Ryan Kavanaugh has put Relativity Media up for sale. The news comes after the company’s first post-bankruptcy wide release, the long-shelved Zack Galifianakis-Kristen Wiig comedy Masterminds, bombed at the box office over the weekend, taking in just $6.6 million from over 2,000 screens. Relativity has hired EMP and Zolfo Cooper to handle the sale.
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Post-bankruptcy Relativity Studios is looking to rise from the ashes with a remake of the four-time Oscar-winning 1952 Western, High Noon.
A modern remake of the 1952 classic which will take which will be set in the present day along the cartel-controlled U.S.-Mexico border.
Logline: Forced back into action after a rogue special ops team murders her husband, a super-spy who traded in her legendary career for a normal life, embarks on a bloody quest for vengeance that leads to the highest rungs of government, uncovering a secret that could shake the foundations of American democracy. John Wick meets Salt.
Follows a divorced ex-pro skateboarder who is broke and crashing on the couch of a semi-famous actress. All the while, he is trying to be a part-time dad and maintain his failing skateboard shop.
As Ryan Kavanaugh steers Relativity out of Chapter 11, he is turning to Trigger Street’s Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti to guide the company’s resurgence.
A Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio finds their world rocked after the middle daughter is found dead.
Relativity Media has optioned Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You. The New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2014 has also been named Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014.
The Oscar nominated actress will lead the film based on the best selling autism memoir by Kristine Barnett.
The reboot of the character previously portrayed by Chevy Chase has changed studios.
Logline: Feeling guilty about his father’s death and watching the love of his life go blind in an accident, a man travels the world through the fall of the Berlin Wall, Desert Storm, the LA riots and 9/11.
Logline: A teenage exorcist attempts to balance her normal life with her duty to help those afflicted by evil, as she has the power to enter the bodies of the possessed and physically fight off their demonic entities.
Logline: Based on the true story of Joey Ippolito, who, in the early 1980’s, was known as one of the world’s top speedboat racers. However, no one in that South Beach, socialite-crowd knew that he also was running one of the biggest cocaine smuggling operations out of the United States. Pitched as a two-hander for a DiCaprio/Hemsworth type.
Logline: Based upon the lives of former U.S. Navy SEALs-turned CIA contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, who were killed while saving American lives during the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
The hot new comedy spec lands into two new major territories!
The hot new comedy spec heads into more territories!
A round-up of today’s distribution sales, deals, and awards at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
A round-up of today’s distribution sales at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Logline: The true story of Mike Evans and the against-all-odds championship season of the Belfast Blazers, a team made up of at-risk teens and natural born enemies from the Catholic and Protestant ghettos of Northern Ireland. Based on Playing for Peace by Mike Evans.
Logline: The true story of Benny Binion- cowboy, pioneering casino owner, gangster, murderer, founder of the World Series of Poker, and the man who helped to shape modern Vegas.
A round-up of the week’s TV news!
Logline: Centers on a hitman and a cop who team up to stop a Philadelphia child prositution ring.
The Chinese company will develop and produce local versions of Relativity’s films.
Logline: Follows a TV news crew doing a story on a day in the life of two prison guards but when a prison riot breaks out, they find themselves stuck inside with a group of incompetent guards.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as being a reverse “Training Day.”
Logline: Follows two young lovers who are separated during the Nazi invasion of Prague just before World War II. Years later, and miles apart, the pair reconnect and explore the power of love and the enduring strength of the human spirit.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
The “American History X” writer’s latest focuses on military dogs.
