After making movies out of all three characters he created for "Da Ali G Show," Sacha Baron Cohen has created a production company to generate scripted comic vehicles for himself.
Baron Cohen has formed Four By Two Films, and has gotten his production shingle off to a rousing start with a spec pitch auction that saw Columbia Pictures spend seven-figures to beat out two other studios for an untitled vehicle for him.
Baron Cohen will write the script with Ant Hines, Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer., the quartet scripted both “Borat” and “Bruno,” getting an Oscar nom for the former.
via weblogs.variety.com
Click through to the Variety.com article -- lots of good details on a number of topics. We'll get it all into the grid tomorrow, too.
P.S. Interesting term, "spec pitch auction." I get it, but it took me a second to realize the above guys hadn't written the script already.
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