Will we see an Annapurna Pictures bankruptcy scenario? THR says the company is exploring that, but founder Megan Ellison seems optimistic about the future.
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Annapurna released some great movies in 2018, but all but one ended up being box office flops.
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Annapurna Pictures founder Megan Ellison is "reevaluating" the company's film division in the wake of some recent financial disappointments.
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Today, Annapurna Pictures announced they will distribute Laika's next film in the United States. The animation studio is known for their stop-motion projects, and their newest effort will star Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana, and Zach Galifianakis.
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A 2016 election TV series is in the works, from Zero Dark Thirty writer Mark Boal and producer Megan Ellison of Annapurna Pictures.
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Annapurna Pictures is now in the business of distributing and marketing films. The untitled new Kathryn Bigelow film is the first movie they'll distribute.
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Learn all about the new Richard Linklater Cate Blanchett movie. Blanchett is in talks for the title role in Where'd You Go, Bernadette?.
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It took a year for the vampire western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night to really build momentum after its Sundance debut last year, but the debut feature from writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour has really made an impression on people now. We've talked about her as a director we're very excited to watch going forward,…
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Richard Linklater is using the momentum he built with Before Midnight and Boyhood to finally move forward on That's What I'm Talking About, the film that has been described as a "spiritual sequel" to Dazed & Confused. It's not an actual sequel, but a 1980-set film that follows set of characters as they go to…
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Megan Ellison may save The Revenant. Alejandro González Iñárritu's upcoming revenge drama is in financial peril as one of its backers has dropped out.
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Rooney Mara will produce and possibly star in the A House in the Sky movie, based on Amanda Lindhout's account of her kidnapping by terrorists in Somalia.
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Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures was the one that got the ball rolling on the new Terminator movie in the first place, beating out Lionsgate to pick up the rights back in 2011. And the project's made some significant progress lately, picking up cast members and a director. But as pre-production comes along, Annapurna has decided…
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Paramount is about to add another massive franchise to its stable. Last week, sources revealed the studio reacquired the full rights to make new Friday the 13th and South Park movies and now, they're in negotiations to acquire distribution rights for the Terminator franchise. Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures and David Ellison's Skydance Productions own the…
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Briefly: Harmony Korine's latest film, Spring Breakers, is a huge success in limited release, earning a $90k per-screen average on the few screens it hit this past weekend. That may not sound like much, compared to far bigger and more excessively marketed releases, but the movie is already Korine's most successful -- the earnings from…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger took a few years off from acting so he could properly govern the state of California, but now that the hiatus is over he seems to have picked up where he left off. Like, exactly where he left off. His upcoming slate includes new sequels to Twins and Conan the Barbarian, and now…
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Just as promised, the Terminator will be back. Progress on Terminator 5 has been on-again, off-again for the past couple of years, but now it's picking back up with the hiring of writers Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier. While the pair have yet to complete any projects together, they've collaborated on a couple of things that…
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The team behind The Master and Zero Dark Thirty has agreed to bring a recent popular novel to the big screen, and they've got some high-end indie screenwriters to make it work. Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures has teamed up with Hunger Games producing team Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson to purchase the rights to Where'd…
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The Terminator is a family deal once more. Way back in the '80s, the original film was created by James Cameron, who sold the rights to budding producer Gale Anne Hurd to get the project made. The two later married, but various business deals over the years (not to mention their eventual divorce) saw the Terminator…
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The last we heard of Sony's American Bullshit, David O. Russell's reps were adamantly denying his involvement in the picture, as well as the rumor that he'd cast his The Fighter star Christian Bale in the lead role. As of today, however, it seems that not only are Russell and Bale indeed attached, they're about to…
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One of the great mysteries of the 2012 movie calendar is whether or not Paul Thomas Anderson's highly anticipated film, The Master, would be released this year. The Weinstein Company will handle domestic distribution and, as was once again evidenced a few weeks back, they're masters at Oscar campaigning. Anderson's film, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix…
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In 2010, after the original incarnation of John Hillcoat's The Wettest County had collapsed, the director was eyeing the Black List script Triple Nine, with Shia LaBeouf attached to star. The Matt Cooke script sounds like a taut cop/heist thriller, and as such a slight departure for Hillcoat -- it would be a more overtly…
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After a couple years of slow-moving development, progress on Terminator 5 suddenly picked up earlier this year. Arnold Schwarzenegger and director Justin Lin both came aboard, indie financier Megan Ellison grabbed the rights and Lin began talking up what he'd like to see in the next installment of the franchise. In fact, the problem now…
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Briefly: And things get interesting. Megan Ellison's company Annapurna Pictures has won the auction for rights to make future films in the Terminator franchise, beating out LionsGate and becoming the producers behind Justin Lin and Arnold Schwarzenegger's potential Terminator sequel. Deadline says the company now has rights to make "at least two more" films in…
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And, just like that, I'm interested in a Terminator movie once more. An auction is going on now in which the rights to produce a new Terminator film are changing hands (yes, again) and LionsGate was emerging as the presumptive winner. But now Annapurna Pictures, the production company run by Megan Ellison, is trying to…
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This article could have an alternate title: Megan Ellison, movie savior. Allow me to explain. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, has two children with movie business aspirations. David Ellison appeared in Flyboys, was trying to get that Taylor Lautner movie Northern Lights made, and he put up some of the money for Paramount films like…
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