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CBS Films Sets Ensemble Comedy ‘The To Do List’ For February 14, 2013 Release

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 29, 2012 @ 10:07am PDTTags: CBS Films, The To Do List
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: CBS Films has set a February 14, 2013 release for The To Do List, an ensemble comedy written and directed by Maggie Carey (Funny or Die Presents). Aubrey Plaza (Safety Not Guaranteed) plays Brandy Klark, a Type-A, overachiever who comes up with a “to-do list” featuring all the risqué extra-curricular activities she missed out on in high school and wants to complete before college. Rachel Bilson, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Scott Porter, Connie Britton, Clark Gregg, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Donald Glover, Johnny Simmons, Sarah Steele, and Alia Shawkat co-star.

Jennifer Todd produced for the Mark Gordon Company along with Brian Robbins and Sharla Sumpter Bridgett via Summer Break Productions for their Varsity Pictures banner. Mark Gordon, Maggie Carey, Bill Hader, Tracy McGrath, Greg Walter and Tom Lassally are the Executive Producers. CBS Films financed the film, will handle domestic distribution and has sold all worldwide rights.

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Hot Toronto Trailer: Martin McDonagh’s ‘Seven Psychopaths’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 14, 2012 @ 10:28am PDTTags: CBS Films, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, Toronto Film Festival
Mike Fleming

CBS Films has released a trailer for Seven Psychopaths, the comedy written and directed by Martin McDonagh. He wrote what I consider to be one of the tightly scripted films in recent years on In Bruges, and he was Oscar-nominated for his writing work on that film. Here’s he’s got … Read More »

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Kevin Kline To Join Cast Of ‘Last Vegas’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 18, 2012 @ 3:06pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, CBS Films, Good Universe, Kevin Kline, Last Vegas
Mike Fleming

Kevin Kline Last Vegas CastingKevin Kline is joining Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Michael Douglas as the fourth buddy in the CBS Films and Good Universe comedy about old … Read More »

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CBS Films Targets ‘Deus Ex’ Video Game For Feature

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 10, 2012 @ 7:04am PDTTags: CBS Films
Mike Fleming

Deus Ex Movie CBS FilmsCBS Films has optioned screen rights to Deus Ex, the video game franchise from Square Enix. While vidgame film transfers don’t usually translate to big box office success, the Deus Ex franchise certainly has a following. Launched in 2000, its latest entry, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, topped global sales charts when it was released last year. Developed by Eidos-Montréal and published by Square Enix, Deus Ex: Human Revolution will serve as the primary template for the film. Roy Lee and Adrian Askarieh are attached to produce and John P. Middleton will executive produce.

Set in the near future, when dramatic advances in science, specifically human augmentation, have triggered a technological renaissance, Deus Ex: Human Revolution follows Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT security specialist who must embrace mechanical augments in order to unravel a global conspiracy. Read More »

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CBS Films Acquires ‘Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper’ For Will Gluck To Direct

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 13, 2012 @ 10:05am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, CBS Films, Will Gluck
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Easy A helmer Will Gluck is at the center of a deal that CBS Films is making for the bestselling Geoffrey Gray novel Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper, which was published by Crown. Gluck is in talks to direct and produce via his Olive Bridge banner, and Keith Bunin will write the script. Bunin scripted episodes of the HBO series In Treatment, and is writing for Universal and Illumination Entertainment a live-action film about the life of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) as a vehicle for Johnny Depp to star in and produce.

The Skyjack novel is an action-comedy that follows the story of D.B. Cooper, who on November 24, 1971, hijacked a Boeing 727, demanded $200,000 and parachutes, and jumped out over the Pacific Northwest. He was never caught and hailed as a folk hero. The book tracks his story from the perspectives of three different people claiming to be him. Gluck most recently co-wrote, directed and produced Friends With Benefits, the romantic comedy that starred Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. He is in the middle of a Sony Pictures deal for movies and series, and this is a rare project outside that arrangement. Read More »

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CBS Films Shifts ‘The Words’ Release Date

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday June 4, 2012 @ 2:50pm PDTTags: Bradley Cooper, CBS Films, The Words

The Words is coming out from CBS Films on September 7, up two weeks from its original September 21 slot. The literary plagiarism drama stars Bradley Cooper, Olivia Wilde, Dennis Quaid, Zoe Saldana and Jeremy Irons. Cooper plays … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Words’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 17, 2012 @ 1:38pm PDTTags: Bradley Cooper, CBS Films, The Words

Bradley Cooper doesn’t have his Hangover pals to get him out of trouble in The Words, a CBS Films romantic drama about a frustrated writer who claims another author’s long-lost work as his own. Zoe Saldana, Dennis Quaid and Jeremy Irons co-star. The film has a September 21 … Read More »

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It’s Official: Morgan Freeman Joins ‘Last Vegas’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 17, 2012 @ 12:14pm PDTTags: CBS Films, Good Universe, Last Vegas, Morgan Freeman

Related: Morgan Freeman In Talks For ‘Last Vegas’

LOS ANGELES – May 17, 2012 – CBS Films and Good Universe announced today that Oscar®-winner Morgan Freeman will join fellow Oscar®-winners Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in the comedy LAST VEGAS.

Directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure, While You Were Sleeping) from a screenplay by Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love, Tangled), LAST VEGAS is a comedy about four old friends who decide to throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who has remained single.

Freeman is set to play Archie Clay, an army veteran, who looks to escape the watchful eyes of his son and daughter-in-law and accompany his best friends on a trip to Vegas.

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Morgan Freeman In Talks For ‘Last Vegas’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday May 16, 2012 @ 12:21pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, CBS Films, Last Vegas, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro

Morgan Freeman Last VegasEXCLUSIVE: Morgan Freeman is in negotiations to join the cast of Last Vegas. The film, which already has Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro on board, is about four … Read More »

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CBS Films Acquires ‘Ends Of The Earth’ At Cannes

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 10:00am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, CBS Films, IM Global
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Cannes doesn’t get going until tomorrow, and already things are getting busy. CBS Films has closed a preemptive deal for U.S. distribution rights to Ends of the Earth, the action thriller written and directed by Derek Lee and … Read More »

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CBS Films Shifts Dates For ‘Gambit’, ‘7500’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 9, 2012 @ 12:53pm PDTTags: 7500, CBS Films, Gambit

CBS Films has adjusted release dates for a couple of its movies. Director Michael Hoffman’s Gambit is shifting to October 12, 2012 from its previous date of January 11, 2013. The romantic comedy was written by Joel Cohen and Ethan Coen and stars Colin Firth, Alan Rickman and Cameron Diaz. … Read More »

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CBS Films Ups Maria Faillace To EVP Production In Latest Exec Shift

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 25, 2012 @ 10:01am PDTTags: CBS Films

CBS Films ExecutivesCBS Films‘ move today to promote Maria Faillace to EVP Production comes the same week as Wolfgang Hammer and Terry Press were named co-presidents. It’s the latest shift by the studio since Amy Baer left and CBS Films boosted its activity acquiring finished films. Here’s today’s release:

Maria Faillace CBS FilmsLOS ANGELES – April 25, 2012 – CBS Films announced today that Maria Faillace has been named Executive Vice President, Production. Faillace, who previously served as Senior Vice President, Production, will focus on and oversee production for the division’s homegrown titles. Terry Press, Co-President, CBS Films, made the announcement.

“Maria is insightful, hard-working and incredibly passionate about the business of making movies,” said Press. “She has strong relationships throughout the industry and a healthy respect for filmmakers.”

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Les Moonves Names Wolfgang Hammer And Terry Press Co-Presidents Of CBS Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 23, 2012 @ 11:15am PDTTags: CBS Films, Les Moonves, Wolfgang Hammer
Mike Fleming

CBS Films Terry Press Wolfgang HammerBREAKING: Wolfgang Hammer and Terry Press have been named co-presidents of CBS Films. This cements a structure that has worked since Amy Baer left the studio and CBS Films ramped up its activity … Read More »

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Marcia Gay Harden Set For CBS Films’ Comedy ‘Get A Job’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Wednesday March 21, 2012 @ 2:58pm PDTTags: CBS Films, Get A Job, Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden Get A JobMarcia Gay Harden will co-star in the film now known as Get A Job, directed by Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger). The project began production March 12th in Los Angeles. … Read More »

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CBS Films Dates Trio Of Feature Pick-Ups

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday March 15, 2012 @ 10:06pm PDTTags: CBS Films, Gambit, The Words

CBS Films, which has already released the Daniel Radcliffe starrer The Woman In Black and Salmon Fishing In The Yemen this year, has dated three additional titles due out in the next 12 months. The dramatic romance The Words, starring Bradley Cooper as a writer who claims another man’s long-lost work as his own, will be released wide on September 21. CBS Films picked up the film, which also stars Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde and Zoe Saldana, at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits and Olga Kurylenko star in the action comedy Seven Psychopaths, which was written and directed by In Bruges’ Martin McDonagh. It’s about a screenwriter whose friends draw him into a dog kidnapping scheme. It will be get a limited release on November 2. Read More »

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Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick, Miles Teller Topline CBS Films Laffer ‘Get A Job’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 7, 2012 @ 3:32pm PSTTags: Anna Kendrick, Bryan Cranston, CBS Films, Get A Job
Mike Fleming

CBS Films Get A JobLOS ANGELES – March 7, 2012 – CBS Films announced today that Bryan Cranston (Drive, TV’s Breaking Bad), Anna Kendrick (50/50, Up In The Air) and Miles Teller (Footloose, Project X) will star in the comedy tentatively titled Get A Job. Nick Braun (Prom, TV’s Poor Paul), Alison Brie (Scream 4, TV’s Community), Brandon T. Jackson (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Tropic Thunder), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fright Night, Superbad) and Jay Pharoah (TV’s Saturday Night Live, Lola Versus) are set to co-star in the film. Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, TV’s Children’s Hospital) is attached to direct the film from a screenplay by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel. Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher (Django Unchained, Contagion) of Double Feature Films are attached to produce.

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Digital Communications Specialist Way To Blue Hangs New L.A. Shingle

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday March 1, 2012 @ 3:41am PSTTags: CBS Films

London/Los Angeles, 1st March 2012, Way To Blue, the international digital communications agency specialising in the entertainment industry, announced today a game-changing management re-structure programme which sees Adam Rubins promoted to CEO of Entertainment as the company expands with a new US division in Los Angeles to be headed by recently appointed EVP, Robert Speiser.

With offices across the globe, and an impressive client base including 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, The Walt Disney Company and Sony Pictures Entertainment to name a few, the expansion of the company in the US will further cement its position as a leading global digital marketing communications company which operates in all facets of the entertainment arena.

The restructure will see Rubins, previously Deputy Managing Director, taking on managerial responsibility of the company’s Worldwide Entertainment Business and operating territories. Rubins has vast experience within the entertainment industry, having joined the company following a 10 year stint in Buena Vista International’s theatrical international marketing and distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company, rising to the position of International Marketing Director.

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CBS Films Taps Jeffrey Nachmanoff To Helm Vince Flynn’s ‘American Assassin’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 3:36pm PSTTags: CBS Films, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Vince Flynn
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Ed Zwick is out and Jeffrey Nachmanoff is in as director of American Assassin, the adaptation of the Vince Flynn novel that CBS Films hopes will launch a film franchise based on CIA agent Mitch Rapp. Zwick came aboard … Read More »

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CBS Films Scoring First Major Fest Deal On ‘The Words’: Sundance

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday January 22, 2012 @ 11:26am PSTTags: Bradley Cooper, CBS Films, Sundance, The Words
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that CBS Films is closing the first 7-figure deal of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, paying a minimum guarantee of around $2 million with a $1.5 million P&A commitment for The Words. The Brian Klugman/Lee Sternthal-directed drama stars Bradley Cooper as a struggling writer who discovers a lost manuscript, claims it as his own and becomes a literary sensation. All good until a man claiming to be the real writer (Jeremy Irons) shows up at his doorstep.

Bidding went through the evening, and I heard that Mickey Liddell’s new distribution company LD Entertainment and Lionsgate were among those in the mix. While The Words is the festival’s closing-night film, sellers set up a private screening Saturday morning at the Holiday III. Reaction was strong and distributors began circling right away. The film has the perfect elements that make it catnip for distributors looking for films that have a shot at a real theatrical release: Cooper is hot, after The Hangover Part II and Limitless, and starring as Lucifer later this year in the Alex Proyas-directed big-scale adaptation of the Milton poem Paradise Lost. Besides Irons, the cast includes Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana and Ben Barnes. The film was repped by CAA and Cassian Elwes, with CBS exec Scott Shooman. Parlay Films is handling foreign sales and is almost done. Read More »

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