, which is eyeing a release later this year through Universal.
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Sounds interesting but I’d sure appreciate a little more diversity in programming on Television.
There’s no way that that film was a real documentary. Either the hipsters were incredibly dumb or else they knew exactly what they were doing.
Can you call it a reality show if it is being created by someone?
Catfish was a total bust of a movie. The public is too smart not to see through it.
there was no bidding war. it sold way after the fact b/c Brett Ratner championed it at Relativity.
The only question u have about Catfish is; has MJ pushed out Marcus yet???