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‘Rescue 3′ Kicks Off New TV Division For Emmett/Furla Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 14, 2012 @ 10:06am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV, Emmett/Furla Films, George Furla, Randall Emmett
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Emmett/Furla Films, which has become an increasingly prolific backer of mid-budget feature films, has launched a TV production division. It kicks off with Rescue 3, a series set against the beautiful backdrop of Southern California’s world-famous beaches. Created by Gregory J. Bonann and Tai Collins of Tower 18 Productions, Rescue 3 is a one-hour action-adventure drama. Emmett/Furla principal Randall Emmett said the company, in conjunction with Envision Entertainment, will fund a full season’s worth of shows, with 22 episodes ready to air in prime time for fall, 2013.

The logline: Rescue 3 is an elite multi-agency task force in South California that encompasses lifeguard, firefighter and Coast Guard agencies. Each episode will center on big-action life-saving rescues involving all 3 services. Bonann, who exec produced Baywatch and is a 43-year vet of the L.A. County Firefighter & Lifeguard departments,  will be exec producer. Jim & John Thomas (Predator) will write alongside Collins. Casting will begin shortly.

Emmett and partner George Furla said that the transition into TV production is a logical next step for the 14-year old company. “We always knew we’d branch into TV, but we wanted to make sure the timing was right,” they said in a statement. “We applied the same financing & strategy principles we learned from making films to TV production, allowing us to greenlight this production.”

EFF and Envision Entertainment recently completed another round of funding that adds $275 million from equity raised from both EFF and Envision Entertainment equity partners. In September of 2011, Emmett/Furla and Envision Entertainment’s Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase established a $250 million revolving equity and debt fund to finance a slate of high-end, star-driven commercial feature films in collaboration with a variety of production & distribution partners. In the last 11 months, Emmett/Furla became one of the highest producing companies with over 8 films in production and 4 highly anticipated films End of Watch, Lay The Favorite, Alex Cross, Broken City to be released in the next few months. The company financed over $300 million in movie production since 2011 and Emmett / Furla is producing the $85 million film 2 Guns with Universal Pictures, starring Mark Wahlberg & Denzel Washington. Titles in pre-production include Lone Survivor, starring Mark Wahlberg directed by Peter Berg and Motor City starring Gerard Butler and directed by Albert Hughes, both slated to begin filming September 20th. Most recently, Emmett / Furla wrapped production on The Tomb, Empire State, Frozen Ground and Fire with Fire.

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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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New Regency Joins Mark Wahlberg-Russell Crowe Drama ‘Broken City,’ Fox To Distribute

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 7, 2011 @ 7:19pm PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Arnon Milchan, Brad Weston, George Furla, Mark Wahlberg, New Regency, Randall Emmett, Russell Crowe
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In one of its first moves since Brad Weston was named CEO and Arnon Milchan reinserted himself as the active head of the company, New Regency has come aboard the producing roster of Broken City, the Allen Hughes-directed drama … Read More »

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‘Broken City’ Scribe Brian Tucker Sells Spec ‘Expiration’ To Emmett/Furla Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 29, 2011 @ 2:08pm PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Brian Tucker, George Furla, John Cusack, Mark Wahlberg, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Remington Chase, Russell Crowe, Vanessa Hudgens
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In a mid-six-figure against seven-figure deal, Emmett/Furla Films has acquired Expiration, an action script by Brian Tucker. He scripted Broken City, a drama that EFF is financing for a November 7 start date with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe starring … Read More »

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Toronto: Vanessa Hudgens Set For ‘Frozen Ground’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 12, 2011 @ 6:49am PDTTags: George Furla, Jane Fleming, John Cusack, Mark Ordesky, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Remington Chase, Robert Hansen, Scott Walker, Vanessa Hudgens
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In a departure from her High School Musical past, Vanessa Hudgens has been set to star alongside Nicolas Cage and John Cusack in Frozen Ground, the Emmett/Furla Films thriller that is being sold here in Toronto, with … Read More »

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Indie Thriller ‘Captive’ Eyes Arnold Schwarzenegger For Lead

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 9, 2011 @ 12:40pm PDTTags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Furla, Groundswell Productions, Michael London, Nicolai Fuglsig, Randall Emmett
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Days after closing a deal for The Expendables 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger is in talks to star in Captive, an action thriller that is out to directors with the intention of shooting next year. Emmett/Furla Films is … Read More »

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Toronto: Emmett-Furla And Envision Set $250 Million Film Fund

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 9, 2011 @ 4:00am PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Anna Kendrick, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Curtis Jackson, David Ayer, Forest Whitaker, George Furla, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Cusack, Mark Wahlberg, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Rebecca Hall, Remington Chase, Robert De Niro, Russell Crowe, Stephen Frears, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

Emmett/Furla Films, a company that has been growing more ambitious in the film financing and production arena, has teamed with Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase’s Envision Entertainment to establish a new $250 million revolving equity and debt fund to finance a new slate of star-driven commercial films. The fund was announced as EFF principal Randall Emmett comes to Toronto to make deals on films that include the Allen Hughes-directed political corruption drama Broken City, which stars Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, and Frozen Ground, the fact-based thriller about a serial killer in Alaska that will star Nicolas Cage and John Cusack. Martirosyan and Chase are executive producers on the latter.

The fund carries no set restrictions on how and where capital is allocated, but it will continue EFF’s momentum. The company recently financed the Stephen Frears-directed Lay The Favorite — with a cast that includes Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Vince Vaughn and Catherine Zeta-Jones — with films in the works that include the David Ayer-directed crime drama End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anna Kendrick; Fire with Josh Duhamel, Willis and Rosario Dawson; and Freelancers, a drama that stars Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. EFF’s Emmett continues to be Jackson’s partner in Cheetah Vision Films, which has a deal at Lionsgate. EFF will make nine films this year. Read More »

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Mark Wahlberg Sets Sights On ’2 Guns’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 10, 2011 @ 11:52am PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Andrew Cosby, Baltasar Kormakur, Brian Tucker, David O. Russell, George Furla, Marc Platt, Mark Wahlberg, Randall Emmett, Russell Crowe, Stephen Levinson, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Wahlberg is in negotiations to star in 2 Guns for Universal Pictures. The pic is based on a Steven Grant graphic novel, and has a script written by Blake Masters. The graphic novel is published by Boom! Studios. … Read More »

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Russell Crowe Signs On For Mayoral Run In ‘Broken City’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 8, 2011 @ 11:10am PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Brian Tucker, Broken City, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Curtis Jackson, David Ayer, George Furla, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Cusack, Josh Duhamel, Mark Wahlberg, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Rebecca Hall, Russell Crowe, Scott Walker, Stephen Frears, Stephen Levinson, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Russell Crowe is set to star alongside Mark Wahlberg in the Allen Hughes-directed independently financed noir drama Broken City. Production begins in November. Wahlberg plays an ex-cop-turned-private detective who is hired by the mayor (the role Crowe will play) to see if his wife is cheating on him. The private eye confirms those suspicions, and when the mayor’s wife’s cheating partner ends up dead, the private eye immerses himself in the mayor’s business and uncovers a real estate scandal that involves the pol dealing himself choice city-owned properties. The script by Brian Tucker made the 2008 Black List. The $60 million film will be financed by Emmett/Furla Films.

Wahlberg is producing through his Closest to the Hole banner; Stephen Levinson through Leverage; and Randall Emmett, George Furla and Hughes are also producing. Wahlberg and Levinson, partners on Entourage and Boardwalk Empire, just wrapped the drama Contraband. Crowe is costarring as Jor-El in the Superman reboot Man of Steel and just wrapped The Man With The Iron Fists. Read More »

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Mark Wahlberg, Allen Hughes Plot Trip To ‘Broken City’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 9:46am PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Brian Tucker, Broken City, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Curtis Jackson, David Ayer, George Furla, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Duhamel, Mark Wahlberg, Randall Emmett, Rebecca Hall, Stephen Frears, Stephen Levinson, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

Mark Wahlberg and Allen Hughes are in early talks to team on Broken City, a noir-style drama about an ex-cop-turned-private detective who is hired by the mayor to see if his wife is cheating on him. When the mayor’s wife’s … Read More »

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Robert De Niro Set For ‘Freelancers’ & Forest Whitaker Negotiating To Join Him

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 25, 2011 @ 9:45pm PDTTags: CAA, Curtis Jackson, Freelancers, George Furla, Julianne Moore, Paul Dano, Paul Weitz, Randall Emmett, Robert De Niro
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Robert De Niro is set to star in the Jessy Terrero-directed Freelancers, and Forest Whitaker is in talks to join him and Curtis Jackson in the cop drama. The film begins production April 18 in New Orleans. Jackson plays … Read More »

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