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Mike Fleiss Scares Up Directing Debut, Teaming With Fright Maven Steven Schneider

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 24, 2011 @ 4:50pm PDTTags: Mike Fleiss, Steven Schneider, The Cove
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EXCLUSIVE: After making his directing debut on the documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, Mike Fleiss has made a deal to make his narrative directing debut on an untitled low-budget horror film. He is partnered on the project with Steven Schneider, producer of the Paranormal Activity films and Insidious. Fleiss, whose documentary opens this week, has certainly gained experience in making low-cost/high-gross genre films. He was a producer on Hostel and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and his latest, Shark Night 3D, opens in nine days. Fleiss is also the TV producer behind The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and other reality series. The Fleiss-Schneider film is described to me as a big idea with a low price tag, which seems to be the best way to make genre nowadays. It’s being packaged and will be sold by WME Global to start production by year’s end. Fleiss is also working on a narrative film based on dolphin activist Richard O’Barry. He was the hero of The Cove, the shocking documentary that covertly filmed the carnage in a cove in the small former whaling village of Taijii. Fishermen annually herd thousands of dolphins into the cove, and slaughter them in a frenzy that actually makes the waters run blood red. The film created a global uproar. WME Global will package that film as a follow-up film for Fleiss to direct.

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‘X Factor’ Wins At Royal TV Society Awards

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 5:55pm PDTTags: David Tennant, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Simon Cowell, Steven Moffat, The Cove, X Factor

Simon Cowell and his X Factor producers won best entertainment show at tonight’s Royal Television Society awards in London. And BBC hit Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, beat ITV’s Downton Abbey to win best drama series. But Piers … Read More »

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Mike Fleiss Plots Feature Biopic Of ‘The Cove’s’ Dolphin Activist Richard O’Barry

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 8:17am PDTTags: Graham Taylor, Mike Fleiss, Movie Deals, Movies, The Cove, Video
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EXCLUSIVE: Mike Fleiss, who created The Bachelor and other reality hits before branching into films, has acquired feature film rights to the life story of Richard O’Barry. He is the dolphin preservationist and the central figure in the Oscar-winning documentary … Read More »

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