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Jodie Foster Joins Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday January 3, 2011 @ 11:35am PSTTags: Elysium, Elysium Distribution, Jodie Foster, Matt Damon Elysium, Media Rights Capital, Movies, Neill Blomkamp, Sharlto Copley
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EXCLUSIVE: Though it hasn’t yet been shopped to studios by Media Rights Capital, Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 followup Elysium is looking better and better. He’s just gotten Jodie Foster to commit and join Matt Damon and District 9‘s Sharlto Copley to the sci-fi film he wrote and will direct as his next project. Simon Kinberg is producing. Plot is being kept under wraps. Foster most recently completed directing and starring alongside Mel Gibson in The Beaver, which Summit Entertainment will release April 11. Foster is also starring alongside Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly in God of Carnage, the Roman Polanski-directed adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play. Foster’s repped by ICM.

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Zac Efron Drama ‘Die In A Gunfight’ To MRC

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 8, 2010 @ 11:54am PSTTags: Andrew Barrer, Die in a Gunfight, Gabriel Ferrari, Media Rights Capital, Movies, Zac Efron
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Media Rights Capital is negotiating to acquire Die in a Gunfight, a script by fresh-from-NYU scribes Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari that has Zac Efron attached to play a fight-prone and death-obsessed young society man who pursues a romance … Read More »

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Neill Blomkamp Moving Ahead On ‘Elysium’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday December 6, 2010 @ 9:10am PSTTags: Elysium, Elysium Distribution, Media Rights Capital, Movie Deals, Movies, Neill Blomkamp, Sharlto Copley



EXCLUSIVE I’ve just learned that Neill Blomkamp is reteaming with his District 9 star Sharlto Copley on his second sci-fi feature Elysium. Copley played Wikus van de Merwe in District 9 as well as HM Murdock in this summer’s The A-Team reboot. Meanwhile, director Blomkamp … Read More »

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MRC And M. Night Shyamalan ‘Reincarnate’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 15, 2010 @ 8:16am PDTTags: Chris Sparling, M. Night Shyamalan, Media Rights Capital, Movies, Night Chronicles
Mike Fleming

Media Rights Capital and M Night Shyamalan have set the next thriller to be made under their Night Chronicles banner. And once again, Shyamalan won’t be directing. Instead, The Last Exorcism‘s Daniel Stamm will helm Reincarnate, scripted by Chris Sparling (Buried). Production will … Read More »

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M. Night Shyamalan Sets ‘Buried’ Writer Chris Sparling For Night Chronicles Thriller

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 23, 2010 @ 2:43pm PDTTags: Chris Sparling, M. Night Shyamalan, Media Rights Capital, Movies, Night Chronicles, Production
Mike Fleming

m-night-shyamalanM. Night Shyamalan has set the second feature to be made through his genre producing banner Night Chronicles. The project comes as Shyalaman promotes development exec Ashwin Rajan to president of production for the Media Rights Capital-backed genre label. Shyamalan and … Read More »

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Primetime Pilot Panic: R.I.P. ‘Moonlight’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday May 15, 2008 @ 9:06am PDTTags: Media Rights Capital, Moonlight, Moonlight Cancelled, Networks, TV, TV Shows, Warner Bros

Media Rights Capital, and everyone else, passed on Moonlight for mid-season. The show is dead. Moonlight fans will be singing outside Warner Bros today at noon and again on Friday by the big main gate at 4000 Warner Blvd near Pass street. I’m not sure why but they will be singing.

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    ‘Moonlight’ Is Dead At MRC & Everywhere; UPDATE: Mid-season?

    By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday May 14, 2008 @ 1:40pm PDTTags: Alex O'Loughlin, CBS, Media Rights Capital, Moonlight, Moonlight Cancelled, Moonlight CW, MRC, Networks, TV, TV Shows, Warner Bros

    UPDATE: I hear MRC now has been asked to consider Moonlight for mid-season. This is such a shot in the dark it’s barely worth posting. But I’m posting nonetheless. I’ve also been told that CBS continues to hold an option on the … Read More »

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    Primetime Pilot Panic: ‘Moonlight’ To CW?

    By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday May 13, 2008 @ 5:03pm PDTTags: CBS, Media Rights Capital, Moonlight, Moonlight CW, Networks, TV

    EXCLUSIVE: I’ve just been told by an insider that “there is a chance, only a chance” that Media Rights Capital which will be programming Sunday’s two hours on the CW “may elect to take Moonlight as one of those two … Read More »

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    MRC Poaches Tory Metzger From CAA

    By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday May 5, 2008 @ 12:55pm PDTTags: Actors, Agents, CAA, Media Rights Capital, Media Rights Capital Film Division, Tory Metzger

    EXCLUSIVE: Tory Metzger, one of the top motion picture agents at CAA, is leaving to head up the film division at Media Rights Capital, the leading independent film, television and digital studio and financing arm. … Read More »

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