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RT @flamelauthor: Now official: Lorenzo di Bonaventura has acquired rights to my Flamel series; today's Daily Variety: http://ow.ly/DLIn 11/20/2009 |
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It is now official: Lorenzo di Bonaventura has acquired the rights to my Flamel series; here is today's Daily Variety: http://ow.ly/DLIn 11/19/2009 |
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WEEEE!!! :D RT @FlamelsPortal: The Secrets get a movie deal!!!! http://tinyurl.com/ycj26fl Congrats Michael! 11/18/2009 |
Who’s Got “The Secret”? “Nicholas Flamel” Coming to Big Screens
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews —
Look! It’s medievalish and magickal!
Variety says that Lorenzo DiBonaventura has bought the film rights to Michael Scott’s “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel” books. DiBonaventura is known for producing such action epics as “GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra” and “Transformers.”
Scott’s series is about “fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh as they adventure across several continents with the immortal alchemyst of the title, Nicholas Flamel.” DiBonaventura says, “Michael’s fantastic series is a natural evolution from Harry ...
Lorenzo di Bonaventura To Produce Adaptation of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel — The Next Harry Potter?
/Film —
G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra/Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has signed a deal to produce a big screen adaptation of Michael Scott’s six-part fantasy book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. di Bonaventura tells Variety that “Michael’s fantastic series is a natural evolution from Harry Potter,” but will it come close to the popularity of the teen wizard series?
The series tells the story of fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman as they adventure across several continents with the immortal alchemyst Nicholas Flamel. With the exception of Josh and Sophie, all of the main human characters in the books ...
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura Acquires the NICOLAS FLAMMEL Series, Which is Being Called “The Next HARRY POTTER”
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Lorenzo di Bonaventura is a power-hitting producer in Hollywood. He produced both Transformers movies and one of the summer’s surprise hits G.I. Joe. He’s currently working on Salt starring Angelina Jolie and Red which stars ...
THE SECRETS OF THE IMMORTAL NICHOLAS FLAMEL is coming to the Big Screen
GeekTyrant —
This my friends has potential to be the next big film franchise. Now that Harry Potter is coming to an end, there is going to be a void of magical fantasy movie franchise. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and his Di Bonaventura Pictures has signed a deal to produce author Michael Scott’s six part fantasy series, The Secrets of the Immortal Flamel.
According to Di Bonaventura,
Michael’s fantastic series is a natural evolution from Harry Potter.
The story ...
THE SECRETS OF THE IMMORAL NICHOLAS FLAMEL is coming to the Big Screen
GeekTyrant —
This my friends has potential to be the next big film franchise. Now that Harry Potter is coming to any end, there is going to be a void of magical fantasy movie franchise. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and his Di Bonaventura Pictures has signed a deal to produce author Michael Scott’s six part fantasy series, The Secrets of the Immortal Flamel.
According to Di Bonaventura,
Michael’s fantastic series is a natural evolution from Harry Potter.
The story follows fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh as they adventure across several continents with the immortal alchemyst of ...
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Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has nabbed the rights to book series The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Given that he's the man who helped launch the Harry Potter franchise, it's not surprising that the producer would want to try and find another, similar set of tomes to adapt. And Michael Scott's planned six-part series would seem to be the perfect case. The novels follow 15-year-old twins Sophie and Josh as they travel across several continents with the titular alchemist. The series' Potter-like potential was spotted by New Line three years ago, where it was set up as a possible franchise. But since ...
di Bonaventura Producing "Nicholas Flamel"
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Lorenzo di Bonaventura ("Transformers") is set to produce films based on Michael Scott's six-part fantasy novel series "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" reports Variety.
The story follows fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh as they adventure across several continents with the immortal alchemyst of the title, Nicholas Flamel. The soon who find themselves caught up in an age-old battle between good and evil as they race across America learning the ancient ways of magic.
"Kyle XY" creator Eric Bress penned the script. The fourth book in the series, "The Necromancer", is due out next year.
DiBonaventura is tapping into Nicholas Flamel
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Lorenzo DiBonaventura is latching onto the rights to make a movie franchise on The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Why does that name sound familiar? Well, if your a Harry Potter maniac like myself, you would recall in the first film that the Philosopher’s Stone that Voldermort is so heavily interested in grabbing was Flamel’s. So now, practically being in the same vein as the soon-to-be completed Harry Potter franchise, this impending set of fantasy features could provide to be marketable if DiBonaventura plays his cards right.
Scott’s series follows 15-year-old twins Sophie and Josh as they pursue ...
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... . Bonaventura, Variety notes, presided over the launch of the Potter series which has currently grossed $5.38 billion worldwide while he was head of production at Warner Brothers. [Variety] ...
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... . Bonaventura, Variety notes, presided over the launch of the Potter series which has currently grossed $5.38 billion worldwide while he was head of production at Warner Brothers. [ Variety ] • Oscar's got a new director. The fantastically named ...
The Vampires Are Coming! Lock Up Your Checkbooks [Trade Roundup]
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... . Bonaventura, Variety notes, presided over the launch of the Potter series which has currently grossed $5.38 billion worldwide while he was head of production at Warner Brothers. [Variety] ...
The Vampires Are Coming! Lock Up Your Checkbooks
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... . Bonaventura, Variety notes, presided over the launch of the Potter series which has currently grossed $5.38 billion worldwide while he was head of production at Warner Brothers. [ Variety ] • Oscar's got a new director. The fantastically named ...
