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Jesse Andrews Set To Script ‘Crazy U’ For Will Ferrell At New Line

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 11:06am PDTTags: Crazy U, Jesse Andrews, New Line, Will Ferrell
Mike Fleming

Jesse AndrewsEXCLUSIVE: New Line has set Jesse Andrews to adapt Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College, an adaptation of the Andrew Ferguson book that is being fashioned as a star vehicle for Will Ferrell by producers Gary Sanchez and Kevin Misher. Andrews wrote the Black List script Me, Earl And The Dying Girl, which he adapted from his own novel. Dan Fogelman is producing that one Indian Paintbrush is financing, and Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is directing for a fall start.

Will FerrellMisher Films’ Kevin Misher will produce with Gary Sanchez’s Ferrell, Adam McKay and Jessica Elbaum. The book is about one father’s adventures trying to brave the cutthroat competition to get his son accepted into the perfect college. Obsessed with keeping his son from making that one wrong step that could dash the youth’s dreams, dad tries to get an audience with the most sought after and expensive private college consultant in the country, insinuates himself in helping his son past the SATs, and all the campus tours and stressful admissions interviews, all culminating in waiting for the fat envelope that will determine success or failure in getting into an elite school that will siphon off all dad’s savings.

Andrews is repped by WME and MXN.

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New Line Gets Medieval With Untitled Knights Pitch Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 8, 2013 @ 4:42pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Joe Ballarini, New Line
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: New Line has spent mid six figures for an untitled pitch by Joe Ballarini. The pitch, in a deal closed tonight, is a high concept action fantasy set in medieval times, and it was bought preemptively. Offspring … Read More »

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On Eve Of ‘Identity Thief,’ Jason Bateman Sets ‘Game Night’ Pitch At New Line

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 6, 2013 @ 4:23pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Jason Bateman, New Line
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Bateman and Jim Garavente’s Aggregrate Films and Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox have joined to produce Game Night, a comedy that was acquired by New Line Cinema from a pitch by Mark … Read More »

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Warner Bros Says It Limited ‘The Hobbit’ High Frame Rate Screens To “Do It Right”

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday November 15, 2012 @ 11:41am PSTTags: Dan Fellman, New Line, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, Warner Bros

Only about 4.5% of the 10,000 or so domestic screens that will show New Line and MGM’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on December 14 will present it the way director Peter Jackson wants — at 48 frames per second instead of the conventional 24 frames. But Warner Bros Domestic Distribution President Dan Fellman tells me that this reflects a cautious rollout strategy, not a failure to win support from exhibition execs. Even now, “equipment is being tested” and some glitches have been corrected, he says. “So we did the right thing” by limiting the rollout to anywhere from 400 to 450 screens covering most major cities. “This is a technology that is going to change the way people see movies…You have to do it right.”

Warner Bros seemed to have bigger ambitions for the visually vivid 3D projection technology — which the studio’s calling “HFR” (for High Frame Rate) — at the exhibition industry’s CinemaCon trade confab in April. That effort hit a huge PR speed bump when several viewers said that they were unmoved by a 10-minute excerpt of the film in 48 fps. Carmike Cinemas’ Terrel Mayton said at the time that HFR “has to be a kick-the-picture-out (advancement) or it just becomes one of a long line of technology advances that’s here for a while and then move into oblivion.” Theater owners have to pay about $5,000 for a projector to handle HFR — first-generation digital ones can’t be upgraded. More recent projectors only require a software upgrade which can run $1,500. It can cost as much as $20,000 to make the change at an IMAX venue. Theaters also have to shell out more to store HFR prints than they do for conventional 24 fps digital films. Read More »

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New Line Buys ‘Spy Guys’ Pitch

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 20, 2012 @ 6:05pm PDTTags: Adam Sztykiel, New Line
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: New Line has bought Spy Guys, an action comedy pitch to be scripted by Due Date scribe Adam Sztykiel. Jorma Taccone will direct and John Rickard will produce through his Rickard Pictures banner along with the … Read More »

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‘Narnia’s’ Will Poulter Joins ‘We’re The Millers’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday June 25, 2012 @ 5:03pm PDTTags: Jennifer Aniston, Movie Casting, New Line, We're The Millers

Will Poulter has joined the cast of We’re The Millers. The actor joins Jennifer Aniston and SNL’s Jason Sudeikis in the film. Poulter, who starts shooting on the movie on July 18, plays “Kenny” a teen … Read More »

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Jeremy Garelick Enlists In ‘Police Academy’ Rewrite

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 5, 2012 @ 11:29am PDTTags: Jeremy Garelick, New Line
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Break-Up scribe Jeremy Garelick has come aboard New Line’s reboot of the Police Academy franchise that launched in the 1980s and spanned seven films through the mid-’90s. The comedy, once again produced by Paul Maslansky, picks up the … Read More »

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Alec Baldwin Up For Re-Teams With Both Russell Brand And Woody Allen

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 11, 2012 @ 9:33am PDTTags: Alec Baldwin, Big Deals Film, New Line, Russell Brand, Woody Allen
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In separate deals, 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin is reuniting with his To Rome With Love helmer Woody Allen, and his Rock Of Ages co-star Russell Brand. I’m told that Baldwin will be part of the cast of Allen’s … Read More »

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New Line Tunes Up C&W Love Story To Follow ‘Rock Of Ages’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 27, 2012 @ 3:39pm PDTTags: Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot, New Line, Rock of Ages
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: New Line has reunited with Rock Of Ages team at Offspring Entertainment to option an untitled pitch that will do for Country & Western music what Rock of Ages did to 80s hair band anthems. The film will … Read More »

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R.I.P. Tracy Lorie

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday April 21, 2012 @ 4:37pm PDTTags: New Line

Longtime New Line Cinema marketing and publicity executive Tracy Lorie died last night of complications resulting from a brain tumor. Lorie was instrumental in Lord Of The Rings campaigns around the world and subsequently worked as a campaign strategist … Read More »

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Director F. Gary Gray Takes On ‘Straight Outta Compton’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 10, 2012 @ 1:26pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, F. Gary Gray, Ice Cube, New Line
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: As Deadline revealed earlier today,  F. Gary Gray is in final talks to helm Straight Outta Compton. That’s the New Line project that traces the formation of seminal hip hop group NWA, which launched careers including Eazy E, … Read More »

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Jennifer Aniston Circling ‘We’re The Millers’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 9, 2012 @ 3:15pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Jennifer Aniston, New Line, We're The Millers
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Am now being told by sources close to Jason Sudeikis that he’s more than circling the male lead as I reported below.

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Aniston is circling We’re … Read More »

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Erb & Oremland Rewriting ‘Cryptozoologists’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 15, 2012 @ 11:43am PDTTags: New Line, Tripp Vinson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Erb and Jason Oremland have been hired to rewrite Cryptozoologists for New Line, with Beau Flynn of FlynnPictureCo producing along with Tripp Vinson.

Originally written by David Gilcreast, the film … Read More »

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Black List Scribes Make ‘Pregnancy Pact’ With New Line, Red Hour

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 2:38pm PDTTags: Ben Stiller, Gene Stupnitsky, Jamie Tarses, Lee Eisenberg, New Line, Russell Brand, Stuart Cornfeld
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: New Line has acquired Pregnancy Pact, a comedy pitch that Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly will write for Red Hour Productions. The comedy follows three lifelong best friends who make an ill-conceived pact to get the women in their … Read More »

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Kagan: ‘The Help’ Is The Most Profitable Film From A Month With Few Successes

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday September 16, 2011 @ 2:07pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Conan the Barbarian, Dimension Films, Disney, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, DreamWorks, FilmDistrict, Final Destination 5, Focus Features, Fright Night, Glee The 3D Concert Movie, Lionsgate, New Line, Rise of the Planet Of The Apes, SNL Kagan, Spy Kids: All The Time In The World, The Change Up, The Debt, The Help

DreamWorks and Disney’s The Help and Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes are the only two August releases that can be sure of making a profit, although New Line’s Final Destination 5 could make it over the line, … Read More »

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New Line Dropping ‘Escape From New York’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 20, 2011 @ 1:51pm PDTTags: Allan Loeb, Breck Eisner, Jamie Moss, John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, Neal Moritz, New Line, Tom Hardy, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: If eye patch-wearing antihero Snake Plissken is going to slither in a reboot, it won’t be at New Line and Warner Bros. They’ve allowed the option to drop on a remake they’ve been developing, meaning that the reboot of … Read More »

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Contrafilm Partners Beau Flynn And Tripp Vinson Splitting After Decade Together

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 17, 2011 @ 12:41pm PDTTags: Adam McKay, Anna Faris, Beau Flynn, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, ContraFilm, Dwayne Johnson, Gemma Arterton, Jeremy Renner, Josh Hutcherson, Michael Caine, New Line, Tripp Vinson, Vanessa Hudgens, Will Ferrell
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson have formally announced their split and issued this statement: “We have nothing but love and respect for each other, and our decision to pursue our own separate paths after 10 amazing years … Read More »

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New Line Sets Don Scardino To Direct Steve Carell In ‘Burt Wonderstone’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 2, 2011 @ 2:57pm PDTTags: Burt Wonderstone, New Line, Steve Carell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: New Line has set Don Scardino to make his feature debut directing Steve Carell in Burt Wonderstone, the comedy that will begin production in October in Los Angeles. Carell plays a magic man dethroned by a hip younger illusionist … Read More »

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New Line No Longer Has Gotham Address

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 6, 2011 @ 2:10pm PDTTags: New Line
Mike Fleming

New Line Cinema, launched by Bob Shaye in 1967 from his Greenwich Village apartment, has cut its final tie to New York. The company, which moved most of its operation to Hollywood in the 1990s, has let go the last of its Gotham-based staff. That was production vice president Merideth … Read More »

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