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Known for his aggressive buying tactics – The Weinstein Co.
co-head Harvey Weinstein locked up the rights
to Gillian Armstrong’s fictionalized Harry Houdini biopic during the final hours of the American Film Market. Variety reports that the film should preem at the Festival de Cannes in May and hit theatres in fall of 2007.
Written by Tony Grisoni and Brian Ward, Death Defying Acts is based on true events during the escape artist Harry Houdini’s 1926 tour of Britain, the film chronicles the tumultuous love affair between the famed magician (Guy Pearce
) and a psychic (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who tries to con him by holding a seance to contact his dead mother.
Gillian Armstrong the director behind Charlotte Gray, My Brilliant Career and The Last Days of Chez Nous has just wrapped principal photography and is now in postproduction with the project.
