8/3/2011 INFERNO TAKING RIDE ON ‘AUTOBAHN’ (EXCLUSIVE) Production company Inferno Entertainment has picked up action project Autobahn, written by Greg Russo with Mark Steven Johnson attached to direct. The project was formerly called I-95. 7/19/2011: TOLDJA! OPEN ROAD ACQUIRES U.S. RIGHTS TO JOE CARNAHAN’S WOLF TALE ‘THE GREY’ Deadline told you last Friday that upstart distributor Open Road would close a big deal for U.S. distribution rights to The Grey thriller about a group of oil drillers whose plane crashes in Alaska.. 6/27/2011: TOLDJA! OPEN ROAD FILMS ACQUIRES SCREEN ADAPTATION OF STEPHENIE MEYER’S ‘THE HOST’ A week after Deadline told you that upstart distributor Open Road had closed a splashy deal for the Andrew Niccol-directed adaptation of Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer's scifi novel The Host… 6/27/2011: OPEN ROAD CONFIRMS US DEAL ON THE HOST The fledgling distributor has added the upcoming Stephenie Meyer adaptation The Host to its inaugural roster and has set a Mar 29 2013 release. 6/20/2011: OPEN ROAD EYES MEYER’S ‘HOST’ Open Road Films is in talks to acquire domestic rights to Stephenie Meyer's pic "The Host," one of the hot titles at this year's Cannes market. 6/8/2011: OPEN ROAD SETS FIRST RELEASE WITH FALL DATE ON ‘KILLER ELITE’ Open Road, the distribution company hatched earlier this year by theater chains AMC and Regal with Tom Ortenberg at the helm, has set its first release. 5/15/2011: MAKING THE MOST OF MEYER’S ‘HOST’ EXCLUSIVE: Inferno Entertainment has nearly pre-sold all international territories for Stephenie Meyer's pic "The Host," one of the hot titles at this year's Cannes market. 5/12/2011: MEYER’S ‘HOST’ FINDS A HELMER Andrew Niccol will direct sci-fier "The Host," starring Saoirse Ronan. Niccol had already penned an adaptation of "Twilight" scribe Stephenie Meyer's novel. 5/12/2011: ANDREW NICCOL TO DIRECT THE HOST STARRING SAOIRSE RONAN Inferno Entertainment and producers Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz have set Andrew Niccol to direct Saoirse Ronan in the Stephenie Meyer adaptation The Host. 5/12/2011: CANNES: ANDREW NICCOL TO DIRECT SAOIRSE RONAN IN STEPHENIE MEYER’S ‘THE HOST’ EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Niccol has been set as the director of The Host, directing his scripted adaptation of the bestselling novel by Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer. 5/12/2011: FILMDISTRICT MAKING DEAL FOR LIAM HEMSWORTH – STARRER ‘ARABIAN NIGHTS’ EXCLUSIVE: After starting the day by acquiring the Gerard Butler soccer comedy Playing the Field, FilmDistrict’s Peter Schlessel and Bob Berney are near a deal to acquire domestic rights to Arabian Nights… 5/12/2011: FILMDISTRICT, INFERNO CLOSE US DEAL FOR ARABIAN NIGHTS FilmDistrict has finalised its US acquisition of the 3D adventure Arabian Nights to star Liam Hemsworth from the upcoming The Hunger Games in a deal that has been in the works since the AFM last year. 5/11/2011: OPEN ROAD ACQUIRES ‘KILLER ELITE’ Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Omnilab Media's film "Killer Elite," an action thriller starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert DeNiro and directed by Gary McKendry. 5/11/2011: CANNES: TOM ORTENBERG MAKES FIRST BIG OPEN ROAD ACQUISITION WITH ‘KILLER ELITE’ Open Road, the new distribution company launched by theater chains AMC and Regal to find films that can play in wide release, has made its first major deal as Tom Ortenberg closed U.S. rights to the action film Killer Elite… 5/4/2011: SHOOTING WRAPS ON BRAD PITT CRIME TALE COGAN’S TRADE Principal photography has ended in New Orleans on the crime tale Cogan’s Trade, which reunites Pitt with The Assassination Of Jesse James director Andrew Dominik. 5/3/2011: RONAN SET FOR SCI-FI INDIE ‘HOST’ Producers of indie sci-fier "The Host" have cast Saoirse Ronan to topline the big-screen adaptation of the novel by Stephenie Meyer ("Twilight"). 5/3/2011: ‘TWILIGHT SAGA” AUTHOR STEPHENIE MEYER’S ‘THE HOST’ LANDS SAOIRSE RONAN TO STAR Saoirse Ronan has been set to star in The Host, the screen adaptation by Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer. 1/11/2011: WEINSTEIN COMPANY MAKES DISTRIBUTION DEAL FOR BRAD PITT DRAMA ‘COGAN’S TRADE’ EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company has acquired domestic distribution rights to Cogan’s Trade, the Andrew Dominik-directed adaptation of the George V. Higgins novel. 5/10/2010: CANNES: INFERNO CREATES A NEW EMBER L.A.-based Inferno Entertainment has created a new sales label called Ember Films on the eve of the 2010 Festival de Cannes to handle the company’s specialty titles. |