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Warner Bros Closes Space War Pitch That Has Sam Worthington Attached

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 6, 2011 @ 3:54pm PDTTags: Aaron Guzikowski, Basil Iwanyk, Beyonce, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Wahlberg, Sam Worthington
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has made a preemptive pitch deal for a science fiction action project to be written by Aaron Guzikowski that will reunite Sam Worthington with his Clash of the Titans producer Basil Iwanyk. The logline is being kept under wraps but I’m told it’s a grounded space war film. Through his Thunder Road banner, Iwanyk is in production on the Clash of the Titans sequel. He also produced The Town and is prepping the Jeff Bridges-starrer Seventh Son and the Clint Eastwood-directed A Star is Born with Beyonce, all for Warner Bros. Guzikowski wrote Prisoners, the Black List script that sold to Alcon Entertainment and just got Incendies helmer Denis Villeneuve aboard to direct. He also scripted the Contraband remake that just wrapped with Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale and Ben Foster starring for Universal and Working Title, and he’s writing Awake for USA Network and The Descendants for HBO. He’s repped by Verve and Madhouse Entertainment. Worthington is repped by CAA and Anonymous Content.

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Agency Verve Expands Into TV With Sales

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 8, 2010 @ 6:30am PSTTags: Aaron Guzikowski, Adam Levine, Agents, Bill Weinstein, Bryan Besser, David Stern, TV, TV Deals, Verve
Nellie Andreeva

Upstart talent and literary agency Verve was launched almost a year ago by three former Endeavor agents, Bill Weinstein, Bryan Besser and Adam Levine, who left WME several months after the Endeavor-WMA merger. Because of the trio’s pedigree – they … Read More »

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Ben Foster In Universal ‘Contraband’ Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 1, 2010 @ 5:56pm PSTTags: Aaron Guzikowski, Baltasar Kormakur, Ben Foster, Contraband Universal, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Wahlberg, Movie Deals, Movies, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Foster will star alongside Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale for Universal Pictures in Contraband, the English language remake of the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavic-Rotterdam. The film is being directed by Baltasar Kormakur, who starred in, produced and co-wrote … Read More »

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Universal To Make ‘Contraband’ Run With Mark Wahlberg And Kate Beckinsale

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 18, 2010 @ 8:45am PDTTags: Aaron Guzikowski, Baltasar Kormakur, Contraband Universal, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Wahlberg, Movie Casting, Movies, Universal
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Universal has reemerged as the financier of Contraband, the English language remake of the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavic-Rotterdam. Mark Wahlberg is set to star, Kate Beckinsale is negotiating, and Baltasar Kormakur is set to direct. Kormakur starred in, produced and co-wrote the original. Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Wahlberg (who’s next out in The Fighter), Stephen Levinson and Kormakur. Verve-repped Aaron Guzikowski is writing the script.

Oskar Jonasson directed the original, in which Kormakur played a former smuggler trying to go straight as a night guard. When his wife’s brother (who got him the job) botches a smuggling run, his life threatened and the protagonist is dragged in for one more job. WME, which reps the stars and Kormakur, set up the remake at Working Title. Bevan and Fellner’s deal is at Universal, and the studio originally intended to finance the film, then passed when the budget came in at $40 million. Relativity Media stepped in, but encouraged the filmmakers to try bringing down the cost. The filmmakers brought the budget down to around $30 million. A $30 million drama with Wahlberg and Beckinsale is a package any studio would jump at. When Relativity blinked, Universal swooped back in. Read More »

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