Sony’s Columbia Gets EVP For Biz Affairs

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday January 10, 2011 @ 5:19pm PST

CULVER CITY, Calif., January 10, 2011 – Michael Marshall has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Business Affairs, it was announced today by Andrew Gumpert, President of Worldwide Business Affairs and Operations for Columbia Pictures. In that role, he will continue to negotiate development and production related deals for Columbia Pictures’ feature projects, including rights acquisition and personal services deals for writers, directors, producers, and actors. Marshall joined Columbia Pictures in 2008 as Senior Vice President, Business Affairs. Since then, he has overseen the deals for The Bounty Hunter and the forthcoming film Battle: Los Angeles, and is currently overseeing business affairs on the next Spider-Man film, Men in Black 3, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, as well as Total Recall, which is now in development.

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Matt Tolmach Steps Out Of Sony Pictures Prexy Post To Become Spider-Man Producer

Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Sony Pictures Entertainment has just announced this:

LONGTIME COLUMBIA PICTURES CHIEFS MATT TOLMACH AND DOUG BELGRAD TRANSITION INTO NEW ROLES

Tolmach Launches New Production Company and Joins Spider-Man Team As Belgrad Promoted to Sole President of Columbia Pictures

– Hannah Minghella Named President of Production for Historic Banner–

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Sony Sets Wiseman For ‘Total Recall’ Redo

Mike Fleming

Yes, this is a reimagining of the Arnold Schwarzenegger blockbuster. Sony announced today that Len Wiseman is in final negotiations to direct Total Recall. (Funny how, two days ago, Wiseman’s agency ICM denied  anything substantive was going on…) Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, the presidents of Columbia Pictures, said the film will … Read More »

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Barry Levinson Directs On Big Screen Again, Nick Cassavetes Acts, Jeff Bridges Walks

Mike Fleming

Some action on the feature front. Sony’s Columbia Pictures attached Barry Levinson to direct Brother Jack, a  Mosaic-produced drama based on the life of human rights activist Jack Healey. Harley Peyton wrote the script and Kelly Masterson is rewriting. Levinson’s got a little momentum from the Jack Kevorkian biopic You Read More »

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New ‘Spider-Man’ Andrew Garfield Latest Twist To Reboot Tired Franchise

Mike Fleming

spidey new andrewHollywood has newly minted its next star, and it’s baby-faced Andrew Garfield. [UPDATE: I’m told Garfield’s pay scale on the film is around $500,000 salary on the first film, $1 million for the second one, and $2 million … Read More »

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Sony Views Screen Tests Of ‘Spider-Man’ Finalists; Decision Expected Shortly

Mike Fleming

spiderman21EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s Columbia Pictures is getting closer to finding its new Spider-Man. I On Friday, studio decision-makers viewed the screen tests of most of the young actors they are seriously considering to play Peter Parker in the Marc Webb-directed relaunch of Spider-Man.

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Columbia Pictures Keeps ‘Zombieland’s Ruben Fleischer In Fold With New Pic Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 22, 2010 @ 1:10pm PDT
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ruben_fleischerColumbia Pictures has made another deal with its Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer. The filmmaker has signed on to develop to direct Babe in the Woods, a Mike White-scripted comedy about a female freshman who arrives at Yale and is targeted by … Read More »

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