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Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini Lapse Into ‘My Beautiful Coma’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 1, 2013 @ 2:17pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Mandalay Vision, My Beautiful Coma, Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Filmmaking team Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini have made deals to rewrite and direct My Beautiful Coma, the Chris Downey-scripted drama for Mandalay and Brett Ratner’s Rat Entertainment. Mandalay’s Matthew Rhodes and Cathy Schulman will produce, along with Ratner. Rat Entertainment’s John Cheng will executive produce, as will Bobby Sabelhaus. Mandalay Vision senior veep Jennifer Berman will oversee it and have a producing credit as well. The comedy is about an estranged couple who, after a car accident, find themselves side by side in comatose states. While sleeping, they each escape into their own alternate-reality where they are able to live out their every whim and fantasy, free of the banal details of real life. But when they mysteriously cross over into each other’s coma-worlds, all bets are off.

Mandalay Vision president Rhodes said “Shari and Bob’s talents are a perfect fit for this film’s broad appeal and innovative storytelling. My Beautiful Coma is a commercial comedy with an utterly unique visual style, and I can’t imagine anyone who would bring it to life with more fun and finesse than Shari and Bob.” Springer Berman & Pulcini, who last helmed the Kristen Wiig-starrer Girl Most Likely, are repped by Anonymous Content’s Adam Shulman and CAA. They were Oscar-nominated for scripting American Splendor.

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Ryan Reynolds Circling ‘The Voices’ For Mandalay Vision

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 4:58pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Mandalay Vision, Marjane Satrapi, Ryan Reynolds, The Voices
Mike Fleming

Ryan ReynoldsEXCLUSIVE: Mandalay Vision and Vertigo Entertainment are in early talks with Ryan Reynolds to star in The Voices, a psychological thriller that will be directed by Marjane Satrapi from a script by Paranormal Activity’s Michael R. Perry. The script made the Black List, and Satrapi got an Oscar nom for Best Animated Feature for her first film Persepolis, adapted from her semi-autobiographical novel. Read More »

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Indie Feature ‘Whiskey Bay’ Sets Cast

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 27, 2012 @ 3:31pm PDTTags: Amy Smart, Big Deals Film, Mandalay Vision, Tom Berenger, Whiskey Bay
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Hatfields & McCoys‘ Tom Berenger, Amy Smart, Bill Duke, Neal McDonough, Christopher Marquette and Frederick Weller have been set to join Matt Dillon and Willem … Read More »

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Mandalay Vision, Vertigo Duet On Marjane Satrapi-Directed Thriller ‘The Voices’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 7, 2012 @ 9:24am PDTTags: Mandalay Vision, Marjane Satrapi, Roy Lee, The Voices
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Mandalay Vision and Vertigo Entertainment will team on The Voices, a psychological thriller that will be directed by Marjane Satrapi from a script by Paranormal Activity’s Michael R. Perry. The script made the Black List, … Read More »

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Mandalay Vision Sets Julian Jarrold To Helm ‘Exit 147′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 1, 2012 @ 10:02am PSTTags: Mandalay Vision
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Mandalay Vision has set Julian Jarrold to helm Exit 147, an indie thriller scripted by Travis Milloy. Cathy Schulman and Matthew Rhodes are producing for Mandalay Vision with Lenny Beckerman. Mandalay Vision is independently financing the film for a … Read More »

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Cannes: Mandalay Vision Gets New Location And Leader, And Two-Year Funding Deal With Prescience

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 13, 2011 @ 4:43pm PDTTags: Cannes, Financing, Mandalay Pictures, Mandalay Vision, Prescience
Mike Fleming

Mandalay Pictures is moving its prestige pic division Mandalay Vision from New York to Los Angeles and has named Matthew Rhodes its new Vision president. At the same time, Mandalay owner Peter Guber and president Cathy Schulman have locked a new two-year funding deal with Tim Smith’s Prescience, financier of … Read More »

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Cannes: ‘Another Happy Day’ For Phase 4

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 13, 2011 @ 9:18am PDTTags: Cannes, Ellen Barkin, Mandalay Vision

Phase 4 Films has acquired domestic rights to Another Happy Day, writer-director Sam Levinson’s dark comedy about a dysfunctional family that won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film — starring Ellen Barkin, Demi … Read More »

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Mandalay Vision Prexy Celine Rattray Forms Maven Pictures With Trudie Styler

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 12, 2011 @ 11:38am PDTTags: Celine Rattray, Mandalay Vision, Maven Pictures, Peter Guber, Sting, Trudie Styler
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Celine Rattray is leaving her post as president of Mandalay Vision to partner with Trudie Styler in the launch of Maven Pictures, a Gotham-based film development, production and financing company. The Maven partners hope to produce three to five … Read More »

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