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Millennium Films Acquires ‘My Owner’s Wedding’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 14, 2012 @ 4:49pm PDTTags: Jessica Biel, Millennium Films
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Jessica Biel My Owner's WeddingEXCLUSIVE: Millennium Films has acquired My Owner’s Wedding, a Robert Cary and Jonathan Tolins script, and the producer-distributor is in early talks with Jessica Biel to play one of the leads. My Owner’s Wedding is a romantic comedy about two eligible young women, the man both of them want, and his dog. The latter will go to any length to make sure his owner ends up with the right girl.

Cary directed and co-wrote Anything But Love and directed Ira & Abby and Save Me. Tolins co-wrote New Line’s Martian Child and Twilight Of The Golds, based on his Broadway play. He also wrote multiple episodes of Queer As Folk and has written for the Academy Awards and the Tonys. READ MORE »

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Amanda Seyfried Cast As Linda Lovelace

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 4:51pm PDTTags: Film Castings, Jeffrey Friedman, Linda Lovelace, Lovelace, Millennium Films, Rob Epstein, Untitled Entertainment

Amanda Seyfried, currently in theaters in Andrew Niccol’s In Time, has been cast as Linda Lovelace in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s movie about the infamous porn star, Lovelace. Peter Sarsgaard is in negotiations to play her husband Chuck Traynor, the … Read More »

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Toronto: Woody Harrelson Enters Oscar Race With Millennium’s $2 Million Deal For Cop Corruption Drama ‘Rampart’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 23, 2011 @ 6:29pm PDTTags: Anne Heche, Ben Foster, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Mark Gill, Millennium Films, Ned Beatty, Oren Moverman, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Entertainment is putting Woody Harrelson into the Best Actor Oscar race this year, closing a $2 million U.S. rights acquisition of Rampart. That is the Oren Moverman-directed police corruption drama that Moverman wrote with L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy. The plan is to open in 20 cities and launch campaigns for Harrelson and for Moverman for Best Director and Screenplay. A deal for Canadian rights is expected to close shortly. Millennium Entertainment CEO Bill Lee made the deal, and Millennium Films’ Mark Gill will be a consultant on this and get to roll up his sleeves and wage an awards-season campaign for Harrelson, who drew raves at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival for his portrayal of a corrupt cop in a drama that also stars Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Ice Cube, Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon. The 1990s Los Angeles police family drama explores the dark soul and misadventures of an LAPD cop whose past finally catches up with him in a department-wide corruption scandal. Read More »

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Liam Hemsworth Joins ‘Expendables 2′

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday September 19, 2011 @ 2:51pm PDTTags: Film Casting, Liam Hemsworth, Millennium Films, The Expendables 2

Liam Hemsworth has been cast in The Expendables 2, the sequel to the action-hero-rich actioner that Simon West is directing for Millennium Films. The movie already stars Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews and Jet Li, … Read More »

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‘Expendables 2′ Sets Action Dream Trio: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis Join Sly Stallone

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 6, 2011 @ 3:27pm PDTTags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Lionsgate, Mickey Rourke, Millennium Films, Simon West, Sylvester Stallone, Terry Crews, The Expendables 2
Mike Fleming

After The Expendables turned in a surprisingly strong $275 million worldwide gross, many have wondered what they would do for an encore. How’s this? Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis have just closed deals to take “substantial” roles in The Expendables … Read More »

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Millennium Buying ‘Bernie’ With Jack Black

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 14, 2011 @ 6:51pm PDTTags: Avi Lerner, Bernie, Cinetic, Graham Taylor, Jack Black, John Sloss, Los Angeles Film Festival, Mark Gill, Matthew McConaughey, Millennium Films, Richard Linklater, Shirley MacLaine, WME Global
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: A deal is near for Millennium Entertainment to acquire U.S. distribution rights to the Los Angeles Film Festival opening-night pic Bernie. I’m told that it will be the first significant grab for former Film Department co-head Mark Gill since … Read More »

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Mark Gill New President Of Millennium Films

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday June 28, 2011 @ 11:02am PDTTags: Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Mark Gill, Millennium Films, Miramax Films, Nu Image/Millennium, Trevor Short

Exclusive: The Film Department Shutters

LOS ANGELES, CA — Former Miramax Films and Warner Independent president Mark Gill has been named President of Millennium Films. The company plans to produce and finance five to eight star-driven, wide-release films per year with budgets between $20 and $80 million.

Gill will work closely with Nu Image/Millennium Films toppers Avi Lerner and Trevor Short and development head Boaz Davidson, starting in July, with particular focus on development, packaging, production and marketing.

Gill has 25 years of film business experience and a production track record of more than $1 billion at the box office.

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Cannes: Millennium/Nu Image To Deliver ‘The Paperboy’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 13, 2011 @ 8:46am PDTTags: Cannes, Lee Daniels, Matthew McConaughey, Millennium Films, Nu Image, Pedro Almodovar, Sofia Vergara, The Paperboy, Tobey Maguire, Zac Efron

Millennium Films has picked up rights to The Paperboy, a sexual thriller based on the 1995 Peter Dexter novel that Dexter and Pedro Almodovar developed over 10 years. Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Sofia Vergara and Zac Efron star, and Oscar-nominated … Read More »

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‘The Iceman’ Draws Killer Cast: Michael Shannon, Benicio Del Toro, James Franco

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 2:25pm PSTTags: Ariel Vromen, Benicio Del Toro, James Franco, Michael Shannon, Millennium Films, Movie Deals, Movies, Richard Kuklinski
Mike Fleming

(LOS ANGELES, CA) Michael Shannon, Benicio Del Toro and James Franco will be starring in THE ICEMAN, it was announced today in a joint statement made by Millennium Films and Bleiberg Entertainment.

Ariel Vromen (Danika,Rx) is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Morgan Land (Rx, The Point of No Return), based on the book The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer by Anthony Bruno and on interview footage from the documentary The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer by Jim Thebaut.

Ehud Bleiberg is producing the film. Millennium Films’ Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Avi Lerner and Boaz Davidson are executive producing with Untitled Entertainment’s Laura Rister. Rabbit Bandini’s Miles Levy and Vince Jolivette are also executive producers. Bleiberg Entertainment’s Nicholas Donnermeyer will be associate producer. Nu Image, Inc., Millennium Films’ parent company, will handle worldwide sales.

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