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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Jane Wright Quits As Co-Head Of BBC Films

It’s no surprise. Wright has been putting out feelers for new jobs outside the Beeb’s filmmaking arm for months. She’s known to have become increasingly constricted at BBC Films, where she’s been for the past 15 years. Wright tells me she’s got several job opportunities lined up, but she felt she had to step down and take stock before deciding what to do next. “I’m the type of person who really needs to step away before they find something new,” she tells me. Wright became managing director of BBC Films in 2009. Christine Langan was appointed last year to run the creative side of BBC Films, with Wright taking responsibility for the day-to-day operations and co-producing financing. At a time of deep BBC spending cuts, Wright’s job is not being filled.

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BREAKING NEWS: James Cameron prior films are "Avatar 2 & 3"

With this move, Twentieth Century Fox James Cameron's December 2015 links apparently putting a hold on the Sony Pictures for the Director plans to out rapidly followed Cleopatra starring Angelina Jolie:

LOS ANGELES (27 October 2010) _ moving forward with the expected over the next decade, films Fox Filmed Entertainment President Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman announced today that filmmaker won an Oscar ?, James Cameron agreed to AVATAR 2 and 3 as his next film.

Cameron, who had seen always AVATAR that the creation of a new world and mythology, will begin work on scripts start next year with an eye to begin production later 2011.Cameron will decide if it will make consecutive films after he finished scripts, but the release of the first suite yet untitled, is targeted for December 2014, with third film intended for a version of December 2015.

AVATAR 2 and 3 will be produced by Cameron and Jon Landau for Cameron Lightstorm Entertainment.

"AVATAR is not only the film revenues highest of all time, this is a created universe based on imagination singular and daring of James Cameron, who also referred to the conscience of people around the world to some of the biggest issues facing our planet," said Rothman and Gianopulos. "We had no higher priority and can result in no greater joy, as the activation of Jim to continue and expand his vision of the world of the AVATAR." This is a great day in the history of our company, and we thank Jim, Jon Landau, Rae Sanchini and their team and all our colleagues Fox around the world who have made this possible.

Cameron commented: "it is a rare and remarkable when a filmmaker gets opportunity build a world of fantasy and watch grow with the resources and business media internationaux.AVATAR partnership was designed as an epic fantasy - a world where the public can visit on all media platforms and this time marks the launch of the next phase of the world." With two new films on the drawing boards, my company and me we put an epic journey with our partners at Twentieth Century Fox.Our goal is to meet and exceed the expectations of the global audience for the richness of the Visual world of the AVATAR and the power of the narration.Dans second and third films, which will be self contained stories that meet an arc of history pleased, we will back down off the coast of the Visual and psychological horses from the AVATAR joystick and will continue to explore themes and characters, that has touched the hearts of audiences in all cultures around the world. I look forward to returning to Pandora, a world where our imagination can run wild. ?

"This is very exciting again team with our partners at Fox to give audiences the opportunity to go back to Pandora,", said Jon Landau producer. "With the first movie, Jim touches only the stories mean the creatures and the world he wants créer.Maintenant will continue his vision.

AVATAR is the film of all time higher success, taking in $ 2.8 billion worldwide box office.He is also the sales of all time top Blu - ray disc.AVATAR has won the Golden Globe ? Award for best film proposal and the scene;has been nominated for nine Oscars, including best film and best director and won Academy Awards for art direction, Visual effects and film.

In AVATAR, Cameron takes audiences to a spectacular world imagined beyond limits, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery leads a heroic battle to save civilization.

AVATAR was written by Cameron on an idea he fed more than ten years while working on the technology needed to carry out its totally imaginaire.En collaboration with Joe Letteri and his team at Peter Jackson WETA digital, Cameron has created an immersive 3D fully new genre, where the revolutionary technology that was invented to make the film lost in emotion characters and the epic history film experience.

AVATAR 2 and 3 mark Cameron most recent collaborations with Twentieth Century Fox, a relationship that has spanned 25 years and marks a filmmaker-studio alliances more success in the history cinéma.Cameron and Fox first forces in 1985 for foreigners, which became a classic science fiction .Ensuite came The Abyss, which has revolutionised Visual effects technology and True Lies, a blockbuster starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.En 1996, Fox greenlighted Cameron Titanic, which became the film more success in the history and won a record eleven Academy Awards including best film.

Lightstorm partner Rae Sanchini negotiated the agreement on behalf of Lightstorm.

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