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FilmNation Grabs Mike Jones Spec ‘In The Event Of A Moon Disaster’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 22, 2011 @ 11:38am PDTTags: Aaron Ryder, Edgar Allan Poe, FilmNation Entertainment, Glen Basner, Hugh Laurie, James McTeigue, Jeff Nichols, Jennifer Lawrence, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey, Pedro Almodovar, Reese Witherspoon, Salman Rushdie
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, FilmNation Entertainment has acquired In the Event of a Moon Disaster, a Mike Jones spec script that re-imagines the first moon mission. In this version, disaster strikes and the astronauts find themselves up against insurmountable odds. Jones, a former colleague of mine at Variety, turned his attention to screenwriting and has been working steadily. Most recently, he has been collaborating with Henry Selick on an untitled Pixar project, and Jones also scripted a reboot of Popeye for Sony Pictures. FilmNation’s Aaron Ryder will produce the space mission film, and Glen Basner will handle international sales. It will be the largest-budget film so far for FilmNation, which has  aggressively put together its slate of projects.

FilmNation is in talks with Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon to star in Mud, the next film by Jeff Nichols, with whom FilmNation worked on Take Shelter. It also is fully financing Paranormal Activity helmer Oren Peli’s next untitled project, and recently completed the Jennifer Lawrence-starrer House at the End of the Street and The Raven, which stars John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe; Relativity Media releases that James McTeigue-directed film early next year. FilmNation will be bringing to Toronto Take Shelter; Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In; the Hugh Laurie-starrer The Oranges; and Midnight’s Children, an adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel. Jones is repped by CAA and The Gotham Group.

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‘The Raven’ Wings Its Way To Relativity

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 9:00am PSTTags: Edgar Allan Poe, John Cusack, Relativity, The Raven
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to The Raven, the Intrepid Pictures’ thriller that stars John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe. James McTiegue directed, and Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen also star. Scripted … Read More »

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Luke Evans Joins Poe Pic ‘The Raven’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 12, 2010 @ 7:35pm PDTTags: Ben Livingston, Edgar Allan Poe, Hannah Shakespeare, John Cusack, John Cusack The Raven, Luke Evans, Movie Casting, Movies, The Raven, The Raven Casting
Mike Fleming

Luke Evans has been set to star alongside John Cusack in The Raven, the drama that will be directed by V for Vendetta’s James McTeigue. Production starts later this year in Eastern Europe. Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe in stylized … Read More »

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What Is John Cusack ‘Raven’ About? Poe

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 27, 2010 @ 5:17pm PDTTags: Ben Livingston, Edgar Allan Poe, FilmNation, Hannah Shakespeare, James McTeigue, John Cusack, John Cusack The Raven, The Raven
Mike Fleming

John Cusack blurted out on Twitter that he’ll play Edgar Allan Poe in The Raven. Since I can’t clear my throat in less than 140 characters, I’ll spend the extra … Read More »

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