The writers strike has provided Paramount, Universal, and Fox studios with an opportunity to “drop costly [‘first look’] deals” according to Variety. Craig Brewer, the Memphis-based filmmaker whose breakthrough film Hustle & Flow prompted a bidding war at the Sundance Film Festival and resulted in a multi-picture deal for producer John Singleton, was dropped by Paramount as a cost-cutting measure.
Brewer, whose most recent film Black Snake Moan earned mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office was recently named as a “New Radical” by Radar magazine.
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