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Picturehouse and New Line International acquire world-wide rights to Amusement
Suspense, Horror Pic to be Directed by John Simpson from a script by Jake Wade Wall
NEW YORK, May 23, 2006 — Picturehouse and New Line International have acquired world-wide rights to the suspense, horror film Amusement to be directed by John Simpson (Freeze Frame) from a script by Jake Wade Wall (When a Stranger Calls, The Hitcher). The deal was announced today by Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse, Rolf Mittweg, president and COO of New Line Worldwide Distribution and Marketing and Camela Galano, president of New Line International.
Amusement is a terrifying exploration into three seemingly different women's own, unique versions of fear. It’s a twisting, horrifying journey, which brings these strangers together for a far more malevolent plan.
The film is an Edelstein/Macari Production. Partners Mike Macari and Neal Edelstein will serve as producers. Senior Vice President of Acquisitions for Picturehouse, Sara Rose, Merideth Finn, Vice President of Production and Acquisitions for New Line and Picturehouse executive Lindsay Crain will oversee the production, which is set to begin later this year.
"Amusement shows the diversity of product that will be released under the Picturehouse banner,” said Berney. “John Simpson brings a visceral cinematic style to a classic horror script from Jake Wall.”
MacariEdelstein Productions previously produced the box-office hits The Ring and The Ring Two. They are currently in post-production on the David S. Goyer (Blade 3, co-writer Batman Begins) thriller The Invisible, which will be released later this year by Touchstone Pictures/Spyglass Entertainment. Next fall, MacariEdelstein will produce Kung Fu High School for the Weinstein Co. Neal Edelstein was also a producer on David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and A Straight Story.
The deal was brokered on behalf of Picturehouse by Carolyn Blackwood, Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and Co-Productions, New Line and negotiated on behalf of the film by Alex Kohner of Barnes Morris Klein Mark Yorn Barnes & Levine.
Launched in April 2005, Picturehouse is the joint venture of two leaders of the entertainment community - HBO and New Line Cinema. Picturehouse currently has in release Mary Harron’s The Notorious Bettie Page starring Gretchen Mol. Upcoming films include Steven Shainberg’s Fur, which stars Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr.; Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion based on Garrison Keillor’s legendary radio variety show and starring Keillor (as himself), with Academy Award-winners Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Tommy Lee Jones, Academy Award-nominees Lily Tomlin, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Virginia Madsen, “Saturday Night Live’s” Maya Rudolph and Lindsay Lohan and Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairy tale Pan’s Labyrinth.