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Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster Circle Peter Berg’s ‘Lone Survivor;’ Emmett/Furla Financing For Universal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 4:39pm PSTTags: Ben Foster, Emmett/Furla Films, Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, Taylor Kitsch, Universal
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Emmett/Furla Films is coming aboard to finance Lone Survivor, and director Peter Berg is in talks with Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Ben Foster to play three of the four lead Navy SEALs. Universal Pictures, which developed the movie, will distribute. An adaptation of the book by Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor tells the harrowing story of how Luttrell and his Navy SEAL team members fought to stay alive after being ambushed in Afghanistan in 2005 by Taliban forces during a covert mission in the Hindu Kush mountain region, where the team went to kill a terrorist leader. Wahlberg will play Luttrell in Berg’s followup to Battleship, which stars Kitsch.

Berg and Universal first began developing the project at Universal when the filmmaker signed on for Battleship. At the time, movies with sand in them and war weren’t working, but the opening-weekend grosses of Act Of Valor indicate that audiences are once again hungry for heroic war tales, especially those involving Navy SEALs. Kathryn Bigelow and Sony Pictures are getting underway with a drama revolving around the Navy SEAL Team 6′s hunt and killing of 9/11 terror attack mastermind Osama bin Laden. Lone Survivor is a different film, but it is expected to get underway this fall. Berg and Film 44 partner Sarah Aubrey, Akiva Goldsman, Barry Spikings will be producers as well as Randall Emmett and George Furla. Wahlberg will likely be involved in a producing capacity also.

Berg, who covered the Middle East terrain previously with the taut drama The Kingdom, has put in the work on this one. He wrote the Lone Survivor script after embedding with a SEAL team for a month in Iraq, an experience that really gave him a chance to see how they do their job. Berg wanted to make the film immediately, but two years ago the studio made him a bargain: direct Battleship and then follow with Lone Survivor. The timing hasn’t hurt, at all. READ MORE »

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Michael Flannigan Tapped As Head Of Production At Emmett/Furla Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 17, 2012 @ 10:24am PSTTags: Emmett/Furla Films, George Furla, Randall Emmett
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Emmett/Furla Films, Randall Emmett and George Furla’s Los Angeles-based production and financing company that has been backing a widening profile of mid-budget star-driven films, has hired producer Michael Flannigan to serve as Head of Production. EFF has also promoted … Read More »

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Emmett/Furla Aboard Comedy ‘Rule #1′ With Reese Witherspoon Co-Producing And In Talks To Star

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 10, 2011 @ 11:37am PSTTags: Emmett/Furla Films, Reese Witherspoon
Mike Fleming

Emmett/Furla Films has come aboard to produce and finance the comedy Rule #1, which Reese Witherspoon is producing via her Type A Films. She also is in negotiations to star in the film, which Brad Epstein of Panther Films also … Read More »

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Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson Set For ‘The Pursuit’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 4, 2011 @ 11:49am PDTTags: Curtis Jackson, Emmett/Furla Films, Lionsgate
Mike Fleming

Los Angeles, CA – October 4, 2011 – It was announced today that Emmett / Furla Films and Cheetah Vision Films are partnering to produce the action thriller “The Pursuit,” which will star Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The announcement was made today by Randall Emmett, who co-runs Cheetah Vision with Jackson and is partnered with George Furla in Emmett / Furla Films.

Director Jessy Terrero (“Soul Plane” “Gun”) has signed a three picture directing deal with the producers, which will begin with him directing “The Pursuit.”

Principle photography is slated to begin February 15th 2012 in Louisiana. The film will be distributed by Lionsgate through Cheetah Vision’s existing 10 picture output deal with the leading independent studio.

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