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‘The Raid’ Helmer Gareth Evans Makes 7-Figure Pic Deal With Media Rights Capital

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 4, 2012 @ 9:41am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Gareth Evans, Media Rights Capital, The Raid
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Media Rights Capital has closed a deal with Welsh writer/director Gareth Evans for his first English language action drama. Evans will make seven figures to write and direct. They are keeping the plot under wraps, but it will feature strong roles for two male stars, and the plan is to shoot in 2013 after Evans completed Raid 2. That is the sequel to The Raid: Redemption, a film that was a festival favorite at Sundance and Toronto.

That film has put Evans in high demand. He recently made a deal to develop to direct Breaking The Bank at Universal. It’s about the biggest heist in history in England, masterminded by former UFC fighter “Lightning” Lee Murray. Screen Gems is separately developing a remake of The Raid.

This is another example of MRC getting in business with an emerging talent, as the company has done with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Neil Blomkamp. Evans is repped by WME and Management 360.

 

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‘The Raid’ Helmer Gareth Evans Conspiring With Universal On MMA Fighter-Turned-Bank Robber Tale ‘Breaking The Bank’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 4, 2012 @ 11:42am PDTTags: Gareth Evans, UFC, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired the fact-based drama Breaking The Bank as a directing vehicle for Gareth Evans, whose Indonesian action film The Raid: Redemption electrified numerous festivals before being released recently by Sony Pictures Classics. The fact-based drama is based on the book Heist: The True Story Of The World’s Biggest Cash Robbery by Howard Sounes, and the Sports Illustrated article Breaking The Bank by L. Jon Wertheim. XYZ Films is producing with Evans. XYZ is the company that executive produced and handled worldwide sales for The Raid: Redemption, and the remake of the action movie that is in the works at Screen Gems. Read More »

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2012 Sundance: WME Signs ‘The Raid’ Helmer Gareth Evans

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 18, 2012 @ 4:55pm PSTTags: Gareth Evans, Management 360, The Raid, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the Sundance premier of the Indonesian action film The Raid, director Gareth Evans has signed with WME. All the agencies have been courting him since that martial arts film made its premiere at Toronto, where it won the Midnight Madness Award. … Read More »

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Sony Pictures Classics Releasing ‘The Raid’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 12:32pm PSTTags: Gareth Evans, Linkin Park, Sony Pictures Classics, The Raid
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has been set to release The Raid, the Gareth Evans-directed martial arts film that won the Midnight Madness Award at the recent Toronto Film Festival. It is also rumored to be en route to the … Read More »

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Screen Gems Pacts To Remake ‘The Raid’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 9, 2011 @ 3:37pm PSTTags: Gareth Evans, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, The Raid

Screen Gems has acquired remake rights to The Raid, the Gareth Evans-directed Indonesian action movie that won the Midnight Madness sidebar’s audience award at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions had picked up U.S. distribution rights to … Read More »

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Toronto: ‘The Raid’ Helmer Gareth Evans Signs With Management 360

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 20, 2011 @ 2:56pm PDTTags: Gareth Evans, Management 360, The Raid, Toronto Film Festival
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: While buyers were a little lukewarm about a lot of the 2011 Toronto Film Festival fare, there was much buzz about The Raid, the Gareth Evans-directed martial arts film that won the Midnight Madness Award. The distribution rights … Read More »

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Toronto: ‘Where Do We Go Now?’ Wins Audience Award, ‘The Raid’ Gets Midnight Madness, ‘Island President’ Wins Docu Prize

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday September 18, 2011 @ 10:33am PDTTags: 2011 Toronto Film Festival, Awards, Edwin Boyd, Gareth Evans, Nadine Labaki, The Island President, The Raid, Where Do We Go Now?
Mike Fleming

The 2011 Toronto Film Festival is drawing to a close, and the festival just handed out its prizes. The winners:

Cadillac People’s Choice Award
Nadine Labaki-directed Where Do We Go Now?

Cadillac People’s Choice Award For Documentary
Jon Shenk-directed The Island President

Cadillac People’s Choice … Read More »

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