Fox 2000 president Elizabeth Gabler has made a three-year first look deal with Color Force, the production banner run by Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. The first film under the new pact will be an adaptation of the Robert Crais novel Suspect. Deal comes after Jacobson completed the quartet of The Hunger Games films for Lionsgate, pictures which have preoccupied the former Disney production chief for several years. Color Force worked with Gabler’s division on the Wimpy Kid series, and Jacobson and Simpson have numerous book related projects percolating. They include Where’d You Go, Bernadette, and Crazy Rich Asians, and there […]...
- 7/15/2014
- Deadline
Fox 2000 has signed a three-year first-look deal with Color Force, the production banner run by Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson and best known for the Hunger Games movies. Photos Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films Color Force, whose exec stable also includes senior vp Bryan Unkeless, worked with Fox 2000 on a trio of Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies, the successful adaptation of the Jeff Kinney book series. The company is currently developing a feature film adaptation of Robert Crais’ best-selling novel Suspect for Fox 2000. Suspect will be the first project to fall under the new deal.
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- 7/15/2014
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The studio announced on Tuesday (15) the three-year production deal with The Hunger Games producer and longtime champion Nina Jacobson and partner Brad Simpson.
First to go will be Suspect, based on Robert Crais’ crime thriller. Senior vp Bryan Unkeless will oversee development on the films for Color Force. The companies previously teamed up on the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid series.
“We are extremely honoured and proud to officially welcome Nina and Brad and the Color Force team to the Fox family,” said Fox 2000 Pictures president Elizabeth Gabler.
“Their passion and commitment to film-makers and material is inspirational and exciting and we know this will be a wonderful continuation to what has been an extremely collaborative and productive partnership.”
“Elizabeth Gabler is that rare executive who makes movies based on passion and instinct,” said Jacobson (pictured). “Her taste, integrity and conviction make Fox 2000 the perfect place for us to grow and expand our slate.
Jacobson just completed...
First to go will be Suspect, based on Robert Crais’ crime thriller. Senior vp Bryan Unkeless will oversee development on the films for Color Force. The companies previously teamed up on the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid series.
“We are extremely honoured and proud to officially welcome Nina and Brad and the Color Force team to the Fox family,” said Fox 2000 Pictures president Elizabeth Gabler.
“Their passion and commitment to film-makers and material is inspirational and exciting and we know this will be a wonderful continuation to what has been an extremely collaborative and productive partnership.”
“Elizabeth Gabler is that rare executive who makes movies based on passion and instinct,” said Jacobson (pictured). “Her taste, integrity and conviction make Fox 2000 the perfect place for us to grow and expand our slate.
Jacobson just completed...
- 7/15/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Universal Pictures is remaking iNumber Number, and David Digilio has been set to script the remake of the Donovan Marsh-directed South African thriller that premiered last fall at Toronto. Universal acquired those rights shortly after the fest. Pic is an action thriller centered on an undercover police detective who crosses over from cop to robber in order to orchestrate a major heist. (Check out the original’s trailer below.) Chris Morgan will produce for his Universal-based Chris Morgan Productions. Aram Tertzakian of Xyz Films is also producing and so is Emile Gladstone. Xyz partners Nate Bolotin and Nick Spicer are exec producers. Digilio most recently wrote a TV series adaptation of the Tony Scott-directed Denzel Washington drama Man On Fire for 20th Century Fox TV and New Regency TV, and he sold a pitch based on the Robert Crais novel Suspect to Fox 2000 with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson producing.
- 6/5/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Late in the DVD commentary for the pilot episode of "Hill Street Blues," actor Joe Spano marvels at the show's impact on the medium. "It's extraordinary," he says, "the repercussions of this 48 minutes of television." The cop drama's co-creator Steven Bochco follows by suggesting, "It's sort of a family tree, and if you look at the branches of the tree, you'll see 25 years of television." Bochco is, if anything, underselling the importance of "Hill Street," which is on the short list of the most influential TV shows ever made. Whether through shared actors, writers, directors or through stylistic and thematic complexity, its DNA can be found in nearly every great drama produced in the 30-plus years since it debuted. The show was only occasionally interested in the legal trials of the criminals in its unnamed fictional city, but the complete series DVD set (it arrives in stores on Tuesday, for...
- 4/28/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
The relationship between humans and animals is a link better described on paper, where the written words can dig deeper than anything visually perceptible. For every good species-mixing film like Every Which Way But Loose, there are a dozen duds like K-9 and Ed. Fox 2000 is banking on audiences empathizing with man.s best friend for Suspect, an adaptation of Robert Crais. bestselling 2013 novel. Fox optioned the rights and the film will see Hunger Games producer Nina Jacobson step in with her Color Force partner Brad Simpson. Ruh-roh, riminals! A medium-sized budget thriller about a man solving crimes with his beloved dog is at least mildly original. It follows rookie Lapd officer Scott James, who is mentally scarred by his partner getting killed in a shooting. For therapeutic purposes, he begins taking care of Maggie, a military German Shepherd experiencing Ptsd after losing her Marine handler in Afghanistan. James. relationship...
- 12/18/2013
- cinemablend.com
The Sigma Protocol
Julie Bush has hired to pen the new draft for the film adaptation of Robert Ludlum's last novel "The Sigma Protocol" for Universal. Numerous scribes such as Irwin Winkler and Matt Holloway have penned previous drafts.
The story follows the son of a Holocaust survivor who gets entangled in an international conspiracy by industrialists and financiers to take advantage of wartime technology that reverses aging. [Source: Deadline
Fairyland
American Zoetrope has acquired the film rights to Alysia Abbott's critically acclaimed memoir, "Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father" which Sofia and Roman Coppola will produce. Sofia Coppola and Andrew Durham will co-write the screenplay.
The coming-of-age story is set against the backdrop of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that would later claim the life of Abbott's father, the widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott. [Source: 42West]
Suspect
Fox 2000 has...
Julie Bush has hired to pen the new draft for the film adaptation of Robert Ludlum's last novel "The Sigma Protocol" for Universal. Numerous scribes such as Irwin Winkler and Matt Holloway have penned previous drafts.
The story follows the son of a Holocaust survivor who gets entangled in an international conspiracy by industrialists and financiers to take advantage of wartime technology that reverses aging. [Source: Deadline
Fairyland
American Zoetrope has acquired the film rights to Alysia Abbott's critically acclaimed memoir, "Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father" which Sofia and Roman Coppola will produce. Sofia Coppola and Andrew Durham will co-write the screenplay.
The coming-of-age story is set against the backdrop of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that would later claim the life of Abbott's father, the widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott. [Source: 42West]
Suspect
Fox 2000 has...
- 12/17/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Fox 2000 is bringing Robert Crais' recent crime thriller Suspect to the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter today brings word that David Digilio ( Eight Below ) will provide the screenplay with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson producing. Their company, The Color Force, is also responsible for bringing Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games to the big screen. Published in January of 2013, Suspect is described as follows on Crais' official site: Lapd cop Scott James is not doing so well. Eight months ago, a shocking nighttime assault by unidentified men killed his partner Stephanie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged, ashamed, and ready to explode. He is unfit for duty.until he meets his new partner. Maggie is not doing so well, either. A German shepherd who survived...
- 12/16/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Fox 2000 has optioned the rights to Robert Crais' best-selling novel 2013 novel Suspect for an adaptation to produced by Nina Jacobson, the producers behind the The Hunger Games franchise, and her Color Force partner Brad Simpson. David Digilio, who wrote the Paul Walker Disney movie Eight Below, about dogs left behind in Antarctica, is attached to write the script. Photos: 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Cast Shines at Glittery L.A. Premiere Suspect is tells the story of rookie Los Angeles police officer Scott James, who loses his partner in a shooting and, in a form of therapy, is
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- 12/16/2013
- by Andy Lewis, Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Acclaimed Los Angeles-based mystery writer Robert Crais goes to the dogs -- literally -- in his new novel, Suspect. Crais sums up the book with this pithy elevator pitch: "A man who is damaged and a dog who is hurt need each other to heal." The story centers on Los Angeles Police Department detective Scott James, who is assigned to work with Maggie, a German shepherd just returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan as a bomb-sniffing dog, as the pair investigate the murder of Scott’s partner Stephanie. But the heart of the novel is the relationship that
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- 2/13/2013
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Harry Shannon has worn several hats in various fields of entertainment. He's been a music executive, working on films such as Terminator 2 and Basic Instinct; he works as an actor and screenwriter; and he is also an award-winning writer of novels and short stories. He took some time to talk to FEARnet about writing; filmmaking; music and The Hungry 3, the soon-to-be-released third novel in the popular Sheriff Penny Miller series.
You have a new book coming out, The Hungry 3. It's the third in the zombie novel series. What happens in this one?
If I told you that it would wreck the experience, not to mention cost us a sale! Seriously, the first two novels continued in sequence from the outbreak of the zombie apocalypse through to Sheriff Penny Miller and her friends fleeing what is left of the state of Nevada. The third book, The Hungry 3: At the End of the World,...
You have a new book coming out, The Hungry 3. It's the third in the zombie novel series. What happens in this one?
If I told you that it would wreck the experience, not to mention cost us a sale! Seriously, the first two novels continued in sequence from the outbreak of the zombie apocalypse through to Sheriff Penny Miller and her friends fleeing what is left of the state of Nevada. The third book, The Hungry 3: At the End of the World,...
- 1/30/2013
- by Nancy Greene
- FEARnet
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: This year, virtually every Oscar category boasts one or two candidates that you simply know will be in the race, and then seven or eight potential nominees who are all jockeying for the remaining slots.
More than any other year in recent memory, there are too many qualified actors and actresses vying for Oscar recognition in their respective categories. And while I trust in the Academy to find the five best talents to fill the open slots, you just know there will be deserving people on the outside looking in coming Tuesday, Jan. 24.
I’m thinking Woody Harrelson has a very good chance of getting in. The veteran character actor has spent his career avoiding typecasting, bouncing from role to role early on before blowing up as a country rube on the hit sitcom “Cheers.” When given the chance to act in movies, however,...
Hollywoodnews.com: This year, virtually every Oscar category boasts one or two candidates that you simply know will be in the race, and then seven or eight potential nominees who are all jockeying for the remaining slots.
More than any other year in recent memory, there are too many qualified actors and actresses vying for Oscar recognition in their respective categories. And while I trust in the Academy to find the five best talents to fill the open slots, you just know there will be deserving people on the outside looking in coming Tuesday, Jan. 24.
I’m thinking Woody Harrelson has a very good chance of getting in. The veteran character actor has spent his career avoiding typecasting, bouncing from role to role early on before blowing up as a country rube on the hit sitcom “Cheers.” When given the chance to act in movies, however,...
- 1/12/2012
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Hostage arrives on Blu-ray and looks solid on the format. Even with a crystal clear picture, the film still has to be one of the worse Bruce Willis movies to come out in a long time. There are moments where it could have been good, but they are almost all ruined by the time the end credits roll. Released in 2005 and based on the novel by Robert Crais, Hostage actually features a stellar cast of character actors including Ben Foster, Kim Coates, Robert Knepper, Jonathan Tucker, and Kevin Pollak. We also get decent performances from some of its younger cast members . including Michelle Horn, Jimmy Bennett, and Rumer Willis. It was directed by Florent Emilio...
- 8/23/2011
- by Patrick Luce
- Monsters and Critics
There are a handful of paperback detectives who deserve proper big-screen attention. Lucas Davenport, the tough-as-nails protagonist in John Sandford.s series of novels comes to mind. Robert Crais. fantastically sarcastic Elvis Cole is another character I.d love to see with his own film franchise. And, of course, there.s James Patterson.s brilliant criminologist, Alex Cross. Now, I know what you are going to say. They've already made two Alex Cross movies in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. But if you think Morgan Freeman was the right actor to play the fearless, quick-witted D.C. detective, then we must have been reading different books. For that reason, I.m intrigued by director Rob Cohen.s attempt to reboot the franchise with I, Alex Cross, an adaptation of Patterson.s bestseller that replaces Freeman with actor-director Tyler Perry. That.s an inspired bit of non-conventional casting,...
- 5/11/2011
- cinemablend.com
Idw has announced an October 1 release for the hardcover collection of Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft. The book is from novelist Joe Hill who created the miniseries for the publisher and was surprised by its enthusiastic reception. It has since been optioned by Dimension Films.
Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, written by Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show), will include the first six-issue storyline, cover gallery, conceptual sketches by Rodriguez, and an all-new introduction from best-selling mystery novelist Robert Crais (Chasing Darkness). The 152-page book will carry a $24.99 cover price.
Locke & Key tells of the Locke family, who relocate after an unspeakable tragedy to Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all.
Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, written by Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show), will include the first six-issue storyline, cover gallery, conceptual sketches by Rodriguez, and an all-new introduction from best-selling mystery novelist Robert Crais (Chasing Darkness). The 152-page book will carry a $24.99 cover price.
Locke & Key tells of the Locke family, who relocate after an unspeakable tragedy to Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all.
- 9/12/2008
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
One of literary horror's best friends, Idw Publishing, has sent out the word that on October 1st novelist Joe Hill's seminal Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft is being released in hardback. The award-winning Hill's first-ever comic book series took both critics and fans by surprise and has since been optioned by Dimension Films.
This collection of Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft features the dazzling art of Gabriel Rodriguez and includes the entire six-issue storyline, a complete cover gallery, conceptual sketches by Rodriguez, and an introduction from best-selling mystery novelist Robert Crais.
If you're unfamiliar with the series, here's a quick synopsis: "Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft tells of the Locke family, who relocate after an unspeakable tragedy to Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until...
This collection of Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft features the dazzling art of Gabriel Rodriguez and includes the entire six-issue storyline, a complete cover gallery, conceptual sketches by Rodriguez, and an introduction from best-selling mystery novelist Robert Crais.
If you're unfamiliar with the series, here's a quick synopsis: "Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft tells of the Locke family, who relocate after an unspeakable tragedy to Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until...
- 9/11/2008
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
If Hostage looks a lot like a state-of-the-art French "policier" minus the pesky subtitles, the effect is purely intentional.
In his English-language debut, French director Florent Siri employs the same forceful, gritty style used for his 2002 film, The Nest, delivering a noir-tinged thriller with commercial aspirations.
The latter aspect is provided by Bruce Willis, who leads a similarly solid cast through the sharp twists and turns of Doug Richardson's script, based on the Robert Crais novel.
Sharing certain plot aspects with Panic Room, the picture should prove to be a moderate hit for Miramax, which has been buying a considerable amount of advance TV ad time in support of Willis' return to crime-fighting mode.
Willis is Jeff Talley, a former ace LAPD hostage negotiator, who, following the deaths of a mother and her young son, left Los Angeles and took a job as chief of police in a nominally low-crime area of Ventura County.
But he soon finds himself in the thick of things again after a trio of delinquent teenagers (Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker and Marshall Allman) hold a widowed, shady accountant (Kevin Pollak) and his two children (Michelle Horn and Jimmy Bennett) hostage following a bungled robbery attempt in their multimillion-dollar hilltop compound.
To further complicate matters, Pollak's Walter Smith is in possession of a disc containing digital information being sought by a particularly persuasive (federal?) outfit that has nabbed Talley's own estranged wife (Serena Scott Thomas) and daughter (Willis' real-life daughter, Rumer), to ensure that he delivers the goods.
Playing what is essentially an art house version of his Die Hard John McClane character, Willis wears the added layers of complexity effectively, as a reluctant hero struggling to clear a tricky path to redemption.
Also impressive is Foster in a change-of-pace turn as the creepy ringleader of the teenage assailants and scene-stealing young Bennett, who manages to fend quite nicely for himself in his fortress of a home.
Director Siri's heavily stylized visual approach translates successfully, at least before everything reaches an overly operatic third-act crescendo.
Contributing to the picture's edgy look is Italian cinematographer Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci, who was Siri's collaborator on The Nest, and production designer Larry Fulton, who worked on Willis' The Sixth Sense and succeeds in turning the sprawling Topanga Canyon compound into a bona fide character.
Completing the mood is an aria of a score by ever-versatile Alexandre Desplat (Birth, Girl With a Pearl Earring, ) that keeps tempo with each sudden plot curve and constantly shifting emotional tone.
Hostage
Miramax
Miramax Films and Stratus Film Co. present a Cheyenne Enterprises production
An Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG II production in association with Syndicate Films International
Credits:
Director: Florent Siri
Screenplay: Doug Richardson
Based on the book by Robert Crais
Producers: Mark Gordon, Robert Yari, Bruce Willis, Arnold Rifkin
Executive producers: Hawk Koch, David Wally, Andreas Thiesmeyer, Josef Lautenschlager
Director of photography: Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci
Production designer: Larry Fulton
Editors: Olivier Gajan, Richard J.P. Byard
Costume designer: Elisabetta Beraldo
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Cast:
Jeff Talley: Bruce Willis
Walter Smith: Kevin Pollak
Mars Krupcheck: Ben Foster
Dennis Kelly: Jonathan Tucker
Kevin Kelly: Marshall Allman
Jennifer Smith: Michelle Horn
Tommy Smith: Jimmy Bennett
MPAA rating: R
Running time -- 113 minutes...
In his English-language debut, French director Florent Siri employs the same forceful, gritty style used for his 2002 film, The Nest, delivering a noir-tinged thriller with commercial aspirations.
The latter aspect is provided by Bruce Willis, who leads a similarly solid cast through the sharp twists and turns of Doug Richardson's script, based on the Robert Crais novel.
Sharing certain plot aspects with Panic Room, the picture should prove to be a moderate hit for Miramax, which has been buying a considerable amount of advance TV ad time in support of Willis' return to crime-fighting mode.
Willis is Jeff Talley, a former ace LAPD hostage negotiator, who, following the deaths of a mother and her young son, left Los Angeles and took a job as chief of police in a nominally low-crime area of Ventura County.
But he soon finds himself in the thick of things again after a trio of delinquent teenagers (Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker and Marshall Allman) hold a widowed, shady accountant (Kevin Pollak) and his two children (Michelle Horn and Jimmy Bennett) hostage following a bungled robbery attempt in their multimillion-dollar hilltop compound.
To further complicate matters, Pollak's Walter Smith is in possession of a disc containing digital information being sought by a particularly persuasive (federal?) outfit that has nabbed Talley's own estranged wife (Serena Scott Thomas) and daughter (Willis' real-life daughter, Rumer), to ensure that he delivers the goods.
Playing what is essentially an art house version of his Die Hard John McClane character, Willis wears the added layers of complexity effectively, as a reluctant hero struggling to clear a tricky path to redemption.
Also impressive is Foster in a change-of-pace turn as the creepy ringleader of the teenage assailants and scene-stealing young Bennett, who manages to fend quite nicely for himself in his fortress of a home.
Director Siri's heavily stylized visual approach translates successfully, at least before everything reaches an overly operatic third-act crescendo.
Contributing to the picture's edgy look is Italian cinematographer Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci, who was Siri's collaborator on The Nest, and production designer Larry Fulton, who worked on Willis' The Sixth Sense and succeeds in turning the sprawling Topanga Canyon compound into a bona fide character.
Completing the mood is an aria of a score by ever-versatile Alexandre Desplat (Birth, Girl With a Pearl Earring, ) that keeps tempo with each sudden plot curve and constantly shifting emotional tone.
Hostage
Miramax
Miramax Films and Stratus Film Co. present a Cheyenne Enterprises production
An Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG II production in association with Syndicate Films International
Credits:
Director: Florent Siri
Screenplay: Doug Richardson
Based on the book by Robert Crais
Producers: Mark Gordon, Robert Yari, Bruce Willis, Arnold Rifkin
Executive producers: Hawk Koch, David Wally, Andreas Thiesmeyer, Josef Lautenschlager
Director of photography: Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci
Production designer: Larry Fulton
Editors: Olivier Gajan, Richard J.P. Byard
Costume designer: Elisabetta Beraldo
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Cast:
Jeff Talley: Bruce Willis
Walter Smith: Kevin Pollak
Mars Krupcheck: Ben Foster
Dennis Kelly: Jonathan Tucker
Kevin Kelly: Marshall Allman
Jennifer Smith: Michelle Horn
Tommy Smith: Jimmy Bennett
MPAA rating: R
Running time -- 113 minutes...
- 3/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hollywood tough guy Bruce Willis almost missed out on securing the film rights to Robert Crais' novel Hostage, because he left his copy of the book on a shelf for a month after he bought it in 2001. The Die Hard actor finally found time to delve into the tense thriller and was so engrossed he immediately enquired about purchasing the film rights - and was amazed nobody else had got there first. The 49-year-old says, "I bought the book and it sat on my shelf for about a month. I picked it up and got caught up in it, read it overnight and called and asked about the rights. Fortunately they were available. That was about four years ago." In the film adaptation, Willis stars as jaded small town cop Jeff Talley who is forced into the firing line when his family are taken prisoner in their own home.
- 3/13/2005
- WENN
Stratus Film Co. has picked up the action script Hostage in turnaround from Revolution Studios. Based on Robert Crais' novel, the project will star Bruce Willis. Florent Siri is directing. Principal photography begins in January, with Willis and Arnold Rifkin's Cheyenne Enterprises producing alongside Stratus' Bob Yari and Mark Gordon. Hostage has now been put into turnaround twice, having been originally set up at MGM in 2001 when the studio paid high-six against low-seven figures to option feature film rights to the novel for Cheyenne to produce as a possible starring vehicle for Willis (HR 4/30/01).
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