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20th Century Fox Acquires ‘Machete’, Weinstein Co Bashes Film
Deadline reports that Sony, Lionsgate, Warner Bros, Fox, Paramount, and The Weinstein Co. were all interested in acquiring the rights to Robert Rodriguez’s Machete – his feature-length version of his popular faux trailer from Dimension Films’ 2007 bomb Grindhouse – but only one could come out victorious. While you can read all the details at the aforementioned link, 20th Century Fox eventually won the rights using Predators – which Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios produced – as some collateral. But here’s where it gets interesting… apparently, a Weinstein Co insider claims it could have scooped up the pic for just $3.5M but didn’t because “we saw the footage and it’s not very good at all.” Or are they just bitter than their financial troubles are glaring in all facets? You be the judge. Watch the original Grindhouse trailer by reading on.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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