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Sundance: ‘The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister And Pete’ Scribe Gets ‘Tupac’ Gig

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Saturday January 19, 2013 @ 10:34am PSTTags: Morgan Creek, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Wrap-Up, Tupac Shakur

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Starrbury has been brought on board to rewrite Morgan Creek Productions’ Tupac Shakur biopic. Starrbury wrote the screenplay for The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, which is premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The Tupac film was announced by Morgan Creek in early 2011. The screenplay for the movie about the iconic hip hop artist, who was killed in 1996, was originally written by Steve Bagatourian, Stephen Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson.  James Robinson, David Robinson, and LT Hutton are producing, with Tupac’s mother Afeni Shakur as executive producer. The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, about two abandoned small boys trying to survive in the city, is generating a lot of interest at Sundance even though it doesn’t premiere until January 25. Select buyers got an advance look by attending a volunteer Inevitable screening on January 17. Starrbury is also currently finishing up adapting the graphic novel The Great Unknown for New Line. Mark Gordon and Jennifer Todd are producing the action comedy, with Jorma Taccone directing. Michael Starrbury is repped by CAA and Caliber Media.

Related: Sundance: Five Actors & Actresses To Watch

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Rick Nicita Speaks About Morgan Creek Exit

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 5, 2012 @ 3:30pm PSTTags: Morgan Creek
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Rick Nicita has left Morgan Creek, where he spent the past three years as COO and co-chairman alongside MCP owner James Robinson. Nicita, who left a longtime perch at CAA to take the job, left after his contract expired … Read More »

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Toronto Briefs: Grosvenor Park Lends Again, Morgan Creek Co-Fi’s ‘The Thing’ And Dustin Hoffman Sets ‘Quartet’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 12, 2011 @ 7:38am PDTTags: Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Smith, Morgan Creek, The Thing
Mike Fleming

The press releases are flying over the transom and since the deal-making has been a bit slack. Here are a few tidbits.

* Grosvenor Park will once again lend money to film productions, forming UK-based EIS Film Fund to disperse $100 million each year for productions. Grosvenor Park fled from the film-financing scene in 2008, when the economy and the independent film business hit the rocks. The target is films with budgets ranging from $10 million to $30 million. Grosvenor Park will also produce senior, gap and tax lending collateralized by territorial distribution sales and production tax incentives, which was how the company lended to films in the past. “Now is an optimal time to re-enter the film-lending space given the strength of the marketplace and the current industry dynamics as evidenced by a resurgence of sales activity at the most recent film markets,” said GP’s Don Starr.

* Morgan Creek has become a co-financier on Universal’s remake of The Thing. The studio releases Morgan Creek’s films in the U.S. including the upcoming Jim Sheridan-directed Dream House, which stars Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz. The Thing is a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic and it’s directed by Matthijs van Heijningen and produced by Strike Entertainment partners Marc Abraham and Eric Newman. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Dream House’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 10:53am PDTTags: Daniel Craig, Dream House, Jim Sheridan, Morgan Creek, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

Universal and Morgan Creek have put up a trailer for Dream House, the thriller that stars Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts. The Jim Sheridan-directed film will be released September 30. The trailer certainly lays out a lot of the plot and is it me, or is some of … Read More »

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MPAA Upholds R Rating for ‘Dream House’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 6, 2011 @ 1:47pm PDTTags: Daniel Craig, Dream House, Morgan Creek, MPAA, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Universal Pictures

The film from Universal stars Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz and will be released in September. Here’s the MPAA release:

LOS ANGELES — The Classification and Rating Appeals Board today upheld the R rating given to the

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Morgan Creek’s ‘Tupac’ Gets Underway This Summer

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 10, 2011 @ 4:38pm PSTTags: Antoine Fuqua, Morgan Creek, Movies, Tupac Shakur
Mike Fleming

Los Angeles, CA February 10, 2011 – Principal photography is scheduled to begin in late Spring/early Summer on the biopic “TUPAC,” it was announced today James G. Robinson, Co-Chairman/CEO, and Rick Nicita, Co-Chairman/COO, of Morgan Creek Productions. Directed by

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WME Closing On Spec Script Sale Trifecta

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 24, 2010 @ 10:08am PDTTags: Channing Tatum, Fox 2000, Ion, Mandate Pictures, Morgan Creek, Scripts, WME
Mike Fleming

screenplay_pileThough the material market is summer sluggish, WME has managed the neat trick of closing in on three script deals this week, with another on the brink.

The spec in play is Ion, a Will Dunn scifi script that has Channing Tatum … Read More »

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