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  • Lionsgate and OddLot sign a pact

    Lionsgate and OddLot sign a pact

    MUMBAI: The two giants will be coming together for a multi-film deal commencing with Johny Depp starrer Mortdecai. The other movie the two are working on is Draft Day.

     

    The deal is to co-finance and distribute the films.

     

    OddLot has emerged as one of the most influential financing and production companies and currently has Rosewater in the bag that is Jon Stewart’s directorial debut.

     

    The deal was negotiated by Sean Kisker, David Friedman and Jean Chi from Lionsgate and Bill Lischak, Michael Nathanson, Aaron Michiel and Natalya Petrosova from OddLot.
    Mortdecai is set to begin its production end of the year while Draft Day is still under process.

  • Johny Depp set to star in own production

    Johny Depp set to star in own production

    MUMBAI: Illumination Entertainment‘s Christopher Meledandri and David Kennedy have tied up with Infinitum Nihil partner Christi Dembrowski and Johny Depp to make a film on the life of classic children‘s author and illustrator Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Geisel).

    Throughout his early years, Geisel drew advertising and comic strips, then political cartoons during World War II. By 1950, Geisel was publishing the books that became worldwide classics. He died of throat cancer in 1991.

    With Depp already having brought to life the Mad Hatter, Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie and Willy Wonka, the iconic Seuss seems a great fit for his chameleonic personality and recent desire to make family films.

    Universal, that will eventually distribute the film, paired with Illumination in last year‘s $543-million grossing Despicable Me, is in the post-production process of an animated adaptation of Seuss‘s The Lorax.