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Emmett/Furla Pacts With Foresight For Sales On ’2 Guns’, ‘Rule #1′: Berlin

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday February 8, 2012 @ 2:39am PSTTags: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon

Yesterday, my colleague Mike Fleming and I reported on Universal’s action pic 2 Guns starring Mark Wahlberg and with Denzel Washington in discussions. Emmett/Furla Films has today confirmed it will co-finance the film adding it has entered into an agreement with Foresight Unlimited to handle foreign distribution rights. Wahlberg’s Contraband helmer Baltasar Kormakur is directing. Emmett/Furla has also pacted with Foresight to handle romcom Rule #1 starring Reese Witherspoon. Foresight Unlimited’s Mark Damon and Tamara Stuparich De La Barra will be offering the films to buyers at the EFM with Brian O’Shea of The Exchange assisting in the sales efforts.

Rule #1 will be directed by Frozen River helmer Courtney Hunt. Randall Emmett and George Furla are producing together with Brad Epstein of Panther films and Witherspoon through her Type A Films banner. Remington Chase and Stepan Martirosyan are executive producing. Story follows a woman trying to cope with OCD who takes in an unpredictable young woman with a newborn baby in an effort to face her anxieties and ultimately get her estranged husband back. READ MORE »

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Fox Delays ‘This Means War’ Release

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 9:50am PSTTags: Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, This Means War, Tom Hardy

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is waving the white flag on what is supposed to be a worth-the-price-of-admission movie which in and of itself is a rarity these days. The studio was supposed to open its ‘romantic action comedy’ This Means War on Tuesday … Read More »

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Indie ‘Big Eyes’ To Star Reese Witherspoon And Ryan Reynolds

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday January 22, 2012 @ 1:30pm PSTTags: Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds
Mike Fleming

Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds will star in Big Eyes, the film that Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski wrote and will direct this spring.

Witherspoon and Reynolds will play Margaret and Walter Keane, whose paintings of large eyed children became one … Read More »

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Reese Witherspoon To Star In ‘Devil’s Knot’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 15, 2011 @ 3:55pm PSTTags: Reese Witherspoon, West Memphis 3
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Reese Witherspoon will star in Devil’s Knot, the Atom Egoyan-directed drama about the West Memphis 3. As Deadline revealed just after the West Memphis 3 murder defendants were released from prison August 19, The Sweet Hereafter and Chloe director Egoyan came aboard to direct a script that was originally written by Scott Derrickson and Paul Boardman, the team behind The Exorcism Of Emily Rose. Witherspoon will play Pam Hobbs, the mother of one of the murder victims who initially believes the trio murdered her son, but she is eventually persuaded that the three suspects are innocent and wrongly accused. Filming begins next summer. Read More »

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Hot International Trailer: ‘This Means War’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 12:29am PSTTags: Chris Pine, McG, Reese Witherspoon, Simon Kinberg, This Means War, Tom Hardy

Chris Pine and Tom Hardy play spies who discover they’re dating the same woman — Reese Witherspoon. The decide to go at each other rather like another 20th Century Fox pairing (we’ll let you guess which one) and “may the best man win.” Occasional hilarity and physical comedy ensue. You … Read More »

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Emmett/Furla Aboard Comedy ‘Rule #1′ With Reese Witherspoon Co-Producing And In Talks To Star

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 10, 2011 @ 11:37am PSTTags: Emmett/Furla Films, Reese Witherspoon
Mike Fleming

Emmett/Furla Films has come aboard to produce and finance the comedy Rule #1, which Reese Witherspoon is producing via her Type A Films. She also is in negotiations to star in the film, which Brad Epstein of Panther Films also … Read More »

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Sony Eyes Jason Segel And Reese Witherspoon To Star In Nick Stoller-Helmed ‘Sex Tape’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 27, 2011 @ 11:36am PDTTags: Jason Blumenthal, Jason Segel, Nick Stoller, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Tisch, Todd Black
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is starting to get hot and heavy with Sex Tape, the Kate Angelo-scripted comedy that the studio acquired in June in a seven-figure spec deal. The script’s about a married couple who take a night off … Read More »

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McG Eyes Summit’s ‘Puzzle Palace’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 5:32pm PDTTags: Chris Pine, David Guggenheim, Denzel Washington, McG, Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds, Summit Entertainment, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment is in talks with McG to direct Puzzle Palace, the cop drama script by David Guggenheim. Summit acquired the project at a pitch early last year from Guggenheim after the scribe sold the spec script Safe … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: McG’s ‘This Means War’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 3:28pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Chris Pine, McG, Movie Trailers, Reese Witherspoon, This Means War, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

20th Century Fox has released a trailer for This Means War, the McG-directed comedy that pits the world’s deadliest CIA operatives and inseparable best friends against one another when they find they are dating the same woman. The operatives use all their skills and gadgetry in an attempt to prevail. … Read More »

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Jeff Nichols Adds Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson to ‘Mud’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 5:09pm PDTTags: Jeff Nichols, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Shannon, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Director Jeff Nichols has added his Take Shelter star Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon, Joe Don Baker and Paul Sparks to Mud, the drama that stars Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Tye Sheridan. Production began today … Read More »

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Does 8 Years Of $100 Million WW Grossing Films Put Jennifer Aniston In Elite Company?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 24, 2011 @ 8:56am PDTTags: Angelina Jolie, Global Box Office, Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Katherine Heigl, Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock
Mike Fleming

When Horrible Bosses passed the $100 million worldwide gross mark recently, it became the eighth film in the last eight years to hit that milestone with Jennifer Aniston in a starring role. Right now, only a few actresses mean much at the box office, a list that includes Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon and Katherine Heigl. Has Aniston quietly joined that group?

While Aniston hasn’t had to carry all of those films, her worldwide gross track record compares favorably to the other actresses over the same eight-year period. Aside from Horrible Bosses, Just Go With It, The Bounty Hunter, He’s Just Not That Into You, Marley & Me, The Break-Up, Along Came Polly and Bruce Almighty all passed the $100 million mark worldwide. Over the same corresponding period, only Jolie had that many cross the $100 million WW mark. I didn’t count animated films, but for Jolie I did include Beowulf, because she gave a performance that was converted to performance capture format. Jolie’s other films that passed $100 million worldwide in the last eight years: The Tourist, Salt, Wanted, Changeling, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Alexander, and the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider sequel.

Roberts had six films cross $100 million worldwide in the last eight years: Eat Pray Love, Valentine’s Day, Charlie Wilson’s War, Ocean’s 12, Closer and Mona Lisa Smile. Earlier in her career, her films routinely became blockbusters, when she was clearly Hollywood’s top actress.

Streep, who’s in her 60s, has become as bankable as any female star this side of Jolie. She has had five films cross $100 million in worldwide grosses in the last eight years: It’s Complicated, Julie & Julia, Mamma Mia!, The Devil Wears Prada and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Bullock has had four films cross $100 million WW in the last eight years: The Blind Side, The Proposal, The Lake House, and Miss Congeniality 2.

Witherspoon had five films cross that mark in the last eight years: Water for Elephants, Four Christmases, Just Like Heaven, Walk the Line and Legally Blonde 2.

Heigl had four of her films cross $100 million worldwide, all since her movie career was launched by 2007′s Knocked Up. Since that movie crossed $100 million WW, 27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth and Life As We Know It also passed the mark, and Killers barely missed. Read More »

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FilmNation Grabs Mike Jones Spec ‘In The Event Of A Moon Disaster’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 22, 2011 @ 11:38am PDTTags: Aaron Ryder, Edgar Allan Poe, FilmNation Entertainment, Glen Basner, Hugh Laurie, James McTeigue, Jeff Nichols, Jennifer Lawrence, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey, Pedro Almodovar, Reese Witherspoon, Salman Rushdie
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, FilmNation Entertainment has acquired In the Event of a Moon Disaster, a Mike Jones spec script that re-imagines the first moon mission. In this version, disaster strikes and the astronauts find themselves up against … Read More »

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Jeff Nichols Lands Matthew & Reese In ‘Mud’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 11:14am PDTTags: FilmNation Entertainment, Jeff Nichols, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Take Shelter helmer Jeff Nichols has set Mud as his next film, and is in talks with Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Tree of Life‘s Tye Sheridan to star. … Read More »

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Reese Witherspoon Joins Disney’s ‘Wish List’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 1, 2011 @ 3:26pm PDTTags: Disney, Reese Witherspoon
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon has attached herself to star in Wish List, a Disney comedy about an overly imaginative little girl who makes ten wishes at a wishing well. They don’t come true because her coin never reached the bottom and … Read More »

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A 14-Year ‘Gambit’ Finally Provides a Big Payoff For Producer Mike Lobell

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 5, 2011 @ 6:58am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Adam Ripp, Ben Kingsley, Cameron Diaz, CBS Films, Colin Firth, Ethan Coen, Hugh Grant, Jennifer Aniston, Joel Coen, Meg Ryan, Michael Caine, Michael Hoffman, Mike Lobell, Reese Witherspoon, Rob Paris, Roeg Sutherland, Sean Penn, Shirley MacLaine
Mike Fleming

Production begins today on Gambit, a caper comedy that stars Colin Firth as a London art curator who plans to con England’s richest man into buying a phony Monet painting. To do it, he enlists a Texas steer roper (Cameron … Read More »

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Reese Witherspoon Added As Oscar Presenter

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 14, 2011 @ 9:33am PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, 83rd Academy Awards Presenters, Academy Awards, Movies, Oscars, Reese Witherspoon
Mike Fleming

Beverly Hills, CA – Academy Award®-winning actress Reese Witherspoon will be a presenter at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today.

In 2005 Witherspoon received her first Oscar® nomination and took home the

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Hot Trailer: ‘Water For Elephants’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 16, 2010 @ 4:41am PSTTags: 20th Century Fox, Francis Lawrence, Movies, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Trailers, Video, Water for Elephants
Mike Fleming

20th Century Fox has released a trailer for Water For Elephants, the Francis Lawrence-directed adaptation of the bestselling novel. Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and Inglourious Basterds‘ Oscar winner Christoph Waltz star in a love triangle under the Big Top.

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Chelsea Handler Enlists In ‘This Means War’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 5, 2010 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Chelsea Handler, Chris Pine, James Lassiter, Late Night TV, Movie Deals, Movies, Reese Witherspoon, This Means War, Tom Hardy, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Lately host Chelsea Handler has landed a juicy role opposite Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy and Chris Pine in This Means War, the McG-directed 20th Century Fox comedy. Handler will play the best friend and confidante of a woman (Witherspoon) who is lusted after by two best friends. The pals are CIA agents who wage an escalating war for her affection. Overbrook’s James Lassiter and Will Smith are producing with Robert Simonds and Simon Kinberg. This marks Handler’s second studio role, as she just completed the Universal Pictures/Illumination Entertainment CG-live action film Hop, which stars Russell Brand. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘How Do You Know’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 30, 2010 @ 4:46pm PDTTags: How Do You Know, Jack Nicholson, James L. Brooks, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Sony Pictures, Trailers, Video
Mike Fleming

James L. Brooks is back with How Do You Know, a relationship comedy from Sony Pictures that reunites Brooks with Jack Nicholson. Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson also star. The film opens December 17.

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