EXCLUSIVE: Gal Gadot is in talks to star in Ruin, a Justin Kurzel-directed drama. Backed by Marc Butan’s MadRiver Pictures, the film has hopes of an early 2018 production start. That would enable Gadot to make the movie before starting work in the Patty Jenkins-directed Wonder Woman 2, a film likely to start next…

MadRiver Pictures has acquired rights to Charles Cumming's original idea The Plane, a high-concept action-thriller whose longline is being kept under wraps. Cumming is the author of eight spy novels whose work is making it to both the big and little screen. The Plane is being developed as a feature film. MadRiver's Mar…

EXCLUSIVE: Marc Butan, who runs Megan Ellison’s foreign sales division Panorama Media,  is leaving to join sales-finance-production outfit Sierra/Affinity as co-president. He will share the president role with Sierra/Affinity’s Marc Schaberg who will be co-president and COO. Sierra/Affinity’s Nick Meyer and Butan…

Los Angeles, CA – April 26, 2012 – Annapurna Pictures, Megan Ellison's nascent production company, has agreed to back Panorama Media, a new production, financing, and international sales entity based in Los Angeles. Panorama will be run by company President Marc Butan and its Head of International Sales Kimberly…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Niccol has been set as the director of The Host, directing his scripted adaptation of the bestselling novel by Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer. The project, which is being shopped here at Cannes by Inferno Entertainment and producers Nick Wechsler and Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz, will s…

EXCLUSIVE: Saoirse Ronan has been set to star in The Host, the screen adaptation of the bestselling novel by Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer. Scripted by Andrew Niccol, the film figures to be one of the hot titles when Inferno launches sales at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival next week. Niccol, who was originally…