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Matt Lieberman To Write New ‘Short Circuit’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Thursday February 2, 2012 @ 5:29pm PSTTags: Dimension Films

Dimension Films has tapped Disney writers program alum Matt Lieberman to script its family film Short Circuit. Tim Hill (Alvin And The Chipmunks), already attached to direct, will work closely with Lieberman in re-imagining the 1980s John Badham film about a lab robot that is electrocuted and becomes intelligent. Details of the new version are being kept secret. David Foster, who produced the original, is producing with Ryan E. Heppe, John Hyde and Brian Manis. A Summer 2013 release is planned with shooting scheduled for the end of this year. The deal was negotiated for Dimension Films by Adrian Lopez, VP of Business and Legal and Matthew Signer, SVP of Production and Creative Affairs, and for the filmmakers by Brad Rosenfeld at Preferred Artists and Melissa Rogal at Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler & Feldman. Lieberman is represented by Rosenfeld, Rogal and Adam Kolbrenner at Madhouse.

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Terrance Stamp, 2 Others Join ‘The Black Marks’ Cast

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 19, 2012 @ 9:07am PSTTags: Dimension Films, The Black Marks

Terence Stamp, Kathryn Winnick and Kenneth Welsh have been added to the cast of Darius Films’ The Black Marks, which Dimension Films will release in the U.S. The heist drama, written and directed by Jonathan Sobol, already tapped Kurt … Read More »

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Dimension Acquires ‘The Black Marks’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 4, 2012 @ 11:46am PSTTags: Dimension Films, Kurt Russell, The Black Marks
Mike Fleming

New York, NY, January 4, 2012 – Dimension Films announced that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the heist comedy THE BLACK MARKS from Darius Films starring Kurt Russell (DEATHRPROOF), Matt Dillon (CRASH, THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY) and Jay Baruchel (KNOCKED UP). The film is written and directed by Jonathan Sobol (A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ENDINGS). The announcement was made today by Bob Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Company.

Crunch Calhoun (Russell), a third rate motorcycle daredevil and semi-reformed art thief, agrees to get back into the con game and pull off just one more lucrative art theft with his untrustworthy brother Nicky (Dillon). Crunch reassembles the old team and comes up with a plan to steal a priceless historical book, but the successful heist leads to another, far riskier, plan devised by Nicky. What the brothers don’t realize is they each have their own agenda and their plan goes awry in this con movie about brotherhood, honor and revenge.

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Dimension Acquires Rights To Michael Keaton Thriller ‘Penthouse North’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 4, 2011 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: Dimension Films, Film Acquisition, Michael Keaton, Michelle Monaghan

Dimension Films has landed U.S. distribution rights to director Joseph Ruben’s thriller Penthouse North, which stars Michael Keaton and Michelle Monaghan and begins shooting in December in Ottawa. David Loughery wrote the script and is producing with Ruben, Jeff Sackman … Read More »

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Robert Katz Leaving Dimension Films Prexy Post

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 3:31pm PDTTags: Bob Weinstein, Dimension Films
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Katz is about to begin discussions to exit as president of Dimension Films, a job that is proving tough to fill for the long term. Katz, a well regarded exec who had been Film Department’s president of production … Read More »

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Kagan: ‘The Help’ Is The Most Profitable Film From A Month With Few Successes

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday September 16, 2011 @ 2:07pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Conan the Barbarian, Dimension Films, Disney, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, DreamWorks, FilmDistrict, Final Destination 5, Focus Features, Fright Night, Glee The 3D Concert Movie, Lionsgate, New Line, Rise of the Planet Of The Apes, SNL Kagan, Spy Kids: All The Time In The World, The Change Up, The Debt, The Help

DreamWorks and Disney’s The Help and Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes are the only two August releases that can be sure of making a profit, although New Line’s Final Destination 5 could make it over the line, … Read More »

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Autopsy Report: Weinstein’s ‘Spy Kids 4D’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday August 21, 2011 @ 12:42pm PDTTags: 4D Aroma-Scope, Autopsy Report, Dimension Films, Domestic Box Office, Spy Kids: All The Time In The World, The Weinstein Co

I don’t know how The Weinstein Co is going to stay on track with its reorganized finances if Dimension films keep bombing like this: a weak $12M opening weekend from 3,295 theaters. The whole underpinning of the Weinstein Brothers’ success … Read More »

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Director Tim Hill Hops To Dimension’s ‘Short Circuit’ Reboot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 4, 2011 @ 2:21pm PDTTags: Dimension Films, Steve Carr
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Dimension Films is making a deal with Tim Hill to direct its reboot of Short Circuit, the 1986 film about an experimental robot manufactured to be a weapon until a lightning strike fills it with intelligence. It runs away … Read More »

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Dimension To Develop ‘Scanners’ TV Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 22, 2011 @ 12:02pm PDTTags: Alexandre Aja, Bob Weinstein, Clark Peterson, David Cronenberg, Dimension Films
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: David Cronenberg’s science-fiction horror classic Scanners may be headed to the small screen. The Weinstein Co.’s Dimension Films is developing a drama series adaptation of the movies about a group of people with telepathic and telekinetic abilities, with The … Read More »

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Robert Katz New Dimension Films President

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 20, 2011 @ 10:16am PDTTags: Bob Weinstein, Dimension Films
Mike Fleming

NEW YORK, NY (July 20, 2011) – The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced that Robert Katz has joined the company as President of Dimension Films. In this position, Katz will be involved in all aspects of theatrical releases, including development, production, acquisitions, distribution, marketing and publicity of theatrical

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Dimension’s Matt Stein Moves To Producing Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 19, 2011 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: Bob Weinstein, Brad Luff, Dimension Films, Matthew Stein
Mike Fleming

Dimension Films exec veep of production Matthew Stein is becoming a nonexclusive producer for the company after 12 years as an exec there. Stein had been exec veep. This comes shortly after Brad Luff left the production president post of Dimension. Bob Weinstein will have a new executive in … Read More »

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Dimension Lands French-Language ‘Livid’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 12, 2011 @ 8:08am PDTTags: Bob Weinstein, Dimension Films, Film Acquisition

EXCLUSIVE: Dimension Films has acquired rights to the French-language horror film Livid, a move that reteams Bob Weinstein’s company with directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, who helmed the horror thriller Inside that Dimension released back in 2008. The latest … Read More »

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Dimension Acquires Rights To Comedy Guidebook ‘How To Defeat Your Own Clone’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 5, 2011 @ 10:38am PDTTags: Dimension Films, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Film Acquisition, Matthew Singer, Matthew Stein

Dimension Films has acquired rights to the comedy guidebook How to Defeat Your Own Clone. Ed Ricourt, who wrote the feature treatment, is set to adapt the script. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson of The Gotham Group are producing, Gotham’s … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Apollo 18′

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 29, 2011 @ 12:55pm PDTTags: Apollo 18, Dimension Films, Movie Trailer

The second trailer for the found-footage thriller Apollo 18 has just hit. The pic is directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego and counts Timur Bekmambetov among its producers. Dimension Films will release it Sept. 2.

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Brad Luff Exiting Dimension Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 7, 2011 @ 12:49pm PDTTags: Bob Weinstein, Brad Luff, Dimension Films
Mike Fleming

Dimension’s president of production Brad Luff has left the company. He’d been appointed last October after leaving his job as senior vice president of the Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group last fall to manage the development slate for Bob Weinstein’s genre label. Sounds like it wasn’t a good fit. … Read More »

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Dimension Acquires Spec ‘The Greys’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 28, 2011 @ 11:55am PDTTags: Acquisition, Dimension Films, spec script
Mike Fleming

Dimension Films has preemptively purchased the spec script The Greys, a sci-fi thriller by scribe Adam Cohen that Before the Fall helmer F. Javier Gutierrez will direct. Sean and Bryan Furst are producing. Logline’s being kept under wraps.

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Hot Trailer: ‘Apollo 18′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday February 19, 2011 @ 7:41am PSTTags: Apollo 18, Dimension Films, Movie Trailers, Movies, Timur Bekmambetov, Video
Mike Fleming

Dimension Films has released a new trailer for Apollo 18, the latest fright film based on “found footage,” this one purporting to be a record of a NASA moon mission that was officially scrapped. Timur Bekmambetov produced it:

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Dimension Chomping To Get ‘Piranha 3D’ Sequel Into Theaters Next Summer

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 19, 2010 @ 2:05pm PDTTags: Dimension Films, Marcus Dunstan, Movie Deals, Movies, Patrick Melton, Piranha 3D Sequel
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In a move that might not make James Cameron’s day, Dimension Films has locked in a director and writers and will race to get a Piranha 3D sequel up and running quickly enough to hit theaters by late August, 2011. Dimension has set John Gulager to direct and Saw 3D scribes Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to write Piranha 3 DD, the sequel to last summer’s toothy fish fest that found itself earning the ire of Cameron. The filmmaker cited it as an example of the hasty 3D conversions, while  he was barnstorming for Avatar. That led to a sharp — and lengthy — rebuke from Piranha 3D’s producer Mark Canton. For the sequel, Dimension’s Bob Weinstein has reassembled the team behind Feast, the Dimension horror film that served as a season of the TV show Project Greenlight. Read More »

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Dimension’s ‘Piranha 3D’ To Be Sequelized

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 23, 2010 @ 2:23pm PDTTags: Alexandre Aja, Dimension Films, Mark Canton, Piranha 3D, Piranha 3D Sequel
Mike Fleming

Dimension Films has put toothy fish back on the menu.  Inexplicably, a sequel’s coming for Piranha 3D, after it only grossed $10 million opening weekend. The Alexandre Aja-directed film was produced by Mark Canton. Whoever didn’t end up eaten is … Read More »

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