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variety.com - 5/12/2009

'Gladiators' leaps to bigscreen

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Gotham: Film to be based on 'American' TV show -- Johnny Ferraro, creator of the "American Gladiators" TV franchise, is bringing a live-action adaptation of the property to the bigscreen.

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variety.com - 5/12/2009

'Gladiators' leaps to bigscreen - Entertainment News, Film News, Media

— variety.com — Film to be based on 'American' TV show Johnny Ferraro, creator of the "American Gladiators" TV franchise,... is bringing a live-action adaptation of the property to the bigscreen. The film will be based on the TV show that first aired in 1988 and has ... 'Gladiators' leaps to bigscreen - Entertainment News, ...

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variety.com - 5/12/2009

'Gladiators' leaps to bigscreen - Entertainment News, Gotham, Media

— variety.com — Film to be based on 'American' TV show Johnny Ferraro, creator of the "American Gladiators" TV franchise,... is bringing a live-action adaptation of the property to the bigscreen. The film will be based on the TV show that first aired in 1988 and has ... 'Gladiators' leaps to bigscreen - Entertainment News, ...

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unrealitymag.com - 5/12/2009

American Gladiators Movie is Best, Worst Idea Ever

— unrealitymag.com — I’m not quite sure where to even begin with this story. Johnny Ferraro, creator of the “American... Gladiators” TV franchise, is bringing a live-action adaptation of the property to the bigscreen. Former Legendary Pictures chief marketing officer Scott Mednick is producing ... American Gladiators Movie is Best, Worst Idea Ever

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'Gladiators' leaps to bigscreen
Oh No They Didn't! — ... is being funded through Sunset Pictures, with prexy Martin Guigui exec producing "American Gladiators" alongside Ferraro and Joe Allegro. Ferraro noted "American Gladiators" was originally conceived as a film, but the property "took a detour and became a TV phenomenon." Mednick, who recently began developing a film installment in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, has producing credits including "300," "Superman Returns" and the upcoming "Where the Wild Things Are." variety

Stalked: Gladiators film, I Saw What You Did, Thirteen Assassins
Filmstalker — ... franchise is working on a live action big screen version. Of course if it works there will be a ready made audience if you look at the Variety figures, having sold the show to ninety countries and it being adapted into a local format in some fourteen of them, there's a demand, or at least product knowledge, out there. Interestingly American Gladiators was originally meant to be a film but became a television property instead. Apparently the idea is to create an action story that takes place inside this commonly known set-up, that being everyday ...

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Videogum — ... FINALLY, Hollywood is taking all of the fun and excitement and adventure and intrigue of American Gladiators and bringing it to the big-screen. AT LONG LAST. From Variety: ...

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FilmDrunk.com — ... Former Legendary Pictures chief marketing officer Scott Mednick is producing “American Gladiators.” The goal is to create an action story that takes place inside the world Ferraro has created.  “I look forward to creating a compelling story that launches a whole new set of characters,” Mednick said. [Variety] ...