Universal Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire a film pitch from screenwriter Kyle Ward called Arabian Knights. There’s not much information of the project other then it’s described as being "radically different" from FilmDistrict's Arabian Nights, with Liam Hemsworth and Anthony Hopkins attached to star.
Blacklight Transmedia's Zak Kadison will produce with Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins of Imagine Entertainment, while Eric Lieb will exec produce. Jeff Kirschenbaum and Kiska Higgs will oversee the project for Universal.
Universal previously bought Ward's Fiasco Heights. He also wrote Kane & Lynch and Hitman 2. He is currently writing the big screen adaptation of the video game Devil May Cry.
Blacklight Transmedia's Zak Kadison will produce with Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins of Imagine Entertainment, while Eric Lieb will exec produce. Jeff Kirschenbaum and Kiska Higgs will oversee the project for Universal.
Universal previously bought Ward's Fiasco Heights. He also wrote Kane & Lynch and Hitman 2. He is currently writing the big screen adaptation of the video game Devil May Cry.
- 5/17/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Universal Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire Arabian Knights , a pitch by Kyle Ward, who will also write the script. The film is described as being "radically different" from FilmDistrict's Arabian Nights , which has Liam Hemsworth attached to star. Blacklight Transmedia's Zak Kadison will produce with Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins of Imagine Entertainment, while Eric Lieb will exec produce. Jeff Kirschenbaum and Kiska Higgs will oversee the project for Universal. Universal previously bought Ward's Fiasco Heights . Ward also wrote Kane & Lynch and Hitman 2 . He is currently writing the game adaptation Devil May Cry .
- 5/17/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Universal is in final negotiations to acquire Blacklight Transmedia's "Arabian Knights," with Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment set to produce, TheWrap has learned. Kyle Ward and Blacklight co-created the concept, which is a reimagining of "1001 Arabian Knights." Ward will write the screenplay. Grazer will produce alongside Erica Huggins and Blacklight's Zak Kadison. Blacklight's Eric Lieb is executive producer. Ward's deal and the producer deals are closed. Universal is completing negotiations with Blacklight. Blacklight specializes in projects that go across media. The company develops movies, videogames, television shows, graphic novels and books all at once. In...
- 5/17/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
R. Eric Lieb talked about the difference between developing existing properties for additional platforms and developing properties for many media from the start during a session at TheGrill@Tribeca 2011, a media and entertainment conference hosted by TheWrap on April 22. Read the story: Blacklight Does Transmedia: The Future of Storytelling -- and End of Lame Movie Tie-Ins brightcove.createExperiences(); More video from TheGrill@Tribeca2011 Harvey Weinstein Holds Forth on Independent Film at TheGrill@Tribeca 2011 (Video) Snag Films CEO Rick Allen & Fandor's Chris Kelly Talk Streaming at...
- 4/25/2011
- The Wrap
Geoff Gilmore, chief creative officer of Tribeca Enterprises, moderates a panel with Drake Doremus, director of "Like Crazy," and Chris Paine, director of "Who Killed the Electric Car?", during TheGrill@Tribeca on April 22. Read the story: Drake Doremus on Low-Budget Filmmaking: Eliminate People With Walkie-Talkies brightcove.createExperiences(); More video from TheGrill@Tribeca Harvey Weinstein Holds Forth on Independent Film at TheGrill@Tribeca 2011 (Video) Snag Films CEO Rick Allen & Fandor's Chris Kelly Talk Streaming at TheGrill@Tribeca 2011 (Video) R. Eric Lieb Explains Transmedia at TheGrill@Tribeca 2011 (Video) Richard Lorber, David...
- 4/25/2011
- The Wrap
Snag Films CEO Rick Allen and Fandor board member Chris Kelly talk about streaming independent film at TheGrill@Tribeca on April 22. Read the story: Indie Film Streamers Fandor, Snagfilms: Netflix Leaves Us an Opening brightcove.createExperiences(); More video from TheGril@Tribeca Harvey Weinstein Holds Forth on Independent Film at TheGrill@Tribeca 2011 (Video) Drake Doremus and Chris Paine Talk With Geoff Gilmore at TheGrill@Tribeca 2011 (Video) R. Eric Lieb Explains Transmedia at TheGrill@Tribeca 2011 (Video) Richard Lorber, David Fenkel & John Penotti at TheGrill@Tribeca 2011 (Video)...
- 4/25/2011
- The Wrap
Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Co., cited example after example of independent films that did well at the box office during TheGrill@Tribeca, a media and entertainment conference hosted by TheWrap on April 22. Read the story: Harvey Weinstein: '2011 Will Be Our Most Profitable Year' brightcove.createExperiences(); More video from TheGrill@Tribeca: Snag Films CEO Rick Allen & Fandor's Chris Kelly Talk Streaming at TheGrill@Tribeca 2011 (Video) Drake Doremus and Chris Paine Talk With Geoff Gilmore at TheGrill@Tribeca 2011 (Video) R. Eric Lieb Explains Transmedia at TheGrill@Tribeca...
- 4/25/2011
- The Wrap
Has R. Eric Lieb hit on the future of storytelling? Speaking at TheGrill@Tribeca, TheWrap's inaugural conference on independent filmmaking, the president of Blacklight Transmedia gave a primer on transmedia, a form of storytelling -- and marketing -- in which a story is told through various media to create a complete world. He was interviewed by the site's Editor-in-Chief, Sharon Waxman. (Photograph by Susan May Tell) Crediting USC and former MIT communications professor Henry Jenkins with creating the term, Lieb said transmedia is a form of storytelling in which creative elements "are disbursed...
- 4/22/2011
- The Wrap
The search for revenue in a fast-changing Hollywood is giving new currency to the notion of “transmedia” – but one company has given up on putting movies at the top of the value heap. Blacklight Transmedia, a two-year-old company founded by former Fox Atomic executives Zak Kadison and R. Eric Lieb, has set out to develop books, movies, comics, games and other media properties -- simultaneously. “Success in any one medium furthers the other mediums,” Kadison (pictured below) told TheWrap. “It’s been wildly fun and incredibly beneficial trying to conceive of these deep mythologies and...
- 3/29/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
Disney has picked up Dave Andron's sci-fi adventure "The Runner," with Marc Forster attached to direct.According to Variety, Brian Grazer will produce through his Imagine Entertainment shingle along with Zak Kadison of Blacklight Transmedia. Forster will also produce through his Apparatus shingle along with his partner Brad Simpson.Blacklight's Eric Lieb will executive produce.The story centers on a man sent back in time to change history but who also has the personal motive of saving the life of the woman he loves.Forster last directed the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" and is in pre-production on Paramount's zombie film "World War Z."...
- 3/10/2011
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
The Walt Disney Studios has acquired and is in development on the science fiction project
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- 3/10/2011
- Films N Movies
Walt Disney Studios has announced that they have acquired and are presently in development on a new picture called The Runner. The movie is a science fiction film on which Disney is collaborating with writer Dave Andron, director Marc Foster and Brad Simpson, Brian Grazer, and Blacklight Transmedia’s Zak Kadison and Eric Lieb.
The story, set in 2027, centers on a man who travels back in time to visit Earth before it became not fit to live in an attempt to change the past. The plot is decidedly non-Disney. It seems reasonable to consider it as a typical post apocalyptic time travel project.
In the near future, with the Earth’s surface inhabitable, a small group of survivors pick one man to travel back in time to try and stop the event that caused the destruction. Once he lands in the past, however, overlooks the humanity and egoistically tries to save his beloved sweetheart.
The story, set in 2027, centers on a man who travels back in time to visit Earth before it became not fit to live in an attempt to change the past. The plot is decidedly non-Disney. It seems reasonable to consider it as a typical post apocalyptic time travel project.
In the near future, with the Earth’s surface inhabitable, a small group of survivors pick one man to travel back in time to try and stop the event that caused the destruction. Once he lands in the past, however, overlooks the humanity and egoistically tries to save his beloved sweetheart.
- 3/9/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: The Walt Disney Studios announced its decision to pick up right to “The Runner,” a science-fiction adventure currently being developed for Marc Forster (“Quantum of Solace”) to direct.
THR reports that the “Runner” story “centers on a lone man who is sent back in time to change the course of history but who also has a personal motive of saving the love of his life.”
Disney is currently collaborating with writer Dave Andron, Apparatus Entertainment’s Forster and Brad Simpson, Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, and Blacklight Transmedia’s Zak Kadison and Eric Lieb.
It’s unclear when Forster would dash to “The Runner,” as he reportedly was preparing to mount Paramount’s zombie movie “World War Z.”
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Hollywoodnews.com: The Walt Disney Studios announced its decision to pick up right to “The Runner,” a science-fiction adventure currently being developed for Marc Forster (“Quantum of Solace”) to direct.
THR reports that the “Runner” story “centers on a lone man who is sent back in time to change the course of history but who also has a personal motive of saving the love of his life.”
Disney is currently collaborating with writer Dave Andron, Apparatus Entertainment’s Forster and Brad Simpson, Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, and Blacklight Transmedia’s Zak Kadison and Eric Lieb.
It’s unclear when Forster would dash to “The Runner,” as he reportedly was preparing to mount Paramount’s zombie movie “World War Z.”
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- 3/9/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Walt Disney Studios just emailed Wamg this official statement:
Walt Disney Studios has acquired and is in development on the science fiction project The Runner. Disney is currently collaborating with writer Dave Andron, Apparatus Entertainment.s Marc Forster (Quantum Of Solace) and Brad Simpson, Imagine Entertainment.s Brian Grazer, and Blacklight Transmedia.s Zak Kadison and Eric Lieb.
Marc Forster is currently in post-production on Machine Gun Preacher starring Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan and Michael Shannon. We’ll be sharing more details on The Runner project in the coming future.
Walt Disney Studios has acquired and is in development on the science fiction project The Runner. Disney is currently collaborating with writer Dave Andron, Apparatus Entertainment.s Marc Forster (Quantum Of Solace) and Brad Simpson, Imagine Entertainment.s Brian Grazer, and Blacklight Transmedia.s Zak Kadison and Eric Lieb.
Marc Forster is currently in post-production on Machine Gun Preacher starring Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan and Michael Shannon. We’ll be sharing more details on The Runner project in the coming future.
- 3/9/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Walt Disney has announced that they are in development of a new science fiction project called The Runner. The project has secured a writer in the form of Dave Andron, who will collaborate with the production team of Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, Apparatus Entertainment’s Marc Forster and Brad Simpson, and and Blacklight Transmedia’s Zak Kadison and Eric Lieb.
No other details are known at this time but Deadline reports that “the premise takes place in the year 2027, Earth’s surface has been rendered uninhabitable due to a devastating attack. A group of survivors living in the Rocky Mountains have discovered a way to send a man back in time. While the volunteer departs under the guise of trying to stop the devastating attack, he has an ulterior motive: to save the love of his life.”
So is this Source Code meets Red Dawn by way of Timecop?...
No other details are known at this time but Deadline reports that “the premise takes place in the year 2027, Earth’s surface has been rendered uninhabitable due to a devastating attack. A group of survivors living in the Rocky Mountains have discovered a way to send a man back in time. While the volunteer departs under the guise of trying to stop the devastating attack, he has an ulterior motive: to save the love of his life.”
So is this Source Code meets Red Dawn by way of Timecop?...
- 3/8/2011
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Walt Disney Pictures has acquired "The Runner," a science fiction adventure movie that originally was conceived as a spec for a television pilot. Brian Grazer of Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment will produce along with Brad Simpson, of Forster's Apparatus Entertainment. Zak Kadison of Blacklight Transmedia is also producing and Transmedia's Eric Lieb is executive producing. The film comes from writer/creator Dave Andron ("Knight Rider," "Past Life," "Justified"). Marc Forster ("Quantum of Solace," "The Kite Runner," "Finding Neverland") is under consideration to direct. The project comes from Blacklight Transmedia's first look arrangement with Imagine. "The...
- 3/8/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Walt Disney Pictures has acquired The Runner, a pitch for a futuristic science fiction film that will be written by Dave Andron as a potential directing vehicle for Marc Forster. Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer is producing with Forster's Apparatus Entertainment partner Brad Simpson. Andron hatched the NBC reinvention of Knight Rider, and he's supervising producer of the FX series Justified. The premise: In the year 2027, Earth's surface has been rendered uninhabitable due to a devastating attack. A group of survivors living in the Rocky Mountains have discovered a way to send a man back in time. While the volunteer departs under the guise of trying to stop the devastating attack, he has an ulterior motive: to save the love of his life. The concept was hatched by Andron with Blacklight Transmedia. Grazer's Imagine made a first-look deal with that company, which develops big idea concepts on multiple platforms.
- 3/8/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Walt Disney Studios has acquired, according to the studio, are currently in development on the science fiction film. Disney's collaborating with writer Dave Andron as well as Apparatus Entertainment's Brad Simpson and Marc Forster, Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer as well as Zak Kadison and Eric Lieb of Transmedia. As of now, there are no more details directly from Disney about this release. Dave Andron wrote the popular Justified series on FX which stars Timothy Olyphant. He also developed the Knight Rider reboot. It'll be interested to see how this turns out.
- 3/8/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Walt Disney Studios has acquired, according to the studio, are currently in development on the science fiction film. Disney's collaborating with writer Dave Andron as well as Apparatus Entertainment's Brad Simpson and Marc Forster, Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer as well as Zak Kadison and Eric Lieb of Transmedia. As of now, there are no more details directly from Disney about this release. Dave Andron wrote the popular Justified series on FX which stars Timothy Olyphant. He also developed the Knight Rider reboot. It'll be interested to see how this turns out.
- 3/8/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Walt Disney Studios has confirmed to ComingSoon.net that they have acquired and are currently developing a science fiction property called The Runner from writer Dave Andron, a writer on the rebooted "Knight Rider" television series as well as on "Justified." The story, according to Deadline , deals with a man sent back in time with the mission of stopping a deadly attack but who secretly plans to use the opportunity to save someone close to him. Alongside Andron, Disney is working with Apparatus Entertainment's Marc Forster and Brad Simpson, Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer, and Blacklight Transmedia's Zak Kadison and Eric Lieb. The project is being developed with Forster (who most recently directed Quantum of Solace ) in mind to direct.
- 3/8/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Megan Fox is ditching the robots and taking her career to Western and underwater frontiers.
Fox is in final negotiations to star opposite Josh Brolin and John Malkovich in "Jonah Hex," Warner Bros.' action Western based on the DC Comics character. She also is attached to star and develop "Fathom," Fox Atomic's comic book-based underwater adventure.
In "Hex," being directed by Jimmy Hayward, Fox will play Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and love interest of Hex (Brolin), a scarred bounty hunter tracking a voodoo practitioner (Malkovich) who wants to raise an army of undead to liberate the South.
The movie is prepping for a shoot in April, with Mad Chance's Andrew Lazar and Weed Road's Akiva Goldsman producing.
"Fathom," a comic created by recently deceased artist Michael Turner, follows a young woman named Aspen who learns she is a member of a race of aquatic humanoids who possess the ability to control water.
Fox is in final negotiations to star opposite Josh Brolin and John Malkovich in "Jonah Hex," Warner Bros.' action Western based on the DC Comics character. She also is attached to star and develop "Fathom," Fox Atomic's comic book-based underwater adventure.
In "Hex," being directed by Jimmy Hayward, Fox will play Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and love interest of Hex (Brolin), a scarred bounty hunter tracking a voodoo practitioner (Malkovich) who wants to raise an army of undead to liberate the South.
The movie is prepping for a shoot in April, with Mad Chance's Andrew Lazar and Weed Road's Akiva Goldsman producing.
"Fathom," a comic created by recently deceased artist Michael Turner, follows a young woman named Aspen who learns she is a member of a race of aquatic humanoids who possess the ability to control water.
- 3/3/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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