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Gerard Butler In Talks For ‘The Raven’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 10:58am PDTTags: Gerard Butler, Gold Circle Films, The Raven, Universal Pictures

The Raven is looking closer to achieving lift off. Gerard Butler is in deep negotiations to play the lead in the sci-fi conspiracy thriller that Ricardo de Montreuil is set to direct for Gold Circle Films and Universal Pictures. The feature, based on a 2010 short film by de Montreuil and Antonio Perez, was penned by Michael Gilio and Justin Marks. Butler is the second actor in as many months named for the movie’s potential lead; The Hunger Games’ Liam Hemsworth had been in talks before. Universal picked up rights to the short in late 2010. The studio and Gold Circle will co-finance the feature, which Gold Circle will produce and Universal will distribute worldwide Paul Brooks will produce for Gold Circle with COO Scott Niemeyer executive producing. Mark Wahlberg will produce alongside Steve Levinson, who originally brought the project to the studio. Nick Osborne, Trevor Engelson and Oly Obst will executive produce for Underground Films. Butler is repped by CAA and Alan Siegel Entertainment.

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Gold Circle Buys ‘Eden’ Spec Script By Olatunde Osunsanmi

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday March 26, 2013 @ 4:03pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Eden, Gold Circle Films, Olatunde Osunsanmi

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal that I hear was around low six figures, Gold Circle Films has acquired Eden, a sci-fi spec script that was written and will be directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. The script is … Read More »

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Walt Becker To Direct ‘Sex On The First Date’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 3:27pm PSTTags: Gold Circle Films, Walt Becker

EXCLUSIVE: Wild Hogs director Walt Becker has signed on to helm Sex On The First Date. Though the title might suggest otherwise, Sex is actually a romantic comedy. Gold Circle Films picked up the screenplay back … Read More »

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‘Taking Chance’ Helmer Ross Katz Takes On ‘Brotherhood Of The Rose’ For Gold Circle

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 19, 2011 @ 1:04pm PDTTags: Gold Circle Films, Kevin Bacon, Ross Katz
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EXCLUSIVE: Gold Circle Films is out to cast on The Brotherhood of the Rose, an adaptation of the David Morrell novel that will be the next film directed by Ross Katz. Katz will shoot it early next year. After getting … Read More »

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Universal And Gold Circle Acquire Rights To Musical Comedy ‘Pitch Perfect’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 30, 2011 @ 10:57am PDTTags: Film Acquisition, Gold Circle Films, Kay Cannon, Universal Pictures

Universal and Gold Circle Films have announced that they teamed to acquire worldwide rights to Pitch Perfect, a musical comedy set in the world of college a cappella groups. Jason Moore will direct from a screenplay by Kay … Read More »

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Gold Circle Acquires David Rosenfelt Thriller Novel ‘On Borrowed Time’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 22, 2011 @ 1:19pm PDTTags: Gold Circle Films
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EXCLUSIVE: Gold Circle Films has optioned David Rosenfelt’s novel On Borrowed Time, a Hitchcockian thriller published by St. Martin’s Press. Rosenfelt is a former marketing executive who became a screenwriter and then an author. His first novel, the Edgar Award-nominated … Read More »

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Universal & Gold Circle Films In Distrib Deal

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday May 11, 2011 @ 7:45pm PDTTags: Gold Circle Films, Universal Pictures, Universal Studios

Universal Pictures will distribute six Gold Circle Films between 2012 and 2014, or two each year. The two companies already have partnered on multiple projects in the past decade including White Noise, Because I Said So, The Wedding Date, The Fourth Kind, and Slither. Gold Circle is currently … Read More »

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