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EXCLUSIVE: Who says blogging is a dead-end existence?
Columbia Pictures has made a deal to develop The Pioneer Woman, a romantic comedy that's being shaped as a potential star vehicle for Reese Witherspoon. The studio has acquired rights to thepioneerwoman.com, a blog ... Read More »
I'm still traveling (through Sunday). But I wanted to at least quickly update you on the MGM sale situation. First, the embattled studio is looking even more beat up this week now that MGM's Hot Tub Time Machine is tracking just mediocre despite earmarking $45 million on domestic P&A. Ugh, another MGM loser. Anyway, as you know, final bids are due on Friday. After a lot of hemming and hawing, 5 parties have been in the mix considering 2nd-round bids for MGM which put itself up for sale last year after it couldn't keep making payments on $3.7 billion of debt. But who's in and who's out?
As I've been saying all along, the only bid that will come in for certain is Time Warner's and everybody that I talk to says that bid will be well below $2 billion. That's too low to satisfy anyone among MGM's big creditors. My understanding, too, is that John Malone's Liberty Media will not be making a final bid (which Bloomberg reported this morning quoting sources as saying that "Liberty’s assessment of MGM’s value fell below a price company executives believed would be acceptable to the Los Angeles-based studio’s creditors"). I also hear that private equity firm Elliott Capital, which invests in producer Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media, won’t be making a compelling bid, or maybe won't bid at all. *UPDATE: Yep, they've dropped out...*
Nobody knows what Lionsgate is going to do and whether it can ... Read More »
From Deadline|London editor Tim Adler: Bob Sillerman, 
the chairman of CKX which owns American Idol producer 19 Entertainment, and Simon Fuller will be in Los Angeles next week thrashing out the latest Idol contract with Fox. It was ... Read More »
From Deadline|London editor Tim Adler: 
The Tourist only started filming in Paris on February 23rd. It began shooting in Venice on Monday. Today, production was shut down there because too many fans showed up trying to get pics. God knows what else will happen since cast and crew will be in Italy until the end of May. Little wonder why, already, the European distributor Studio Canal plans the biggest ever release on between 1,500 to 2,000 screens across Europe. It's the first movie Studio Canal will go day-and-date across all three territories where it has operations: France, Germany and the UK. Although there’s no specific date yet, the thriller may be released as early as Christmas. The French company is keen to get behind The Tourist because it’s a remake of its own 2005 film, Anthony Zimmer. That, and it stars what’s surely the world’s hottest pairing right now: Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. Sony Pictures will distribute The Tourist domestically, while producer Graham King’s GK Films is selling smaller territories. RAI Cinema has already taken the film for Italy. Depp plays an American tourist drawn into a web of intrigue by a female Interpol agent who’s tracking down a criminal who used to be her lover. English screenwriter Julian Fellowes wrote the original screenplay. American screenwriters Christopher McQuarrie (Valkyrie) and Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor) did the rewrites. The production history of this movie is as convoluted as any thriller. Donnersmarck had previously dropped out of directing The Tourist. At ... Read More »
UPDATES 'FlashForward' Showrunner Exits For Features
EXCLUSIVE From Deadline|London editor Tim Adler: Sorry FlashForward fans (of which I’m one), the UK broadcaster Five ... Read More »
EXCLUSIVE From Deadline|London editor Tim Adler: With fewer places to find Stateside 
for financing films, one talent agent passing through London on his way back from Berlin told me he’d never had so many meetings with European ... Read More »
Walden Media co-founder Cary Granat has teamed with former Industrial Light and Magic exec Ed Jones to launch Bedrock Studios. It will pool resources from Reel FX, which Bernard ran, and Granat Entertainment with the goal to develop and produce family ... Read More »
Summit Entertainment paid mid 6-figures for Puzzle Palace, a cop drama pitch by David Guggenheim. The writer has some heat after selling the spec script Safe House to Universal and producer Scott Stuber. I'm told multiple bidders were in ... Read More »
Warner Bros is dusting off its classic TV series 77 Sunset Strip, and turning it into a hip period feature. The film will be directed by Greg Berlanti, the Green Lantern writer who is previewing part of his new film, Life As We Know It, at ShoWest. Stephen Chin is ... Read More »
The Tribeca Film Festival has set Ice Cube's Straight Outta L.A. as the gala premiere of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival. The documentary, which looks at how the Oakland Raiders changed the culture of Los Angeles, will premiere April 23 before ... Read More »
Fox has ordered yet another season of Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay's restaurant insult show, it was announced today by Mike Darnell, President of Alternative Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company. This comes just as his U.S. company, Gordon Ramsay New York, has been listed by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance as among the Big Apple's top 250 business "delinquent tax payers".
Interesting that Management 360 has just hired GQ Senior West Coast Editor Chris Huvane as a manager. This doesn't happen often in Hollywood. Magazine types become producers, publicists, and consultants, yes. Managers? Hardly. Although Huvane probably falls more into the category of celebrity wrangler than journalist, especially given the help he's received from his Slate PR brother Stephen and CAA partner Kevin. Recently, I checked out why 360 has been the target of agency chatter that it's made a backroom deal to move clients to CAA, which a top exec at the management firm denied to me. ("There is no truth to it. We have important clients and important relationships at all of the major agencies, and that will continue to be the case.") Let's just say this hire is only going to further fuel the rumor.
“We’ve known and admired Chris for years, and have collaborated with him, first when he was a publicist, and more recently in his role at GQ,” Management 360’s partners said in a statement. "When Chris made the decision to make the transition into talent management, we were eager to have him join us as we think he will be a phenomenal manager, and we’re incredibly excited to have him be a part of our team.”
“I’ve known the partners at Management 360 for a long time, and when I decided to become a talent manager, they were the first people I turned to,” Huvane said ... Read More »
EXCLUSIVE: Here's the latest twist to the Conan O’Brien odyssey. Getting shoved out of his TV dream job as Tonight Show host is going to make him a movie star. I’m told that early talks are underway to give documentary feature ... Read More »
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Selleck is negotiating to return to episodic TV in the first hour-long drama he has headlined since Magnum, P.I. And he's back with CBS. I’m told that Selleck is close to a deal to star in Reagan’s Law, a ... Read More »
EXCLUSIVE: After the disappointing box office returns on Paul Greengrass’s thoughtful but vastly expensive action polemic Green Zone, what’s gonna happen with The Master, a new Paul Thomas Anderson drama that won’t get made by Universal because of its $35 million budget? I’m hearing talks are serious for Bill Pohlad’s ... Read More »
Don't believe the rumors. Akiva Goldsman won’t be directing Paranormal Activity 2, but he has boarded the project. Goldsman became executive producer and is helping to flesh out the sequel story with the producing team of Oren ... Read More »
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed director Spike Lee. The Gotham-based filmmaker had been repped at WME. This gives CAA its third recent filmmaker signing, after Joe Carnahan and Paul Thomas Anderson made the move over from WME. There has been ... Read More »
Las Vegas, NV – Dan Glickman delivered his final major U.S. address as Chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) today at the ShoWest convention in Las Vegas. Citing a record box office and his tenure in a period of profound transformation, Glickman said “I got my
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EXCLUSIVE: EPIX and Media Rights Capital have made a team for iCON, a comedy series pilot that will be developed by Larry Charles, the Emmy-winning TV writer/producer, and the director of the Sacha Baron Cohen features Borat and Bruno. Charles will ... Read More »
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