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Sony Acquires Olen Steinhauer Novel ‘The Tourist’ For Doug Liman To Direct

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 7, 2012 @ 2:34pm PDTTags: Doug Liman, Sony Pictures, The Tourist
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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has acquired the Olen Steinhauer series of books The Tourist, Nearest Exit and An American Spy, and the studio has attached Doug Liman to direct. Liman will produce with Dave Bartis, his partner in Hypnotic. Matt Corman and Chris Ord, co-creators and executive producers of Covert Affairs, will write the script. Liman and Bartis produce the USA Network series. The books revolve around Milo Weaver, a burned-out spy for a clandestine U.S. intelligence agency that battles global organized crime, terrorists and the like. Just when he has finally found some happiness, an investigation into the death of a hired killer he’d been hunting threatens to ruin everything. READ MORE »

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‘The Tourist’ Tanks Despite Johnny Depp & Angelina Jolie; ‘Narnia 3D’ Opens Very Weak #1; ‘The Fighter’ & ‘Black Swan’ Strong

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday December 11, 2010 @ 10:21pm PSTTags: Angelina Jolie, Box Office, Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 1, Johnny Depp, Movies, Tangled Box Office, The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Fighter, The Tourist

SUNDAY PM/MONDAY AM - 7TH UPDATE: Did the Midwest blizzards depress box office? Well, not a single studio exec mentioned it to me, and usually they’ll hide behind any excuse… Here are the Top 10 North American movie grosses for Friday and Saturday and Sunday. Both Walden/Fox’s The Chronicles Of Narnia: The … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: Sony’s ‘The Tourist’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday September 16, 2010 @ 9:08am PDTTags: Movies, Sony Pictures The Tourist, The Tourist, Trailers, Video

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Dec. 10 For Angelina’s & Johnny’s ‘Tourist’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday August 18, 2010 @ 5:39pm PDTTags: Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Sony Pictures The Tourist, The Fighter, The Tourist



I hear that the Sony Pictures brass just saw The Tourist starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp and decided it’s a big commercial thriller that’s going to play great during the holiday season on December 10th. That weekend Paramount’s David O … Read More »

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