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Toronto: Crime Scene, Nick Wechsler Team For ‘Man With A Gun’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday September 11, 2011 @ 12:18pm PDTTags: 2011 Toronto Film Festival, Adam Ripp, Rob Paris
Mike Fleming

Crime Scene Pictures partners Adam Ripp and Rob Paris will partner with Nick Wechsler on Man With a Gun, a Robert Hewitt Wolfe-scripted action thriller. They’ve just set up the picture for Crime Scene to fully finance, and they’ll talk it up here to get a director and a foreign sales agent. The title character, Ike Bell, is a gunslinger on a personal mission to gut the participants in a drug war that has plagued a U.S. border town for generations. He infiltrates both sides and takes out operatives on his way to a fateful showdown with the warring kingpins. One is an American sheriff, the other a monstrous cross-dressing woman. Wechsler will produce with Ripp and Paris, Rizal Risjad and Philip Elway will be exec producers and Lizzy Bradford will co-produce. They will have their package ready for Berlin in February and start production next year. They sold Gambit at last Berlin, and that film went into production shortly after. CAA and ICM will co-rep U.S. theatrical rights. “The appeal of this project is in its weaving of the classic themes of revenge and redemption being played out in a contemporary setting, with an iconic hero and a truly quirky cast,” Ripp and Paris said.

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A 14-Year ‘Gambit’ Finally Provides a Big Payoff For Producer Mike Lobell

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 5, 2011 @ 6:58am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Adam Ripp, Ben Kingsley, Cameron Diaz, CBS Films, Colin Firth, Ethan Coen, Hugh Grant, Jennifer Aniston, Joel Coen, Meg Ryan, Michael Caine, Michael Hoffman, Mike Lobell, Reese Witherspoon, Rob Paris, Roeg Sutherland, Sean Penn, Shirley MacLaine
Mike Fleming

Production begins today on Gambit, a caper comedy that stars Colin Firth as a London art curator who plans to con England’s richest man into buying a phony Monet painting. To do it, he enlists a Texas steer roper (Cameron … Read More »

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CBS Films Acquires Colin Firth-Cameron Diaz Redo ‘Gambit’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 4:51pm PSTTags: Adam Ripp, Cameron Diaz, Colin Firth, Ethan Coen, Gambit, Joel Coen, Michael Caine, Michael Hoffman, Mike Lobell, Rob Paris, Shirley MacLaine
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Gambit. The film has a script by Joel and Ethan Coen, and Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz are set … Read More »

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Cameron Diaz Joins Colin Firth In ‘Gambit’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 1, 2011 @ 12:09pm PSTTags: Adam Ripp, Cameron Diaz, Colin Firth, Colin Firth Gambit, Joel and Ethan Coen, Michael Caine, Michael Hoffman, Mike Lobell, Movie Deals, Movies, Rob Paris, Shirley MacLaine
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Diaz is attached to star with Colin Firth in Gambit, the Joel and Ethan Coen-scripted remake that will be directed by The Last Station’s Michael Hoffman. The 1966 original starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. Mike Lobell is … Read More »

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