Exclusive: Grey Rembert has exited Gk Films to join Bill Pohlad's River Road Entertainment as the company’s new executive VP of production. She will be responsible for finding and developing projects at River Road, which has produced and financed some of the best independent films in recent years including the 2014 Academy Award-winning Best Picture 12 Years A Slave as well as Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or winner The Tree of Life. Rembert worked as an senior VP of…...
- 4/18/2017
- Deadline
In a pre-emptive strike, Gk Films has come on board to acquire the feature film rights to Tomb Raider and will reboot the successful action-adventure franchise aiming for a 2013 release for the first film.
Produced by Graham King, the films will create daring new adventures for the young and dynamic Lara Croft.
Gk Films acquired the film rights from interactive entertainment company, Square Enix Ltd. In Dec 2010, Square Enix subsidiary, Crystal Dynamics, revealed a new game for Tomb Raider based around the origins of the Lara Croft story.
.We are very excited to be rebooting what is already a hugely successful film franchise and continuing the Tomb Raider phenomenon,. said King.
The original game was published in 1996 by the London based video game company Eidos and became one of the most successful video games of the time. Today Eidos (including Crystal Dynamics), is part of an international interactive entertainment group,...
Produced by Graham King, the films will create daring new adventures for the young and dynamic Lara Croft.
Gk Films acquired the film rights from interactive entertainment company, Square Enix Ltd. In Dec 2010, Square Enix subsidiary, Crystal Dynamics, revealed a new game for Tomb Raider based around the origins of the Lara Croft story.
.We are very excited to be rebooting what is already a hugely successful film franchise and continuing the Tomb Raider phenomenon,. said King.
The original game was published in 1996 by the London based video game company Eidos and became one of the most successful video games of the time. Today Eidos (including Crystal Dynamics), is part of an international interactive entertainment group,...
- 3/8/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Producer Graham King has set up Dan Simmons' award-winning science fiction book series "Hyperion Cantos" at Warner Bros., with Trevor Sands on board to adapt the first two books as one feature. King is producing via his GK Films banner.
The first book, "Hyperion", won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1990, while the second, "The Fall of Hyperion", was nominated for a Nebula Award for best novel.
"Hyperion" deals with a space war, with most of the action taking place on a planet named Hyperion, known not only for its electricity-spewing trees but also for the Time Tombs, large artifacts that can move through time. The tombs are guarded by a monster called the Shrike, which impales people on metal trees.
King acquired the rights to the series several years ago, but its structure, inspired by Boccaccio's "Decameron" and Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", and its multiple timelines made the task of adapting it into a feature unwieldy and challenging.
Brought in by GK Films' Grey Rembert and Gail Lyon, Sands won over the execs by taking a selective approach to the two novels' multiple points of view in a way that managed to coherently and unconfusingly tell the story.
The first book, "Hyperion", won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1990, while the second, "The Fall of Hyperion", was nominated for a Nebula Award for best novel.
"Hyperion" deals with a space war, with most of the action taking place on a planet named Hyperion, known not only for its electricity-spewing trees but also for the Time Tombs, large artifacts that can move through time. The tombs are guarded by a monster called the Shrike, which impales people on metal trees.
King acquired the rights to the series several years ago, but its structure, inspired by Boccaccio's "Decameron" and Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", and its multiple timelines made the task of adapting it into a feature unwieldy and challenging.
Brought in by GK Films' Grey Rembert and Gail Lyon, Sands won over the execs by taking a selective approach to the two novels' multiple points of view in a way that managed to coherently and unconfusingly tell the story.
Warner Bros. has preemptively picked up School of Fear, a kidlit book proposal from Gitty Daneshvari, for an adaptation to be produced by Graham King and his GK Films banner.
The 89-page proposal details a four-part book series that tells the adventures of four 12-year-olds named Madeleine, Garrison, Lulu and Theo who attend an offbeat summer camp called School of Fear run by an elusive headmistress. The camp aims at eradicating children's phobias through unorthodox methods.
Little Brown is slated to publish the first book in fall 2009.
GK Films' Grey Rembert and Gail Lyon also are producing.
Daneshvari came up with the idea 10 years ago and worked on it while an assistant at CAA. Daneshvari then moved up the Hollywood ladder to development exec at Contrafilm where she kept plugging away at her writing, finally leaving her post about a year ago to pursue a full-time writing career.
Daneshvari gave the proposal to a former colleague at CAA, at that time an assistant but since then elevated to agent, who passed it on to an agent.
The 89-page proposal details a four-part book series that tells the adventures of four 12-year-olds named Madeleine, Garrison, Lulu and Theo who attend an offbeat summer camp called School of Fear run by an elusive headmistress. The camp aims at eradicating children's phobias through unorthodox methods.
Little Brown is slated to publish the first book in fall 2009.
GK Films' Grey Rembert and Gail Lyon also are producing.
Daneshvari came up with the idea 10 years ago and worked on it while an assistant at CAA. Daneshvari then moved up the Hollywood ladder to development exec at Contrafilm where she kept plugging away at her writing, finally leaving her post about a year ago to pursue a full-time writing career.
Daneshvari gave the proposal to a former colleague at CAA, at that time an assistant but since then elevated to agent, who passed it on to an agent.
- 10/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gail Lyon has been hired as president of production at Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group.
Lyon, who reports to King, takes the job immediately and will lead Initial's team, comprising vp development Grey Rembert and production executive Denis O'Sullivan.
"Gail elegantly combines the skills of hands-on production and development of first-class, provocative material that really stands out," King said.
Added Lyon, "I look forward to expanding our slate of new material and supporting both the established and emerging filmmakers that look to Initial as a partner in realizing their films."
Lyon recently produced the teen movie Stick It for Buena Vista Pictures. She was president of Red Wagon Entertainment, where she oversaw development and was executive producer on Stuart Little 2, Win a Date With Tad Hamilton and Peter Pan. While there, she brought in Jarhead and RV.
Before Red Wagon, she was president of Jersey Films, where she was involved in the development of Out of Sight, executive produced the HBO movie Pentagon Wars and co-produced Gattaca and Erin Brockovich.
Lyon, who reports to King, takes the job immediately and will lead Initial's team, comprising vp development Grey Rembert and production executive Denis O'Sullivan.
"Gail elegantly combines the skills of hands-on production and development of first-class, provocative material that really stands out," King said.
Added Lyon, "I look forward to expanding our slate of new material and supporting both the established and emerging filmmakers that look to Initial as a partner in realizing their films."
Lyon recently produced the teen movie Stick It for Buena Vista Pictures. She was president of Red Wagon Entertainment, where she oversaw development and was executive producer on Stuart Little 2, Win a Date With Tad Hamilton and Peter Pan. While there, she brought in Jarhead and RV.
Before Red Wagon, she was president of Jersey Films, where she was involved in the development of Out of Sight, executive produced the HBO movie Pentagon Wars and co-produced Gattaca and Erin Brockovich.
- 2/15/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
DreamWorks has optioned Scott B. Smith's novel The Ruins for Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld's studio-based Red Hour Films to produce. As part of the seven-figure deal, Smith, the Oscar-nominated scribe behind A Simple Plan, has been tapped to adapt his novel for the screen. The project is set in the jungles of the Yucatan, with something evil living among the ruins. Stiller and Cornfeld brought Ruins to recently installed production head Adam Goodman, who will oversee development along with production executives David Beaubaire and Grey Rembert. Smith's Ruins is scheduled to be published late next year by Alfred A. Knopf. Smith is repped by the Lynn Pleshette Literary Agency's Lynn Pleshette and Michael Cendejas along with publishing agent Gail Hochman at Brandt & Hochman. His other credits include the scripts American Gothic, El Cid and Riverside Drive.
- 5/11/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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