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Elizabeth Gabler Reups At Fox 2000 Exec, Hires Ex-Warner Bros Exec Jessica Goodman

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 14, 2012 @ 1:28pm PSTTags: Elizabeth Gabler, Fox 2000
Mike Fleming

LOS ANGELES, CA (February 14, 2012) __ Fox 2000 Pictures president Elizabeth Gabler has renewed her deal with the Studio, it was announced today by Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman, chairmen of Fox Filmed Entertainment.

Among the many notable pictures she has overseen at Fox 2000 Pictures are: “Walk the Line,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” “Marley & Me,” the “Alvin and the Chipmunks” pictures (which have grossed over a billion dollars worldwide), “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” “Water For Elephants” and the upcoming “Life of Pi,” helmed by Ang Lee, from the publishing phenomenon and Booker Prize winner, “Guernsey,” directed by Kenneth Branagh, based on the best-selling novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters,” the sequel to the company’s hit fantasy-adventure, based on the publishing phenomenon by Rick Riordan.
Gabler’s career at the Studio also encompasses oversight of the seminal blockbusters “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Waiting to Exhale,” and “Cast Away.”
Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos stated: “For the past twelve years, Elizabeth’s savvy, vision and taste has taken Fox 2000 Pictures to a level of success and accomplishment that exceeded our already high expectations. We couldn’t be happier that she will continue to lead the division in the years ahead.”

Concurrently, Jessica Goodman has joined Fox 2000 Pictures as executive vice president, production, and Marisa Paiva has been promoted from creative executive to director of development.

Goodman arrives at Fox from Warner Bros., where she was EVP, production, overseeing projects such as “Contagion,” “I Am Legend,” “Oceans 11” (and its two sequels), “Michael Clayton,” and “The Informant.” She joined Warner Bros. in 1998.

Paiva is currently working on director “Life of Pi” and last year was the creative executive on “Water For Elephants.”

Gabler stated: “It is with tremendous excitement that we welcome Jessica to Twentieth Century Fox and to the team at Fox 2000 Pictures. She has a tremendous wealth of experience and shares our passion and respect for wonderful material and filmmakers. Her fresh perspective and passion for her work will be inspirational to us all.

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‘Rachel Getting Married’ Scribe Jenny Lumet Takes On ‘The Language Of Flowers’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 2, 2012 @ 3:33pm PSTTags: Fox 2000
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Lumet has made a deal to adapt The Language of Flowers, Fox 2000’s adaptation of the novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Lucy Fisher and Douglas Wick are producing through Red Wagon Productions. The bestselling book is an inspirational story … Read More »

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Fox 2000 In Talks With ‘Funny Or Die’s Jake Szymanski For ‘He’s Fuckin’ Perfect’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 15, 2011 @ 2:49pm PSTTags: Fox 2000, He's Fuckin' Perfect
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 is zeroing in on Jake Szymanski to direct He’s Fuckin’ Perfect, a comedy spec script that the studio bought by Lauryn Kahn that will be produced by Gary Sanchez. This one has Funny Or Die written … Read More »

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Matt Reeves Sinks Teeth Into Fox 2000′s Vampire Epic ‘The Passage’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 18, 2011 @ 12:07pm PDTTags: Fox 2000, Matt Reeves, Scott Free
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 has set Matt Reeves to direct The Passage, the film based on the bestselling Justin Cronin novel about an experiment that goes awry and creates a swarm of bloodthirsty vampires that brings the world to the brink of extinction. Fox acquired the book in 2007 for north of $3 million right after Cronin (the PEN Hemingway Award winner originally submitted the book under a pseudonym) made a 3-book deal with Ballantine for $3.75 million based on the first 400 pages of the book and an outline for a novel series. Reeves directed Cloverfield and mined bloodsucker terrain on the remake Let Me In. Scott Free is producing.

In The Passage, a group of terminally ill cancer patients get healthy after being subjected to the bites of bats in South America. Naturally, the government see this as a cure for the disease and starts experimenting. They end up with a legion of nearly indestructible, telepathic vampire masters that begin infecting the populace. The tone is closer to 28 Days Later and The Stand than Let The Right One In or Twilight Saga. Reeves will supervise a rewrite of a script done by John Logan. Logan’s busy with the James Bond film, so they will get another writer in. Read More »

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Fox 2000, Peter Chernin Acquire Gold Rush Tale ‘The Floor Of Heaven’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 21, 2011 @ 10:17am PDTTags: Fox 2000
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 has acquired screen rights to The Floor Of Heaven, a non-fiction book by Howard Blum that will be published April 26 by Crown/Random House. Book is the fact-based story of Charlie Siringo, a cowboy who, after the … Read More »

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John Fusco Takes His Shot At Early Elvis

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 10:52am PSTTags: Elvis Presley, Fox 2000, John Lee Hancock, Movie Deals, Movies, Steve Bing
Mike Fleming

Screenwriter John Fusco has taken on the job of adapting Peter Guralnick’s Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, the book that Fox has been trying to pull together for more than a decade. Steve Bing is producing … Read More »

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Taylor Lautner Making 8-Figures Per Movie; Will Produce & Star In 2 Studio Tentpoles During 2011; Now Casting His Love Interest

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday January 11, 2011 @ 9:10pm PSTTags: Fox 2000, New Regency, Taylor Lautner, Taylor Lautner Incarceron, Taylor Lautner Twilight Saga, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Twilight Saga

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that the Taylor Lautner juggernaut continues in Hollywood as this 18-year-old Twilight Saga action star and teen heartthrob just keeps booking movie after movie. Last year’s highest paid teenage actor (for a reported $7.5 million pay day in Universal’s Stretch Armstrong … Read More »

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Fox 2000 Acquires ‘Monster Of Florence’ With George Clooney Attached To Star

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 4, 2011 @ 6:10pm PSTTags: Book-to-Movie, Christopher McQuarrie, Fox 2000, George Clooney, Movie Deals, Movies
Mike Fleming

Fox 2000 has closed a deal that turns the bestselling crime book The Monster of Florence into a star vehicle for George Clooney. Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander are aboard to write the script. Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen … Read More »

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Fox 2000 Does Taylor Lautner Deal For ‘Incarceron’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 9, 2010 @ 12:34pm PSTTags: Fox 2000, John Palermo, Movie Deals, Movies, Taylor Lautner, Taylor Lautner Incarceron
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Twilight Saga‘s Taylor Lautner has become attached to star in Incarceron, the Fox 2000 adaptation of the Catherine Fisher young adult novel. The film is being written by Adam Cooper & Bill Collage, who are among … Read More »

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Fox 2000 Buys Pitch For ‘Glee’ Guy Cory Monteith

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday December 3, 2010 @ 10:57am PSTTags: Cory Monteith, Fox 2000, Monte Carlo, Movies
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Glee star Cory Monteith is at the center of a pitch deal that just went down at Fox 2000. The untitled project, described as a “workplace” comedy. Monteith is attached to star and produce with Bruce Nash and Robert … Read More »

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Fox 2000 & Shawn Levy To Tell Revisionist Romeo & Juliet Story

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 12, 2010 @ 3:29pm PSTTags: Book-to-Movie, Fox 2000, Movie Deals, Movies, Scott Neustadter, Shawn Levy
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 has completed its second book purchase in the last two days, acquiring Rebecca Serle’s debut novel Rosaline for Shawn Levy to produce under his 21 Laps banner. (500) Days of Summer scribes Scott Neustadter & Michael H. … Read More »

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Fox 2000 Buys Hot Dystopian Novel ‘Pure’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 11, 2010 @ 11:10am PSTTags: Book-to-Movie, Elizabeth Gabler, Fox 2000, Karen Rosenfelt, Movie Deals, Movies
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal that’s high six-figure against 7-figures, Fox 2000 has acquired Pure, the first of a three-novel series by Julianna Baggott. The film will be produced by Karen Rosenfelt, who is one of the producers  on the Twilight Saga series and whose Fox 2000 projects include The Devil … Read More »

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Fox 2000 Puts Scribe On ‘Shadow Divers’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 4, 2010 @ 6:58pm PDTTags: Fox 2000, Movie Deals, Movies, Robert Schwentke, Scott Free, Shadow Divers
Mike Fleming

Unstoppable scribe Mark Bomback has been set by Fox 2000 to do a new draft of Shadow Divers, the Robert Kurson book that follows two wreck divers who uncover the hull of a German U-boat off the New Jersey … Read More »

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Director Ang Lee Finds His ‘Life Of Pi’ Guy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 25, 2010 @ 7:38pm PDTTags: Ang Lee, Fox 2000, Life of Pi Casting, Movie Deals, Movies, Yann Martel
Mike Fleming

Director Ang Lee has completed a worldwide talent search for Life of Pi and has cast newcomer Suraj Sharma to play the lead role of 16-year old Pi Patel, a youth who gets stranded for 227 days through shark-infested waters … Read More »

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Fox 2000 Wins Beach Boys Musical Pitch For North Of $2 Million

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 1, 2010 @ 11:04am PDTTags: Beach Boys, Craig Zadan, Elizabeth Gabler, Fox 2000, John Stamos, Movie Deals, Movies, Neil Meron, Susannah Grant
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE AND UPDATED: Fox 2000 has beat out Universal Pictures by paying north of $2 million for a pitch by Susannah Grant and rights to songs from the Beach Boys song catalogue that will form the basis for … Read More »

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‘Red’ Director Robert Schwentke Jumps Into Fox 2000′s ‘Shadow Divers’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 4, 2010 @ 3:56pm PDTTags: Fox 2000, Robert Ludlum, Robert Schwentke, Robert Schwentke Director Red, Shadow Divers, The Osterman Weekend
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Schwentke, whose upcoming Helen Mirren-Bruce Willis-John Malkovich shoot-em-up Red got a big Comic-Con reaction, has taken the plunge on Shadow Divers, the Fox 2000 adaptation of the Robert Kurson book. It is one of a couple films … Read More »

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Fox 2000 Sees Film Potential In Teen Novel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 15, 2010 @ 8:43am PDTTags: Book Rights, Fox 2000, High School, Jon Shestack, Lauren Oliver, Maria Maggenti, Monte Carlo, Scripts
Mike Fleming

before-i-fallEXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 has optioned the rights to the Lauren Oliver teen novel Before I Fall, with Maria Maggenti set to adapt it. The book brings a Groundhog Day approach to high school. A female student finds herself living what may … Read More »

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WME Closing On Spec Script Sale Trifecta

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 24, 2010 @ 10:08am PDTTags: Channing Tatum, Fox 2000, Ion, Mandate Pictures, Morgan Creek, Scripts, WME
Mike Fleming

screenplay_pileThough the material market is summer sluggish, WME has managed the neat trick of closing in on three script deals this week, with another on the brink.

The spec in play is Ion, a Will Dunn scifi script that has Channing Tatum … Read More »

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