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DreamWorks, Fox To Co-Finance Steven Spielberg’s ‘Robopocalypse’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 10:29am PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Daniel H. Wilson, DreamWorks, Robopocalypse, Steven Spielberg
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg’s next film is so big, it needs two studios. DreamWorks and Fox are near a deal to co-finance Robopocalypse, a Drew Goddard-scripted adaptation of the Daniel H. Wilson epic novel about the human race’s attempt to survive an apocalyptic robot uprising. I’m told that Disney will release domestically and Fox will distribute the film overseas. It will open in the U.S. on Wednesday, July 3, 2013.

Deadline broke the story that Spielberg was eyeing the novel as a directing vehicle, before he instead chose War Horse as the first film he directed for DreamWorks since Spielberg and Stacey Snider left Paramount and made a deal with Reliance and a distribution deal at Disney. We also revealed last October that he had committed to direct it. Doubleday published the book in June.

Fox and DreamWorks previously tried to get together back in 2009 on Harvey, where Spielberg was going to direct an adaptation of Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a man who befriends a six-and-a-half-foot-tall invisible rabbit. Spielberg finally withdrew from that film partly because it was so difficult to find the right actor to play Elwood P. Dowd, the character originated by James Stewart in the 1950 film. Now, the studios have a Spielberg project they can team on.

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Summit’s Post-’Twilight’ Chapter To Be Underwritten By Book Adaptations

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 18, 2011 @ 8:13am PDTTags: Alex Proyas, Daniel H. Wilson, Deborah Kaplan, Doug Wick, Emma Watson, Erik Feig, Erin Morgenstern, Harry Elfont, Isaac Marion, Jesse Wigutow, John Gray, Kenneth Oppel, Logan Lerman, Lucy Fisher, Nicholas Hoult, Robert Ludlum, Stephen Chbosky, Stephenie Meyer, Summit Entertainment, Twilight Saga, Veronica Roth, Warren Ellis
Mike Fleming

The start of Summit Entertainment’s trajectory began when the mini-major convinced Stephenie Meyer to sell her Twilight Saga book series after she’d been left so frustrated by how Paramount Pictures let it languish. Was it a billion dollar lucky break? … Read More »

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Summit ‘AMPS’ Book Deal For Alex Proyas

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 1, 2010 @ 5:42pm PSTTags: Alex Proyas, Book-to-Movie, Daniel H. Wilson, Movie Deals, Movies, Robopocalypse, Steven Spielberg Robopocalypse, Summit Entertainment
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: With Alex Proyas poised to produce and potentially direct, Summit Entertainment has just closed a deal for screen rights to AMP, a near-future science fiction thriller novel by Daniel H. Wilson. The novel is set in a world where … Read More »

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Steven Spielberg Commits To Next Direct ‘Robopocalypse’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 22, 2010 @ 10:57am PDTTags: Book-to-Movie, Daniel H. Wilson, Movie Deals, Movies, Reliance, Robopocalypse, Steven Spielberg, Steven Spielberg Robopocalypse, Steven Spielberg War Horse, War Horse
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg has committed to next direct Robopocalypse, a Drew Goddard-scripted adaptation of the Daniel H. Wilson epic novel about the human race’s attempt to survive an apocalyptic robot uprising. Deadline broke the story that Spielberg was eyeing … Read More »

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