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Paper Street, Park Pictures Team To Fund ‘Infinitely Polar Bear’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 12, 2013 @ 9:56am PDTTags: Infinitely Polar Bear, Mark Ruffalo, Paper Street Pictures, Park Pictures
Mike Fleming

Paper Street Films and Park Pictures have just gotten underway in Providence on Infinitely Polar Bear, with Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana starring in a drama about a manic depressive father who tries to win back his wife by taking responsibility for their two free spirited daughters. Maya Forbes wrote the script and is directing, inspired by true events from her childhood. Her scripting efforts include The Rocker, Monsters vs. Aliens, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3.  Wally Wolodarsky; Benji Kohn, Austin Stark and Bingo Gubelmann from Paper Street Films and producing with Park Pictures’ Sam Bisbee and Galt Niederhoffer from Park Pictures. Bad Robot’s JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk are among the exec producers.  Paper Street is responsible for Happythankyoumoreplease and Park Pictures for Robot & Frank. ICM Partners is repping domestic, and Aldamisa Entertainment has foreign.

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Hulk Most Difficult Marvel Property: Whedon

By JEN YAMATO | Friday March 8, 2013 @ 7:10am PSTTags: Joss Whedon, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel, The Hulk

There’s been so much Hulk talk lately. The direct-to-DVD film from Marvel - Iron Man and Hulk: Heroes United - was originally slated for an April 23 release date but now won’t come out until December 3. Much has been made of … Read More »

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Mark Ruffalo Rules Out Solo ‘Hulk’ Movie

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday March 7, 2013 @ 10:58am PSTTags: Mark Ruffalo, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk

Ross Lincoln is a Deadline contributor.

After the huge success of Disney and Marvel Studios‘ The Avengers, the continuation of the Marvel movie universe has been a fait accompli. In addition to Iron Man 3 and the sequels to Captain America: The First Avenger and Thor, already planned prior to The Avengers, several new films exploiting lesser known Marvel Characters, most notably Guardians Of The Galaxy and Ant Man have been greenlit. Left untapped is a third attempt to make a successful Incredible Hulk movie, particularly noticeable after Mark Ruffalo‘s performance as Bruce Banner/The Hulk in The Avengers emerged as that film’s most celebrated success. There’s been a wave of speculation and rumor that a Ruffalo-starring Hulk film is under consideration, but that conversation can be put to rest – for now – as Ruffalo took to Twitter to pour cold water on the prospect. “A lot of folks have been asking about the Next Hulk. The next time you see my Hulk it will be in the Avengers2. No plans for stand alone.” In a follow up to that tweet, he did make it clear that the door isn’t closed, adding “I am not giving up on another stand alone HULK. But it’s not in the works right now. One never knows what the future will bring.” Regardless, it would seem, for now, that a new Hulk film is not in the cards. Read More »

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Julia Roberts & Mark Ruffalo To Star In HBO Movie ‘The Normal Heart’, Ryan Murphy To Direct

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 4, 2013 @ 2:09pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, HBO, Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo, Ryan Murphy, TCA, The Normal Heart

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

HBO announced this afternoon at TCA that it has greenlighted The Normal Heart, an original movie adaptation of the Tony-winning Larry Kramer play that will star Julia Roberts and … Read More »

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Sienna Miller Plays Murdered Wrestler’s Wife In ‘Foxcatcher’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 5, 2012 @ 10:08am PDTTags: Bennett Miller, Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Steve Carell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Moneyball helmer Bennett Miller is putting together the final casting pieces for Foxcatcher, the Annapurna Pictures-funded drama that stars Steve Carell as paranoid schizophrenic heir Jon DuPont, who created a training center for wrestlers and murdered … Read More »

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Marvel Has Big Plans For The Hulk As Hero

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 4, 2012 @ 3:58pm PDTTags: Mark Ruffalo, Marvel, The Incredible Hulk

The Incredible Hulk SequelMarvel execs are notoriously tightlipped and no formal announcements have been made. But now SVP Marvel licensing Paul Gitter tells Forbes magazine that he and his colleagues have been “pleasantly surprised by the phenomenal response” to the Hulk already &mdash&; even before The Avengers opened. “His sales are up in a major way. We repositioned him from where he was always misunderstood to now depicting him in a more heroic and aspirational manner.” Now fanboys have their first look at Mark Ruffalo’s iteration of the Hulk and they like what they see. Gitter says Marvel “will spin him off to a stand-alone program next year,” which Forbes says is “presumably supported by another big budget franchise movie in 2015. The entertainment studio is also exploring ways to promote Hulk as a ‘corporate icon’ similar to MetLife’s usage of Peanuts’ Snoopy, with Hulk’s image conveying a message about channeling strength to overcome workplace challenges.” This is a marked change from what Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige told Collider recently. “…Every time I see a good take or a good storyline or read some good pages, I think, ‘Oh should we make a movie about this?’ But with the Hulk we’re gonna play it very carefully. We had varying degrees of success on those first two movies, so we’re not gonna say, ‘Oh we did it! Another one!’ We’re gonna be smart about it and play it out. There are no plans right now to do another Hulk. Hulk might be just the special guest in Avengers movies, who knows?” Feige also told The Huffington Post that Marvel put “everything they had and everything they were going for into Hulk’s appearance in Avengers” so it’s “mission accomplished at this point.” According to Collider, a Hulk TV series is in development by Guillermo del Toro and Battlestar Galactica producer David Eick that would develop the original story of Bruce Banner in his mid-20s, and Jeph Loeb, head of Marvel Television, recently confirmed that the live-action show is in active development at ABC.

Related: ‘AVENGERS’ BOX OFFICE: Is This Hollywood’s Biggest Ever – Or Not? Read More »

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Fortissimo Acquires ‘Monsoon Shootout’, Mark Ruffalo & Scarlett Johansson Join ‘Can A Song Save Your Life?’: Berlin

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday February 3, 2012 @ 3:32pm PSTTags: Judd Apatow, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson

IM Global Brings Katherine Heigl Film ‘The Happytime Murders’: Berlin

Just ahead of next week’s European Film Market in Berlin, Fortissimo Films has come aboard thriller Monsoon Shootout, handling international rights outside India/South Asia, France and Germany. The film, executive … Read More »

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WME Signs British Actor Tom Hiddleston

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 24, 2011 @ 12:30pm PDTTags: Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Joss Whedon, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hiddleston, WME, Woody Allen
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: WME has just signed Tom Hiddleston, who reprises his Loki character from Thor in the upcoming Joss Whedon-directed The Avengers. Hiddleston, who was last repped in the U.S. by ICM, had a year in which he also starred in … Read More »

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Dave Franco Joins ‘Now You See Me’ At Summit

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:50pm PDTTags: Channing Tatum, Isla Fisher, Jesse Eisenberg, John Malkovich, Jonah Hill, Louis Leterrier, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Franco has joined the cast of Now You See Me, which is his second straight movie for Summit Entertainment. Franco joins Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman and Isla Fisher in the Louis Leterrier-directed drama about … Read More »

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HBO Turning ‘The Kids Are All Right’ Into Series Pilot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 1:51pm PDTTags: Annette Bening, Celine Rattray, HBO, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, Lisa Cholodenko, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, The Kids Are All Right
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has made a deal to develop  the Oscar-nominated comedy The Kids Are All Right as an hour-long series. Lisa Cholodenko, who co-wrote and directed the Focus Features release, will write the pilot script. I’m told that it will … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Avengers’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 7:44am PDTTags: Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Joss Whedon, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, The Avengers, Tom Hiddleston
Mike Fleming

Marvel Studios has released its first full trailer for The Avengers, its Joss Whedon-directed dream teaming of Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), and team leader Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), who team up against Loki (Tom … Read More »

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Cobie Smulders Closes In On ‘Avengers’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday February 5, 2011 @ 7:52am PSTTags: Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Clark Gregg, Jeremy Renner, Jimmy Fallon, Joss Whedon, Mark Ruffalo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Morena Baccarin, Nick Fury, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, The Avengers, Tom Hiddleston, Wonder Woman
Mike Fleming

I’m hearing that How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders has emerged as the front runner for the role of SHIELD Agent Maria Hill in the Joss Whedon-directed The Avengers and that a deal could be done before the … Read More »

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More Films Put On iTunes For SAG Voters

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday January 14, 2011 @ 12:47pm PSTTags: Annette Bening, Focus Features, iTunes, Mark Ruffalo, SAG Award Voting, SAG Awards, SAG Awards iTunes, The Kids Are All Right
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Paramount press release for The Fighter on iTunes below. Right below is Focus’ release, issued after Deadline broke the story.

EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing that Focus Features has made a deal with iTunes that will allow SAG members to view its awards season candidate, The Kids Are All Right … Read More »

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NY Film Critics Award ‘The Social Network’, David Fincher, Colin Firth, & Annette Bening

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday December 13, 2010 @ 11:09am PSTTags: Animal Kingdom, Annette Bening, Carlos, Colin Firth, David Fincher, Inside Job, Mark Ruffalo, Melissa Leo, The Social Network



The New York Film Critics Circle Chair Armond White said today, ”This year’s choices reflect the current critical mindset.  It’s proof that it’s always a good year for movies.”The New York critics followed the Los Angeles Film Critics … Read More »

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Showtime Reels In Talent: Inks Deals For Projects With Mark Ruffalo & Anthony Edwards, Jeff Daniels & Timothy Busfield

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 24, 2010 @ 4:52pm PDTTags: Anthony Edwards, Cable TV, David Nevins, David Nevins Showtime, Jeff Daniels, Mark Ruffalo, Showtime Development, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Two months into the job, Showtime entertainment president David Nevins is already hard at work building a development slate with some big-name auspices. Among the latest to sign up for projects at the pay cable networks are Mark … Read More »

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MARVEL-OUS STAR WATTAGE: Actors Assemble For Comic-Con Panel Including ‘The Avengers’, ‘Captain America’, & ‘Thor’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday July 24, 2010 @ 8:07pm PDTTags: Captain America, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Clark Gregg, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Iron Man, Jeremy Renner, Joss Whedon, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel Studios, Nick Fury, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, The Incredible Hulk, Thor







Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

2ND UPDATE: Marvel tonight put together the most high-profile panel of … Read More »

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TOLDJA! Marvel & Ruffalo Ink Hulk Deal

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday July 23, 2010 @ 5:44pm PDTTags: Brillstein Partners, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Edward Norton, Joss Whedon, Kevin Feige, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Ruffalo The Incredible Hulk, Marvel Studios, Marvel Superheros, Superhero, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk


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EXCLUSIVE: Back on July 14th, I scooped that Mark Ruffalo Is In Late-Stage Talks To Be Marvel’s New Hulk in ‘The Avengers’. Now I’ve just learned the ink is drying on the deal reached by Brillstein Entertainment Partners with Marvel. (There’s no official confirmation yet from Marvel whose reps aren’t available for their usual “No comment”.) So it looks like Marvel movie mastermind Kevin Feige may pull this off and bring Ruffalo along with other of The Avengers superheroes and director Joss Whedon to tomorrow night’s panel at Comic-Con. Read More »

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Mark Ruffalo In Late-Stage Talks To Be Marvel’s New Hulk in ‘The Avengers’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday July 14, 2010 @ 10:28am PDTTags: Comic Books, Edward Norton, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Ruffalo The Incredible Hulk, Mark Ruffalo UTA, Marvel Studios, Movie Casting, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, The Kids Are All Right, Thor 3D


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EXCLUSIVE: Imagine the Hollywood actor whom you’d least expect to play The Incredible Hulk in The Avengers, and maybe, just maybe, you’d come up with the name of Mark Ruffalo. He’s always been an actor’s actor and is getting … Read More »

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Mark Ruffalo Signs With UTA

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday July 13, 2010 @ 12:02pm PDTTags: Brillstein Partners, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Ruffalo UTA, Scott Wexler, The Kids Are All Right, UTA

I’ve learned he’ll be repped by a team led by partners Billy Lazarus and Shani Rosenzweig. Ruffalo currently stars in the indie The Kids Are All Right. He recently made his directorial debut on Sympathy For Delicious which won the Sundance Special Jury Prize. He will continue to … Read More »

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