EXCLUSIVE: Bold Films will finance the Margot Robbie project Dangerous Odds in which the I, Tonya Best Actress Oscar nominee will play cleaning lady-turned-illegal sports betting empire boss Marisa Lankester. The project was picked up in turnaround from Warner Bros., where Robbie’s production company LuckyChap…

Independent production and finance company Bold Films, who is known for taking chances on new filmmakers and pumping out some high-quality films, laid off about half of their staff on Friday which included senior VP production and development executive Lisa Zambri who is pregnant. Another who has left is creative…

EXCLUSIVE: Indie production-finance company Bold Films has signed a first-look deal with management/production company Industry Entertainment to develop feature films. The newly formed partnership adds to recent production deals on Bold Films' résumé which includes Ben Stiller's Red Hour and Jake Gyllenhaal's Nine Stor…

Bold Films said it has renewed its agreement with Comerica Bank and the institution has allowed them a revolving line of credit and a $50M dollar debt facility that extends for three years. The deal will provide financing for the independent studio to produce four to six films a year and ramp up their TV slate. Bold…

Saban Films — which last week picked up the rights to Alexandros Avranas' True Crimes starring Jim Carrey and also grabbed John Stockwell's sci-fi thriller Armed Response from WWE Studios, Gene Simmons and Erebus Pictures — has just acquired another project. This latest is director Ric Roman Waugh's crime drama Shot Ca…

Writer-director-producer Ben Younger is set to follow up his boxing biopic Bleed for This with Isle of Man for De Luca Productions. Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters and Michael De Luca are producing and Bold Films is funding the film, details of which are under wraps. The deal was announced tonight at the Toronto…

Jake Gyllenhaal and the production company behind his critically-acclaimed turn in Nightcrawler are joining together to bring a popular crime novel to the big screen. Nine Stories which has a first-look deal with its partner Bold Films are developing a feature adpatation of Jo Nesbo's crime novel The Son with Sicario…

Bold Films, the indie film financier behind the Keira Knightley biopic Colette and Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive, has inked multi-year output deals in the UK and Ireland with Icon Film Distribution and in Canada via Elevation Pictures. Both of those deals were brokered by Sierra/Affinity and further solidify existing…

Everybody has an origin story, including the  world’s most famous doll. Bold Films said today that it will finance and produce Barbie and Ruth, the tale of the toy that forever changed an industry — and the visionary woman behind it. Reese Witherspoon is being eyed for the starring role of Barbie creator Ruth…

Bold Films is stepping into the YA ring with the acquisition of Patrick Carman's 2010 novel 13 Days To Midnight. Combining themes of super powers, ancient conspiracies and growing into adulthood, the story is a dark morality tale centered on Jacob Fielding, a teenager who receives incredible power when his foster…

Red Hour is teaming with Bold Films to produce a slate of film, TV and digital projects, with producer/executive Nicky Weinstock joining Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld’s now-indie company, which previously had a deal at 20th Century Fox. As part of the deal, Red Hour’s offices will fold into Bold Films’ L.A. and N.Y…

After a successful collaboration on the critically-acclaimed feature Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal and Bold Films have joined hands in a first-look deal where the actor will acquire and develop new material. The deal was just announced by Bold Films CEO Gary Michael Walters and comes just weeks after the actor’s turn…