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William Morris and Endeavor talks hinge on top billing

from the LA Times –
William Morris Agency and Endeavor have been in merger discussions for weeks, setting the stage for a new Hollywood powerhouse that would wield considerable clout in film, television, music and publishing. Buffeted by waning consumer demand for DVDs and undercut by the Internet, the entertainment industry is facing economic upheaval that is recasting the role agencies play behind the scenes for actors, writers and directors…
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New Houdini in the works?

Summit Entertainment has its eye on magician Harry Houdini. The studio has taken feature rights to “The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero,” a book from William Kalush and Larry Sloman.

The Houdini book was controversial upon its 2006 publishing thanks to insinuations that the magician had acted as a spy for Great Britain and asked to be an adviser to Czar Nicholas II’s court in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Summit does not intend to make a biopic and will rather look to fashion an action thriller featuring a character who is part Indiana Jones and part Sherlock Holmes, says THR.

The studio is looking for writers to adapt the book. Although Houdini has long interested Hollywood, only a few projects have made it to theaters including 1953’s “Houdini” with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh and 2008’s “Death Defying Acts” starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

H.R.GIGER AT WORK

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter

The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft

Title: The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft
Logline: Story borrows elements from horror author HP Lovecraft’s life, such as his family’s struggle with mental illness and his own bouts with writer’s block, and transforms the young writer’s darkest nightmares into reality when he comes across a book that puts a curse on him and lets the evils he conjures up loose on the world.
Writer: Mac Carter
Studio: Universal Pictures
Prod. Co: Imagine Entertainment
Genre: Horror
Logged: 3/26/2009
More: Image Comics’ graphic novel by Mac Carter & Jeff Blitz, Carter will adapt. Imagine’s Ron Howard & Brian Grazer will produce. Imagine’s David Bernardi & Chris Wade will co-produce. Carter & Blitz will executive produce. Howard may also direct.

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