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Black List Script ‘The Current War’ Bought By Timur Bekmambetov To Helm

By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday May 3, 2012 @ 10:18am PDTTags: 2011 Black List, Big Deals Film, The Current War, Timur Bekmambetov
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Timur Bekmenbetov The Current BREAKING: Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs has acquired the 2011 Black List script The Current War scripted by Michael Mitnick. Bekmambetov acquired it to direct. He most recently wrapped Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which Fox releases June 22. Mitnick is currently writing the libretto for the Broadway-bound stage musical adaptation of the 1978 film Animal House.

The Current War chronicles the true-life public battle fought between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse for domination of the early power industry. Bazelevs’ President of Development Michele Wolkoff will oversee the project for Bazelevs. The project was brought in to the company by Bazelevs’ creative exec Alan Khamoui. Bazelevs will fund it through its development fund, similar to the way Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter got put together.

Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch will executive produce through Film Rites. Mitnick’s latest play Ed, Downloaded, will premiere at the Denver Center in 2013. His last play, Sex Lives Of Our Parents, was presented by Second Stage Theatre in NYC. Mitnick is repped by WME and Jeff Silver at Fourth Floor Productions. Bekmambetov is repped by WME.

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Derby Street Films Acquires Black List Script ‘Blood Mountain’

By MIKE FLEMING | Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 1:30pm PSTTags: 2011 Black List, Jonathan Stokes
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EXCLUSIVE: London-based Derby Street Films has made a six-figure acquisition of the Jonathan Stokes spec Blood Mountain, a script that made the 2011 Black List.

Spec is described as a gritty survival thriller with action elements. Shaun Redick and Ray Mansfield … Read More »

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Disney Acquiring Black List Script ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ On Making ‘Mary Poppins’

By MIKE FLEMING | Wednesday February 8, 2012 @ 7:09am PSTTags: 2011 Black List, Julie Andrews, Saving Mr. Banks, Walt Disney
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Walt Disney Company is near a deal to acquire Saving Mr. Banks, the Kelly Marcel-scripted saga of how Walt Disney persuaded Australian author P.L. Travers to sell him the rights to make a film out of Mary Poppins. … Read More »

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