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Focus Features & Hyde Park Team For Adaptation Of ‘Audition’, Christian Tafdrup Directing & Writing
EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features, Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment and Mario Kassar Productions are nearing a deal to produce a feature take of Ryū Murakami’s cult 1997 Japanese horror thriller novel, Audition. The novel was previously adapted into a 1999 Japanese film of the same name, directed by 2x Cannes Palme D’Or nominee Takashi Miike. The latest […]
Hyde Park Entertainment Group is known for pushing the boundaries of diversity and inclusiveness in cinema, and its movies have garnered worldwide revenues in excess of $2 billion. Hyde Park’s current slate includes the biopic of legendary tennis player and civil rights activist Arthur Ashe, written byAcademy Award winner Kevin Willmott and in partnership with Warner Music Entertainment; Rubik’s, a mind-bending cinematic treatment of the world’s bestselling toy in partnership with Fifth Season; the feature film adaptation of Richard Wright’s incendiary bestselling novel The Man Who Lived Underground written by Kenya Barris and in partnership with his Khalabo Ink Society; The Joy Luck Club 2, written by the original team of Amy Tan and Academy Award winner Ron Bass; the premium TV series adaptation of The New York Times bestseller The Santatorium, an atmospheric murder mystery at AppleTV+ in partnershipwith Anne Hathaway’s Somewhere Pictures and StudioCanal; and more. Focus Features’ Nosferatu is $3M away from becoming the Universal specialty label’s highest grossing movie at the domestic box office, overtaking 2019’s Downton Abbey($96.8M).
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