Millennium Films decided to dress up its Saturday-night Croisette party on Baoli Beach with $100 million worth of decoration. While ostensibly celebrating the company’s new Gerard Butler action thriller “White House Taken,” Millennium chairman Avi Lerner took the opportunity to announce a new three-year, $100-million co-financing and co-production partnership with West Coast Film Partners. The deal calls for the two companies to collaborate on two or three films per year beginning with the Antoine Fuqua-directed “White House Taken,” which features Butler as a disgraced Secret Service agent who fights back when North Koreans take over the White House. Lerner, partner Trevor Short, Mark Gill and Lonnie Ramati negotiated the deal for Millennium with West Coast CEO Klay Shroedel and president Stefan Gray, and Gary Concoff of Troy Gould on behalf of West Coast, an equity fund and production company based in Germany, the U.K. and L.A. ...
- 5/19/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
In two weeks, Hollywood might be stranded by the side of the road.
A labor drama playing out behind closed doors could lead to an Aug. 1 strike by thousands of transportation workers, which could shut down most television and film productions in Los Angeles and possibly elsewhere.
If it seems unlikely, think again: The Teamsters' contract with the studios expires at the end of July, and negotiations appear to be at an impasse. Sources close to both the union and the producers say neither side will budge.
"If they're counting on the producers caving, that's the wrong strategy," a studio-side source said. "A strike is entirely possible."
The low-profile Teamsters Local 399 represents several thousand drivers who move everything from production equipment to star trailers and electrical generators. No drivers means no equipment, and no equipment means no film or TV production.
The Teamsters also represent casting directors and others, and...
A labor drama playing out behind closed doors could lead to an Aug. 1 strike by thousands of transportation workers, which could shut down most television and film productions in Los Angeles and possibly elsewhere.
If it seems unlikely, think again: The Teamsters' contract with the studios expires at the end of July, and negotiations appear to be at an impasse. Sources close to both the union and the producers say neither side will budge.
"If they're counting on the producers caving, that's the wrong strategy," a studio-side source said. "A strike is entirely possible."
The low-profile Teamsters Local 399 represents several thousand drivers who move everything from production equipment to star trailers and electrical generators. No drivers means no equipment, and no equipment means no film or TV production.
The Teamsters also represent casting directors and others, and...
- 7/18/2010
- by By Jonathan Handel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The future of CBS' "Two and a Half Men" has become Topic A in Hollywood since production on the series was put on hold Tuesday after star Charlie Sheen checked himself into rehab.
Attention is focusing on Sheen-related contracts for the show. Two important deal provisions -- the "morals clause" in Sheen's contract with producer Warner Bros. TV and the "key man" language in the show's insurance policy -- might be driving forces behind what happens next with the sitcom.
As TV's top-rated comedy, "Men" is a cash cow, so CBS and Wbtv have an incentive to keep the show going as long as possible. But Sheen, who also faces charges stemming from a Christmas Day arrest for assault in Aspen, Colo., might not return as quickly as the net and production company would like. Which raises the question: Who's responsible for any financial hit from Sheen's absence?
Wbtv and...
Attention is focusing on Sheen-related contracts for the show. Two important deal provisions -- the "morals clause" in Sheen's contract with producer Warner Bros. TV and the "key man" language in the show's insurance policy -- might be driving forces behind what happens next with the sitcom.
As TV's top-rated comedy, "Men" is a cash cow, so CBS and Wbtv have an incentive to keep the show going as long as possible. But Sheen, who also faces charges stemming from a Christmas Day arrest for assault in Aspen, Colo., might not return as quickly as the net and production company would like. Which raises the question: Who's responsible for any financial hit from Sheen's absence?
Wbtv and...
- 2/24/2010
- by By Matthew Belloni and Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As we reported, Hilary Duff and NBC inked a deal to create a new show for Universal Media Studios. Hilary Duff will star in the half-hour comedy about the true life of Kathleen Holtz. In November of 2007, at the tender age of 18, Kathleen Holtz passed the California state bar and became the state's youngest lawyer in history. Hilary Duff will play Kathleen Holtz in NBC's latest comedy that follows the life of the youngest lawyer in California. The show will follow the life of eighteen-year-old Holtz who was a first-year associate at Troy Gould at the age of seventeen. Holtz enrolled at Cal State at the age of ten and enrolled in UCLA Law School at the age of only fifteen, where she was a member of the Law Review. Little is known yet about the scheduling,...
- 1/12/2009
- PopStar
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