Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Maverick to Co-Produce Slamdance Horror Winner

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Maverick Films is joining forces with the Slamdance Film Festival and Angel Baby Entertainment to produce the winning script from the Slamdance Horror Competition:
The Slamdance Film Festival, currently taking place here, is getting on the contest bandwagon. Slamdance's Peter Baxter and Angel Baby Entertainment's Gregory Segal said Sunday that Maverick Films is lending its support to the Slamdance Horror Screenplay Competition. Maverick will annually finance and co-produce, with Slamdance and Angel Baby, a feature film based on the prize-winning entry. Maverick also said that it is launching a new division, Maverick Red, to focus on horror films. Maverick Films recently signed a deal with Angel Baby to finance and co-produce three films during a three-year period.
Read it here.

2 comments:

Grumpy O. Selznick said...

Hey. We're definitely stoked to be making Slaughter. Its a great concept and a great screenplay. More coming soon, and thanks for publicizing us.

Greg

David Wisehart said...

Greg:

My script got some good publicity out of the contest. Just returning the favor.

Good luck with Slaughter. Bobby posted the logline in the comments to an earlier post, and it sounds like a great concept.

Can't wait to see the finished film!

- David