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Article: 'Antoinette' producer turns heads at Focus.(Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola sign deal with Focus Features)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- October 18, 2006
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Sofia Coppola collaborator and "Marie Antoinette" producer Ross Katz has signed a first-look deal with Focus Features.
Pact, a two-year deal, gives Katz a home base after he produced his past several projects on his own. Katz will remain in Gotham working under his RK Films shingle and also will develop television projects.
Known as a production maven for pics like "In the Bedroom," Katz said he will focus more intensely on acquisition and development as part of his new deal. "It's kind of the first time I'm available in a long time and I wanted the opportunity to develop more," he said.
He and Focus execs such as John Lyons will work together ...