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Mickey Cohen’s raucous old nightclub, Slapsy Maxie’s, is long gone. But on a recent Friday night, I found myself roaming around a stylish replica of the legendary gangster’s old club where Warner Bros. is filming “The Gangster Squad,” which chronicles the real-life exploits of an elite group of 1940s LAPD officers who were given the…
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Warner Bros. is building up its “Lego” movie, greenlighting the animated-live action hybrid for a release in 2014. Studio has tapped Oz vfx-toon house Animal Logic to do the animation, which is expected to comprise 80% of “Lego.” And the film has been approved for an incentive from the Australian government and one from the…
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The CW has bought Dare, an hourlong action thriller from Easy A writer Bert V Royal, Warner Bros TV and studio-based Dan Lin Prods. Dare follows six young adults who find themselves forced to play a dangerous and deadly game of Truth or Dare. This is the second sale for Royal, who also has single-camera…
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CW has pacted with “Easy A” scribe Bert Royal and Warner Bros. TV to develop an action-thriller “Dare.” Royal is penning the script for WB-based Lin Pictures. He’ll exec produce with Dan Lin and Jennifer Gwartz. “Dare” revolves around a group of six young adults who are forced to play a deadly game of Truth…
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Hot off co-writing Trance for director Danny Boyle, Joe Ahearne has sold an untitled supernatural thriller pitch to Warner Bros. Dan Lin will produce under his Lin Pictures banner. Lin’s veep Jon Silk came up with an idea they are keeping under wraps and Ahearne expanded it before they pitched it to the studio and…
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Here’s an interesting one to ponder on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. Warner Bros is courting Steven Spielberg to direct Gods and Kings, an epic-sized film about life of Moses. There haven’t been formal meetings yet, but Spielberg has read the script by Michael Green and Stuart Hazeldine. Getting Spielberg is a long shot on…
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Warner Bros said today that it will release its Ruben Fleischer-directed mob drama Gangster Squad on Oct. 19, 2012, right in the teeth of next year’s awards season. Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin and Emma Stone star in the pic, which is set in 1940s-era Los Angeles and centers on a police unit that…
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After testing the TV waters last season, feature producer Dan Lin is putting down small-screen roots, forming a television division of his company Lin Pictures and signing an overall deal with Warner Bros Television. Veteran TV development executive/producer Jennifer Gwartz has been tapped to run the new division, which is looking to develop drama and…
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The move sets into motion a project that Warners picked up in 2008, plunking down $750,000 against $1. 5 million for the spec by rocker-by-day/scribe-by-night Shawn Christensen. Trevor Cawood is in negotiations to direct The Karma Coalition, a thriller being produced by Lin Pictures at Warner Bros. The move sets into motion a project that…
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