Alcon is negotiating to secure the rights from producer-director Bud Yorkin, who will serve as produ

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I've always wanted to see more movies made based on the world of Blade Runner . Hopefully they will end up being worthy of the film that Scott created and live up to the expectations of the fans. That's not going to be an easy thing to do, and I'm sure not everyone will be happy with the outcome. Moon director Duncan Jones is a huge fan of the Blade Runner world, and I'd love to see what he would do with this film franchise golden palm casino hotel if given the chance.
LOS ANGELES, CA, MARCH 3, 2011 Warner Bros-based financing and production company Alcon Entertainment ( The Blind Side, The Book of Eli ) co-founders and co-Chief Executive Officers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, in the most significant golden palm casino hotel property acquisition negotiations in the Company s 13-year history, are in final discussions to secure film, television and ancillary franchise rights to produce golden palm casino hotel prequels and sequels golden palm casino hotel to the iconic 1982 science-fiction thriller Blade Runner.
Alcon is negotiating to secure the rights from producer-director Bud Yorkin, who will serve as producer on Blade Runner along with Kosove and Johnson. Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will co-produce. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO s of Thunderbird Films , will serve as executive producers.
Alcon s franchise rights would be all-inclusive, but exclude rights to remake the original. The Company, however, may produce projects based on situations introduced in the original film. The project would be distributed golden palm casino hotel domestically by Warner Bros. International rights are yet to be determined.
Johnson and Kosove golden palm casino hotel stated: We are honored and excited to be in business with Bud Yorkin. This is a major acquisition for our company, and a personal favorite film for both of us. We recognize the responsibility we have to do justice to the memory of the original with any prequel or sequel we produce. We have long-term goals for the franchise, golden palm casino hotel and are exploring multi-platform concepts, not just limiting ourselves to one medium only.
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Released by Warner Bros. almost 30 years ago, Blade Runner was adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples from Philip K. Dick s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? golden palm casino hotel and directed by Ridley Scott following his landmark Alien. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction).
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Emmy Award winning director-producer Bud Yorkin started golden palm casino hotel in live television directing and writing for the Colgate Comedy Hour starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, The Dinah Shore Show and The Abbott and Costello Show and many others. He went on to direct the first live TV specials for many stars including An Evening With Fred Astaire (which won 12 Emmys), The Jack Benny Hour (which won 5 Emmys) as well as specials for Bobby Darin, Duke Ellington, Henry Fonda, Danny Kaye, Carol Channing and Andy Williams.
In his first feature film, Yorkin directed Frank Sinatra in Come Blow Your Horn. Other films he produced and directed include: Divorce American Style , Start the Revolution Without Me , The Thief Who Came To Dinner and Twice In A Lifetime . Yorkin partnered with Norman Lear to revolutionize television with their shows All in the Family , Sanford and Son and Maude .
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Alcon Entertainment co-founders and co-CEO s Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson founded the Company in 1997 with financial backing from Frederick W. Smith, the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive golden palm casino hotel Officer of FedEx. Alcon, which is named after a mythological archer and ally of Hercules, has financed, and/or co-financed/produced over 19 films, including My Dog Skip, Dude, Where s My Car? , Insomnia, Racing Stripes, the Academy Award nominated Best Picture The Blind Side, which earned Sandra Bullock a Best Actress Oscar; The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman; Insomnia, starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank and directed by Chris Nolan; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and P.S. I Love You, starring Hilary Swank, among many others.
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