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MegFL wrote: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6544921.html
Hollywood Deals: Dave's Divorce Party and Delaney's Apprentice
-- Publishers Weekly, 3/26/2008 7:40:00 AM
Universal has optioned the rights to Laura Dave's May 2008 novel from Viking, The Divorce Party. Hollywood agent Sylvie Rabineau has brokered the deal with Echo Films, Jennifer Aniston and Kristin Hahn's new production company. Gwyn Lurie, who adapted Dave's debut novel, London Is the Best City In America for Reese Witherspoon, will again be on board as the screenwriter. Dave's literary agent is Gail Hochman at Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc.
Echo Films. Hm, I kind of like it. I hope this means we'll hear more about and that Jennifer and Kristin have fully started their projects now. |
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| MegFL |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:18 pm |
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Laura Dave, author of London is the Best City in America and The Divorce Party (Viking) joins Vulpes Libris�s Lisa Glass for a chat about writing (and catastrophic computer accidents), selling film rights to Universal Studios, and a new approach to Valentine�s Day�
Full interview:
http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/interview-with-the-fabulous-laura-dave/
I was surprised to learn that she's just 30 years old. |
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| Kathy Bear |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:30 pm |
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Found this on Laura Dave's blog..
UNIVERSAL PICKS UP THE MOVIE RIGHTS TO THE DIVORCE PARTY
Universal has optioned the rights to The Divorce Party with Echo Films, Jennifer Aniston's and Kristan Hahn's new (and awesome!) production company. Gwyn Lurie, who was the screenwriter for LONDON, will adapt The Divorce Party as well. Check out Publisher Weekly's announcement about the movie here: >>>>>UNIVERSAL OPTIONS THE DIVORCE PARTY
http://www.lauradave.com/page.php?category=05#49 |
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| Lekinha |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:03 pm |
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| This sounds really nice. |
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| ukca |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:17 pm |
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| Good for them that the production company is off the ground. |
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| eponine70 |
| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:27 am |
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Looks like Jennifer's production company is going full force. They've got a lot more films in the works.
Aniston, Hahn form Echo Films
Company has first-look deal with Universal
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Aniston
Jennifer Aniston and producing partner Kristin Hahn have formed Echo Films, a company that will start with a first-look deal at Universal Pictures.
Aniston and Hahn have already made several project acquisitions, most of which will be developed as star vehicles for Aniston.
The studio has just acquired screen rights to Jane Fallon's British bestseller "Getting Rid of Matthew," and Aniston and Hahn will produce with Lynda Obst and Marc Rosen. Fallon, a veteran U.K. TV producer who is married to Ricky Gervais, will adapt her novel about a hard-charging publicist whose lusty affair with a married man is ruined by his decision to leave his wife and two children for her. She invents a new persona, befriends the spurned wife and attempts to patch up the marriage up so she can be rid of him. In the process, she develops a thing for his oldest son.
Universal and Echo also have tapped the book market to acquire "The Divorce Party," a Laura Dave novel that Viking will publish in May, with Gwyn Lurie ("The Man Who Ate the 747") aboard to write the script. As a husband and wife reach their 35th wedding anniversary, they hold a party to announce their divorce. It creates complications for their son, who returns home with his commitment-shy fiancee.
Aniston and Hahn have made a script deal at U for "Counter-Clockwise," a script by Paul Bernbaum ("Next"). It's a true story based on a study conducted by Harvard prof and psychologist Ellen Langer in which she tried to reverse the aging process of subjects by re-creating the era of their prime. Aniston and Hahn will produce with Gina Mathews and Grant Scharbo. Echo has also has a U deal for "Love: Todd," a Kristen Stavola-scripted drama about an aging tennis pro-turned-coach who gets schooled by a precocious teen tennis phenom. Aniston will produce with Hahn, but isn't planning to act in the film.
The Echo partners have a deal at Overture for "Chemistry," a David Sussman-scripted dramedy centered around the fact that romantic love and obsessive compulsive disorder demonstrate similar brain chemistry.
They have a DreamWorks deal on "The Goree Girls," a fact-based adaptation of Skip Hollandsworth's Texas Monthly article about a falsely convicted woman who gives purpose to her fellow Texas inmates by starting one of America's first all-female bands. Aniston plans to star, and John Lee Hancock is rewriting a script by Margaret Nagle.
Aniston and Hahn have been working together since Aniston was a partner with Brad Pitt and Brad Grey in Plan B, and Hahn, an exec producer on "The Departed" and New Line's "The Time Traveler's Wife," co-directed the docu "Anthem."
Echo's emphasis will be on producing grounded, relatable material, the partners say.
"We particularly like working from books and real-life stories about distinct characters that embody something relatable and relevant about human nature's double-sided coin of vulnerability and mettle," Hahn said.
That theme prompted the company's name, Aniston said.
"We're drawn to stories about people finding their voice and finding their way because they help us as listeners and viewers do what we feel we're all trying to do, which is making sense of our lives through the stories of others," Aniston said. "That's why we chose the name Echo, to echo back an idea, a challenge, something that resonates through all of us."
Aniston is shooting the David Frankel-directed "Marley & Me" at Fox 2000 with Owen Wilson and has wrapped the Stephen Belber-directed "Management" for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, as well as several other pics.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983220.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562 |
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| Kathy Bear |
| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:34 am |
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 Thanks Robyn-they are sure hitting the ground running!!!  |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:43 am |
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| Thank you! I love the idea behind the name of the company. |
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| Julie. |
| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:47 am |
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Whoaaah! So many projects being developed, I'm so excited for them. Kristin has been doing an amazing job and Jen'll have something else to work on. Finally some of the projects we've heard about over the years are on the works. Yay!
Quote: "We particularly like working from books and real-life stories about distinct characters that embody something relatable and relevant about human nature's double-sided coin of vulnerability and mettle," Hahn said.
God bless them! Real-life and book based stories rule my world. |
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| Forever |
| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:26 am |
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| So Jen won't star in "Counter clockwise"??? that's so sad! I've been waiting for taht movie for years! |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:10 pm |
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Forever wrote: So Jen won't star in "Counter clockwise"??? that's so sad! I've been waiting for taht movie for years!
i maybe reading wrong but i didn't see that, it says she won't star in "love:Todd". |
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| RnR4eva |
| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:10 pm |
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| I'm still holding out for some other films she is/was suppose to producer and star in. |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:26 pm |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:37 pm |
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| love the name, it will be interesting to see the future projects |
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| jenfan629 |
| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:42 am |
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Hey! Where's my individual title?
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| wow, thanks so much for posting. They have so many projects and they all sound so good. At first I had no idea what the name meant but I'm glad they explained it and I love it. I really hope she stars in a few of them. |
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