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Aussies win $US70,000 in online competition [Mon 31/03/2014 11:43:27] First titles announced for SFF By Don Groves Australian films B.O. scorecard Fresh from playing the lead in Fat Tony & Co, Robert Mammone will play a homeless man Sneezing Baby Panda set for release in China who is confronted by a malevolent presence on a late-night commuter train in Bunny. Vale David Hannay Most Popular Articles This Week The supernatural thriller is due to start shooting in Sydney in May, the feature directing debut of US screenwriter Peter Schink, who wrote and was associate producer on the 2010 Newbie joins Strangerland cast pic Legion, which starred Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid. Vale David Hannay Mammone, who came back last week after playing a Greek general in Russell Crowe’s The Gibney set to tackle The Killing Field Water Diviner, will also serve as an executive producer on Bunny. BBC First brings out the stars Screen Australia funds See-Saw Films, Goalpost The plot revolves around a group of strangers on the train who find the body of a young Pictures features junkie. The original idea came from Sydney-based, US producer Jeff Wannberg, who regularly commutes to and from Sydney late at night.

“Jeff pitched it to me as The Conjuring on a train,” Schink told IF on the line from the US. He co-wrote the screenplay with Kade Robinson.

Aussie Troy Planet is producing with Wannberg. Schink said Mammone got involved via his friend Planet and all four had been developing the project for the past two and a half years.

The other cast is yet to be an announced but all will be Australian. Among the other characters are a Greek Australian, an Indian Australian and a Torres Strait Islander.

Mammone told IF that his work off-camera on Bunny has given him a new appreciation of the role of the producer. "It's no easy street," he said. Originally he intended to take the larger part of another character but decided to play Bosco "as a more controlled role which also gives me more scope as an actor."

He added, "With Peter Schink at the helm, a talented young ensemble cast and a kick ass script, we can't wait to begin filming.”

The DoP is Joseph Pickering (Fat Tony & Co, Janet King, Serangoon Road) and Peta Einberg is responsible for casting. Mammone and Brigham Glaser are the EPs. It will be a four-week shoot on the set of a train at disused railyards.

The actor had a great time in Australia and Turkey shooting The Water Diviner with Crowe, a mate since they made The Crossing in 1989 and Heaven's Burning in the mid-1990s.

His character is among a group of Greek soldiers who went on a rape-and-pillage spree through Turkey to try to reclaim land which they claimed was stolen by the Turks from Greece 450 years earlier.

Observing Crowe first-hand as a director, Mammone said, "He's really impressive, clear, concise and calm. He gets the best out of everyone." Mammone has ambitions to direct but has not yet settled on a project.

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comments) Joel Silverman will adapt Susan Fornoff's memoir "The Lady in the Locker Room" about her battle in the 1980s to gain access to the men's locker room, which Jon Turteltaub will direct.

CBS Films and Last Vegas helmer Jon Turteltaub are reteaming for a period film about one of the first female sports reporters to break the gender barrier.

The company has acquired a pitch by Joel Silverman based on Susan Fornoff's book The Lady in the Locker Room. The deal also includes Fornoff's life rights.

Turteltaub is attached to direct and produce with Karim Zreik (Common Law). Silverman will write the screenplay.

In the 1980s, Fornoff fought to secure equal rights for female sports journalists, insisting they deserved the same access to AP Images/Invision athletes as their male colleagues. At the Jon Turteltaub time, most sports leagues barred women from entering the locker room, which made it difficult for OUR EDITOR RECOMMENDS writers like Fornoff to do their jobs. Fornoff, who worked for (/news/cbs-leslie-moonves-talks- papers including USA Today and the Sacramento Bee, finally revenue-664656) smashed that barrier, becoming one of the first women to enter (/news/cbs-leslie- moonves-talks-revenue- the locker room. The movie will chronicle her hilarious and 664656) harrowing journey to thrive in this ultimate man's world.

CBS' Leslie Moonves Talks Maria Faillace and Alex Ginno are overseeing the project for Revenue Splits, 'Under the Dome' and 'Breakthrough' Film CBS Films.

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The 29th annual Santa Barbara Intl. Film Festival on Sunday tapped “Noble (http://variety.com/t/noble/)” as winner of the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema, given to a feature made outside mainstream Hollywood.

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The honor includes a Panavision camera package worth $60,000. Mark Huberman, who appears in the film, accepted the award for director Stephen Bradley. An honorable mention was awarded to Hill Harper for his performance in “1982,” directed by Tommy Oliver.

The International Film Award went to France’s “Eastern Boys,” directed by Robin Campillo. Diane Kurys’ “For a Woman” received an honorable mention for directing.

Documentary Film Award went to “Queens and Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo.” Director Matt Livadary and producer Erin Krozek accepted the award at the press conference and brunch at the Fess Parker Doubletree by Hilton Resort. “Queens” also received the Audience Choice Award, sponsored by The Santa Barbara Independent.

The Nueva Vision Award for the best Spanish/Latin American film was awarded to “God’s Slave” (Esclavo de Dios). Director Joel Novoa and producer Jose Novoa accepted the award.

The Eastern European Film Award for best Eastern Bloc feature went to “Bauyr” (Little Brother), in the photo above, with the prize accepted by director Serik Aprymov and actor Alisher Aprymov.

The Bruce Corwin Award for live-action film under 30 minutes went to “Satellite Beach,” directed by Luke and Andrew Wilson. Bruce Corwin Award for animation short film went to “Tome of the Unknown,” directed by Patrick McHale and starring Elijah Wood and Warren Burton.

The Social Justice Award, sponsored by the Fund for Santa Barbara, went to “Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People,” directed by Thomas Allen Harris.

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The festival concludes its 11-day run Sunday with back-to-back screenings of “Before Sunrise,” “Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight,” which serves as the closing-night film, followed by a Q&A with Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke.

Commented fest executive director Roger Durling, “The caliber of films that we welcomed to our community was exceptional and opened our eyes to all corners of the world. We are proud to have shown these films and have them be a part of the 2014 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (http://variety.com/t/santa-barbara-international-film-festival/).”

The jury included writer Thelma Adams, filmmaker Mimi deGruy, SBIFF founder Phyllis DePicciotto, actress Frances Fisher, composer Adam Guettel, producer Ted Hope, editor Artie Schmidt, and actors Alan Thicke, Anthony Zerbe and Arnette Zerbe.

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“Red Ice” follows a trucker hauling emergency supplies across the frozen waterways of arctic Canada who must survive an onslaught of mysterious, man-eating creatures.

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‘Boondock Saints’ Troy Duffy Resurfaces With Series And Film Deals

By MIKE FLEMING JR Tuesday December 10, 2013 @ 10:39am PST

EXCLUSIVE: Writer/director Troy Duffy, most famous for making a big Boondock Saints spec deal with Harvey Weinstein that was supposed to include purchase of the LA bar where Duffy poured drinks, is back in the mix with deals for both film and TV projects. On the small screen, Duffy has teamed with producers Jimmy Miller and Sam Hansen and set up Kingdom Come with Sony Television. The proposed series focuses on Capt. Jean Lafitte, the early 19th Century pirate who built the largest smuggling operation on U.S. soil and controlled New Orleans and all the goods that traveled the Mississippi River. He went from outlaw to patriot when he and his crew defended New Orleans against the British in the War of 1812, for which he and his pirate cohorts received full pardons for past misdeeds, but were whitewashed from history by Andrew Jackson.

Duffy also made a deal with Voltage Pictures to write and direct The Blood Spoon Council, a thriller about a vigilante group led by an eccentric mastermind prolifer that hunts, captures and disposes of serial killers. This will be the first film that Duffy has directed since the Boondock Saints sequel in 2009. Even though the bar deal with Weinstein fell apart over creative disagreements, the first movie–which starred Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery as Irish vigilantes–got financed by Elie Samaha. The ultra-violent shoot em up then had the bad fortune to reach theaters right after the Columbine High School massacre, and grossed just $30,471.

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Now, this is just one of the difficult spots in what has been a long journey for Duffy to get to the point where he’s got two solid projects with major companies. He tells me that despite the paltry performance in theaters, Boondock Saints eventually made staggering sums on home video, though laying hands on it was another story. “Hollywood backed off anything with youthful violence after Columbine, and we were informed by a buyer that our film was blacklisted from U.S. theater screens,” Duffy said. “After doing all that work, we were torpedoed and everyone slipped into a depression. Then kids found the movie within six months, when it became a Blockbuster exclusive selection and went on to become the number one straight to video highest grossing rental of 2001. Unfortunately, we had made the movie with Franchise’s Elie Samaha, and the whole company went bust.”

Duffy might have wanted to have passed the bar instead of pouring drinks from one, for all the lawyer fees he and Brinker paid out. “We sued Comerica Bank, which financed the film, and another outfit, Spartan Home Entertainment, which released it. It became a massive lawsuit.” What saved Duffy and Brinker was they, almost by accident, held onto merchandising rights which became a gold mine. “The only reason we had them was, nobody saw any value in them,” he said. “We began selling t-shirts, scripts, posters on a website, and we made big money we shoveled right back into the lawsuit which took six years to settle out of court for an undisclosed sum.” While he cannot reveal that number, his description of the film’s vid business is staggering. “Boondock did well over $100 million globally, and it still does 1 million units a year in the U.S. It’s one of those things that works as a stocking stuffer, on St. Patrick’s Day. I really can’t explain it. It’s like the Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Big Lebowski, movies that built this weird fanaticism around them.”The lawsuit also allowed them to make a Boondock sequel, which he said didn’t get a lot of love from Sony; the film never got past the platform stage, but grossed $11 million though it never got past 600 screens.

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As he and Brinker were getting ready to turn the page, the latter died at age 42 from an aortic aneurysm on the last day of shooting his directing debut Bad Country. This happened last February. Despite all the adversity, Duffy said he is excited by the opportunities provided by the new projects. He’s working on the film with Voltage’s Nicolas Chartier, Zev Foreman and Dominic Rustam, with Chartier calling the serial killer pic “an ideal film to follow up Boondock Saints…we believe Troy will turn it into a film that can be a defining psychological thriller for this generation in the vein of Silence Of The Lambs and Se7en. On the series project he’s writing, Duffy told me: “Lafitte saved the U.S. and was whitewashed from history,” he said. “Pound for pound the biggest gangster, clearing one million dollars a month smuggling contraband into the U.S. Then the British invade, wanting to take back what they’d lost in the Revolutionary War, and if they took New Orleans they had us. Lafitte teams with Andrew Jackson, helps the Army win that battle that sends the British home. Jackson then runs for president on the ‘I saved the U.S. platform, and could not lay the victory on the doorstep of an infamous pirate. It’s our Braveheart, in a way.”

As for his bid to own a bar, Duffy said he still wants one. He staked some ex-cop buddies when they opened a watering hole in New Orleans, and now he’s ready to look for a place of his own in Los Angeles. He’s repped by Jordan Bayer of Original Artists and attorney Stephen Clark.

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‘Ink And Bone’ Tops 2013 Blood List – The Black List For Genre Scripts

By JEN YAMATO Thursday October 31, 2013 @ 10:30am PDT

EXCLUSIVE: Franklin Leonard’s Black List has become a buzzy barometer for promising screenplays, but here’s a genre-centric version of the script service suited for the spooky season. The Blood List names the 13 best unproduced horror, thriller, and sci- fi scripts of the October-to-October calendar year as voted on by more than 100 film execs. This year’s #1 pick: Ink and Bone, Zak Olkewicz’s horror spec about a writer held hostage by his own creations that Dimension snapped up earlier this year. Independent manager/producer Kailey Marsh runs the annual Blood List, which has no affiliation with the more mainstream- leaning Black List but in its fifth year is turning out more and more high-profile alums. 2012 Blood List topper The Disciple Program landed at Universal with Mark Wahlberg attached to star for Morten Tyldum, while Barbara Curry’s 2011 selection The Boy Next Door is in production under the Blumhouse banner with Jennifer Lopez starring.

The 2013 edition was voted on by 108 feature execs, each of whom chose their top three favorite genre screenplays. Seventy-seven of them earned votes, with screenplays requiring a minimum of four votes in order to make the final cut. The 2013 class is announced, as it has been for four years, on Halloween:

18 Ink and Bone Writer: Zak Olkewicz Logline: When a female book editor visits the home of a horror writer so he can complete his novel, she finds http://www.deadline.com/print-post/?posttoprint=624236&KeepThis=true/ Page 1 of 6 Print Post - Deadline.com Deadline.com 10/31/13 5:47 PM

that all of his creations are holding him hostage. Agency: WME Agent: Daniel Cohan Management: Caliber Media Manager: Will Rowbotham Genre: Horror/Thriller Status: Set up at Dimension

17 The Autopsy of Jane Doe Writer: Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing Logline: A father/son mortician team try to uncover the cause of death on a Jane Doe. But the more they uncover, the more mysterious and terrifying their world becomes. Management: New Wave Managers: Josh Adler and Matt Ochacher Agency: Ian: CAA, Richard: APA Agents: Ian: Rick Lefitz, Matt Rosen, Sonya Rosenfeld, Kath White, and Tom Young; Richard: Mike Goldberg, Kyle Loftus, Sheryl Petersen Genre: Horror/Thriller Status: Eric Garcia and Fred Berger (Imposter Pictures) are producing alongside Ben Pugh & Rory Aitken (42 Productions). Andre Ovredal is attached to direct.

15 Patrol Writer: Jayson Rothwell Logline: A group of Marines, embedded in South Asia, embark on a patrol of a remote island in search of drug runners. What they end up finding is something much more deadly and demonic than they ever could imagine. Agency: WME Agents: Rich Cook, Phil d’Amecourt Genre: Horror/Action Status: Set up at Paramount. Sunnyfield Entertainment producing with Sarah Bremner attached as executive producer.

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15 There Are Monsters Writer: Bryan Bertino Logline: A mother and daughter find themselves stranded in the middle of the night on an abandoned road. Deep in the surrounding woods a nightmarish terror stalks them, and they must find the courage to face the beast or be destroyed by it. Agency: UTA Agents: David Kramer, Jason Burns Genre: Horror Status: Bryan Bertino & Adrienne Biddle (Unbroken Pictures) and Atlas Entertainment are attached to produce. Sonny Mallhi is attached as executive producer.

11 Patient Zero (fka Patient Z) Writer: Mike Le Logline: In a post-apocalyptic world, a man with the ability to speak the language of the undead interrogates zombies with the hope of finding Patient Zero and a cure for his infected wife. Agency: APA Agent: David Saunders and Kyle Loftus Management: Hung Entertainment Manager: Jonathan Hung Genre: Thriller Status: Set up at Screen Gems. Vincent Newman is producing.

9 Family Vacation Writer: Eric Reese Logline: A family embarks on a cross-country road trip, but the vacation takes a horrifying turn when they are hunted by a group of drifters. Agency: Resolution Agents: Robert Lazar, Abram Nalibotsky Management: The Gotham Group Managers: Jeremy Bell, Nate Matteson, and Peter McHugh

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Genre: Horror/Thriller Status: Set up at Paramount Insurge. Daniel Dubiecki and Carly Norris (The Allegiance Theater) are attached to produce.

7 Somacell Writer: Ashleigh Powell Logline: A female prison worker in the near future discovers that the virtual reality process that rehabilitates convicts is not all it promises to be. Agency: Gersh Agents: Bob Hohman, Bayard Maybank, Devra Lieb, J.R. Satery Management: Benderspink Managers: Daniel Vang, Jake Weiner Genre: Sci-fi/Thriller Status: Set up at Warner Bros. David Goyer (Phantom Four Films) is attached to produce.

7 On Your Doorstep Writer: Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman Logline: When a young journalist suspects that an abducted girl is being held somewhere in her own neighborhood, she decides to delve into the secret lives of her neighbors to determine which one is capable of the horrific crime. Agency: APA Agents: Adam Perry, Sheryl Petersen Management: Elevate Entertainment Manager: Jenny Wood Genre: Thriller Status: Available

6 Momska Writer: Simon Rumley Logline: A teenage girl thinks her mother is trying to take over her life, but discovers the truth is much more

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sinister. Agency: APA Agents: Chris Ridenhour, William Lowery Management: Aperture Entertainment Manager: Adam Goldworm Genre: Horror/Thriller Status: Adam Goldworm (Aperture Entertainment) is attached to produce.

5 All The Good Ones Get Away Writer: Elliott San Logline: A weekend get-away for two lovers turns into a nightmare of torture and psychological mind games. Agency: WME Agents: Mike Esola and Solco Schuit Management: Energy Entertainment Manager: Brooklyn Weaver Status: Brooklyn Weaver (Energy Entertainment) is attached to produce.

5 Capsule Writer: Ian Shorr Logline: A young man mysteriously begins to receive metallic capsules containing messages from his future self. Agency: UTA Agents: Jason Burns, Charlie Ferraro, and David Park Management: Mosaic Manager: Langley Perer Genre: Sci-fi Status: Set up at 20th Century Fox. Hutch Parker and John Zaozirny are attached to produce. Matthias Hoene is attached to direct.

4 Limerence

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Writer: Richard Hobley Logline: Feeling ignored by her husband and child, a self-harming, sexually repressed teacher falls into a dangerous relationship with an obsessive new student. Management: Jon Kanak Management Manager: Jon Kanak Genre: Thriller Status: Joey Tuccio (East View Entertainment) is attached to produce.

4 Revelations (fka Lord of Light) Writer: Hernany Perla Logline: A prison psychiatrist meets a death row inmate on the verge of his execution who claims to be the only thing stopping the end of the world. As she begins to investigate his predictions, she finds them to be eerily accurate, and that she may be a central figure in the events to come. 12 Monkeys meets Silence of the Lambs. Agency: Original Artists Agents: Chris Sablan Management: Madhouse Manager: Ryan Cunningham Genre: Thriller Status: Set up at Lotus Entertainment

For more on the Blood List head to http://bloodlist.com.

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Fox Buys Conspiracy Thriller From Drew Chapman, Drama From Michael Horowitz

By NELLIE ANDREEVA Tuesday October 29, 2013 @ 4:26pm PDT

TV and film writer Drew (formerly Andrew) Chapman is set to adapt his upcoming first novel, The Ascendant, as a drama series for Fox through 20th Century Fox TV. In the vein of Three Days of the Condor, The Ascendant is described as a modern, subversive take on the white-knuckle thriller. It centers on Garrett Reilly, a 26-year-old NYC bond trader and financial wunderkind who recognizes a huge U.S. Treasury bond selloff and an opportunity to become incredibly rich but stumbles upon something much larger — and scarier: the first attack in a covert war of unthinkable proportions. The novel – which will be published by Simon & Schuster in January with a big initial print run of 75,000 — is envisioned as a franchise, with Chapman already writing the second book. In TV, Chapman, repped by Rothman Brecher Agency, Original Artists, Regal Literary, Ragna Nervik Management and Jonathan Shikora is writing ABC’s upcoming CIA limited series The Assets and previously penned the ABC pilot A House Divided.

Lithium is another hourlong Fox project from 20th TV, written/executive produced by Michael Horowitz (Burn Notice) and executive produced by Richard Shepard and Bryan and Sean Furst through their 20th TV- based Olé.

The project was pitched to Fox last month and then laid off at 20th. It revolves around three friends who find their up-and-coming battery start-up threatened by a

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lack of lithium and decide to use unconventional techniques to solve their problem in Bolivia, leading them into even more trouble. Horowitz is repped by WME, Magnet Management, and Lichter, Grossman. Shepard is repped by WME, Anonymous Content, and Jackoway Tyerman. Olé is with WME

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Hot Trailer: Liam Neeson In ‘Non-Stop’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM Wednesday October 16, 2013 @ 9:39am PDT

Liam Neeson reunites with his Unknown director Jaume Collet-Serra to tap those particular set of skills again in Universal‘s Non-Stop. The actioner takes place aboard a transatlantic flight in which Neeson’s U.S. Air Marshal is hounded by an unknown text messager to force the airline to pony up $150M, or else one passenger will be killed every 20 minutes. Joel Silver produces the February 28, 2014 release which also stars Julianne Moore:

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Millennium Films Lands Inon Shampanier Spec ‘The Strategist’

By MIKE FLEMING JR Monday October 14, 2013 @ 5:21pm PDT

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Films has acquired The Strategist, a thriller script by Inon Shampanier that he will direct. It is the story of a most unusual CIA recruit, a chess master who is brought in to mastermind the takedown of a dangerous dictator. The adversary is himself a brilliant man with impenetrable security who must be outmaneuvered to be taken down. Millennium’s Mark Gill will produce.

Shampanier most recently helmed The Millionaire Tour for Michael Eisner’s Vuguru, which stars Dominic Monaghan and Agnes Bruckner, and which he wrote with wife Natalie Shampanier. Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson and John Thompson are exec producers. The spec deal was brokered by Original Artists’ Jordan Bayer and Chris Sablan, and attorney Lev Ginsburg.

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Hot Trailer: ‘God’s Slave’

By MIKE FLEMING JR Thursday October 10, 2013 @ 9:41am PDT

God’s Slave (Esclavo De Dios) was just acquired for sales by Continental Media, which will hawk it at AFM. It’s by first-time Venezuelan helmer Joel Novoa, who has signed with Original Artists and just signed on to direct ID2: Mad Mohammad. God’s Slave premieres next month at the Mar De Plata Film Festival. The premise seems timely.

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Cannibals, Hallucinogens Help Chilean Pics Gain Traction in English

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 | 12:00PM PT Horrormeister Eli Roth partners on Chilewood venture

Anna Marie de la Fuente (http://variety.com/author/anna- marie-de-la-fuente/)

In Chile (http://variety.com/t/chile/), as in much of the world, English is becoming the lingua franca among a growing number of filmmakers, as arthouse and genre helmers alike make it the primary language in films targeted to play beyond the country’s tiny film market.

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The trend comes at a time when Chilean pics have been gaining recognition on the fest circuit: This year, Sebastian Lelio’s “Gloria” played in competition at Berlin and picked up three awards; it reps Chile in the foreign-language Oscar race. (Last year, Pablo Larrain’s “No” grabbed a foreign-language Oscar nom.)

And at this year’s Sundance, Sebastian Silva took home the directing award for his hallucinogenic drug-fueled romp “Crystal Fairy,” following his Grand Jury Prize for “The Maid” in 2009.

Jirafa Films’ founder Bruno Bettati notes that the move to English is especially strong “among directors who have made more than three films and have already gained some international recognition.”

Silva, now a Brooklyn resident, is prepping his next project, “Nasty Baby,” starring Kristen Wiig. “Crystal Fairy” is mainly in English, while his other Sundance 2013 entry, “Magic, Magic” (pictured) is in both English and Spanish. Both star Michael Cera.

Nicolas Lopez, who has established a partnership he has dubbed Chilewood (http://variety.com/t/chilewood/) with Eli Roth (http://variety.com/t/eli-roth/), helmed earthquake thriller “Aftershock” — set in Chile and in English and Spanish — and is tipped to direct the sequel to Roth’s cannibal horror pic “The Green Inferno.” Both pics were lensed mostly in Chile at a fraction of what they would have cost if they had been made in the U.S.

“We shot ‘Aftershock’ for $2 million, but it looked like a $10 million movie,” Lopez maintains. Chilewood aims to produce local pics with budgets of no less than $500,000 and international mainstream pics for no less than $10

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Even Chile’s pioneering horrormeister Jorge Olguin has made the country’s first 3D pic, “Whispers of the Forest,” mainly in English. Now in post, the fantasy pic cost a paltry $500,000 despite the use of 3D cameras.

While English-lingo horror sells well in the international marketplace, arthouse helmers also are adopting the tongue. Cristian Jimenez (“Bonsai,” which preemed at Cannes 2011), and Gonzalo Justiniano (“B- Happy” and “Have You Seen Lupita?”) are prepping pics in English. Even wildly popular mimic/standup comedian Stefan Kramer, whose broad comedy “Stefan vs. Kramer” was Chile’s biggest blockbuster, is mulling a fish-out-of-water story set in Miami after Fox releases his next comedy, “El Ciudadano Kramer,” in December.

Indeed, with the growing push to grab international sales, worldwide mainstream audiences and festival accolades, a new generation of Chilean filmmakers has its eyes on the global prize. And it’s an easy concept to translate.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013, 8:00 AM A Seven-Hour Documentary About a Horror Franchise? The Director Explains

By ERIK PIEPENBURG It takes almost 10 hours to watch the landmark Holocaust documentary “Shoah.” If you have 24 hours to spare you can spend it with Christian Marclay’s movie-clip art film “The Clock.” Now horror fans have their own chance for marathon movie-watching with the release of “Crystal Lake Memories,” a seven-hour documentary about the highly successful “Friday the 13th” franchise.

Named after the idyllic camp where randy teenagers met bloody fates, the documentary features interviews with some 150 cast and crew members from the dozen “Friday the 13th” films and the syndicated television series that ran from 1987 to 1990. (The documentary was released this month, of course, on Friday the 13th.) The original “Friday the 13th,” directed by Sean Cunningham for about $550,000, was a surprise hit when it opened in 1980, grossing more than $39.7 million. The films collectively have become one of the most profitable movie franchises thanks in large part to its central villain, Jason Voorhees. Like the lead character’s disguise in the Broadway musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” Jason’s hockey mask has entered the top tier of pop-culture iconography.

“Jason is this iconic symbol of evil that has gone from generation to generation,” said Daniel Farrands, who wrote and directed “Crystal Lake Memories.”

And the killing might not be over. Corey Feldman, who narrates “Crystal Lake Memories” (and who as a child appeared in “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter” in 1984), has expressed interest in developing and starring in a 13th film. Mr. Farrands is developing a TV series called “Crystal Lake Chronicles.”

But a seven-hour documentary? Mr. Farrands, 44, recently spoke with ArtsBeat about why he devoted so much time to the franchise, why Jason should never have gone to space, and how Hugh Jackman fits into it all. Following are excerpts from the conversation.

There are long movies, and then there’s a seven-hour documentary about “Friday the 13th.” How did you get the idea for a long-form film?

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I worked on another “Friday the 13th” film called “His Name Was Jason,” but I was limited to 90 minutes. The fans hated us because it was so short. After that, Thommy Hutson, my producing partner, and I made “Never Sleep Again,” a four-hour documentary about the “Nightmare on Elm Street” films. It turned out to be a fan favorite. Then I was one of the financiers and editor of a coffee table book about “Friday the 13th” that came out in 2005 called “Crystal Lake Memories.” There’s just this loyal fan base for the “Friday the 13th” movies. They don’t want the truncated bonus features you might get on a DVD.

The film is like 12 mini movies in one, with each chapter devoted to a different film. Each one tells its own story. You can watch it in a marathon, or piece by piece. Even if you’re not a “Friday” fan, what we tried to do was tell the story of what it’s like to make low-budget movies in the trenches. It’s like a film school, wrapped up in an documentary.

Why do you think the original “Friday the 13th” became so popular in the first place?

You can’t define the moment when something becomes a pop-culture phenomenon. But Sean Cunningham took what was becoming popular, because of “Halloween,” and upped the ante. He took the suspense, and the mysterious killer who can’t be stopped, to the next level by putting the graphic kills in your face. That hadn’t been done in a mainstream way. He convinced Paramount, a major studio, to release it in a big way.

Even people who don’t like horror movies know who Jason is. Why do you think his image has become so well known?

Although he’s a boogeyman, Jason was a nerd who was abused and left behind. He suffered this horrible tragedy, and when he came back to life he couldn’t stopped. There’s a wish fulfillment there for a lot of kids. By killing off the cool kids, he speaks to people who feel alienated. Not that you wish people dead, but it’s a way for some people to live out their strangest fantasies. He’s an antihero. I think he’s transcended horror movies. He made his way into comics. He won an MTV lifetime achievement award. He was on Arsenio Hall’s show and “The Simpsons.” Hugh Jackman said he wanted to play Jason, and that’s why he became an actor.

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When the first film came out, it was controversial because of its graphic depiction of violence, especially against women. But that outrage barely registers today.

In the early days the filmmakers were accused of being misogynist. But I think the movies actually empower women. The films have a lot of female fans. The actresses who have played the surviving characters, who use their intelligence to beat Jason, have an amazing female fan base. They are the ones that are outsiders who don’t fit in, but they are the one who have to survive. I think that’s a metaphor for so many struggles facing adolescents, including women.

There are several famous people who appeared in “Friday the 13th” films before they made it big: Kevin Bacon, Crispin Glover, Kelly Rowland. But they’re not in your film. Did you have a hard time getting celebrities who were in the films to agree to participate?

Everybody who was a part of the movies was contacted. Kevin Bacon is a huge star. Whether or not he chooses to speak about it is up to him. The answer was no, not because he didn’t want to talk about it, but because he was working. There are people who might not want to relive it, or they have just moved on.

Do you have a favorite “Friday the 13th” film?

The first four really spoke to me when I was growing up. As it went on, it got campier, more ridiculous, with Jason in space and going to hell.

Which one do you like the least?

That would have to be “Jason X,” where he goes to space. It’s the final frontier, where franchises go to die.

This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: September 25, 2013

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An earlier version of this post misspelled at one point the surname of the actor who was inspired by the character of Jason Voorhees in "Friday the 13th." He is Hugh Jackman, not Jackson.

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CBS Buys Single-Dad Comedy From Fred Savage, Matt Dearborn (Exclusive)

11:03 AM PDT 8/29/2013 by Lacey Rose

67 33 0 The comedy project, "Raised by Wolves," will center on a 20-something guy who suddenly becomes a full-time dad to his 7-year-old daughter and has his buddies help him raise her.

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CBS is pushing into single dad territory.

The network has made a script deal for a comedy called Raised by Wolves. The half-hour effort will revolve around a 20- something guy who suddenly becomes a full-time dad to his 7-year-old daughter. As the title suggests, his buddies will band together to help him raise her.

The project is being produced by CBS TV Studios, where Wolves' executive producer Fred Savage signed an overall deal when he launched his production company in late 2011. Matt Dearborn (Even Stevens) and Racelle Rosett (Blossom) will co-write and executive produce.

STORY: Fred Savage's Never Ending Wonder Years as TV's Hot Comedy Director [3]

The news comes mere days after Disney XD announced it had greenlighted a pilot, Neckpee Island, from Dearborn and his Even Stevens and Zeke and Luther writer-producer Tom Burkhard. It'll center on OB, a 14-year-old troublemaker who is sent by his dad to the small remote island of Neckpee where he joins the Neckpee High Flag Corps.

For Savage's part, the former Wonder Years star has managed to successfully transition behind the camera, where his work as a TV director has earned him the most attention. Among his small-screen credits: Modern Family, 2 Broke Girls and NBC's short-lived Best Friends Forever, for which he was an executive producer as well. Earlier in his helming days, Savage directed a few episodes of Dearborn's Stevens. In March, Savage was tapped [2] to direct the Charlize Theron comedy film Ladies Night.

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Dearborn is repped by Original Artists and Skrzyniarz & Mallean; Savage is repped by CAA and Jackoway Tyerman.

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NBC Developing Comedy Based on Ben Stiller’s ‘Reality Bites’

AUGUST 22, 2013 | 04:15PM PT Screenwriter Helen Childress to adapt 1994 pic for Red Hour, Universal TV

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NBC (http://variety.com/t/nbc/) hopes to tap a vein of early 1990s nostalgia with plans to adapt the 1994 pic “Reality Bites (http://variety.com/t/reality- bites/)” as a half-hour comedy series. Ben Stiller (http://variety.com/t/ben- stiller/) is on board to exec produce, with screenwriter Helen Childress set

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The single-camera half-hour is being shepherded by Stiller’s Red Hour Films and Double Feature Films for Universal TV.

Red Hour’s Stuart Cornfeld and Red Hour TV head Debbie Liebling are also exec producing along with Double Feature’s Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg. Sher and Shamberg were formerly principals in Jersey Films, which produced the 1994 pic that was distribbed by Universal.

The small screen rendition will be closely based on the movie and revolve around recent college grad Lelaina Pierce as she struggles to make her way romantically and professionally in the recession-plagued, pre-Internet early 1990s in Houston, where she shares an apartment with slacker friends.

The original pic starred Winona Ryder, Stiller, Ethan Hawke and Janeane Garofalo. “Bites” marked Stiller’s first notable success as a helmer, and it has endured as a touchstone pic for the Gen-X demo. The soundtrack yielded a hit single, “Stay,” for Lisa Loeb.

Childress most recently has been working on feature projects at 20th Century Fox, including two for Stiller.

Red Hour is repped by WME. Childress is repped by Jordan Bayer at Original Artists. Red Hour is repped by WME.

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Ben Stiller & Helen Childress To Revive ‘Reality Bites’ As Comedy Series For NBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA Thursday August 22, 2013 @ 4:15pm PDT

Reality Bites, the cult 1994 romantic comedy that examined the angst of Generation X college graduates, is heading to primetime. The film’s director Ben Stiller and writer Helen Childress have teamed for a TV series version of the movie that starred Winona Ryder, Stiller and Ethan Hawke. Childress will write the single-camera comedy project, which is set up at NBC. It centers on recent college graduate Lelaina Pierce, the character played in the movie by Ryder, as she struggles to make her way — romantically and professionally — in the recession-plagued, pre-Internet early 1990s. Set in Houston, the show, and Lelaina herself with her video camera, chronicles the lives of her “slacker” friends with whom she shares an apartment. The series is produced by Universal Television, sibling to the film’s producer Universal Pictures. Co- producing with Uni TV are Stiller’s Red Hour Television and Double Feature Films, the company run by Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, who were producers on the 1994 film. Red Hours’ Stiller, Debbie Liebling, and Stuart Cornfeld executive produce with Childress, Shamberg and Sher. WME-repped Red Hour has a pilot, Big Time In Hollywood, FL, and stand-up comedy series, The Meltdown With Jonah And Kumail, at Comedy Central and sketch comedy series The Birthday Boys at IFC. Childress, repped by Original Artists, has feature horror project The Mountain at Fox and Red Hour with Stiller attached to direct, she is penning a feature adaptation of kids book The Snowy Day, also for Fox and Red Hour, and recently re-wrote The Drowning for Fox.

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WWE Studios, Lionsgate Scare Up ‘See No Evil’ Sequel

AUGUST 6, 2013 | 08:55AM PT WWE wrestler Kane to reprise his role in the horror film

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WWE (http://variety.com/t/wwe/) Studios is bringing “See No Evil (http://variety.com/t/see-no-evil/)” back to life, producing a sequel with Lionsgate (http://variety.com/t/lionsgate/) to the horror film that will again star wrestler Kane (http://variety.com/t/kane/) as a psychopath that goes on a killing spree.

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“See No Evil” was the first film that WWE produced through its film division, and went on to earn $19 million worldwide when it was released in 2006 — its biggest hit until this year’s Halle Berry thriller “The Call,” which generated $52 million to date.

Production on “See No Evil 2″ will start in the fall, with identical twin helmers the Soska Sisters (http://variety.com/t/the-soska-sisters/) Jen and Sylvia (“American Mary”) set to direct. They are also among the directors that will contribute to the anthology series “ABCs of Death 2.” The duo captured the attention of the film biz with their low-budget indie “Dead Hooker in a Trunk” in 2009.

Kane will return as the reclusive madman Jacob Goodnight, who rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel and goes after a group of medical students who fight to survive. Nathan Brookes and Bobby Lee Darby are co-writing the script.

Kane, portrayed by Glen Jacobs (http://variety.com/t/glen-jacobs/), has a high-profile match at WWE’s “SummerSlam (http://variety.com/t/summerslam/)”on Aug. 18, at Los Angeles’ Staples Center. The annual event is WWE’s second most popular pay-per-view behind “WrestleMania.”

In Gregory Dark’s first film, Kane’s seven-foot tall, 400-pound character has a rusty steel plate screwed into his skull and razor-sharp fingernails as he stalks a group of juvenile delinquents tasked with cleaning up an abandoned hotel.

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Lionsgate will handle worldwide distribution of ”See No Evil 2,” while WWE Studios will promote the film through its weekly TV series, digital, social media and print platforms.

“See No Evil 2″ becomes the fourth film WWE Studios (http://variety.com/t/wwe-studios/) has produced with Lionsgate after the original “See No Evil,” “The Condemned” and a reboot of the “Leprechaun” series, which will star WWE’s Hornswoggle.

SEE ALSO: ‘The Call’ Dials Up WWE’s Film Biz (http://variety.com/2013/film/news/the-call-dials-up-wwes-film-biz- 1200333952/)

“We are so pleased to extend what has been an ideal partnership with Lionsgate,” said Michael Luisi, president, WWE Studios. “Their expertise in distributing and marketing thrilling genre films complements our own vision and efforts for these movies perfectly.”

Added Steve Beeks, co-chief operating officer and motion picture group

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WWE Studios’ ramped up release slate this year includes “The Call;” “Dead Man Down,” with Colin Farrell, Noomie Rapace and WWE’s Wade Barrett;” “The Marine 3: Homefront,” with WWE’s Mike “The Miz” Mizanin; and “12 Rounds 2: Reloaded,” with WWE’s Randy Orton. The latter two were released direct-to-homevideo through 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

The Miz also stars in “Christmas Bounty,” a holiday action comedy that bows on ABC Family on Nov. 26. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases the film on Blu-ray and DVD on Dec. 3.

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The Cold War is proving to be very in vogue at the moment (almost as in vogue as miniseries): first FX gave us The Americans and now ABC has greenlit the Cold War set limited series The Assets for 2014.

According to Deadline, The Assets is based on former CIA officers Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille’s book Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed. Grimes and Vertefeuille are famous for weeding out a mole within the CIA who was feeding information to the Soviets that led to the deaths of ten Soviet agents who spied for the United States. The series will take viewers inside the complex world of the CIA at the end of the Cold War.

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The Cold War is coming to ABC in 2014. ABC has ordered 'The Assets,' a limited series project based on the best-selling book 'Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed.' Written by Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille, 'Circle of Treason' is written by people who were directly involved in outing Counterintelligence Officer Aldrich Ames as a spy for the Soviet Union. Grimes was a Counterintelligence Analyst for the CIA who in 1992 offered the evidence that later lead to Ames' capture and arrest. Ames acted as a mole, feeding information to the Soviet Union and the KGB, which directly contributed to the executions of at least ten Soviet Intelligence Officers spying for the United States. 'The Assets' will delve into these true, personal stories about the end of the Cold War and the lives affected by this spying operation. The series intends to lift the curtain on one of America's most secretive agencies: the CIA. Following FX's hit drama 'The Americans,' the Cold War is once again a hot drama topic and ABC seems to have found a cherry of a book to adapt. According to 'Circle of Treason,' Ames was far from the ideal CIA operative. Although he held some important assignments in the CIA, Ames was considered a low-level officer and largely flew below the radar of most operatives. He was unkempt in his personal appearance, he drank a bit more than was considered the norm, and his performance in various postings was uneven. Superiors chided him often about tardiness with his reports; if a particular assignment

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ABC is making good on its promise for more limited series.

The Disney-owned broadcast network has secured the small-screen rights to the book Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed, by retired CIA officers Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille, The Hollywood Reporter [5]has confirmed. The effort, titled The Assets, is expected to air in 2014.

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The series will explore CIA members' personal stories about the conclusion of the Cold War. The order comes on the heels of the breakout success of spy drama The Americans, which delves into a similar subject matter for FX. BBC, too, is prepping a Cold War telepic entitled Legacy. [7]

ABC Entertainment Group boss Paul Lee spoke of his desire to make a strategic push into the increasingly trendy

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limited series space during a conference call [8]with reporters in May. At that time, he described a desire to break up 24- episode seasons of certain serialized shows into two uninterrupted batches of 12 and fill in the gap with limited series. At that time, he pointed to unscripted adventure series The Quest [9]as an example.

The Assets will be produced by Lincoln Square Productions, with Morgan Hertzan, Rudy Bednar and Andrew Chapman attached as executive producers. Last year, Lincoln Square produced ABC's Final Witness, another lower- budget, multipart true-crime series that combined re-creations and documentary elements.

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ABC Orders Limited Series 'The Assets' Project to explore end of Cold War; to air in 2014 By Andrea Morabito -- Broadcasting & Cable, July 23, 2013

ABC has ordered a limited series about the Cold War titled The Assets, to air in 2014.

Based on the book Circle of Treason: A C.I.A. Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Man He Betrayed by veteran CIA officers Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille, the series will look at the true, personal stories of the conclusion of the Cold War as told by the CIA.

The Assets will be produced by Lincoln Square Productions and executive produced by Morgan Hertzan, Rudy Bednar and Andrew Chapman.

At its upfront in May, ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee laid out a strategy to use limited series to replace repeats of some of its serialized dramas on the schedule. It had previously ordered two limited series, Betrayal and Resurrection.

TV Newser first reported the story.

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ABC Orders Cold War Limited Series ‘The Assets’ For 2014

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ABC will be revisiting the Cold War with The Assets, a limited series slated to air in 2014. It will be based on the book Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed by veteran CIA officers Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille who hunted down CIA officer Aldrich Ames, a mole who fed information to the Soviet Union that contributed to the deaths of at least ten Soviet intelligence officers who had spied for the United States. The Assets will look inside the true, personal stories of the conclusion of the Cold War as told by the keepers of the nation’s secrets: the CIA. The series will be produced by ABC News’ Lincoln Square Prods. Executive producers are Morgan Hertzan, Rudy Bednar and Andrew Chapman who will run the series. There has been renewed interest in the Cold War on the small screen, with FX’s new drama The Americans among projects that explore the high stakes spying games between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

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“The Assets” will look at the end of the Cold War through the eyes of the CIA and its agents, and will likely air next Summer, though no timetable has been set.

ABC’s Lincoln Square Productions will produce the series for ABC, with Morgan Hertzan, Rudy Bednar and Andrew Chapman serving as EPs. Bednar also produced a limited series for ABC last year called “Final Witness.” Like “The Assets,” “Final Witness” was a scripted series based on actual events.

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EXCLUSIVE: Thunder Road has acquired No Quarter, a spec script by The Messenger scribe Alessandro Camon and Michael Wilson that will be produced by Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Michael De Luca. No Quarter is a contemporary crime story that touches on the themes of the military and the difficulty of reintegrating back into society after serving as a soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those were themes in The Messenger. Set in Los Angeles in 2007, two friends who were combat Marines and side by side survived some of the toughest fighting in the Iraq War, find themselves on opposite sides of the law. One becomes a star cop in an elite undercover unit while the other gets into a heist crew involved with a drug cartel. These men, who once depended on each other for survival, see their friendship and loyalties put to the test.

Both Iwanyk and De Luca got the material and sparked to it. They’d been looking for an excuse to collaborate, and found this a good one. Camon, who co-wrote The Messenger with Oren Moverman, was nominated for an Oscar for that script. He recently wrote The Brand for Kimberly Peirce to direct, and is working on Benghazi, a miniseries for Spike TV and Pilgrim Studios. Wilson has a background in military and intelligence operations and was a consulting producer on Burn Notice, the USA Network show about a former intelligence operator. Camon and Wilson previously collaborated on the TV pilot Cartel for Working Title TV. Original Artists brokered the deal.

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EXCLUSIVE: It has begun to feel like that pre-holiday slumber time, but here is a spec script that just sold in a competitive situation. Lotus Entertainment has landed the rights to Hernany Perla’s spec, Revelation, for a low to mid six figures. Circle Of Confusion’s David Alpert and Stephen Emery will produce with Anil Kurian. Lotus Co-Chairmen Jim Seibel and Bill Johnson will executive produce. D.J. Guggenheim brought in the spec and will oversee the project for Lotus.

It’s a high concept thriller with time travel and murder, I’m told. Hernany previously sold the feature spec Day One at MGM and his producing credits include Ghost Team One and the upcoming feature Eden. He was an exec at Lionsgate before the writing took off. Hernany is repped by Original Artists and Madhouse Entertainment.

Lotus has been getting aggressive. At Cannes, the label sold out international on the Anne Hathaway-starrer Song One, and arranged financing with Silver Reel on Joshua Marston’s Double Hour with Joel Edgerton and Michelle Williams (with CAA and UTA selling domestic; and Craig Zobel’s Z For Zachariah with Chris Pine, Amanda Seyfried and Chiwetel Ejiofer, and CAA and WME repping domestic. Lotus recently came on board the re-make of Park Chan Wook’s Sympathy For Vengeance, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura and CJ Entertainment producing.

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Millennium Entertainment Acquires Shia La Beouf Film ‘The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman;’ Film Preemed In Sundance

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EXCLUSIVE: Five months after it premiered at Sundance, The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman has sold for U.S. rights and a theatrical release. Millennium Entertainment has paid low seven-figures to release one of the highest profile films in that festival. The film stars Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen and Til Schweiger, and marks the English language feature debut of Swedish commercials director Fredrik Bond. While Charlie Countryman polarized critics at Sundance because of its atmospheric mix of dark humor, violence and love, it has made Bond a director to watch; he was right there in the mix as Disney searched to find a director for Pirates Of The Caribbean 5. LaBeouf plays a young man who goes to Bucharest, meets a mysterious woman on the plane, and falls in love. For his romantic pursuit, he is pummeled mercilessly, again and again, by the vicious gangster who has claimed the young musician. Millennium has been chasing the film since it played Sundance, but it took awhile for the deal to work for Nicolas Chartier, the Voltage Pictures financier who scored the largest Sundance deal with the Joseph Gordon-Levitt-directed comedy Don Jon. This shapes up to be a healthy deal by Sundance standards, and Millennium will start with a platform theatrical release and go from there.

“In his theatrical debut, Fredrik Bond has created a stylish, action-packed ride that hooks you from the first moments and never lets go,” Millennium CEO Bill Lee said. “This is a perfect addition to our slate and we expect the film to draw audiences in all windows of

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release.” CAA and Chartier repped the film and the filmmakers, and Millennium exec Tristen Tuckfield repped the label. The film’s produced by Bona Fide partners Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Voltage’s Craig J. Flores, and Wonderful Films’ William Horberg. Chartier and Patrick Newall are the exec producers.

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Chile readies first 3D film

23 May, 2013 | By Jeremy Kay

EXCLUSIVE: Kiné recently came on board Jorge Olguin’s horror story Whispers of the Forest, Chile’s first 3D feature.

Santiago-based producer Florencia Larrea of Kiné will continue discussions started in Cannes with sales agents on Chile’s first 3D feature, Whispers of the Forest.

Kiné recently came on board Jorge Olguin’s horror story, now in post, which centres on an expeditionary team that awakens an ancient supernatural force.

Chile’s Fondo De Fomento Audiovisual backed the production, which took place in 2012 in southern parts of the country.

“It’s a longer process,” said Larrea of the 3D post-production undertaking. “The 3D format is very sensory and sound is so important as you build the effects around the visuals.”

Larrea is also lining up the Chile-Uruguay-Brazil zombie film The Summer Hit from director. Uruguayan funding is in place and the producers have earmarked a 2014 start.

“There is a lot of cinema now in Chile,” said Larrea, “but we have to work more with private investors or brands [for funding] because now is the moment in Chilean cinema and our filmmakers are telling great stories People have more choice.”

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Paramount Home Media Distribution has picked up worldwide distribution rights to horror comedy Ghost Team One.

The movie centers on two roommate who fall for a girl who believes their home is haunted by a vengeful madam. The duo set out to make a documentary, uncovering not only a decades-ago murder but also a ghost that is into them.

Ben Peyser and Scott Rutherford directed the movie, which stars Carlos Santos (host of MTV Tr3s’ Mi TRL), J.R. Villarreal (Akeelah and the Bee), Tony Cavalero (Son of a Pitch) and Fernanda Romero (RPM Miami).

It was produced by Flying Monkeys Entertainment and Foresight Entertainment and premiered at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. Hernany Perla and Adam Mutchler produced the movie.

A theatrical release is not being ruled out.

This deal was brokered by Chris Sablan of Original Artists and Nate Bolotin and Aram Tertzakian of XYZ Films.

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Review: “Hit the Floor”

MAY 23, 2013 | 07:07AM PT VH1's Laker Girls-like cheerleader soap approaches so- bad-it's-good territory

Brian Lowry (http://variety.com/author/brian-lowry/) TV Columnist @blowryontv (http://twitter.com/@blowryontv)

Although the obvious comparison is to CW’s short-lived cheerleader drama “Hellcats,” “Hit the Floor” — a terrible title for VH1’s soap about, to cut to the chase, the Laker Girls — bears a closer resemblance to Lifetime’s “The Client List,” in that it’s so trashy and

http://variety.com/2013/tv/reviews/hit-the-floor-1200486545/ Page 1 of 3 “Hit the Floor” Review | Variety 5/23/13 12:12 PM terrible, it’s kind of good. Graduating to a professional squad in Los Angeles (the appropriately tempting Devil Girls) the show provides all the requisite ingredients — sex, money, sports and an excuse for the camera to pan leeringly over glistening bodies. VH1 hasn’t taken many shots in the scripted genre, but this one should score.

Drawing from just about every cliche imaginable, the series begins with newbie Ahsha (Taylour Paige) at tryouts, eager to follow in the footsteps of her single mom (Kimberly Elise). Fresh-faced and naive, Ahsha quickly befriends squad member Raquel — a single mom (Valery Ortiz) with a deadbeat ex — but runs afoul of the imperious team leader Jelena (Logan Browning), who sees her as a threat.

The cheerleaders answer to manager Olivia (Charlotte Ross), and the basketball team is coached by Pete (Dean Cain), whose players seem helpfully oblivious to his admonitions not to mess with the cheerleaders. Then again, since one of those trying out, Kyle (Katherine Bailess), is a stripper trying to maximize her tips, well, let’s just say rules were made to be broken.

Created by James LaRosa, “Hit the Floor” (originally dubbed “Bounce,” which isn’t much better) has plenty of moments where the dialogue approaches wince-inducing levels — like the player who hits on Ahsha by saying, “I see my chance to score and I attack” — and talks about the Devil Girls as if they were some sort of sacred religious order.

Yet even that oddly works to the show’s advantage, if only for sheer kitsch factor. Moreover, the setting not only provides “Dallas”-like glamour but an additional roster of temptations thanks to its Los Angeles setting. Similarly, the backdrop creates a built-in excuse for incorporating elements, including choreographed dance numbers and music, from a number of other popular shows.

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It’s all highly calculated, obviously, but still kind of hard to resist — and as lighter summer fare overlapping with the NBA playoffs, it’s pretty well timed. Like VH1’s earlier “Single Ladies,” the multiethnic cast should also attract a variety of audiences, even if the gals are far more convincing as cheerleaders than most of the guys are as pro basketball stars.

“I may not be the best dancer here, but I know how the world works,” Kyle tells Ahsha — a bit of stripper wisdom that, for better or worse, applies to the TV world, too. Now get limbered up, Devil Girls, and go strut your stuff.

Hit the Floor (Series; VH1, Mon. May 27, 9 p.m.)

Production Filmed in Los Angeles by the Film Syndicate.

Crew Executive producers, James LaRosa, Maggie Malina, Bryan Johnson, Jeff Olde, Jill Holmes; co-executive producer, Keri Flint; producer, Cyrus Yavneh; director, Sanaa Hamri; writer, LaRosa; camera, Paul Sommers; production designer, Chase Harlan; editor, Melissa Kent; music, Michael Corcoran, Eric Goldman. 60 MIN.

Cast Kimberly Elise, Taylour Paige, Logan Browning, Katherine Bailess, Valery Ortiz, McKinley Freeman, Jonathan McDaniel, Robert Christopher Riley, Bernard Curry, Melissa Molinaro, Don Stark, Dean Cain

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20 May, 2013 | By Jeremy Kay

Monterey Media has taken all US and Canadian rights to Sam Kadi’s debut drama The Citizen starring Agnes Bruckner. Radiant Films International launched the film to buyers in Cannes.

The 3K Pictures production also stars Khaled Nabawy, William Atherton and Cary Elwes and tells of an Arab immigrant named Ibrahim who wins the American Green Card Lottery and arrives in New York City one day before the 9/11 attacks.

Jazmen Brown, Samir Younis and Sam Kadi wrote the screenplay and Kadi produced with Chris Wyatt and Alan Noel Vega, while Ameer Kabour served as executive producer.

Monterey Media president Scott Mansfield negotiated the deal with Chris Sablan from Original Artists on behalf of the filmmakers.

“Five years working on The Citizen comes down to this exciting moment of signing with a well-respected distributor like Monterey Media who is so passionate about our film and thrilled to share this inspiring story with the audience in North America, said Kadi.

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an Arab immigrant who arrives in NYC on Sept. 10, 2001 having a won a green card in the lottery.

Sam Kadi's debut drama The Citizen with Cary Elwes on the cast roster has been picked up by Monterey Media for all U.S. and Canadian rights in a deal struck with the film's production banner 3K Pictures.

The movie tells the story of an Arab immigrant who wins the American Green Card Lottery, arriving in New York City on Sept. 10, 2001. The resulting day's events shape his life-changing move.

Also starring Agnes Bruckner (The Woods), Khaled Nabawy (Kingdom Of Heaven) and William Atherton (The Last Samurai), the theatrical rollout is set for late summer 2013.

Written by Jazmen Brown, Samir Younis and Kadi who makes his directorial debut, the film is also produced by Kadi with Chris Wyatt (Napoleon Dynamite) and Alan Noel Vega. Ameer Kabour is executive producing.

Monterey Media’s president Scott Mansfield unveiled the deal negotiated by Chris Sablan from Original Artists on behalf of the filmmakers with Mansfield in Cannes.

Radiant Films International is handling all foreign rights to the film with president and CEO Mimi Steinbauer shopping the film to buyers in Cannes.

Kadi is originally from Syria and lives in the U.S.

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Indiepelago Films Finances Dance Pic ‘Scandalous!’

By MIKE FLEMING JR Wednesday May 15, 2013 @ 4:12pm PDT

EXCLUSIVE: Former Blues Clues co-creator and exec producer Todd Kessler will direct Scandalous!, a musical being financed and produced by Indiepelago Films partners Ancil McKain and Claire Ince. The film will star Caribbean music star Machel Montano and Bollywood’s Priya Anand and the backdrop is the Trini version of Carnival. Anand plays a woman who got engaged to a wealthy London suitor to help her father’s business. Then she meets a rugged local musician (Montano), whose charisma threatens those plans. Shooting takes place in Trinidad and Tobago in October. Montano, who has recorded with artists including Pitbull and Wyclef Jean, will produce the soundtrack. Kessler, who ended his Blues Clues so he could direct movies, most recently helmed the teen thriller Keith. He is repped by Original Artists.

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TIPS HOLLYWOOD NEW YORK LONDON Fest Films With Highest Wanna-See From Buyers: Mike Fleming On 2013 Sundance BY MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday January 18, 2013 @ 2:30pm PST Email This Related: Part I: Sundance Forecast: Small Deals Galore, And More Chances For Filmmakers Foot traffic on Main Street is building, and the deals are starting to go down. In the second part of my 2013 Sundance Film Festival opener, here are the films that have been mentioned most often by the buyers who’ll determine whether or not this will be a good festival for the filmmakers. There are some good-sounding films with strong casts, the kind that ring up decent numbers. DON JON’S ADDICTION: Writer-director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Cast: Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly. Gordon-Levitt plays a porn addict who becomes torn between two women. This one premieres tonight, 6:30 PM at Eccles, and it will likely be the fest’s first real auction. AIN’T THEM BODIES SAINTS: Writer-director: David Lowery. Cast: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Nate Parker, Keith Carradine. The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met. Killer title and good cast. 1st Screening – Sunday, January 20th, 12:15pm – Eccles Related: Sundance: Five Actors & Actresses To Watch THE WAY, WAY BACK: Writer-director: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash. Cast: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph. An introverted 14-year-old comes into his own over the course of a comedic summer when he forms unlikely friendships with the gregarious manager of a rundown water park and the misfits who work there. Carell’s last festival film like this was Little Miss Sunshine. 1st Screening – Monday, January 21st, 3:30pm – Eccles BREATHE IN: Writer-director: Drake Doremus. Cast: Guy Pearce, Amy Ryan, Felicity Jones, Mackenzie Davis. A teacher falls for one of his students, the one who just transferred from London. Doremus and Jones reteam from Like Crazy. 1st Screening – Saturday, January 19th, 3:00pm – Eccles Related: Sundance: Five Directors To Watch

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BEFORE MIDNIGHT: Writer-director: Richard Linklater (written with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke). Sure it might be the lowest-grossing film franchise in film history, but buyers are sparked for the third installment which picks up Jesse and Celine nine years later in Greece, some two decades after they first met on a train bound for Vienna. 1st Screening – Sunday, January 20th, 9:45pm – Eccles THE LIFEGUARD: Writer-director: Liz W. Garcia. Cast: Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Amy Madigan. Bell plays an ex-valedictorian who bails on her journo job in Gotham to return to her last happy place. That’s the family home in Connecticut, and she gets a lifeguard job and falls into a dangerous relationship with a troubled teen. 1st Screening – Saturday, January 19th, 5:30pm – Library THE NECESSARY DEATH OF CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN: Director: Fredrik Bond. Writer, Matt Drake. Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Rupert Grint, Til Schweiger. Countryman is a young man who’s traveling abroad. When he falls for a beauty he becomes determined to find his way into her heart. That means taking brutal punishment from her violent ex. 1st Screening – Monday, January 21st, 6:30pm – Eccles PRINCE AVALANCHE: Writer-director: David Gordon Green. Cast: Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind. 1st Screening – Sunday, January 20th, 2:30pm – Library Related: Sundance: Five Producers To Watch THE SPECTACULAR NOW: Director: James Ponsoldt. Writer: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber. Cast: Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kyle Chandler. An extroverted high school senior vows to save a classmate who’s an introvert. They develop a deep and complicated relationship. 1st Screening – Friday, January 18th, 8:30pm – Library TWO MOTHERS: Director: Anne Fontaine. Writer: Christopher Hampton. Cast: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel, James Frecheville. Two lifelong friends fall in love with each other’s sons. Finally discovered, the affairs threaten to destroy their families. 1st Screening – Friday, January 18th, 9:45pm – Eccles

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KILL YOUR DARLINGS: Director: John Krokidas. Writer: Austin Bunn, Krokidas. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHann, Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Elizabeth Olsen. A murder brings together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944, and the result is the birth of the Beat generation. 1st Screening – Friday, January 18th, 3:30pm – Eccles THE LOOK OF LOVE: Director: Michael Winterbottom. Writer: Matt Greenhalgh. Cast: Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Imogen Poots, Tamsin Egerton. British adult magazine publisher and entrepreneur Paul Raymond became one of the richest men in Britain at the cost of losing those closest to him. 1st Screening – Saturday, January 19th, 6:00pm – Eccles Related: Hot Sundance Clip: ‘The Look of Love’ LOVELACE: Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman. Writer: Andy Bellin. Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, James Franco, Sharon Stone. The tragic tale of Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, and the manipulative mate who abused and bullied her before she rose up and became a lightning rode for the feminist antipornography movement. 1st Screening – Tuesday, January 22nd, 9:45pm – Eccles VERY GOOD GIRLS: Writer-director: Naomi Foner. Cast: Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Boyd Holbrook, Demi Moore, Richard Dreyfuss, Ellen Barkin. Two girls spend summer in Gotham after they graduate. Each is determined to lose her virginity, and they fall for the same boy. 1st Screening – Tuesday, January 22nd, 6:15pm – Eccles HELL BABY: Writer-directors: Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon. Cast: Rob Corddry, Leslie Bibb, Keegan Michael Key, Riki Lindhome, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel. A couple expecting a child moves into a haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans — a house with a demonic curse. Things spiral out of control and soon only the Vatican’s elite exorcism team tries to save the pair. 1st Screening – Sunday, January 20th, 11:45pm – Library MAGIC MAGIC: Writer/director: Sebastian Silva. Cast: Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning, Catalina Sandino, Agustin Sílva. If Alicia could just get some sleep, everything would be all right. As she and her close friend Sarah make their way through rural Chile with Sarah’s boyfriend, his sister, and their strange American friend Brink, Alicia’s insomnia slowly takes control. 1st Screening – Tuesday, January 22nd, 11:45pm – http://m.deadline.com/2013/01/fest-films-with-highest-wanna-see-from-buyers-mike-fleming-on-2013-sundance/ Page 3 of 7 Deadline.com » Blog ArchiveSundance Film Festival 2013 -- Movies To Watch 4/5/13 5:19 PM

Library A.C.O.D. (ADULT CHILDREN OF DIVORCE): Director: Stu Zicherman. Writers: Zicherman, Ben Karlin. Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Adam Scott, Amy Poehler, Jessica Alba, Jane Lynch, Richard Jenkins. A grown man long caught in the mess of his parents’ 15-year divorce was unknowingly part of a study on divorced children. The kid is enlisted for a follow-up years later, which wreaks new havoc on his family. 1st Screening – Wednesday, January 23, 6:30 PM at Eccles LINSANITY: Director: Evan Leong. I include this one only because I am still afflicted with the title malady. Jeremy Lin, an un-drafted Chinese American point guard is picked up on waivers by the Knicks. Already cut by other teams, he’s on the verge of being dropped again when he’s put in the lineup as a starter. The kid, who is sleeping on his brother’s couch when this started, lit up Madison Square Garden for over a month and transformed the team with dazzling passes and a deft shooting touch, showing up established NBA stars until his season ended due to injury. A Harvard grad and no dummy, he made a killer deal with the Houston Rockets, and is a rising star. 1st Screening, Sunday January 20, 2:30 PM, The Marc. Email This

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very good girls, not so much. lower your expectations and you might enjoy it.. BLAH Comment by Very Lame Girls — Friday January 18, 2013 @ 8:07pm PST REPLY TO THIS POST

Although Hell Baby sounds serious, it sounds as if it has the potential to be hysterical Comment by Jack — Friday January 18, 2013 @ 4:03pm PST REPLY TO THIS POST

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Kimberly Peirce To Helm ‘The Brand,’ Alessandro Camon-Scripted Drama On Aryan Brotherhood’s Violent Prison Reign

By MIKE FLEMING JR Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 4:22pm PDT

EXCLUSIVE: Kimberly Peirce, who helmed Boys Don’t Cry and most recently the Sony/MGM remake Carrie with Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore, is about as gutsy a female director as you’ll find this side of Kathryn Bigelow. She has signed on to tackle The Brand, a hard edged drama scripted by Alessandro Camon (The Messenger), based on a 2004 New Yorker article by David Grann. The film is about the notorious Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Despite seeing leaders consigned to solitary confinement in the most secure prisons, the gang still managed to control drug dealing, prostitution and other crimes in maximum security prisons, setting policy and ordering killings through secret communication modes that were akin to morse code.

The article focused on the pursuit of the gang by U.S. Attorney Gregory Jessner, who tried 40 of the gang’s top leaders. They were already looking at long prison stretches for violent crimes, and the prosecutor tried to get them the death penalty for all of the violence they ordered or carried out. Though small in size, “The Brand,” as they were called, had achieved dominance in prison through a highly sophisticated operation, based on rigid hierarchy, ruthless violence, and secret communication codes. The gang started small in San Quentin, but the effort to split up the

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leaders by moving them to “supermax” prisons in the 1970s and 1980s spread the influence of the gang all over the place. Among the characters that will figure in the movie is a brawny gang member who was so disgusted by the practice of threatening prisoners with violence to loved ones that he bailed on the gang and then tried to stay alive knowing he might be killed at any moment. The rise of the Aryan Brotherhood will be chronicled through the eyes of a young recruit who rises through the ranks and eventually defects.

Ric Roman Waugh did the first draft of the script, but Camon did the rewrite and the project is in the process of gathering production financing. Film 360 is producing with Identity Films’ Anthony Mastromauro and Entendre Films’ Danielle Pelland. Entendre has been financing development.

Peirce is repped by CAA and attorney Alan Wertheimer, Camon by Matt Leipzig of Original Artists.

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