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Amblin Partners has brought on Michael De Luca to produce its movie adaptation of John Connolly's sci-fi fantasy novel "The Gates," which is being developed as a potential franchise starter.Amblin, which acquired "The Gates" last November, has also tapped Blaise Hemingway to write the screenplay."The Gates," published in 2011, centers on an 11-year-old protagonist and his dachshund who are trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween. They encounter the gates to Hell, thanks to a break in the space-time continuum.The book is...
Michael De Luca Productions
Michael
De
Luca
Producer / Writer
A larger-than-life presence in the studio bean-counting world, De Luca has always been a risktaker with an eye for talent and material and an innate command of popular culture.He was instrumental in helping to define New Line with such giant hits as “Rush Hour,” “Boogie Nights,” “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,” “The Mask,” “Dumb & Dumber” and “Mortal Kombat,” as well as collaborations with edgier talent like Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze. After a stint at DreamWorks and Sony, he set up his own shop and worked on the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy. He was thrice nominated for best picture Oscars (“The Social
Network,” “Moneyball, “Captain Phillips”) and nabbed an Emmy nod in 2017 for co-producing the Academy Awards telecast.
