Sex Tape For 7-Digits

Sony Pictures paid a low 7-digits to acquired a working title script Sex Tape. Penned by Kate Angelo, Sex Tape is about a married couple who get a night off from their kids, get adventurous and decide to spice up their lives by making a sex tape. The next morning the couple awakens to find their sex tape no where to be found. Then the couple must find out who their tape it and how to get it back.

Sex will be produced by Escape Artists partners Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch, who came up with the idea. UTA and David Fox represent Angelo, who most recently scripted the Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy The Back-Up Plan. Columbia Pictures execs Andrea Giannetti and Adam Milano will steer and fast track the Sex project.

Hollywood, so full of imagination and intriguing ideas.

Roman Polanski Gets the Greenlight In America

Sony Pictures Classics has announced it will release the new Roman Polanski’s new film, Carnage, in North America. Working from a script penned by Polanski with the help of Yasmina Reza, who wrote the 2009 Tony Award winning play God of Carnage. The film adaptation stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly.

Carnage is happening in contemporary Brooklyn, New York. The story follows two pairs of parents, who meet for the first time shortly after their respective sons have a nasty schoolyard tangle. Michael and Veronica, whose son’s teeth were knocked out with a stick, invite Alan and Annette, whose son did the knocking out, to their home to settle toothy matter. However, any attempt at having a civilized discussion about whose child is responsible for the juvenile altercation sees the parents spiraling into immaturity and temper tantrums of their very own.

Producer of Carnage, Said Ben Said (The Witness), expects an end of year release. Right in time for Oscar consideration. Looking forward to this one. Much better than that old Tooth Fairy!

New Gus Van Sant Flick Is In The Cannes

The new Gus Van Vant film Restless will open Un Certain Regard, selection of the Festival de Cannes, on the evening of Thursday, May 12. Restless will be released in the Fall by Sony Pictures Classics in North America, with Sony Pictures Releasing distributing in the rest of the world.

Produced by Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and 360 Pictures, the coming-of-age film examines the relationship of two outsider teenagers played by Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper, who are brought together by unseen circumstances. Restless director, Gus Van Sant, received the Palme d’or in 2003 for Elephant and the 60th anniversary award for Paranoid Park (2007). His first nomination at the Festival de Cannes was in 1995 for To Die For.

Un Certain Regard chooses close to twenty films each year for its official selection. The president of the jury, Emir Kusturica, will present the Prize Un Certain Regard on May 21.

The official Un Certain Regard selection was announced on Thursday, April 14th.