Universal Makes Genre Bid With SyFY Films

Syfy Ventures and Universal Pictures have teamed to create Syfy Films, a film company that will generate theatrical films that will be branded by the Syfy label and will be distributed by Universal. The hope is to leverage Syfy's genre expertise in science fiction, fantasy, supernatural and horror. The plan is to begin generating two movies per year by 2012.

The venture will be announced today by Dave Howe, president of Syfy and Chiller, Mark Stern, the exec veep of original programming and co-head of content for Universal Cable Productions, and Universal Pictures chairman Adam Fogelson and co-chairman Donna Langley.

"We know there is an incredible consumer appetite for genre content as proven by the top grossing box office films," Howe and Stern said in a statement. "Partnering our brand with the theatrical talent of Universal Pictures, a premier motion picture company, will allow us to exploit our combined expertise and resources to create commercially successful quality films that have the potential to become great franchises for the whole company."

Stern and Langley will jointly oversee the new venture, and they are looking to hire a production executive who'll be based on the Universal lot. The exec will find project and leverage Syfy's creative relationships developed through the NBC Universal network that launched in 1992 as the Sci Fi Channel. and has broadened into a website and Syfy Ventures.

"Syfy has been incredibly successful in finding ways to produce compelling entertainment for a specific audience," Fogelson and Langley said in a statement. "Joining together to find moderately budgeted projects that we can develop using their expertise and their brand is a great opportunity for both of our companies."

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Universal Not Pursuing Gores Bid For Focus

EXCLUSIVE: I can tell you that Focus Features is not for sale -- yet anyway -- and Universal hasn't even had one conversation with Comcast about putting the specialty house in play (and can't until the deal gets regulatory approval). So much for all that Internet chatter tonight about the Gores Brothers wanting to buy Focus. The bros and several other companies like Relativity and MRC have made offers for Focus over the past year -- Alec and Tim Gores put in an offer very recently -- but Universal hasn't even gone back to anyone with a counter-offer and I understand won't for the forseeable future. "People make offers all the time," an insider tells me. "Nothing is happening now, either."

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Universal signs Exclusive Deal Deluxe printing

Deluxe processor more big in the world of the film for the film industry, is now provider worldwide release 35 mm print universal abandoned Technicolor.?(Could it that Warner Bros. is one big studio Hollywood left from Technicolor?) I understand that the announcement will be made on Wednesday that Deluxe Entertainment Services Group has signed an agreement of multi-year exclusive film printing services worldwide 35 mm with Universal Studios which includes focus features.?The agreement follows week last opened a subsidiary digital intermediate by EFILM suite luxury on lot of Universal Studios.?To meet the needs of day and date of universal, high-volume luxury, processing and printing of laboratories in North America are Hollywood and Toronto and internationally in London, Rome, Barcelona and Sydney. Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of MacAndrews investor Ron Perelman & Forbes Holdings Inc.

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