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Warner Bros Dates Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore Pic ‘Blended’, Shifts ‘Transcendence’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 24, 2013 @ 2:59pm PDTTags: Blended, Transcendence, Warner Bros

Blended is the next starring vehicle from Adam Sandler, who is reuniting with Drew Barrymore for the romantic comedy about blended families. Warner Bros said today that the pic has landed a May 23, 2014, release date. Sandler’s Happy Madison and Mike Karz’s Gulfstream Pictures will produce the film, which had been at the studio since 2007 via an original script from Ivan Menchell and Clare Sera. Frank Coraci, who helmed past Sandler-Barrymore pic The Wedding Singer as well as Sandler vehicles Click and The Waterboy, is aboard to direct. The logline: After a disastrous blind date, Jim and Lauren — each with their kids from a previous marriage — find themselves stuck together in a resort for families. Despite everything they can do to resist, the attraction grows between the two, and their kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship.

Meanwhile, the studio shifted its release date for Wally Pfister’s directorial debut Transcendence, the pic that stars Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara and Morgan Freeman. It moves up a week from its original April 25, 2014, slot to April 18 and also will be shown in IMAX venues.

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Morgan Freeman Boards Wally Pfister’s ‘Transcendence’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 11, 2013 @ 2:22pm PDTTags: Mogan Freeman, Transcendence, Wally Pfister, Warner Bros

Morgan Freeman is in final negotiations to join Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall and Kate Mara in Wally Pfister’s directorial debut Transcendence ahead of a scheduled May start date for production. Freeman, repped by CAA, was … Read More »

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Kate Mara Joins Johnny Depp Alcon Pic ‘Transcendence’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 27, 2013 @ 10:50am PDTTags: Alcon Entertainment, Big Deals Film, Kate Mara, Transcendence, Wally Pfister
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Kate MaraBREAKING: The directorial debut of Christopher Nolan’s longtime DP Wally Pfister continues to get more interesting. He’s added Kate Mara to the cast of Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany and Rebecca Hall in Transcendence. The pic is being … Read More »

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Rebecca Hall Joins Johnny Depp & Paul Bettany In ‘Transcendence’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday March 4, 2013 @ 1:09pm PSTTags: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Transcendence

LOS ANGELES, CA, MARCH 5, 2013 – Rebecca Hall is set to star alongside Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany in Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister’s directorial debut, TRANSCENDENCE, it was announced by Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, co-founders and co-CEOs of Alcon Entertainment, which is financing and producing the project.

Principal photography is set to begin in April in Los Angeles. Warner Bros. will release the film on April 25, 2014 via its output deal with Alcon.

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Paul Bettany Joins Johnny Depp in Wally Pfister’s ‘Transcendence’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 3:11pm PSTTags: Alcon Entertainment, Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Transcendence, Wally Pfister
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EXCLUSIVE: Paul Bettany is in negotiations to star opposite Johnny Depp in Transcendence, the Alcon Entertainment film that marks the directing debut of Wally Pfister, Christopher Nolan’s cinematographer on Inception and many other films. Alcon … Read More »

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Johnny Depp Lays Out His Dance Card, With ‘Transcendence’ And ‘Black Mass’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 27, 2013 @ 4:03pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Black Mass, Johnny Depp, Transcendence, Whitey Bulger
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When Deadline broke the story that Johnny Depp would star as Whitey Bulger in the Barry Levinson-directed Black Mass, it raised a lot of questions about his intentions to star in Transcendence, the film directed by Chris Nolan’s visionary cinematographer Wally Pfister. His reps have now clarified the dance card of Depp, who’ll next be seen reuniting with Gore Verbinski in The Lone Ranger this summer. Here’s the deal:

LOS ANGELES (February 27, 2013) — Johnny Depp is set to star in Transcendence, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister. The film will begin principal photography in April.

The film is being financed and produced by Alcon Entertainment’s Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove and will be released by Warner Bros. The film will also be produced by Straight Up Films’ Annie Marter, Marisa Polvino and Kate Cohen along with David Valdes. Pfister will direct from newcomer Jack Paglen’s screenplay, which was developed with Annie Marter, with the most recent draft by Noah Oppenheim. Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas are serving as executive producers. Straight Up’s Regency Boies will co-produce.

Producers are not revealing the film’s plot.

Following Transcendence, Depp will segue into the crime thriller Black Mass, about notorious Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, to be directed by Barry Levinson, with Jez Butterworth writing a new draft of the screenplay by Mark Mallouk, based on the New York Times best-seller Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerald O’Neill.

Filming is beginning in early summer of 2013.

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Female Lead For Wally Pfister’s ‘Transcendence’ Down To Rooney Mara, Emily Blunt, Rebecca Hall

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 3:09pm PSTTags: All You Need Is Kill, Big Deals Film, Johnny Depp, Transcendence

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that the lead actress to star opposite Johnny Depp in Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister’s first directing effort Transcendence will be decided on Friday. Emily Blunt’s dates for All You Need Is Kill are still being worked … Read More »

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