CBS Films Movie Updates
Total Updates: 88
- added CBS Films as a distributor of The Woman in Black
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Level 2
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Gambit
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Legend
- added CBS Films as a production company of The Stand
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Cell 211
- added CBS Films as a distributor of The Keep
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Who Gets Bob?
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Big Brave Brian
- added CBS Films as a distributor of The Mechanic
- added CBS Films as a production company of It Takes A Village
- added CBS Films as a distributor of The Exes
- added CBS Films as a production company of My Spy
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Get a Job
- added CBS Films as a distributor of My Fair Lady
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Consent to Kill
- added CBS Films as a production company of Vengeance
- added CBS Films as a distributor of When Dads Were Men
- added CBS Films as a production company of Freaky Monday
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Sleeper Spy
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Last Vegas
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Faster
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Gunsmoke
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Pumas
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Extraordinary Measures
- added CBS Films as a distributor of The Back-Up Plan
- added CBS Films as a distributor of Disavowed
- added CBS Films as a production company of The Christmas Cookie Club
Thu., May. 5, 2011
from Deadline
CBS Films Acquires Daniel Radcliffe-Starrer 'The Woman In Black'
CBS Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to The Woman in Black, the gothic horror thriller that stars Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer and Shaun Dooley. I'm still pulling together the facts on this one, but I'm told that CBS Films moved aggressively to beat out bidders that included Summit E...
Wed., Mar. 23, 2011
from Deadline
CBS Films/Simon & Schuster 'Level 2' Deal
Films just closed a movie option deal for the young adult novel Level 2, right around the same time its sister company Simon & Schuster Children's Books closed a publishing deal.
Thu., Mar. 10, 2011
from Deadline
CBS Films Acquires Colin Firth-Cameron Diaz Redo 'Gambit'
CBS Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Gambit. The film has a script by Joel and Ethan Coen, and Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz are set to star for The Last Station helmer Michael Hoffman.
Sat., Feb. 5, 2011
from prnewswire.com
CBS Films Acquires Marie Lu's Forthcoming Novel Legend
CBS Films today announced that the company has secured exclusive rights to Marie Lu's futuristic thriller Legend. Penguin Group has set the series' first novel for publication in November 2011. Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey (The Twilight Saga, Dear John) will develop and produce.
Mon., Jan. 31, 2011
Stephen King's 'The Stand' Heading to the Big Screen
Stephen King's grand opus The Stand is finally getting the big-screen treatment. Warner Bros. and CBS Films are teaming to adapt the novel, which in many ways set the bar for a generation of post-apocalyptic stories and influenced works ranging from TV's Lost to music group Anthrax.
Thu., Oct. 28, 2010
from Deadline
Paul Haggis, CBS Films Plot 'Celda 211'
CBS Films is making a deal to acquire remake rights to the Daniel Monzon-directed Spanish language film Celda 211. Paul Haggis is in talks to adapt with an eye to direct.
Wed., Oct. 27, 2010
CBS Films Moves Into 'The Keep'
CBS Films has lined up new (haunted) digs in Eastern Europe for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev. The company has closed a deal for rights to Jennifer Egan’s spooky 2006 best-seller The Keep and is in final negotiations to acquire the adapted screenplay written by The Skeleton Key scribe Ehren Kruger.
Wed., Oct. 27, 2010
from Variety
CBS Films Eyes 'Bob'
CBS Films is in negotiations with the scripting team of Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson ("Four Christmases") to rewrite romantic comedy "Who Gets Bob?"
Fri., Sep. 3, 2010
from Production Weekly
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Sun., Aug. 8, 2010
from Deadline
CBS Films to Distribute 'The Mechanic' With Jason Statham
CBS Films has made its first acquisition of a finished film, buying U.S. distribution rights to "The Mechanic", the remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson film that stars Jason Staham as a hitman who trains an apprentice who has a connection to one of his mentor's victims. Simon West directed and Ben Foster and Donald Sut...
Mon., Jul. 19, 2010
from Deadline
Here's A Role That Every 30-Ish Actress Who Hasn't Adopted In A Third World Country W...
CBS Films and Columbia Pictures are teaming to acquire It Takes A Village, a comedy pitch that Keenen Ivory Wayans will write and direct about a 30-something white single career-obsessed woman who decides on a whim to adopt a child from a South Pacific island--and comes home with the tribe's chief and seven elders who'll stay un...
Wed., Jun. 2, 2010
Lotti Hooks Up With 'Exes’ for CBS Films
Sahara Lotti has been hired to write the comedy "The Exes" for CBS Films. The project is an adaptation of the best-selling 2003 novel "The Ex Files," written by British columnist Jane Moore.
Mon., Apr. 12, 2010
DreamWorks nabs airport-thriller pitch
Jeremy Slater has crafted an airport-thriller pitch with producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and sold it to DreamWorks Studios. Kurtzman and Orci, who produced "Eagle Eye" for the company, will produce the untitled thriller, which Slater will write.
Sun., Feb. 14, 2010
Tue., Dec. 8, 2009
from Variety
CBS Films takes 'Vengeance'
CBS Films has made a preemptive deal to acquire "Vengeance," an action pitch by scribe Robert Mark Kamen. Erwin Stoff will produce.
Sat., Nov. 7, 2009
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Tue., Oct. 13, 2009
from Variety
CBS Films Fostering 'Freaky' Follow-up
CBS Films is developing the teen comedy "Freaky Monday" with producers Andrew Gunn and Mark Waters.