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Tom Hardy Teams With ‘Safe House’ Helmer Daniel Espinosa For ‘Child 44′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 12:30pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Daniel Espinosa, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Tom Hardy is in talks to star in Child 44, the adaptation of the Tom Rob Smith novel that will be directed by Safe House helmer Daniel Espinosa for Scott Free. Hardy, who wrapped Mad Max: Fury Road for director George Miller, will star in Child 44 after he completes Animal Rescue, the Fox Searchlight drama that Michael R. Roskam is directing, with Noomi Rapace his co-star. He will shoot Animal Rescue in March, then move right on to Child 44.

Child 44 takes place in Stalin’s Soviet Union, and Hardy plays a security officer and war hero who believes in the Soviet system and the law. That is until he uncovers the existence of a mass murderer, and he is thwarted by that system he has sworn to serve because they have no interest in acknowledging that murders are taking place in a country perpetuating the myth of a crime-free utopia. The book is part of a trilogy.

Hardy, who last starred in The Dark Knight Rises, is repped by CAA.

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Daniel Espinosa Circling To Direct ‘Child 44′ At Summit/Lionsgate

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 2:39pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Daniel Espinosa, Richard Price
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Summit/Lionsgate is moving fast on Child 44, in early talks with Safe House helmer Daniel Espinosa to direct an adaptation of the Tom Rob Smith novel that has been adapted by Richard Price. I’m told … Read More »

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Martin Scorsese Lends Name To U.S. Release Of ‘Safe House’ Helmer Daniel Espinosa’s ‘Easy Money’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 14, 2012 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: Daniel Espinosa, Easy Money, Martin Scorsese, The Weinstein Company
Mike Fleming

New York, NY – June 14, 2012 – The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it is partnering with Academy Award® winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese to present Daniel Espinosa’s acclaimed Swedish crime thriller, EASY MONEY in New York on

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Warner Bros Taps ‘Safe House’ Helmer Daniel Espinosa For ‘The Outsider’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 1, 2012 @ 4:26pm PSTTags: Daniel Espinosa, Safe House, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is negotiating with Safe House helmer Daniel Espinosa to helm The Outsider, a gritty action film scripted by Andrew Baldwin. The protagonist is a POW in Osaka in WWII who goes to work for the Yakuza. Sons … Read More »

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Universal Pictures Chairman Adam Fogelson Re-Upped Through 2014

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 19, 2011 @ 12:37pm PDTTags: Aaron Johnson, Adam Fogelson, Akiva Goldsman, Alexander Skarsgard, Benicio Del Toro, Blake Lively, Brian Grazer, Carl Rinsch, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Espinosa, Denzel Washington, Don Winslow, Guillermo Del Toro, Hugh Jackman, Jeff Bridges, Jeremy Renner, Joseph Kosinski, Keanu Reeves, Kristen Stewart, Liam Neeson, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bay, Mila Kunis, Oliver Stone, Peter Berg, Rihanna, Robert Schwentke, Ron Howard, Ron Meyer, Rupert Sanders, Russell Crowe, Seth MacFarlane, Shane Salerno, Stephen King, Steve Burke, Taylor Kitsch, Tom Cruise, Tom Hooper, Tony Gilroy, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: NBCUniversal’s new owners at Comcast have given a vote of confidence to the studio’s feature film operation. They’ve exercised an option on Universal Pictures’ Chairman Adam Fogelson and extended his contract through 2014. I’m told that Fogelson is, in turn, in the process of exercising the option of Donna Langley and she will continue as the studio’s co-chairman. They will also keep their executive team intact. Fogelson will continue to have full day-to-day operating responsibility for the Motion Picture Group, reporting to Universal Studios President and Chief Operating Officer Ron Meyer (whose contract was recently re-upped through 2015) and will now also report to NBCUniversal Chief Executive Officer Steve Burke.

While Universal has had its ups and downs, higher-ups are clearly convinced that Fogelson, Langley and their team are making progress. They’ve had recent hits –Bridesmaids, Hop! and Fast Five– but also had some recent misses that include The Dilemma, Change-Up and Cowboys & Aliens. In the latter case, the studio was on the hook for one-third of the film, and shared that third with Relativity Media. It has also been a year in which Fogelson and his team have made some painful decisions and let pricey productions go. That began with the Guillermo Del Toro-directed At the Mountains of Madness, which Universal developed for years and which was ready to go with Tom Cruise, until the studio made a late decision not to go forward because of the possibility the $150M film could carry an R-rating. Universal also dropped two projects that were in advanced  stages of development: The Dark Tower, the Akiva Goldsman-directed adaptation of the Stephen King novel series that was to be made into three feature films and two limited-run TV series, with the first film and TV segment directed by Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer and Goldsman; and Oiuja, the Hasbro board game that had McG directing and Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners producing with Hasbro. The moves were surprising because Howard and Grazer are cornerstone filmmakers for Universal; and Del Toro and Hasbro have overall deals there. Ouija is one of several Hasbro properties the studio dropped, the others being the Gore Verbinski-directed Clue, the Ridley Scott-directed Monopoly and Magic, The Gathering. These were part of a groundbreaking deal the studio made with the toymaker several years ago, but the studio and Hasbro have re-focused their attention solely on Battleship, Stretch Armstrong, and Candy Land. Read More »

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Vera Farmiga Joins Thriller ‘Safe House’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 25, 2011 @ 9:53am PDTTags: Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Espinosa, Denzel Washington, Robert Patrick, Ryan Reynolds, Sam Shepard, Scott Stuber, Vera Farmiga
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has set Vera Farmiga to star with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds in Safe House, the Daniel Espinosa-directed drama. Production is already under way, with Reynolds playing a young agent assigned to escort a dangerous criminal to … Read More »

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Terry George Checks Into ‘Safe House’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 18, 2010 @ 9:13am PDTTags: Daniel Espinosa, David Guggenheim, Denzel Washington, Movies, Ryan Reynolds, Safe House, Scott Stuber, Terry George
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Terry George has signed on for rewrite duty on Safe House, the Daniel Espinosa-directed Universal drama that goes into production early next year. Ryan Reynolds plays a young CIA agent who must transport a dangerous criminal — Denzel Washington … Read More »

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Ryan Reynolds Fits ‘Safe House’ Into Sked

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 18, 2010 @ 11:58am PDTTags: Daniel Espinosa, Ryan Reynolds, Safe House, Scott Stuber
Mike Fleming

Days after Deadline revealed Ryan Reynolds was front runner for the Safe House role chased by every hot young actor in town, the actor is now negotiating to play the young CIA agent who must transport a dangerous criminal (Washington) … Read More »

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Denzel Washington Back In Bad Guy Mode

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 4:22pm PDTTags: Actors, Casting, CIA Drama, Daniel Espinosa, David Guggenheim, Denzel Washington, Safe House, Scott Stuber, Universal Pictures, Unstoppable
Mike Fleming

oscars-actor-training-day-05-ssDenzel Washington is looking to join producer Scott Stuber on Safe House, a David Guggenheim-scripted Universal Pictures drama that will be directed by Daniel Espinosa (Snabba Cash) about a young CIA agent who must transport a dangerous criminal to safety after … Read More »

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