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‘Rush Hour’ To Be Remade As Action Series From Bill Lawrence & Brett Ratner
A big series project is about to hit the markeplace — an hourlong action comedy based on the blockbuster movie franchise Rush Hour. I’ve learned that Warner Bros TV has closed deals for the project,...
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‘Rush Hour’ Series Lands At CBS With Pilot Production Commitment
CBS is hitting Rush Hour traffic, landing the high-profile series adaptation of the blockbuster movie franchise with a pilot production commitment. The hourlong action comedy, written/executive...
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RatPac Entertainment Secures $150M Credit Line To Support Warner Bros Films
Bank of America Merrill Lynch led the campaign to back the $150 million credit facility that director Brett Ratner and Australian mogul James Packer can tap to help fund upcoming Warner Bros. releases....
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Tugg Pulls In Series A Funding Round Led By Broad Green Pictures
Theatrical-exhibition marketer Tugg Inc. said it has closed its Series A funding in a round led by production and distribution company Broad Green Pictures. The additional money will allow Tugg to...
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Russell Crowe’s ‘The Water Diviner’ Also Will Screen In Imax – Update
2ND UPDATE, 4:42 PM: Warner Bros said today that The Water Diviner also will screen in Imax theaters starting April 24. UPDATED, November 7: Warner Bros just said it plans an April 24 limited release...
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Mariah Carey At Center Of Christmas Movie Deal With New Line And RatPac
EXCLUSIVE: New Line has pre-emptively bought an untitled Mariah Carey Christmas pitch from RatPac Entertainment, writers David Diamond and David Weissman and producer Jon Shestack. The plan is for...
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Relativity Bankruptcy: U.S. Trustee Opposes Employee Bonuses
Relativity faces a major new obstacle in its effort to pay bonuses to five key employees, as well as 80 unidentified non-inside employees, while the studio’s under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The...
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Relativity Bankruptcy: Viacom, HBO, A&E, And Brett Ratner Want Protection In...
Looks like every major producer that’s worked with Relativity Media has a motion at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to reserve their right to object if they don’t like the outcome of a planned auction....
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‘The Divine Monster’ Family Drama From Silvio Horta & Brett Ratner Set At Fox
Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta has teamed with producer-director Brett Ratner for The Divine Monster, a twisty family drama based on the Belgian series of the same name (original title Het Goddelijke...
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Lit Agent Mike Esola Exits WME
Longtime WME lit agent Mike Esola has left the agency. Word is that Esola and the agency came to a parting of the ways over a number of issues, including wanting to become a partner right away. As a...
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Sarah Polley To Adapt ‘& Sons’ For Brett Ratner
EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Polley is adapting David Gilbert’s acclaimed novel & Sons for Brett Ratner and his RatPac Entertainment. John Lesher is also in talks to come aboard as a producer. The novel,...
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Netflix Leads The Parade Of Objectors To Relativity’s Bankruptcy Exit Plan
Today’s the deadline for objections to Relativity Media’s plan to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. And filings are flooding in to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court from those who want to influence...
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Brett Ratner Joins Growing Filmmaker Chorus Against Screening Room Day & Date...
EXCLUSIVE: Add director/producer Brett Ratner to the growing list of filmmakers who have come out against Screening Room, Sean Parker’s proposed day-and-date major studio in-home service. After a group...
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M. Night Shyamalan On The Screening Room: “Once Filmmakers & Theater Owners...
Count Oscar-nominated filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan among those opposing The Screening Room, Sean Parker and Prem Akkaraju’s day-and-date in-home entertainment service for major studio films. Shyamalan...
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Bryce Dallas Howard To Star In ‘The Swans Of Fifth Avenue’ Limited Series For...
In a competitive situation, Brett Ratner and James Packer’s RatPac Entertainment has acquired the rights to the recently published historical novel The Swans Of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin, the...
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Deadline Disruptors: Brett Ratner Sets ‘The Libertine’ With Johnny Depp As...
EXCLUSIVE: Brett Ratner reveals he has found his next directing project. It’s called The Libertine, and Johnny Depp is attached to a Ben Kopit script, with Lloyd Braun and Andrew Mittman producing. The...
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RatPac, Def Pictures Set Steve Lemme Breakdance Pitch At Lionsgate
EXCLUSIVE: RatPac Entertainment and Def Pictures have sold an untitled feature film pitch from Steve Lemme to Lionsgate Films. Lemme, an actor and writer who is a founding member of the Broken Lizard...
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Brett Ratner’s RatPac Unveils ‘In Harm’s Way’: Multi-Platform Anthology...
Brett Ratner and James Packer's RatPac Entertainment last night announced In Harm’s Way, a scripted multi-platform project inspired by the United Nations’ work around the world. Created by emerging...
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Dakota Johnson Sworn In For RatPac’s Courtroom Drama ‘Unfit’
As Deadline tipped early last month, Fifty Shades star Dakota Johnson will topline in Unfit, a fact-based courtroom drama set in the 1920s. Amazon Studios won a multi-studio bidding battle for the pic,...
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‘Bancroft’ Casts Sarah Parish; Federation Ent. Names COO; Britannia Awards...
ITV Encore has set the cast for its four-part thriller, Bancroft. Sarah Parish (Broadchurch) will star as the eponymous tortured detective with dark secrets in her past. Created and written by Kate...
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