The founder of Dda Public Relations and head of Dda Consulting is to serve as external special advisor Medient Studios.
Chairman Manu Kumaran announced (5) that in his role Davidson will counsel Kumaran across all Medient’s businesses including the Studioplex, and guide on corporate PR strategy.
Medient, which recently acquired German sales company Atlas International Film and pledged $700m to the Georgia-based Studioplex in the Us, plans to acquire more corporate components pursuant to its global ambitions.
“Dennis’ success as a marketing professional and as an entrepreneur is a matter of public record,” said Kumaran. “His acumen and rolodex will add a whole new dimension to the Medient story.”
“I am very impressed by Manu’s vision and the international team that he has assembled to fulfil it and so I’m delighted to become his outside consultant, across the whole business,” said Davidson.
The special advisor will work alongside Medient’s team comprising, among others...
Chairman Manu Kumaran announced (5) that in his role Davidson will counsel Kumaran across all Medient’s businesses including the Studioplex, and guide on corporate PR strategy.
Medient, which recently acquired German sales company Atlas International Film and pledged $700m to the Georgia-based Studioplex in the Us, plans to acquire more corporate components pursuant to its global ambitions.
“Dennis’ success as a marketing professional and as an entrepreneur is a matter of public record,” said Kumaran. “His acumen and rolodex will add a whole new dimension to the Medient story.”
“I am very impressed by Manu’s vision and the international team that he has assembled to fulfil it and so I’m delighted to become his outside consultant, across the whole business,” said Davidson.
The special advisor will work alongside Medient’s team comprising, among others...
- 6/5/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: 20th Century Fox had acquired Riders On The Storm, a pitch for an action film that will be written by Sean O’Keefe. The story follows a sophisticated heist crew that pulls off high-end robberies during severe weather events. The deal was worth mid-six figures. Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox are producing with Richard Leibowitz of Union Entertainment. The project originated as a video game concept hatched by Richard Wickliffe. Union Entertainment was going to turn it into a vidgame, but instead it morphed into the feature pitch that had several studios interested when ICM pitched it. O’Keefe split up with writing partner Will Staples, but they are working together on a rewrite of the Lorenzo Carcaterra novel Apaches for Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney. They also wrote World’s Most Wanted for Neal Moritz and Universal and an Alaskan adventure movie for Walden Media and producer Mark Johnson.
- 10/28/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Breaking: Lionsgate has acquired movie rights to Dead Island, the Deep Silver video game about vacationers on an island paradise who are attacked by zombies. A teaser trailer released last February depicting a family fighting off the undead started a rights chase for a video game that was released in September by Techland for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It has sold 2 million units so far. The teaser got 1 million hits in 24 hours. At the time, the rights were shopped by Sean Daniel Company’s Daniel and Jason Brown and Union Entertainment’s Richard Leibowitz and Dmitri Johnson, but there was a big dispute over who actually had the rights. The dust has settled and Daniel, who produced The Mummy series, is the only one of that original team that survived in this configuration. He’ll produce with Stefan Sonnenfeld, a top post-production guy. “Like the hundreds of journalists and millions of...
- 9/27/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Over the past week, one big question in horror and video game circles has been: will there or will there not be a movie based on the game Dead Island? (Or, at least, based on the trailer for the game.) We heard that film rights had been sold, then heard that the story of the rights sale may have been exaggerated. Now there is a much more detailed statement from one of the major players, seemingly confirming that guns were jumped and a movie won't be in the works just yet. The La Times [1] talked to Malte Wagener, head of global business development for Koch Media, which owns game publisher Deep Silver. He says, There are a lot of different stories out there but the bottom line is that neither Union nor Sean Daniel has ever talked to Koch Media. Richard [Leibowitz, of Union] and [game developer] Techland agree there was never any rights. There...
- 2/23/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
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Even though there's no script or any creative attachments, the hot movie project of the week has to be Dead Island. It's a videogame that won't be released until November by Techland by X-Box 360 and PlayStation 3. There's a stampede for screen rights that was prompted by a teaser trailer that sets a most touching context to a flesh-eating zombie premise. The teaser got 1 million hits in 24 hours. Lucky for producers Sean Daniel Company's Daniel and Jason Brown and Union Entertainment's Richard Leibowitz and Dmitri Johnson, they corralled the screen rights nearly a year ago. Studios and agencies are all over them, suggesting talent packages and story lines to try and make a screen deal. That will likely happen in the next week or so. The film will will follow a Memento-like storyline, even though the video game does not. Daniel knows his way around a big ticket movie,...
- 2/19/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Exclusive Producer Sean Daniel and Union Entertainment are sitting on the rights to one of the hottest properties on the internet: the video game "Dead Island." Daniel's Sean Daniel Company, along with Union Entertainment President Richard Leibowitz and producer Dmitri Johnson, have been tracking the game's development for several years, and acquired rights to it in 2009, TheWrap has learned. A compelling -- and sort of disturbing -- trailer for "Dead Island" was released this week. Since then, it's gotten more than 1.5 million views. The trailer is graphic and dramatic, with appropriately creepy...
- 2/18/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
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Lionsgate has recruited director Jose Padilha and screenwriter Braulio Mantovani for its action thriller "Agent in Place."
The project springs from a forthcoming video game created by Flint Dille and co-developed with Union Entertainment. Lionsgate acquired worldwide film rights to the game.
Lionsgate production president Alli Shearmur will produce with Union president Richard Leibowitz. Dille and Union's Dan Jevons will exec produce, and Stars Road Entertainment also might come aboard.
Execs Jim Miller and Shearmur, who developed the project as a producer before joining Lionsgate, are overseeing for the studio.
The Gersh-repped Padilha and the CAA-repped Mantovani co-wrote the 2007 crime drama "Elite Squad," which Padilha directed. Separately, Mantovani wrote "City of God," and Padilha wrote and directed "Bus 174."
"Jose and Braulio have injected fresh energy, grit and insight into stories of ordinary human beings caught up in dangerous and desperate criminal situations," Shearmur said.
Lionsgate has released "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail,...
The project springs from a forthcoming video game created by Flint Dille and co-developed with Union Entertainment. Lionsgate acquired worldwide film rights to the game.
Lionsgate production president Alli Shearmur will produce with Union president Richard Leibowitz. Dille and Union's Dan Jevons will exec produce, and Stars Road Entertainment also might come aboard.
Execs Jim Miller and Shearmur, who developed the project as a producer before joining Lionsgate, are overseeing for the studio.
The Gersh-repped Padilha and the CAA-repped Mantovani co-wrote the 2007 crime drama "Elite Squad," which Padilha directed. Separately, Mantovani wrote "City of God," and Padilha wrote and directed "Bus 174."
"Jose and Braulio have injected fresh energy, grit and insight into stories of ordinary human beings caught up in dangerous and desperate criminal situations," Shearmur said.
Lionsgate has released "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail,...
- 6/3/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- It didn't take long for the filmmaker behind the brilliant 2002 documentary film Bus 174 and the Golden Bear winning Elite Squad to follow the beckon call from the promised land called Hollywood. Jose Padilha hasn't even starting lensing his first English language film and yet he has managed to sign up for four projects including today's mention. Attached to direct A Willing Patriot for Warner Bros., Marching Powder for Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and poised to officially make his debut with Universal Pictures' The Sigma Protocol later in the year, we can now add a video game feature to the possible mix as he and his writing partner Braulio Mantovani have struck a deal with Lionsgate to adapt Agent in Place. The character-driven action thriller based on the game by Flint Dille and developed with Union Entertainment will be produced by Lionsgate production prexy Alli Shearmur and Union Entertainment prexy Richard Leibowitz.
- 6/3/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Variety reports that Lionsgate has hired Jose Padilha to direct, and Braulio Mantovani to write Agent in Place , a live-action feature based on the upcoming video game created by Flint Dille and developed with Union Entertainment. Pic will be produced by Lionsgate production president Alli Shearmur and Union Entertainment president Richard Leibowitz. Dille and Dan Jevons will be executive producers. The film is described by Lionsgate as a character-driven action thriller based on the game by Dille, who previously hatched "Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay" and "Dead to Rights." Padilha and Mantovani previously teamed on Elite Squad . While Mantovani is off writing the script, Padilha is preparing to next direct The Sigma Protocol , an...
- 6/3/2009
- Comingsoon.net
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20th Century Fox has been hit by "Zero-G".
The studio has pre-emptively picked up the rights to a sci-fi thriller video game concept from Union Entertainment. The film project is being produced by Union Entertainment's Richard Leibowitz, Temple Hill Entertainment's Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen and the Gotham Group's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein.
"Zero-G" will be based on the game created by Daniel Jevons that's still a work in progress. It revolves around a major U.S. city being attacked by a devastating, never-before-seen weapon. The studio is eyeing the project as a tentpole.
The deal marks the first videogame-to-film project for Union, whose game credits include 2007's "The Darkness" and the upcoming "Sin City" based on Frank Miller's graphic novels.
Temple Hill produced "The Nativity Story" and is in post on the Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy "Management".
Gotham Group, which recently produced "The Spiderwick Chronicles", has been slowly moving beyond its base of animation fare, setting up such projects such as "The Devil You Know" with Shawn Levy's 21 Laps Entertainment banner at Fox and "Monster Zoo" at Paramount.
The studio has pre-emptively picked up the rights to a sci-fi thriller video game concept from Union Entertainment. The film project is being produced by Union Entertainment's Richard Leibowitz, Temple Hill Entertainment's Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen and the Gotham Group's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein.
"Zero-G" will be based on the game created by Daniel Jevons that's still a work in progress. It revolves around a major U.S. city being attacked by a devastating, never-before-seen weapon. The studio is eyeing the project as a tentpole.
The deal marks the first videogame-to-film project for Union, whose game credits include 2007's "The Darkness" and the upcoming "Sin City" based on Frank Miller's graphic novels.
Temple Hill produced "The Nativity Story" and is in post on the Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy "Management".
Gotham Group, which recently produced "The Spiderwick Chronicles", has been slowly moving beyond its base of animation fare, setting up such projects such as "The Devil You Know" with Shawn Levy's 21 Laps Entertainment banner at Fox and "Monster Zoo" at Paramount.
- 4/28/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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