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EXCLUSIVE! Matt Reeves Is Warner Bros’ Pick For ‘Twilight Zone’ Movie

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday October 15, 2011 @ 10:52am PDTTags: Jacob Aaron Estes, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Kenneth Oppel, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Reeves, Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Let Me In and Cloverfield director Matt Reeves has been chosen by Warner Bros to direct The Twilight Zone, the Jason Rothenberg-scripted thriller based on the classic Rod Serling TV series. Negotiations will get underway early next week, but this is an assignment that was coveted by a number of top directors.
The Twilight Zone is being produced by Appian Way partners Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran, and Michael Ireland. Warner Bros’ Matt Cherniss is the exec.  Though the last Twilight Zone film  was an anthology with different directors, this one is a big science fiction action movie with a single freestanding story that is linked to the original series mainly in that it shares that familiarly eerie feel. The hope is to sign to sign Reeves quickly, continue to work on the script and get the picture into production by next summer.

Reeves is aligned with several major projects that will keep him busy for some time. He recently signed on to develop to direct This Dark Endeavor, a revisionist take on the Frankenstein tale based on Kenneth Oppel’s novel, with Jacob Aaron Estes writing the script for Summit Entertainment. Reeves is also attached to direct the Justin Cronin vampire novel The Passage for Fox 2000, and he’s got a deal at Universal to write and direct a film based on the Ray Nelson short story 8 O’Clock in the Morning, about a man who awakens with the realization that aliens are all over the place and control society. Reeves is repped by CAA and 3 Arts.

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Jury Selected For Golden Trailer Awards

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 22, 2011 @ 4:13pm PDTTags: Andrew Kosove, Golden Trailer Awards, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Jury

Alcon Entertainment co-founder Andrew Kosove, Appian Way co-chairman Jennifer Davisson Killoran, The Kids Are All Right executive producer J Todd Harris and French producer Vera Belmont are among the names selected for the jury of the Golden Trailer Awards, which … Read More »

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Albert Hughes Exiting ‘Akira’ At Warner Bros

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 26, 2011 @ 12:19pm PDTTags: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes, Andrew Garfield, Chris Pine, Garrett Hedlund, James McAvoy, Jeff Robinov, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Joaquin Phoenix, Justin Timberlake, Katsuhiro Otomo, Keanu Reeves, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Fassbender, Robert Pattinson, Steve Kloves
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The twists and turns on the Warner Bros adaptation of anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo’s graphic novel Akira continue. Director Albert Hughes is exiting the movie, I’m told. Insiders say that it is an amicable creative differences  parting of the ways. Warner Bros will try to put him on another movie right away (Hughes and his brother Allen directed the hit The Book of Eli, and WB topper Jeff Robinov is their former agent and is very close with them). Hughes is coming to Hollywood next week to take meetings with his WME reps and look at scripts, hoping to find his next movie at Warner Bros.

As for Akira, the intention of the studio is to keep the picture on a fast track, which means they will find a director quickly. The studio has been wrestling with the approach on the film for the past year. Read More »

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‘Akira’ Focuses On Short List Of Actors After Getting Steve Kloves Rewrite

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 21, 2011 @ 8:04pm PDTTags: Akira, Albert Hughes, Andrew Garfield, Appian Way, Chris Pine, Garrett Hedlund, James McAvoy, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Joaquin Phoenix, Justin Timberlake, Katsuhiro Otomo, Legendary Pictures, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Fassbender, Robert Pattinson, Steve Kloves, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The script for the Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures live action adaptation of anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo’s 6-volume graphic novel Akira has been sent to a short list of actors. The picture is finally taking shape for an August start, … Read More »

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Warner Bros Stakes Out ‘Harker,’ Dracula Project With Appian Way And ‘Unknown’ Director Jaume Collet-Serra

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 7, 2011 @ 3:26pm PSTTags: Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Connelly, Movie Deals, Movies, Paradigm, Rick Yorn, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is closing a deal to acquire Harker, a spec script by Lee Shipman & Brian McGreevy for a re-imagining of Bram Stoker’s Dracula that will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. The filmmaker’s latest is the Liam Neeson-starrer … Read More »

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