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Toronto: Emmett-Furla And Envision Set $250 Million Film Fund

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 9, 2011 @ 4:00am PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Anna Kendrick, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Curtis Jackson, David Ayer, Forest Whitaker, George Furla, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Cusack, Mark Wahlberg, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Rebecca Hall, Remington Chase, Robert De Niro, Russell Crowe, Stephen Frears, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

Emmett/Furla Films, a company that has been growing more ambitious in the film financing and production arena, has teamed with Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase’s Envision Entertainment to establish a new $250 million revolving equity and debt fund to finance a new slate of star-driven commercial films. The fund was announced as EFF principal Randall Emmett comes to Toronto to make deals on films that include the Allen Hughes-directed political corruption drama Broken City, which stars Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, and Frozen Ground, the fact-based thriller about a serial killer in Alaska that will star Nicolas Cage and John Cusack. Martirosyan and Chase are executive producers on the latter.

The fund carries no set restrictions on how and where capital is allocated, but it will continue EFF’s momentum. The company recently financed the Stephen Frears-directed Lay The Favorite — with a cast that includes Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Vince Vaughn and Catherine Zeta-Jones — with films in the works that include the David Ayer-directed crime drama End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anna Kendrick; Fire with Josh Duhamel, Willis and Rosario Dawson; and Freelancers, a drama that stars Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. EFF’s Emmett continues to be Jackson’s partner in Cheetah Vision Films, which has a deal at Lionsgate. EFF will make nine films this year. READ MORE »

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Russell Crowe Signs On For Mayoral Run In ‘Broken City’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 8, 2011 @ 11:10am PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Brian Tucker, Broken City, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Curtis Jackson, David Ayer, George Furla, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Cusack, Josh Duhamel, Mark Wahlberg, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Rebecca Hall, Russell Crowe, Scott Walker, Stephen Frears, Stephen Levinson, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Russell Crowe is set to star alongside Mark Wahlberg in the Allen Hughes-directed independently financed noir drama Broken City. Production begins in November. Wahlberg plays an ex-cop-turned-private detective who is hired by the mayor (the role Crowe will play) to see if his wife is cheating on him. The private eye confirms those suspicions, and when the mayor’s wife’s cheating partner ends up dead, the private eye immerses himself in the mayor’s business and uncovers a real estate scandal that involves the pol dealing himself choice city-owned properties. The script by Brian Tucker made the 2008 Black List. The $60 million film will be financed by Emmett/Furla Films.

Wahlberg is producing through his Closest to the Hole banner; Stephen Levinson through Leverage; and Randall Emmett, George Furla and Hughes are also producing. Wahlberg and Levinson, partners on Entourage and Boardwalk Empire, just wrapped the drama Contraband. Crowe is costarring as Jor-El in the Superman reboot Man of Steel and just wrapped The Man With The Iron Fists. Read More »

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‘Ghost Rider’ Sequel Set For February 2012

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 2:22pm PDTTags: Columbia Pictures, Film Release Date, Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance, Nicolas Cage, Sony Pictures

Sony said today that it has slated Columbia Pictures’ Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance for wide release on Feb. 17, 2012. The 3D film, a sequel to the 2007 original, again stars Nicolas Cage, and is directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.

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Nicolas Cage, John Cusack In Talks For ‘The Frozen Ground’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 26, 2011 @ 5:38pm PDTTags: John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Robert Hansen, Scott Walker, The Frozen Ground
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Nicolas Cage and John Cusack are in talks to star in The Frozen Ground, a drama to shoot this fall in Anchorage, Alaska. It will mark the feature directing debut of Scott Walker, who wrote the script. Pic is based on true events surrounding Alaska’s most notorious serial predator, Robert Hansen. Cusack is in talks to play a respected family man who for over 12 years abducted more than 24 women and flew them into the Alaskan wilderness to be hunted. Cage is in talks to play a principled and dedicated Alaskan State Trooper who finds Hansen’s only surviving teen victim alive on the street. The trooper and the young girl finally bring Hansen to justice.

The pic’s produced by Emmett Furla Films’ Randall Emmett and George Furla and Amber Entertainment’s Jane Fleming and Mark Ordesky. Pic will be exec produced by Envision Entertainment’s Stephan Martirosyan and Remington William Chase, and Curtis Jackson. Financing is by Emmett Furla and Voltage will handle international sales. Emmett Furla just finished Fire With Fire and the Stephen Frears-directed Lay the Favorite and is gearing up for production on Broken City and the David Ayer-directed End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal. Read More »

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Charlie Kaufman Attaches Steve Carell, Jack Black And Nicolas Cage To ‘Frank Or Francis’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 22, 2011 @ 11:42am PDTTags: Charlie Kaufman, Jack Black, Nicolas Cage, Steve Carell
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Charlie Kaufman is attaching Jack Black and Nicolas Cage and is talking to Steve Carell to star in  Frank Or Francis, the next film Kaufman will direct.  Kaufman’s projects are always shrouded in mystery (sometimes even after you’ve seen … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Drive Angry 3D’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 4:20am PSTTags: Drive Angry 3D, Lionsgate, Movies, Nicolas Cage, Trailers, Video, William Fichtner
Mike Fleming

Lionsgate and Millennium have released a new overseas trailer for Drive Angry 3D, a Nicolas Cage vehicle that gets released February 25. The trailer has a Grindhouse feel, with a devilish turn by William Fichtner. Summit distributes domestically.

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HE’S BACK: Nicolas Cage Changes Mind, Returns To Millennium’s ‘Trespass’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 3, 2010 @ 1:37pm PDTTags: Avi Lerner, Liev Schreiber, Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman
Mike Fleming

2ND UPDATE: Days after withdrawing from the Millennium Films drama Trespass just two weeks before production, Nicolas Cage has had a change of heart. I’m told that Cage’s CAA reps have informed the production that Cage will star … Read More »

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Comic-Con #6: Nic Cage & ‘Drive Angry 3D’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 23, 2010 @ 5:42pm PDTTags: Amber Heard, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Drive Angry 3D, Nicolas Cage, Patrick Lussier, William Fichtner

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

I have never concealed my nuttiness for Nic Cage. And I don’t mean indie-drama, alcoholic downbeat Nic Cage, but bug-eyed, wig-wearing, attention-deficit-crazed Nicolas Cage. Or maybe I just have a thing for bad wigs. (William Shatner and the late Wally George are also faves. But then there’s Burt Reynolds, who never did much for me.) Nicolas Cage in 3D is a dream come true. Just give me one massive closeup of his face in full freakout mode. Summit’s DRIVE ANGRY, which based on the big-screen logo they showed is not merely going to be called DRIVE ANGRY, or even DRIVE ANGRY 3D, but rather DRIVE ANGRY SHOT IN 3D, sounded on paper like a DEATH WISH-type story. But then they roll the preview: “He escaped from Hell.” Read More »

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Actresses On The Brink Switch Agencies

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 21, 2010 @ 9:43am PDTTags: Amber Heard, CAA, Cameron Diaz, Dinner for Schmucks, Jason Segal, Justin Timberlake, Lucy Punch, Nicolas Cage, The Rum Diary, WME, Zombieland
Mike Fleming

lucy-punchLucy Punch has signed with WME. Punch, who’d been repped by ICM, makes the move at a time when she’s about to open in the Jay Roach-directed Dinner for Schmucks, followed by Woody Allen’s You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, … Read More »

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Comic-Con 2010 Preview: Friday, July 23

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday July 18, 2010 @ 3:18pm PDTTags: 2010 Comic-Con, AMC The Walking Dead, Caprica, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Comic-Con Schedule, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Drew McWeeny, Drive Angry 3D, Frank Darabont, Hawaii Five-0, James Gunn Super, New Comic-Con, Nicolas Cage, Roger Corman, Skyline, The Green Hornet 3D, The Other Guys


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FRIDAY, JULY 23

STAR WARS DAY (This is a meaningless appellation unless and until George Lucas sees fit to say or do anything regarding the proposed live-action TV series.)

Luke Y Thompson covers Hollywood events at the … Read More »

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‘Sorcerers Apprentice’ Now Tracking Better

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday July 9, 2010 @ 12:00am PDTTags: Disney, Jerry Bruckheimer, Nicolas Cage, Sorcerer's Apprentice

What a difference a week makes. Last week, the tracking on Jerry Bruckheimer’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice was worse than for his Prince Of Persia. The latest numbers show nice gains, so Disney can breathe easier. “It’s a lot less dire than a week ago,” one rival studio exec tells me. … Read More »

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Summit Stokes ‘Red’ And ‘Drive Angry 3D’ at Comic-Con

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 6:33pm PDTTags: Amber Heard, Bruce Willis, Comic-Con, Drive Angry 3D, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Mary Louise Parker, Megamind, Nicolas Cage, Patrick Lussier, Red, Robert Schwentke Director Red, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sucker Punch, The Green Hornet 3D, Thor, Warren Ellis, William Fichtner
Mike Fleming

10-ridiculous-comic-con-costumes-800-75Summit Entertainment joins the phalanx of studios bringing film footage and star casts to the geek altar that is Comic-Con. Summit, which for the past two years has brought its Twilight Saga cast to the event, this time herds the cast … Read More »

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