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New Line Cinema and Picturehouse Acquire Rights to Documentary The King of Kong
Picturehouse To Distribute Documentary, New Line To Produce Feature Remake
PARK CITY, UTAH, January 21, 2007 — Picturehouse has acquired the crowd-pleasing documentary The King of Kong, currently in competition at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival, it was announced today by Bob Berney, President of Picturehouse. New Line Cinema Production President Toby Emmerich also announced that New Line has picked up the worldwide rights, all remake rights and the life rights of the main characters of The King of Kong, with an eye to fast track production.
Picturehouse will release the doc summer 2007.
Directed by Seth Gordon and produced by Ed Cunningham, The King of Kong follows a middle school science teacher as he battles a hot sauce mogul for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic Donkey Kong.
“The King of Kong is a hilarious and heart-warming story about some very passionate, competitive and quirky guys who obsess about being champions of Donkey Kong,” said Berney. “Seth and Ed have discovered an amazing cast of characters and made an incredibly feel good film about them that is very entertaining. The release of the film and the remake is a great example of the synergy between Picturehouse and New Line Cinema.”
Emmerich adds, “After one viewing of this doc, it was clear that this is the kind of project will attract top-level comedic talent and should make for a very unique film.”
“We are so happy that The King of Kong will be released this summer in theaters and that New Line loves our characters and our story enough to make a narrative version,” said Gordon.
Gordon will direct the remake for New Line with Cunningham serving as executive producer and Beau Bauman as producer.
The remake is being overseen for New Line by Emmerich along with New Line Productions COO/Senior Executive VP Richard Brener and Creative Executive Dave Neustadter who were instrumental in bringing the project into New Line.
The deal was brokered on behalf of Picturehouse and New Line by Carolyn Blackwood, Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and Co-Productions, New Line and on behalf of the filmmakers by Endeavor Independent and Christopher Keene of Archer Norris. Gordon was managed in the deal by BGE; Bauman was repped by Rick Genow and Erin McPherson at Stone, Meyer, Genow, Smelkinson & Binder and William Morris; and Cunningham was repped by Zeke Lopez at Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro.