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Random UK Children's Creates Joint Venture to Develop Film/TV Properties

June 21, 2009
By Michael Cader

Random House UK’s Children’s Book division has created a new joint-venture in partnership with Komixx Entertainment to produce animated and live-action children’s and family films and TV programs. Called Random House Children’s Screen Entertainment, they will develop the publisher’s books and characters, and plan to include both film and TV partners as well as video […]

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Overall Ludlum Deal at Universal

November 21, 2008
By Michael Cader

Universal Pictures will build on their Bourne adventures franchise with an overall deal with the Robert Ludlum estate, acquiring exclusive rights to the Bourne character and a first look at all other Ludlum deals not under option elsewhere. Over 25 Ludlum novels have not been developed into movies, and the estate retains contractual approval over […]

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Coming Attractions: Coraline Film's Stop-Motion

November 17, 2008
By Michael Cader

USA Today gives an early boost to the film version of Neil Gaiman’s CORALINE, set for release on February 6: “As seen in Henry Selick’s 3-D stop-motion fantasy Coraline, this blue-haired heroine’s adventures in a strange, unsettling parallel universe rival those experienced by Lewis Carroll’s goldilocked girl explorer…. In this era of digitized animated features, […]

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Meryl Streep to Play Dewey Author

November 13, 2008
By Michael Cader

A film version of Vicki Myron’s bestselling DEWEY: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World will feature Meryl Streep as the author. Producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey at Temple Hill Entertainment partners will make the move with New Line. (The production company is also responsible for the movie adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s Twlight.)Variety

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Kidman and Theron In Ebershoff Adaptation

November 11, 2008
By Michael Cader

Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron will star in the fi;m adaptation of David Ebershoff 2000 novel THE DANISH GIRL. Kidman will play artist Einar Wegener, “the world’s first postop male transsexual, with Theron playing Wegener’s artist wife, Gerda.E online

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Moneyball Movies Takes Shape

October 17, 2008
By Michael Cader

Screenwriter Steve Zaillian is taking a new crack at adapting Michael Lewis’s bestselling MONEYBALL for Columbia pictures, with David Frankel directing, as a starring vehicle for Brad Pitt. Michael De Luca and Rachael Horovitz are producing. Sony optioned the book in 2004 and already commission one screenplay from Stan Chervin, Variety reports.

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