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‘Hunger Games’ Jennifer Lawrence Attached To Susanne Bier-Directed ‘The Rules Of Inheritance’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 5, 2013 @ 3:40pm PDTTags: FilmNation Entertainment, Jennifer Lawrence, Susanne Bier, The Rules Of Inheritance
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FilmNation Entertainment will finance and handle sales for The Rules Of Inheritance, which will star Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence. Directing is Susanne Bier, who just helmed Serena with Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. Abi Morgan, who scripted The Iron Lady and Shame, wrote the script, based on Claire Bidwell Smith’s memoir about a young woman who loses her family but finds herself in the process. Silver Linings Playbook‘s Bruce Cohen and Lawrence will produce. FilmNation Entertainment will executive produce. FilmNation’s Glen Basner and Aaron Ryder said, “We are thrilled to be working with the dream team of Jennifer Lawrence, Susanne Bier, Abi Morgan and Bruce Cohen. We have no doubt that this inspirational and hopeful book will be turned into an emotionally powerful movie that audiences around the world will fall in love with.” Producer Bruce Cohen commented, “Jennifer, Susanne, Abi and I are incredibly excited to be working on this extraordinary project together. We all believe this film can strike a deeply resonant chord with audiences, just as Claire’s riveting memoir has.”

Claire Bidwell Smith is an only child who, over a 7-year period as a young adult loses both her parents to cancer. While struggling to cope, she propels herself into many romances, adventures and travels in an inspirational, emotionally charged and surprisingly humorous journey that celebrates life, the people we love and lose and the discoveries we make along the way. Smith is represented by Wendy Sherman at Wendy Sherman Associates in association with Creative Artists Agency (CAA). The book is published by Penguin Books. FilmNation’s EVP, Worldwide Production Allison Silver brought the project into FilmNation, which negotiated its deal with CAA. CAA will also package the project and represent the film’s domestic distribution rights.

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Cannes: FilmNation Secures $50M In New Financing

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday May 7, 2013 @ 11:26am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, FilmNation Entertainment

Glen Basner’s FilmNation Entertainment is headed to Cannes next week with three films in official selection: Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring and J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost. It’s also hitting the Croisette with an infusion of $50M. Here’s the release:

NEW YORK – Tuesday, May 7, 2013 – Following an exponential level of growth since its inception less than five years ago, punctuated by last year’s more than $420 million in international box office, New York-based FilmNation Entertainment announced today they have successfully negotiated $50 million in additional capital with an equity-backed, revolving multi-bank credit facility with Bank Of America Merrill Lynch and Union Bank. The unique structure of the arrangement was made possible in part due to FilmNation’s outstanding track record and their strong relationships with the financial community. It was also facilitated by the longstanding relationship between FilmNation and Bank of America’s Brian Stearns, Daniel Timmons and Sharad Bhatt as well as Union Bank’s Bryan LaCour, Anthony Beaudoin and Jason Feuerstein, each of whom have overseen many single picture deals between the company and Union Bank.

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FilmNation, Lava Bear Team For Nic Mathieu-Helmed Thriller ‘Story Of Your Life’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 27, 2012 @ 2:43pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, FilmNation Entertainment
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BREAKING: FilmNation Entertainment has partnered with Lava Bear Films to finance, produce and handle worldwide sales for the sci-fi thriller Story Of Your Life. Scripted by Eric Heisserer, the film will be helmed by commercials director Nic Mathieu. The film will be produced by 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Levine with FilmNation’s Aaron Ryder and Karen Lunder. Lava Bear’s David Linde, Tory Metzger, FilmNation’s Glen Basner and Heisserer will be executive producers. Based on a short story by sci-fi writer Ted Chiang, Story Of Your Life is a mind-bending science fiction thriller with a powerful, emotional twist. After aliens land around the globe, a linguist is recruited by the U.S. government in a race to decipher their intentions on Earth. Production will begin next year. Read More »

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AFM: ‘Paranormal Activity’s Oren Peli, FilmNation Team On Fright Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 8:45am PDTTags: Brian Witten, Devin Kelley, FilmNation Entertainment, Oren Peli
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EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment is fully financing an untitled thriller hatched by Paranormal Activity helmer Oren Peli, which is just getting underway in Eastern Europe. Peli wrote the story and Brad Parker is directing. Peli wrote the script with Shane and … Read More »

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Toronto: FilmNation Nabs Rights To ‘Eye In The Sky’ Script For Oliver Hirschbiegel To Direct

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 12, 2011 @ 9:20am PDTTags: FilmNation Entertainment, Toronto Film Festival
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FilmNation has acqured Guy Hibbert’s screenplay Eye in the Sky for Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel to helm, a move that reteams the writer and director who collaborated on the 2009 Liam Neeson-starrer Five Minutes of Heaven, which won … Read More »

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Toronto: Buyers Get First Look At Christian Bale-Starrer ‘Heroes Of Nanking’, Now Titled ‘The Flowers Of War’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday September 9, 2011 @ 10:05am PDTTags: Christian Bale, David Linde, FilmNation Entertainment, The Flowers Of War, Zhang Yimou

Buyers at the Toronto Film Festival got their first look today at Zhang Yimou’s The Flowers of War, which previously was known as Heroes of Nanking. The true-life drama stars Christian Bale and is set against the backdrop … Read More »

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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 … Read More »

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Jeff Nichols Lands Matthew & Reese In ‘Mud’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 11:14am PDTTags: FilmNation Entertainment, Jeff Nichols, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon
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BREAKING: Take Shelter helmer Jeff Nichols has set Mud as his next film, and is in talks with Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Tree of Life‘s Tye Sheridan to star. … Read More »

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James McTeigue Directing ‘Message From The King’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 20, 2011 @ 10:41am PDTTags: Aaron Ryder, FilmNation Entertainment, James McTeigue, John Le Carre, Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: V For Vendetta helmer James McTeigue has been set to direct Message From the King for FilmNation Entertainment. Scripted by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell (Unknown), the thriller centers on Jacob King, an enigmatic outsider who comes to LA … Read More »

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FilmNation, Relativity Media Seal Offshore Distribution Deal

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 13, 2011 @ 6:00pm PSTTags: FilmNation, FilmNation Entertainment, Limitless, Movie Deals, Movies, Relativity Media, Season of the Witch, Take Me Home Tonight

(Beverly Hills, CA) January 13, 2011 – FilmNation Entertainment and Relativity Media LLC. are in final negotiations to solidify an exclusive multi-year deal whereby FilmNation would oversee the international sales and distribution of Relativity titles, produced under their single picture business. The union is slated to begin prior

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FilmNation Takes On ‘Message’ Movie

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 18, 2010 @ 10:20am PDTTags: Aaron Ryder, FilmNation, FilmNation Entertainment, Glen Basner, Oliver Butcher, Warner Independant Pictures
Mike Fleming

Message From The King, a thriller that once had Will Smith and Michael Mann circling before it languished when Warner Independent Pictures folded, is generating some new heat. Glen Basner’s FilmNation Entertainment has come aboard to produce the action thriller and package it for spring 2011 production start. FilmNation’s Aaron … Read More »

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