Exclusive: In the second whopping film pitch package deal of the day, Amazon and MGM Studios won Best of Enemies, an adaptation of the spy thriller that will star Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale, with Eric Warren Singer scripting and Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven producing. They all worked together on the 2013 Best Picture nominee American Hustle.
Cooper, drawing raves for his latest directing outing Maestro, is a possible to direct the film, but that hasn’t been settled yet.
Sources said that, like the untitled Ryan Reynolds pitch that was won by Netflix today, Best of Enemies had eight bidders in the mix, with Amazon and Warner Bros going down to the wire. The deal is high-seven figures for the writer and producer. It will be a theatrical release.
Best of Enemies might be the biggest pitch deal of the entire year, especially given the mid-seven figures Amazon MGM...
Cooper, drawing raves for his latest directing outing Maestro, is a possible to direct the film, but that hasn’t been settled yet.
Sources said that, like the untitled Ryan Reynolds pitch that was won by Netflix today, Best of Enemies had eight bidders in the mix, with Amazon and Warner Bros going down to the wire. The deal is high-seven figures for the writer and producer. It will be a theatrical release.
Best of Enemies might be the biggest pitch deal of the entire year, especially given the mid-seven figures Amazon MGM...
- 12/14/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated: Amazon MGM Studios has won the bidding war for “Best of Enemies,” which is planned as a theatrical release. Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale will team up again to star in “Best of Enemies” for Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven. Ten years ago, Cooper and Bale starred in David O. Russell’s “American Hustle,” which Roven produced.
Cooper could be in consideration to direct as well as star, reported Deadline, which broke the news of the Amazon MGM acquisition.
Eric Warren Singer, who wrote “American Hustle,” will pen the script. It’s an adaptation of “Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War,” which was written by Eric Dezenhall and Gus Russo. Madison Weireter and Ryan Sanak will be part of the production team on behalf of Atlas.
Cooper is in the midst of a busy awards season, having produced, co-written, directed and starred in “Maestro,...
Cooper could be in consideration to direct as well as star, reported Deadline, which broke the news of the Amazon MGM acquisition.
Eric Warren Singer, who wrote “American Hustle,” will pen the script. It’s an adaptation of “Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War,” which was written by Eric Dezenhall and Gus Russo. Madison Weireter and Ryan Sanak will be part of the production team on behalf of Atlas.
Cooper is in the midst of a busy awards season, having produced, co-written, directed and starred in “Maestro,...
- 12/8/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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