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Sci-Fi Title ‘Europa’ To Orbit Toronto

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 5:27pm PDTTags: Kevin Misher, Sharlto Copley
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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s another title that will get shopped at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival in script stage: Wayfare Entertainment and Misher Films are in pre-production on Europa, a contemporary space adventure that will be directed by Sebastian Cordero, the Ecuadorian helmer whose credits include Rage and Cronicas. District 9‘s Sharlto Copley is set to star with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Michael Nyquist, Anamaria Marinca (she starred in the Palme d’Or winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), and Asian superstar Daniel Wu. Wayfare Entertainment is fully funding the film, and Misher Films’ Kevin Misher is producing with Wayfare’s Ben Browning. Sierra/Affinity’s Nick Meyer is handling international sales. Scripted by Philip Gelatt, Europa is the story of a six-person team of astronauts from various international space stations who are sent by a private sector corporation to be the first manned mission to Jupiter’s fourth moon. Eugenio Caballero (Pan’s Labryrinth, is production designer, and the plan is to begin shooting in New York this fall. Wayfare’s Michael Maher and Jeremy Kipp Walker will be exec producers alongside Andy Berman.

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CANNES: FilmDistrict Buys Gerard Butler Soccer Comedy ‘Playing The Field’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 12, 2011 @ 5:30am PDTTags: Avi Lerner, Bob Berney, Cannes, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Gabriele Muccino, Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Kevin Misher, Peter Schlessel
Mike Fleming

FilmDistrict bought U.S. rights to Playing the Field, the Nu Image/Millennium Films Gabriele Muccino-directed comedy that stars Gerard Butler as a retired soccer star. His penchant for scoring off the field ruined his marriage and his relationship with his … Read More »

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Paramount Ends 4-Year Attempt To Turn Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ Into Film Franchise

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 1:58pm PDTTags: Chase Palmer, Dune, Frank Herbert, Kevin Misher, Paramount Pictures, Peter Berg, Pierre Morel, Richard P. Rubinstein
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has turned loose the giant worm, and everything else that was part of the seminal Frank Herbert science fiction novel series Dune. The studio’s four-year attempt to make a movie out of the franchise has fallen by … Read More »

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