EXCLUSIVE: Marc Butan’s MadRiver Pictures has acquired LA-based film and TV production outfit Adaptive Studios, we can reveal, in a deal which will see MadRiver absorb Adaptive's existing IP library and assets. Adaptive Studios co-founder Marc Joubert will join MadRiver, overseeing Adaptive’s existing library, with…

EXCLUSIVE: The Kindergarten Teacher‘s Sara Colangelo has been set to direct MadRiver Pictures’ true-life biographical drama What Is Life Worth. As Deadline reported out of the EFM last year, Michael Keaton is starring in the project; Stanley Tucci has also now joined to co-star. Principal photography is set to begin…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Michael Keaton is in negotiations to star in real-life inspirational drama, What Is Life Worth. David Frankel is directing from Max Borenstein’s 2008 Black List script that’s based on Kenneth Feinberg’s acclaimed memoir recounting the inside story of the 9/11 Fund and its effort to compensate…

EXCLUSIVE: After a successful collaboration on Peter Landesman's Felt starring Liam Neeson, Endurance Media and MadRiver Pictures have inked a multi-picture co-financing and co-production deal. As part of the pact, Endurance and MadRiver will co-finance and co-produce three major titles, with the Johnny Depp-starrer Ki…

BREAKING: MadRiver Pictures has acquired the feature film rights to Manuel Gonzales' debut novel The Regional Office Is Under Attack, an action comedy about a secret organization of young female operatives tasked with protecting an unknowing Earth from a constant barrage of alien threats. Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, G…

In a surprise Cannes move, sales companies Insiders and MadRiver Pictures are forming a joint venture called IMR International. The new entity will handle international sales across all Insiders and MadRiver films and aim to offer 12-16 films a year. The news was announced today by Insiders’ Vincent Maraval and…

Arnold Schwarzenegger is about to be in multiple assassins’ cross hairs. He is set to star as the target in Why We’re Killing Gunther, a comedy from writer-director Taran Killam, who also will star alongside wife Cobie Smulders, fellow Saturday Night Live player Bobby Moynihan and others. The…

Open Road Films and MadRiver Pictures have signed a non-exclusive production alliance for all of Open Road Films' inside productions over the coming years. Marc Butan’s MadRiver Pictures will work with Open Road's team to source and oversee production of Open Road Films' in-house productions, with the plan to produce…