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Screen Gems Sets Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez And Olivia Munn For Exorcism Pic ‘Beware The Night’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 9, 2013 @ 1:14pm PDTTags: Beware The Night, Eric Bana, Jerry Bruckheimer, Olivia Munn, Scott Derrickson, Screen Gems
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Screen Gems has set Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez and Olivia Munn to star in Beware The Night, a film that re-teams Clint Culpepper’s Sony-based company with The Exorcism Of Emily Rose tandem of Scott Derrickson and Paul Boardman. The film is a paranormal thriller that will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Derrickson will direct a script he and Boardman wrote and shooting will begin May 20 in the Bronx.

The film reunites Bana with Bruckheimer; they previously worked together on Black Hawk Down, one of the films that sprung Bana’s movie career. Here, Bana plays an Irish Catholic cop working a case when he meets a renegade priest. Despite the cop’s beliefs, he’s convinced by the priest that there is a demonic element and together they work to solve the case and combat the paranormal forces working against them. Ramirez plays the priest. Munn plays the cop’s wife, who also has a tie to the case. Screen Gems is hoping this will blossom into a franchise. Chad Oman and Mike Stenson will be exec producers.

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‘Sinister’ Helmer Scott Derrickson to Direct ‘Deus Ex’ Feature From Iconic Video Game

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 15, 2012 @ 12:00pm PSTTags: CBS Films, Scott Derrickson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films has signed Scott Derrickson to direct Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the screen adaptation of the iconic Square Enix video game. Derrickson, who has had a hot hand recently in helming the hits Sinister and The Exorcism Of Emily Rose, will write the script with his Sinister co-writer C. Robert Cargill. Roy Lee and Adrian Askarieh will produce, and John P. Middleton is exec producer.

The setting is the near future, when dramatic advances in human augmentation have triggered a technological renaissance. The protagonist, an ex-SWAT security specialist named Adam Jensen, must embrace mechanical augments in order to unravel a global conspiracy.

“Deus Ex is a phenomenal cyberpunk game with soul and intelligence,” said Derrickson. “By combining amazing action and tension with big, philosophical ideas, Deus Ex is smart, ballsy, and will make one hell of a movie. Cargill and I can’t wait to bring it to the big screen.” Read More »

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‘Sinister’s Blumhouse And Scott Derrickson Re-Team On Stephen King Novella ‘Breathing Method’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 15, 2012 @ 2:17pm PDTTags: Jason Blum, Scott Derrickson, Sinister, Stephen King
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off an $18 million opening-weekend gross of Sinister that was six times its $3 million budget, Jason Blum‘s Blumhouse has teamed with Sinister director and co-writer Scott Derrickson on a screen adaptation of the Stephen King novella The Breathing Method. They’ve secured an option on King’s work from the author, and the script will be written by Scott Teems. They haven’t yet set it for financing.

The novella was part of the 1982 King collection Different Seasons and is the only story in the volume that hasn’t been adapted. If focuses on an elderly physician named Dr. Emlyn McCarron, who recounts an incident in his career of a patient who was determined to give birth to her illegitimate child, despite her financial difficulties and the social stigma in the 1930s. The patient turns to the doctor because of the book he has written about the Breathing Method, a system to help women through childbirth. She grows close with the doctor, who finds that she is so determined to have the child through the method that she lingers on even after a horrific accident on the way to the hospital. Read More »

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AMC Buys Sci-Fi Drama From Paul Boardman, Scott Derrickson & David Eick

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 11, 2011 @ 4:27pm PSTTags: AMC, David Eick, Paul Boardman, Scott Derrickson
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After hitting gold with horror series The Walking Dead, AMC is looking to expand its genre portfolio with a sci-fi drama. The cable network has bought Thunderstruck, an hourlong UFO project from feature writing/directing duo Paul Boardman and Scott … Read More »

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West Memphis 3 Feature Film Eyes Spring Shoot With Atom Egoyan Directing

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 19, 2011 @ 4:34pm PDTTags: Clark Peterson, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr, Paul Boardman, Richard Saperstein, Scott Derrickson, West Memphis Three
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After the West Memphis 3 murder defendants were released from prison today after 18 years, it seemed like just a matter of time before the movie crowd got involved because the case is so controversial and became a cause celebre with the likes of Johnny Depp and Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. Turns out that there is a feature film that already has a screenplay and a major director, ready to start production by the spring. Devil’s Knot is an under $20 million feature that has The Sweet Hereafter and Chloe director Atom Egoyan aboard to direct a script that was originally written by Scott Derrickson and Paul Boardman, the team behind The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Egoyan has spent the last six weeks working with Boardman on a rewrite. Read More »

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Summit Buys U.S. For Microbudget Thriller From Scott Derrickson With Ethan Hawke

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 1, 2011 @ 3:05pm PDTTags: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Ethan Hawke, Jason Blum, Scott Derrickson, Summit Entertainment
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment has won an auction for U.S. distribution rights to an untitled “found footage” thriller that Scott Derrickson will direct, with Ethan Hawke starring. Jason Blum is producing with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones’ Automatik Entertainment and shooting starts in September. … Read More »

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Relativity Tackles Goliath With Helmer Scott Derrickson

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday January 7, 2011 @ 12:39pm PSTTags: John D. Payne, Movie Deals, Movies, Patrick McKay, Relativity Media, Scott Derrickson
Mike Fleming

Relativity Media is in talks with Scott Derrickson to helm Goliath, a retelling of the Biblical tale of David and Goliath on a heightened 300 level. When the fierce warrior Goliath is sent to track down the foretold king of the Israelites, the young shepherd David gets thrust into an … Read More »

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