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Legendary Ups Jon Jashni To President

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 20, 2011 @ 10:05am PDTTags: Alex Proyas, Ashok Amritraj, Ben Barnes, Benjamin Walker, Bradley Cooper, Charlie Hunnam, Guillermo Del Toro, Idris Elba, Jeff Bridges, Jon Jashni, Julianne Moore, Legendary Entertainment, Thomas Tull
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Legendary Entertainment chairman and CEO Thomas Tull has promoted Jon Jashni to president, a new post. Jashni, a veteran executive and producer who joined Tull six years ago, will continue to function as chief creative officer and has been a big part of Legendary’s evolution from a co-financier of Warner Bros films to an enterprise that is generating its own films that are released by Warner Bros. Legendary’s rise has been fueled by being partner in such films as The Hangover, Clash of the Titans, the Chris Nolan Batman trilogy and Inception, as well as the upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel. Tull’s company is generating its own tent pole films, including the Guillermo del Toro-directed alien-invasion film Pacific Rim that stars Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba, and a reboot of Godzilla. Jashni is a producer on those films as well as the Alex Proyas-directed Paradise Lost that will star Bradley Cooper and Benjamin Walker, and the Sergey Bodrov-directed The Seventh Son, which stars Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore and Ben Barnes. READ MORE »

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ARC And XLrator Acquire Rock ‘N Roll Comedy ‘Killing Bono’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 4, 2011 @ 2:45pm PDTTags: ARC Entertainment, Barry Gordon, Ben Barnes, Killing Bono, Krysten Ritter, Nick Hamm, Pete Postlethwaite, XLrator Media
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: ARC Entertainment and XLrator Media have teamed to acquire North American distribution rights to the rock and roll comedy Killing Bono, which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival. They plan a VOD release in October and a theatrical … Read More »

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Lionsgate Acquires U.S. And UK Distribution For ‘The Big Wedding’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 12:03pm PDTTags: Amanda Seyfried, Ben Barnes, Diane Keaton, Film Acquisition, Justin Zackham, Katherine Heigl, Lionsgate, Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Susan Sarandon, The Big Wedding, Topher Grace
Mike Fleming

Lionsgate has acquired U.S. and UK rights to the ensemble comedy The Big Wedding, and has set an Oct. 19, 2012 release for the Nu Image/Millennium Films pic that stars Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton as a long-divorced couple … Read More »

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Ben Barnes Lands Lead Opposite Jeff Bridges In Warner Bros’ ‘Seventh Son’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 24, 2011 @ 2:03pm PDTTags: Ben Barnes, Film Casting, Jeff Bridges, Legendary Pictures, Seventh Son, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Barnes, who played Prince Caspian in Fox’s fantasy franchise The Chronicles Of Narnia, is in negotiations for the starring role opposite Oscar winner Jeff Bridges in Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures’ Seventh Son, an adaptation of Joseph Delaney’s young-adult series. … Read More »

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