The trial over whether Ed Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Bedford Falls stole the ideas for the 2003 Tom Cruise film The Last Samurai has been set for March 20 in a Los Angeles federal courthouse. Although Warner Bros. was dismissed as a defendant in the lawsuit brought by screenwriters Aaron and Matthew Benay, the case figures to be a much-watched affair that explores the way film studios acquire and develop screenplays. The plaintiffs are promising to put on quite a show in what Aaron Benay is touting as “one of the biggest idea theft cases in history.” The
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- 3/2/2012
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By the time earthquake movie “1906” gets approved for production, California may experience another massive earthquake. “Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol” director Brad Bird updated the status for the ambitious film with MTV News. He stated the problem with the possible film is with the script, and not with budgetary problems as reported by previous Internet web sites. The project has been in development since 2009. “It’s all script. The Internet is not a very reliable place for information,” he said to MTV News. “There have been reports as budget, but it never got that far because you have to solve story problems first.” Bird described that it is a “challenging story” to get together. The film “1906” will be an adaptation of James Dalessandro’s 2004 novel. The book is set during the great San Francisco earthquake and fire, which addresses the tale of political corruption, vendettas, romance, rescue and murder. Dalessandro is...
- 12/16/2011
- LRMonline.com
Cinemax has passed on Ridley Scott and Tony Scott's sci-fi drama pilot The Sector. The project, from the pair's production company Scott Free, focuses on a paramilitary unit that hunts down a dangerous breed of genetically-altered beings. The Sector may now be picked up by the Science network, according to Deadline. A new writer will also be hired to rework the original script by writers Aaron Benay and Matthew Benay. Former Criminal Minds showrunner Simon Mirren was attached to the project as an executive producer. Cinemax reportedly chose to drop The (more)...
- 8/31/2011
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
HBO, Tandem & Scott Free Team for Cinemax Crime Series The Sector, about Genetically Enhanced Humans
HBO, Tandem Communications and Scott Free Productions are developing an action-crime series to run on Cinemax. The one-hour series is "in the vein of Blade Runner/District 9" and "tracks the commander of a paramilitary unit who pursues a dangerous new race of genetically-enhanced humans." Criminal Minds's Simon Mirren will serve as exec-producer and showrunner for the project, from writer-creators Aaron Benay and Matthew Benay. Tandem is also behind Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth series, which also has a follow up series in the works with Scott Free, based on Follett's World Without End.
- 4/1/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Cinemax has picked up to series action-crime series The Sector, from Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free Prods. The project was created and written by Aaron Benay and Matthew Benay, with former Criminal Minds executive producer/showrunner Simon Mirren on board as exec producer/showrunner. The Sector had been in development at Cinemax with Anne Thomopoluos for several months. Now it's going forward, with German production company Tandem Communications set to produce with Scott Free. The Sector is described as an action-crime series in the vein of Blade Runner and District 9 which tracks the commander of a paramilitary unit who pursues a dangerous new race of genetically-enhanced humans. Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Anne Thomopoulos, Rola Bauer, David W. Zucker and Jonas Bauer are exec producing. This is the third straight-to-series pickup at Cinemax in the past couple of months following Strike Back and The Transporter.
- 4/1/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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