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Lionsgate Picks Up Taylor Lautner-Starring ‘Abduction’

Jon Davies — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:37:00 +0000

Lionsgate has emerged as the winner in the bidding war over the Taylor Lautner starring film “Abduction.” The company acquired rights to produce Shawn Christensen’s script for nearly $1 million.

Deadline reports that Lionsgate will have to find a director and a script polish by July in order to accommodate a shooting schedule for Lautner, otherwise the “Twilight” werewolf will have to be recast. The film will be yet another in a string of several films cashing in on the newfound fame of 18-year old Lautner, also lined up to star as the lead title characters of both “Stretch Armstrong” and “Max Steel” in addition to his usual Twilight gig.

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Stellastarr* Frontman Sells Thriller Spec Script ‘Karma’

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:42:00 +0000

Does anyone remember the indie-rock band Stellastarr* who were once touted in the whole New York indie-rock comeback in the wake of the Strokes? Well, the band didn’t really amount to much commercially, but their frontman, singer/guitarist Shawn Christensen might have other aspirations anyhow. The Stellstarr founder just sold his spec script called, “The Karma Coalition,” do a subsidiary of Warner Bros. called Lin Pictures.

No, it’s not about a struggling indie rock band in Brooklyn, the story focuses on “a professor who engages in a game of cat and mouse with a corrupt detective after he’s told his dead wife of five years might still be alive.

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