Pre-Strike Deal Mania: Trade Roughage 10/25/07

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By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Today in Pre-Strike Deals: Ron Howard and Tom Hanks are coming back for Da Vinci 2: Big Trouble in Vatican City; Robert DeNiro will play a mob hitman forced to come out of retirement in Michael Mann’s Frankie Machine; Woody Harrelson will star in Oliver Stone’s latest rumination on Vietnam, Pinkville; and Jim Caviezel (who last popped up as a bit player in the affair between Andy Samberg and the president of Iran) will star in a remake of the 1978 Australian film, The Long Weekend.
After Dark Films and Lionsgate have teamed up to acquire Mulberry Street, a low-budget horror film about rats who bite New York City dwellers and turn them into rodent zombies. When the film premiered at Tribeca, Eric Kohn at The Reeler said it was “the best attempt to tackle a New York state of grime since Abel Ferrara turned NYU students into vampires in The Addiction.” After Dark will put Mulberry Street on 300 screens November 9th, as part of their aptly-named After Dark Horrorfest; Lionsgate will handle DVD distribution.
With Morton’s closing, Vanity Fair will hold their Oscar party at a new location for the first time in 14 years. Of the party’s new home, VF puppetmaster Graydon Carter says, “Craft is the ideal place for the party: great food — which we will not be serving family-style, by the way — great location with a dramatic entrance and a big, sweeping space.”