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Universal Acquires ‘Found Footage’ Thriller Spec By ‘Strangers’ Helmer Bryan Bertino

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 21, 2011 @ 2:56pm PSTTags: Adrienne Biddle, Bryan Bertino, Jason Blum, Marc Platt
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal has completed a pre-holiday acquisition of a spec script written by The Strangers writer/director Bryan Bertino. The project was acquired to be produced by Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, and Marc Platt and Adam Siegel of Marc Platt Productions. Bertino and his Unbroken Pictures partner Adrienne Biddle will also be producers. Blum and Platt have term deals at the studio. Blum is producer of the Paranormal Activity films.

I heard about the spec when it was circulated under the title Mockingbird, but at present it is untitled. Like Paranormal Activity, the Bertino spec is based on “found footage.” Bertino is not aboard to direct the film. Blumhouse just wrapped the Rob Zombie-directed Lords of Salem, as well as the Ethan Hawke-starrer Sinister for Summit Entertainment and is producing the ABC series The River. UTA made the deal for Bertino.

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Universal Wins ‘Grim Night’ Spec

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 7:16pm PDTTags: Adrienne Biddle, Bryan Bertino, Marc Platt
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures just won an auction for Grim Night, a thriller about about a night that happens once a year globally, where people lock themselves at home and fend off the senseless and random attacks by Grims. Deal was … Read More »

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Mark Wahlberg Sets Sights On ’2 Guns’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 10, 2011 @ 11:52am PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Andrew Cosby, Baltasar Kormakur, Brian Tucker, David O. Russell, George Furla, Marc Platt, Mark Wahlberg, Randall Emmett, Russell Crowe, Stephen Levinson, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Wahlberg is in negotiations to star in 2 Guns for Universal Pictures. The pic is based on a Steven Grant graphic novel, and has a script written by Blake Masters. The graphic novel is published by Boom! Studios. … Read More »

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‘Evidence’ Goes In Spec Deal To Bold Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 7:23pm PSTTags: Bold Films, Marc Platt, Movie Deals, Movies
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Bold Films has paid six-figures to buy Evidence, a spec script by first time writer John Swetnam, who’ll be given first crack at directing. Marc Platt will produce along with FilmEngine’s Anthony Rhulen and Jake Wagner, and Bold’s Michael Litvak and David Lancaster. Police arrive at an abandoned gas … Read More »

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David O Russell May Write/Direct ’2 Guns’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 12, 2011 @ 3:50pm PSTTags: David O. Russell, Marc Platt, Movie Deals, Movies, Universal Pictures, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

The Fighter director David O. Russell is in early talks to rewrite 2 Guns, with the idea that he’ll direct Vince Vaughn at Universal Pictures. The Marc Platt, Andrew Cosby and Boom! Studios-produced film, an adaptation of the Steven Grant graphic novel, is about a DEA agent and an undercover … Read More »

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‘Wicked’ To Cast Movie Spell For Universal: Creators Meeting With Hollywood Directors

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 9, 2010 @ 3:59pm PDTTags: Alice in Wonderland, Broadway, Directors, Fairy Tales, James Mangold, JJ Abrams, Mamma Mia!, Marc Platt, Oz, Rob Marshall, Ryan Murphy, The Wizard of Oz, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

100.0EXCLUSIVE: The smash hit stage musical Wicked is taking its first formative steps toward the movie screen. I’m told the musical’s producer Marc Platt, book writer Winnie Holzman, and songwriter Stephen Schwartz have begun meeting with filmmakers. Insiders confirm that JJ … Read More »

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