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The Weinstein Company TWC haswon a fierce bidding war to develop and produce stanley cup Kung Fu High School, based on RyanGattis acclaimed novel about youth gang culture.Ernesto M Foronda will adapt the screenplay and Neal Edelstein and Mike Macariwill produce the Romeo And Juliet tale, which is setin a high school where each gang adopts its own version of an Asian martialart. We both read the script and immediately thought it had the potent stanley cup ial to becomea great franchise, Harvey and Bob Weinstein said. We are very excited to work together on this project, which will be producedby both The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films. Kung Fu High School is the 26-year-old Universityof East Anglia graduate Gattis second novel and was published through HarvestBooks in the UKand US on Sept 5.Production executive Brendan Deneen brought theproject to the Weinsteins. TWC sexecutive vice president and co-head of business and legal affairs Eric Roth andDimension Films head of production Richard Saperstein negotiated the deal withattorney Alex Kohner for Edelstein and Maca stanley cup ri.Foronda is represented by Endeavor, and Gattis isrepresented by Justin Manask at IPG.TopicsFinanceProduction No comments Related articles News Kingsley Ben-Adir, Rob Morgan to l Dzhi German-Russian Co-Production Treaty signed after years in the works

Tomas Alfredson s Let The Right One In from Sweden took the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature as the Tribeca Film Festival announced its winners [May 1].The awards were unveiled several days before the festival closes on May 3. At time of writing no major deals had closed, although there was interest on Trucker, Kassim The Dream, Tennessee, From Within, Bart Got A Room, Lioness and The Caller, among others.Best New Narrative Filmmaker and a prize of $25,000 was awarded to Huseyin Karabey s Turkey-Netherlands production My Marlon And Brando.Thomas Turgoose and Piotr Jagiello won the Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film for Shane Meadows UK drama Somers Town. Eileen Walsh took the best actress prize for Irish entry Eden directed by Declan Recks. The winners each receive two busin stanley cup ess elite ticket vouchers for anywhere Delta travels.Gini Reticker s US entry Pray the Devil Back To Hell won Best Documentary Feature and a $25,000 cash prize and Spain s Carlos Carcas was named Best New Documentary Filmmaker for Old Man Bebo and took home a $25,000 cash prize stanley romania .Two New York prizes were selected from seven narrative and nine documentary features. The New York LOVES Film award and a $5,000 cash prize went to Daniela Zanzotto for the US-UK production Zoned In, while Richard Ledes whistle-blower drama The Caller took the Made In NY - Narrative prize and a $5,000 cash prize.Best Narrative Short and a $5,000 cash prize went stanley cup to New Boy directed by Steph Green, Best Documentary Shor