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DISNEY FOX 2000 Olive Bridge Ent. Penguin Vertigo Will Gluck Random House Roy Lee Boxing Cat Films Gethers Tim Allen Nina Jacobson Village Roadshow Neal Moritz Marc Platt Prods. Bruce Berman Buenos Aires Prods. Holden Glass* Marc Platt (co-financier only) Mario Iscovich John Green Overbrook Ent. Facts , Scholastic* Weed Road The Jackal Group James Lassiter Akiva Goldsman , Gail Berman Secret Hideout Christi Dembrowski Wychwood on State Street Junction Ent. Pictures Prods. Silvertongue Films* George L. Tillman Jr., Scott Rudin Deborah Forte Robert Teitel Lucamar Prods. Joe and Anthony Skybound NEW LINE John DeLuca, Sunswept Russo Entertainment* Robert Kirkman, Atomic Monster Pacts Rob Marshall Entertainment Safehouse Karen Rosenfelt David Alpert Joby Harold, Tory Tunnell Benderspink David Hoberman, Chris Bender, Todd Lieberman , PARAMOUNT Smoke House JC Spink Studio-producer deals retreat Mayhem Pictures , Grant Heslov Flynn Picture Co. Gordon Gray Bad Robot as , Warners pull back J.J. Abrams Secret Machine Jeff Robinov WARNER BROS. Spring Hill Prods.* DAVE McNARY Justin Springer LeBron James, Lorne Michaels (distribution only) @variety_dmcnary Taylor Made Alcon Ent. Maverick Carter Film Prods. Matt Tolmach ,    challenges Wrigley Pictures Brigham Taylor Films John Rickard Jerry Bruckheimer (distribution only) facing Hollywood, the six Whitaker Ent. Appian Way major studios pared back Jim Whitaker Ian Bryce Prods. Ian Bryce ANIMATION Leonardo DiCaprio ALCON slightly to 135 their number Di Bonaventura Frederator Berlanti Prods. Kira Davis of producer deals , six fewer FOX Pictures Fred Seibert A Lorenzo di (includes consulting) than a year ago. Bad Hat Harry Block Warner Bros. led the way with 35, Prods. Bonaventura Michelle Raimo Entertainment* Kouyate (Bill Block) two fewer than a year ago, ending Dichotomy AMBLIN Boom! Studios Creative Group* Genndy Cruel and PARTNERS longtime pacts with Steve Carell and Ross Richie, Adam Goodman Tartakovsky Unusual Kennedy/Marshall . Disruption Ent. , Deborah Snyder Kathleen Kennedy, There were a pair of notable addi- Chernin Ent. Mary Parent Frank Marshall UNIVERSAL Peter Chernin Co. De Line Pictures tions — basketball superstar LeBron Donald De Line Robert Evans Aggregate Films James at New Line, and veteran indie Davis Ent. John Davis Hasbro* Jason Bateman Di Novi Pictures fi nancier-producer Bill Block. Denise Di Novi DreamWorks Brian Goldner, Apatow Prods. Stories* Though Block isn’t as famous as Animation Stephen Davis Executive Options (distribution only) Tom Hardy James, he’s racked up a formidable array Hello Junior Bluegrass Films Red Hour Films* of credits, including “Dirty Grandpa,” Epic Magazine Johnny Knoxville Scott Stuber, Gerber Pictures Ben Stiller Josh Bearman, Dylan Clark Bill Gerber A Long Fall David Ayer’s “Fury,” Neill Josh Davis Michael Bay, Blumhouse Prods. Getaway Pictures BROAD GREEN The total Blomkamp’s “District 9” Brad Fuller, number of Feigco Jason Blum Rob Lorenz Paul Feig Andrew Form Matt Alvarez* producer and “Elysium” and Oliver Brownstone Prods. Gulfstream pacts with Saw Mill Prods.* (exclusive Stone’s “W.” The fi rst proj- Film Rites Elizabeth Banks, Mike Karz, production deal) studios and Steve Zaillian Josh Appelbaum, Max Handelman Bill Bindley minimajors ect under his new deal is Andre Nemec (co-financier) Storyscape* this year is 151, Flitcraft Captivate ’s “World War 3.” Sikelia Prods. Bob Cooper, down from a Entertainment Heyday Richard Saperstein high of 292 As part of the produc- Jeffrey Weiner, in 2000. Ben Smith tion deal, Block has closed Skydance Langley Park a multimillion-dollar private develop- David Ellison, Dana Kevin McCormick , Goldberg (includes Prods.* ment fund to acquire and develop proj- John Cameron* co-financing) Michael De Luca Life’s Too Short Allison Shearmur Chuck Lorre Prods. ects with global distribution potential Lightstorm Fake Empire Allison Shearmur for packaging. Josh Schwartz, Lin Pictures SONY Dan Lin “It’s a privilege to be at Warner Bros., New Regency Stephanie Savage Arnon Milchan Arad Prods. Gold Circle Mad Chance MGM and it’s sort of a natural evolution for (equity partner with Andrew Lazar Avi Arad Entertainment Caryn me, since my other fi lms have gone out all Fox divisions) Paul Brooks Elizabeth Cantillon Malpaso Mandabach* through the majors,” Block noted. Oddball Entertainment* Whalerock Sony has four fewer deals, with 25 Entertainment Chris McKay Lloyd Braun Wes Ball Todd Black, Chris Meledandri Jason Blumenthal, overall, as pacts with Todd Garner, Bar- Hutch Parker Ent. Pearl Street ImageMovers , ry Josephson, Simon Cowell and Dana Hutch Parker , NEW REGENCY DeVon Franklin Brunetti/Kevin Spacey’s Trigger Street Scott Free Jack Rapke, Blind Wink Prods. Free Association Steve Starkey Phantom Four Films went away. Paramount was the only stu- David Goyer Gore Verbinski Channing Tatum, Imagine dio to see a net gain in pacts over last 6th & Idaho Reid Carolin Matt Reeves Entertainment Todd Phillips- year, going from 13 to 14, including a * , Bradley Cooper Plan B Temple Hill Ent. , Entertainment deal with Hasbro. Disney stayed stable, Wyck Godfrey, Polymorphic Polly Johnsen , with 10. Marty Bowen Legendary , Happy Madison Thomas Tull Rat-Pac Ent. Notable new deals included Ghost 21 Laps Adam Sandler (includes co- Shawn Levy Corps at Sony with Dan Aykroyd and (includes animation) financing/ (includes distribution) Ivan Reitman, “Fifty Shades of Grey” Immersive Pictures co-financing (co-financing) Josh Bratman Little Stranger Inc.* with Rat-Pac producer Michael De Luca at Universal Dune Ent.) T.D. Jakes SKYDANCE and author John Green at Fox. Chris Morgan Prods. , FOX Kevin James Chris Morgan Lionel Wigram Laeta Kalogridis, Among the notable deals at new play- SEARCHLIGHT Patrick Lussier ers: Broad Green Pictures with “Straight Laurence Mark Roserock Films Court 13 Prods. , Hunt Lowry Marti Noxon* Outta Compton” producer Matt Alvarez ; Laurence Mark Samantha Vincent *INDICATES NEW DEAL SINCE and Bold Films pacts with Jake Gyllen- THE 2015 EDITION. UNLESS Decibel Films Mosaic Will Packer Prods. Robert Downey Jr., NOTED, THE DEALS ARE haal and Ben Stiller. Jimmy Miller Will Packer FIRST LOOK

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