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Justin Lin, Michael De Luca Team At Warner Bros On Patrick Lee Thriller Novel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 19, 2013 @ 6:32pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Justin Lin, Michael De Luca, Patrick Lee, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros won a multiple studio bidding battle for screen rights to an upcoming thriller novel by The Breach author Patrick Lee. Justin Lin is attached to direct and produce with Michael De Luca.

The untitled action thriller was just auctioned in a big pre-emptive, three-book deal that will be published next winter by Macmillan. The book is the first of a series featuring an ex-special operative named Sam Dryden. In the character-driven thriller, Dryden runs into a mysterious young girl who is not quite what she seems, and he embarks on a journey to keep her safe from a powerful government agent intent on hunting her down.

This comes as Lin puts the finishing touches on Fast & Furious 6 for Universal, which he directed and produced. That marks his fourth turn in the high-octane action series he helped revive, and Lin is now looking for other films to do through his Barnstorm Pictures banner. Barnstorm president of production Elaine Chin is also producing with Pouya Shahbazian, who manages the author. READ MORE »

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PGA Awards Shift 2013 Date, Tap Michael De Luca As Show Producer

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 17, 2012 @ 9:24am PDTTags: Michael De Luca, PGA Awards, Producers Guild of America

Next year’s PGA Awards had been set for January 19. Here’s the release on the new date and the announcement of Michael De Luca as the show’s producer. He’s had plenty of experience in awards season, most recently as a producer on last year’s Moneyball and 2010′s The Social Network. Here’s the release:

LOS ANGELES (May 17, 2012) – The Producers Guild of America announced today that it has shifted the 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony to take place on Saturday, January 26, 2013 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Additionally, Producers Guild Presidents Hawk Koch and Mark Gordon announced that the 2013 awards program, which honors excellence in motion picture and television production, will be produced by Academy-Award® nominated producer Michael De Luca.

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Paramount Teaming Megan Fox And Zoe Saldana: Buys Heist Script ‘Swindle’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 15, 2012 @ 4:51pm PDTTags: Megan Fox, Michael De Luca, Paramount Pictures, Swindle, Zoe Saldana
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired the action-heist spec script Swindle, which will be developed by Moneyball producer Michael De Luca as a star vehicle for Megan Fox and Zoe Saldana. The actresses will produce with De Luca. Enzo Mileti and Scott Wilson wrote the script. The storyline is being kept under wraps but the spec sold after both Universal and Paramount chased it. The project came out of a desire by Fox and Saldana to do a movie together. Read More »

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Alexandre Aja Sinks Teeth Into Vampire Saga ‘Undying Love’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 7, 2012 @ 3:44pm PSTTags: Michael De Luca
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Piranha helmer Alexandre Aja is negotiating to direct Undying Love, an adaptation of the Image Comics title for Warner Bros. The film revolves around an ex-solider who falls for a vampire, though in order to be with her, he … Read More »

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Michael Mann Entering ‘The Big Stone Grid’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 13, 2012 @ 2:11pm PSTTags: Michael De Luca, Michael Mann
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Mann is in talks to develop to direct The Big Stone Grid, a cop thriller that Sony Pictures bought as a spec script last year by S. Craig Zahler. Michael De Luca, who’s on the Oscar circuit for … Read More »

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Oscar Q&A: Rachael Horovitz And Michael De Luca On ‘Moneyball’s Path To The Screen

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 10:41am PSTTags: Michael De Luca, Moneyball

Although it had a troubled history with original director Steven Soderbergh leaving just days before production was to start, Moneyball is the classic example of producers saying “never say die.” That is certainly the case with Rachael Horovitz, who originally optioned the Michael Lewis book Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game, which dealt with Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane’s attempts to put together a successful team using unorthodox methods and a miniscule budget. Horovitz, a former VP at Fine Line Features and an exec at Revolution Studios, won an Emmy and Golden Globe for her company Specialty Films’ maiden voyage, Grey Gardens, and was bound and determined to make this movie happen. Eventually Sony got into a bidding war with Warner Bros and brought in Horovitz’s former New Line colleague Michael De Luca to co-produce. De Luca — New Line and DreamWorks’ former production head and now a successful producer of films like The Social Network, 21, Ghost Rider and the upcoming Butter and The Sitter – helped shape the film before Soderbergh’s exit and remained a strong force afterward when his Social Network colleague Scott Rudin came on board. Horovitz and De Luca talked to Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond about the many curveballs Moneyball faced on its way to the screen — and six Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Brad Pitt.

AWARDSLINE: Rachael, you started this project, you optioned the book. Tell me how this came about.
HOROVITZ: The book had terrific heart. I felt that (the role of) Billy Beane would be great for an actor, and that the human story of the material was relatable. I was certain that the rights wouldn’t be available and they were. So, stunned, I took a shot at trying to set it up and discovered that all of the studios passed on it. So then I went back to the drawing board and came up with a pitch and set it up at Sony. Mike was just moving over from DreamWorks to being a producer at Sony and we had worked together at New Line. Read More »

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TNT Orders Frank Darabont Noir Drama Pilot Produced By Michael De Luca

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 9, 2012 @ 12:30pm PSTTags: Frank Darabont, L.A. Noir, Michael De Luca, TNT
Nellie Andreeva

L.A. Noir, the spec script Frank Darabont started shopping shortly after his ouster from AMC’s The Walking Dead, has landed at TNT with a pilot order. The project is based on John Buntin’s book L.A. Noir: The Struggle For The Soul Of America’s Most Seductive City, which chronicles the epic battle between Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker and mobster Mickey Cohen. In addition to writing, Darabont is set to direct the pilot and will executive produce with Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Moneyball ) and Elliot Webb (Tall Time Tales). TNT Original Prods will produce. Read More »

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Scribe Team Melton & Dunstan Plot Screen Version Of ‘Black Light’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 2, 2011 @ 10:04am PDTTags: Guillermo Del Toro, Michael De Luca, Patrick Melton
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, the team behind three of the Saw films, are currently doing production rewrite work on the Guillermo del Toro-directed tent pole Pacific Rim for Legendary Pictures. At the same time, they are plotting out … Read More »

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20th Century Fox Acquires ‘ESPN: Those Guys Have All The Fun’; Will Tell Story Of Sports Network Dynasty

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 25, 2011 @ 4:35pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Dana Brunetti, Julie Yorn, Michael De Luca
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox is closing a deal for screen rights to the oral history ESPN: Those Guys Have All The Fun. The studio will develop a feature about the formation of the 24-hour sports network. The pic will be produced by Michael De Luca, Trigger Street’s Dana Brunetti and Julie Yorn. The book by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales follows a format similar to Live From New York, the oral history they wrote about Saturday Night Live. Here, they use the voices of past and present ESPN personalities and producers to tell the story of how a father and son maxed out their credit cards to scrape together the cash to reserve a satellite transponder so they could show sporting events nonstop on a 24-hour station. The book is a gossipy journey about how that venture turned from a 1970s joke that started with broadcasts of Australian rules football and rodeo, to a dominant brand in the sporting world that broadcast pro football and baseball games and become arguably the most profitable cable network ever created. Read More »

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Paul Greengrass Offered Somali Pirate Pic By Sony Pictures, Talks Starting

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 8, 2011 @ 11:44am PDTTags: Captain Richard Phillips, Dana Brunetti, Kevin Spacey, Michael De Luca, Navy SEALs, Paul Greengrass, Scott Rudin, Somali Pirates, Tom Hanks
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: I’ve learned that Memphis won’t be an impediment to Paul Greengrass directing this Somali pirate movie, so I expect this to move quickly and that this will be the director’s next film.

EARLIER: Director Paul Greengrass and Sony … Read More »

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Tom Hanks Poised To Play Capt. Richard Phillips In Somali Pirate Saga

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 12:17pm PDTTags: Captain Richard Phillips, Dana Brunetti, Kevin Spacey, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin, Somali Pirates, Sony Pictures, Tom Hanks
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment is attaching Tom Hanks to play Captain Richard Phillips, the leader of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama who gave himself up as a hostage to Somali pirates to keep his crew from having to leave the … Read More »

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‘Social Network’ Crowd Friending On New Project ‘Sex On The Moon’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 1:47pm PSTTags: Ben Mezrich, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Social Network
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from their Golden Globe win for The Social Network, producers Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti have made a deal at Sony Pictures to collaborate again on Sex on the Moon, the next book by Ben … Read More »

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