By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com

Late Kirk Kerkorian’s Tracinda Corp. Launches “Survival Pictures” With Terry George Ottoman Empire Pic

Posted Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 - Comments Off on Late Kirk Kerkorian’s Tracinda Corp. Launches “Survival Pictures” With Terry George Ottoman Empire Pic
Be Sociable, Share!

Tracinda Corporation, founded by the late Kirk Kerkorian, announced today its formation of Survival Pictures, a production company dedicated to telling stories of perseverance, endurance and the inextinguishable fire of the human spirit. The company was humbly and discreetly started years ago by Kirk Kerkorian, who wanted this company and its first project to speak to his core values.

Survival Pictures is managed by Eric Esrailian and Anthony Mandekic for Mr. Kerkorian. It will produce and finance the recently announced THE PROMISE starring Golden Globe nominee, Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ex Machina, A Most Violent Year), Academy Award winner Christian Bale (The Fighter, American Hustle, The Dark Knight), and will have award-winning director Terry George (Hotel Rwanda, Reservation Road, The Shore) at the helm.
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, THE PROMISE is an epic love story centered on the relationships between Michael, a brilliant student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris—a renowned American journalist based in Paris. The film is set to shoot this fall in Southern Europe including Portugal and the Canary Islands.  The script was written by Academy Award nominated writers Terry George and Robin Swicord (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Memoirs of a Geisha).

Esrailian will produce on behalf of Survival Pictures and the film will also be produced by Mike Medavoy for Phoenix Pictures (Black Swan, Shutter Island, Zodiac, The Thin Red  Line), Ralph Winter (X-Men, Fantastic Four, The Giver) and William Horberg (Milk, Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr. Ripley).

Longtime Kerkorian attorney and spokesperson Patricia Glaser said, “Survival Pictures was born out of Kirk Kerkorian’s unwavering dedication to telling inspiring human stories for audiences around the world. THE PROMISE will be a wonderful love story and will open the door to the championing of human rights. This film fulfills a longstanding dream for Mr. Kerkorian who was thrilled to participate in the development and casting process.”

 

Anthony Mandekic, Patricia Glaser, Dan Taylor, and Sheri Sani will also serve as Executive Producers, as will Kirk Kerkorian, posthumously. THE PROMISE will be Mr. Kerkorian’s first Executive Producer credit.

 

###

Be Sociable, Share!

Posted in MCN Curated Headlines, Movie City News, Press Releases | Comments Off on Late Kirk Kerkorian’s Tracinda Corp. Launches “Survival Pictures” With Terry George Ottoman Empire Pic

Comments are closed.

Quote Unquotesee all »

It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon