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Richard Branson Buys Rolling Stones Book For Film Drama

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Saturday April 21, 2012 @ 2:22pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Mick Jagger, Richard Branson, Rolling Stones, Virgin Produced, WME Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: The Rolling Stones and Richard Branson are teaming up again. Having released three Stones albums back in the 1990s on Virgin Records, Branson’s Virgin Produced has now acquired the rights to Robert Greenfield’s 2008 book Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones. Unlike past looks at this time in the Stones career, this film is a drama not a documentary. Like the book, the film will focus on the professional and personal relationship between head Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as the band record their classic Exile on Main Street album in the south of France in the summer of 1971. Virgin Produced, partnering with City Entertainment and KippSter Entertainment, is developing the project internally. Brandon and Phil Murphy have been brought on board to write the screenplay. The Murphys, represented by Rich Cook at WME and manager Langley Perer at Mosaic, are no strangers to biopics. Among the projects on their plate currently is a Steve McQueen project for Sony and producer Jerry Weintaub. Jason Felts will serve as producer for the Stones film. Rene Rigal will oversee the project for Virgin Produced, with Joshua Maurer producing for City Entertainment and David Stern producing for KippSter Entertainment. This isn’t the only Rolling Stones film on the horizon. Brett Morgan is directing a doc on the band as part of the Stones’ 50th anniversary celebrations this year. The doc, distributed by Eagle Rock Entertainment, is out in September.

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Entertainment One Inks Development Deal With Richard Branson’s Virgin Produced

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday September 12, 2011 @ 11:09am PDTTags: Entertainment One, eOne, Richard Branson, Virgin Media, Virgin Produced

Indie studio Entertainment One and Virgin Produced — the production unit of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group — have signed a two-year, first-look development deal in which eOne will … Read More »

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Wayne Kramer To Next Direct ‘Ecstasia’ For Relativity Media

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 3, 2011 @ 9:02am PDTTags: Jason Felts, Relativity Media, Rene Rigal, Richard Branson, Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley, Wayne Kramer
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media has optioned Ecstasia, a futuristic drama that was written and will be directed by The Cooler helmer Wayne Kramer. Kramer became available after he exited the Sylvester Stallone-starrer Headshot, and he expects this to be his next … Read More »

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E! In First-Look Deal With Virgin Produced

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 19, 2011 @ 7:07am PSTTags: E!, Jason Felts, Justin Berfield, Richard Branson, TV, TV Deals, Virgin Produced
Nellie Andreeva

E! Entertainment TV has signed multiyear first-look deal with Virgin Produced, the recently launched production arm of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. The pact is for reality programming. Virgin Produced’s unscripted development will be overseen by CEO Jason Felts and Chief Creative Officer Justin Berfield who were previously active in TV … Read More »

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Space Pioneer Richard Branson Discovers McG’s ‘Columbus’ For First Spec Buy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday October 17, 2010 @ 3:05pm PDTTags: Movies, Richard Branson, Virgin Produced
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Branson, the entrepreneur who says he is two years away from launching the commercial space travel company Virgin Galactic Airways, wants to make a movie about a guy who could certainly relate to the ambition. Branson, who  this summer launched the Virgin Produced banner as a joint venture with Relativity Media, is negotiating to acquire Columbus, a script by T.S. Nowlin that has McG attached to direct a 300-style film about Christopher Columbus and his discovery of America. The script went out last week and a deal’s in the works, sources said. The pic will be produced by McG, who’s currently directing the 20th Century Fox comedy This Means War with Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy and Chris Pine. Read More »

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Richard Branson Venture’s Virgin Film Has Raunchy Laughs, Lotta Stars

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 2:24pm PDTTags: Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Richard Branson, Richard Gere, Ryan Kavanaugh, Virgin Produced, Virgin Produced Relativity
Mike Fleming

The first film that gets Richard Branson’s Virgin Produced film shingle off the tarmac–it was innocuously mentioned as an untitled Peter Farrelly film in the announcement of Branson’s joint venture with Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity–has a bigger concentration of first class … Read More »

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Who Says There Are No Second Acts?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 11:02am PDTTags: Justin Berfield, Richard Branson, TV Development, Virgin Produced, Virgin Produced Relativity
Mike Fleming

Richard Branson’s Virgin Group announced that it launched Virgin Produced, a joint venture with Relativity Media for TV development, packaging and production. What the company didn’t say is that it chose as its chief creative officer and overseer of development … Read More »

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