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Article: Random harvest: book giant, Focus pacting for pix.(Random House and Focus Features teamedup for movie production)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 3, 2005
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Random House and Focus Features are getting into business together.
They've created a landmark partnership to co-produce and co-finance a slate of films under a new production entity, Random House Films.
Under the multiyear deal, forged by Focus Features prexies James Schamus and David Linde and Random House CEO Peter Olson, the publishing giant will invest a substantial sum in film production, co-financing an as-yet-unspecified number of book-to-film projects.
Random House is a unit of Bertelsmann and the world's largest publisher, responsible for close to one-quarter of America's consumer book market.
Film projects under the deal are ...