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Derby Street Films Acquires Black List Script ‘Blood Mountain’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 1:30pm PSTTags: 2011 Black List, Jonathan Stokes
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EXCLUSIVE: London-based Derby Street Films has made a six-figure acquisition of the Jonathan Stokes spec Blood Mountain, a script that made the 2011 Black List.

Spec is described as a gritty survival thriller with action elements. Shaun Redick and Ray Mansfield of Movie Package Co. are producing alongside James Gibb of Cutting Edge, with Nicola Horlick, Rachel Durkin, Brooklyn Weaver and Jonathan Stokes serving as Executive Producers.

Derby Street Films, which is run by Horlick, was established to take advantage of the Enterprise Investment Scheme in the UK, developing projects for eventual sale to the studios and independent financiers, and TV networks and cable channels. Derby Street Films acquires underlying intellectual properties and is developing original ideas with commercial potential. The goal is to develop 25 projects over the next three years. Derby Street intends to quickly secure a director for Blood Mountain.

CEO Horlick and development director Rachel Durkin are operating from London. The company’s board includes Shaun Redick of Movie Package Co.; James Gibb of Cutting Edge Group; and Maggie Monteith of Dignity Film Finance. Ray Mansfield, of Movie Package Co., plays an integral business and creative role for Derby Street Films.

The deal for Stokes and Weaver was brokered by UTA and attorney Gregg Gellman, and by Ray Mansfield on behalf of Derby Street Films. Stokes also wrote El Gringo, which is in post-production at Silver Pictures / After Dark Films.

 

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Warner Bros Buys Spec ‘Murders & Acquisitions’ For KatzSmith Productions

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 23, 2011 @ 6:54pm PDTTags: David Katzenberg, Joel Silver, Jonathan Stokes, Warner Bros Pictures
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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has bought writer Jonathan Stokes’ spec script Murders & Acquisitions for a low six figures. The purchase marks the first acquisition by Warners for producers Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg’s KatzSmith Productions, which recently closed an overall … Read More »

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After Dark Buys ‘El Gringo’ For Joel Silver

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 12, 2011 @ 10:51am PDTTags: Joel Silver, Jonathan Stokes

EXCLUSIVE: After Dark Films has purchased the action script El Gringo by Jonathan W. Stokes. Joel Silver will executive produce the film, which is set to begin production later this year. The plot centers on an American who crosses the border into Mexico with a bullet in his arm and $2.3 million in … Read More »

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