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A ‘Wild’ Comedy for 2007
Another big buy for the Weinstein's - the company bought all the rights to the highly contested Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show. The deal was signed for just below $3 million, a surprisingly low figure, but could do wonders for Vaughn's career (the Weinstein's made him famous ten years ago with Swingers).
The Weinstein Boys ‘Love Mandy Lane’
Despite the slow start to this year's Toronto International Film Festival, the Weinstein company has begun shelling out money - picking up the pace and the competition. Almost immediately after its midnight screening, the Weinstein's signed for Jonathan Levine's All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. According to insiders the picture was sold for between $3 million and $4 million and will be released on the firm's Dimension Films
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MGM comes to the ‘Rescue Dawn’
Let the games begin! The first high profile film without a distributor to find a taker at this year’s TiFF is the Christian Bale and Steve Zahn-starrer Vietnam War drama. MGM picked up the North American rights to the project and will release the film theatrically this coming December.
Trio are ‘Smart People’
Hours after announcing that The Station Agent’s Tom McCarthy will direct The Visitor, Michael London's Groundswell will go into co-production with Bill Block's QED International and Grosvenor Park. The project produced by Michael Costigan, Bridget Johnson and Bruna Papandrea will be Noam Murro directorial debut with stars Dennis Quaid, Rachel Weisz and Thomas Haden Church to make their way to the city of Pittsburgh for the first week of November for shooting.
