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UTA’s Charlie Ferraro & Hollywood Pals Light ’Em Up

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday June 8, 2012 @ 4:13pm PDTTags: Marty Bowen, Sean Bailey, UTA

Some Hollywood players were having a good time and a few fine stogies last night in Beverly Hills. UTA’s Charlie Ferraro and DreamWorks’ Mark Sourian were among a gang out at the Grand Havana Room on Thursday. Also spotted hanging out with Ferraro and Sourian at the members only club on Canon Drive were Summit Senior VP of Production Geoff Shaevitz, producers Andrew Lazar, Chris Fenton and Beau Flynn, ICM’s Emile Gladstone, and Mayhem Pictures’ Mark Ciardi and Gordon Grey. Though they undoubtedly talk some shop, I’m told this is no smoky star chamber. The gathering is just a semi-regular get-together among friends over cigars, with Ferraro as the ringleader. American Gangster producer Jim Whitaker, Disruption’s Cale Boyter, UTA’s Steve Rabineau, Battleship producer Scott Stuber, Steve Jobs biopic producer Guymon Casady, actor Keith Ewell and Transformers executive producer Mark Vahradian were also there last night too. Though they were nowhere to be seen last night, Disney’s Sean Bailey and Twilight Saga producer Marty Bowen have joined the gathering in the past I’ve heard.

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Adam Shankman To Helm ‘The Nutcracker’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 2:49pm PSTTags: Adam Shankman, Alec Baldwin, Bryan Cranston, Diego Boneta, Julianne Hough, Marty Bowen, Mary J. Blige, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Tom Cruise, Wyck Godfrey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Shankman will be set by New Line Cinema to direct The Nutcracker, a new take on the classic fairy tale that is being eyed as a tent pole family holiday film for late 2013. The script was written … Read More »

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Summit And ‘Twilight Saga’s Temple Hill Acquire Frankfurt Hit Novel ‘Deadmail’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 11, 2011 @ 10:41am PSTTags: Erik Feig, Marty Bowen, Summit Entertainment, Temple Hill, Wyck Godfrey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment has acquired feature rights to Deadmail, a novel by Laurie Frankel that created a stir at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair. Twilight Saga producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill will produce. The novel is … Read More »

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Toronto: Anchor Bay Acquires U.S. Rights To ‘Ten Year’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 2, 2011 @ 1:16pm PDTTags: Anchor Bay Films, Anthony Mackie, Channing Tatum, Chris Pratt, Jamie Linden, Justin Long, Kate Mara, Marty Bowen, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Reid Carolin, Ron Livingston, Rosario Dawson, Ten Year, Wyck Godfrey
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Anchor Bay Films has picked up U.S. distribution rights to Ten Year, the Jamie Linden-directed drama that premiered at 2011 Toronto Film Festival. The film will be released next spring. Anchor Bay has been negotiating for this for the … Read More »

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CBS Films Acquires Ensemble Comic Pitch ‘Wedding Day’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 6:30pm PDTTags: CBS Films, Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey
Mike Fleming

CBS Films has closed a deal for Wedding Day, an ensemble romantic comedy pitch written by Andrew Goldberg. He’s a Family Guy writer whose horror-comedy script My Son is the F’ing Antichrist has been set up with Wyck … Read More »

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Lasse Hallstrom In ‘Safe Haven’ Talks

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 5:14pm PDTTags: Amanda Seyfried, Channing Tatum, Lasse Hallström, Marty Bowen, Nicholas Sparks, Ryan Kavanaugh, Safe Haven, Wyck Godfrey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media is in talks with Lasse Hallstrom to direct its adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel Safe Haven. I’m told that a deal will likely happen quickly. It’s not surprising that Ryan Kavanaugh would turn to Hallstrom to helm the adaptation of a book that Relativity paid around $2 million against $5 million to acquire in a heated auction last summer. Hallstrom directed the adaptation of the Sparks novel Dear John, a film that Kavanaugh financed.

The move also re-teams Hallstrom with Temple Hill partners Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, who produced Dear John, a film that was well received and grossed $110 million worldwide with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried starring. Relativity Media acquired Safe Haven with a ticking clock — basically a nine-month window to develop the script, or the book would go back to Sparks and he’d keep the upfront payment. They got Dana Stevens to write a script, and they certainly met the deadline, as they are already looking at cast for a fall start date. Bowen and Godfrey are producing and so is Kavanaugh. In Safe Haven, a young North Carolina woman is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships. As she begins to fall in love, she struggles with a dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her. Read More »

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‘Twilight’ Producer Temple Hill Inks Overall TV Deal, Sets ‘Monte Cristo’ Reboot At ABC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 9, 2010 @ 4:03pm PSTTags: Marty Bowen, Mike Kelly, Romeo & Juliet, Wyck Godfrey
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Temple Hill, producer of the hugely successful Twilight movie series, is making a big move in television, signing a two-year overall deal with ABC Studios. This is the first … Read More »

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TORONTO: Lionsgate And Roadside Join To Buy Will Ferrell Pic ‘Everything Must Go’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 17, 2010 @ 7:32pm PDTTags: Deals, Everything Must Go Distribution, Lionsgate, Marty Bowen, Movies, Roadside Attractions, Toronto Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival Deals, Will Ferrell, Wyck Godfrey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In their second major deal of the Toronto International Film Festival, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have teamed to acquire Everything Must Go, the Dan Rush-directed drama that stars Will Ferrell. I’m told the deal was north of a $3 million minimum guarantee. I’ve heard that dealmakers at ICM and CAA had about 5 offers, but finally closed with Lionsgate and Roadside. This is the latest in a spectacular flurry of 11th hour acquisition deals at Toronto heading into the fest’s final weekend. Read More »

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‘Twilight Saga’ Producers Harness ‘Babar’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 3, 2010 @ 9:38am PDTTags: Marty Bowen, Temple Hill Entertainment, Wyck Godfrey
Mike Fleming

Twilight Saga producers Temple Hill have latched onto another branded property, one that moves them from  scary vampires and werewolves to a beloved elephant. Temple Hill partners Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey have made a with rights holders Nelvana and … Read More »

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