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FilmNation Takes On ‘Message’ Movie

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 18, 2010 @ 10:20am PDTTags: Aaron Ryder, FilmNation, FilmNation Entertainment, Glen Basner, Oliver Butcher, Warner Independant Pictures
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Message From The King, a thriller that once had Will Smith and Michael Mann circling before it languished when Warner Independent Pictures folded, is generating some new heat. Glen Basner’s FilmNation Entertainment has come aboard to produce the action thriller and package it for spring 2011 production start. FilmNation’s Aaron Ryder will produce alongside Ash Shah. The script by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell focuses on Jacob King, a mysterious outsider who comes to L.A. to bring those responsible for his younger sister’s disappearance to justice. Cornwell and Butcher wrote Unknown White Male, the upcoming Warner Bros thriller that stars Liam Neeson and January Jones.

Cornwell and Butcher’s new production company, White Hare, is also getting a producing credit and the shingle bears watching. Cornwell’s the son of The Constant Gardener author John Le Carre, and part of the company’s mandate is to package his father’s works into movies. That includes an adaptation of A Most Wanted Man, as well as the upcoming Our Kind of Traitor, the latter of which is being adapted by Hossein Amini.

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End Of Picturehouse Was Predicted; But End Of Warner Independent Not So Much

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday May 8, 2008 @ 10:49am PDTTags: New Line Cinema, Picturehouse, Studios, Warner Bros, Warner Independant Pictures

Everyone knew for months this was going to happen since it was just a matter of time after New Line was brought under Warner Bros. But the news still means that today is Black Thursday for all those people working at … Read More »

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