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In Hotly Contested Game Of Movie Tag, Todd Garner Is Declared “It”

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 13, 2013 @ 4:07pm PSTTags: Todd Garner, Wall Street Journal
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Since they got a big write up in the Wall Street Journal late last month, the “Tag Brothers” have been swarmed by movie producers hoping they would tell one of them, “you’re it.” Meaning he gets the chance to translate their story to the movie screen. Who are the “Tag Brothers?” They are the 10 classmates at Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Washington 23 years ago whose long-running game of tag got national attention, thanks to the Russell Adams article. Now in their 40s, the former classmates have spread across the country in various fields (one’s a priest), but they stay in touch during the month of February by chasing each other across the country in an obsessive game of tag. They will jet cross country, break into each other’s homes, hide in the bushes until a target appears, or leave for a long vacation to avoid being tagged, all in the name of not ending up “It,” and having to wear that loser title a whole year.

Well, the “Tag Brothers” have just told Broken Road’s Todd Garner that he’s it. After hearing pitches from more than a half dozen established producers who wanted to turn their story into a feature film, they’ve optioned their life rights to Garner, in a deal put together by ICM Partners (which reps the guys) and UTA (which reps the WSJ). Garner will put together a package that he’ll shop to studios. Since studios have been among those making calls, it shouldn’t be a hard sell. READ MORE »

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AFM: Sierra/Affinity Commits To Finance Cop Thriller Script ‘Blackout’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 18, 2012 @ 4:17pm PDTTags: Sierra/Affinity, Todd Garner
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Meyer’s Sierra/Affinity has committed to finance Blackout, an action thriller script by Sidney King. Broken Road Productions’ Todd Garner will produce with Sierra/Affinity, and Broken Road’s Jeremy Stein will be exec producer. A cop tasked with transporting a mysterious and dangerous criminal across town finds that job much more difficult when a city-wide blackout plunges them into darkness and chaos. Read More »

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New Line Cinema Lands ‘Category Six’ Spec

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 28, 2011 @ 5:19pm PDTTags: Category Six, David Boxerbaum, New Line Cinema, Todd Garner
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Ending what turned out to be a brisk week for material, New Line Cinema just closed a spec deal in the $300,000 range for Category Six, a script by John Swetnam for a “found footage” natural disaster movie. The … Read More »

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Summit Makes ‘Unexpected’ Pitch Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 4, 2011 @ 11:37am PSTTags: Anonymous Content, Josh Duhamel, Katherine Heigl, Meredith Milton, Summit Entertainment, Todd Garner, WME
Mike Fleming

Summit Entertainment has acquired Unexpected, a pitch comedy that will be written by Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson, based on a treatment by Jennifer Eatz. Todd Garner will produce with Eatz. The writers, who scripted the Katherine Heigl-Josh Duhamel-starrer Life As We Know It, this time focus on … Read More »

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Great Role For 30-Ish Actress (Who Hasn’t Adopted In A Third World Country)

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 19, 2010 @ 2:16pm PDTTags: Amy Baer, CBS Films, It Takes a Village, Sony Pictures, Todd Garner, UTA
Mike Fleming

12037.gifEXCLUSIVE: CBS Films and Sony Pictures are teaming to acquire It Takes A Village, a comedy pitch that Keenen Ivory Wayans will write and direct about a 30-something white single career-obsessed woman who decides on a whim to adopt a child from … Read More »

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