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24 January 2005 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
Producer/director/writer John Singleton (Boyz 'n the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Shaft, Rosewood) has not only signed a distribution deal for his first independent feature, Hustle & Flow, which he produced (and reportedly paid for out of his own pocket), but the deal also covers two additional films that have yet to be produced. Singleton's deal reportedly calls for Paramount and MTV Films, corporate siblings in the Viacom family, to pay $16 million for the package, with $9 million of the figure designated for Hustle & Flow, in itself a sizable price for a Sundance pick-up. "It's a great [and] unprecedented deal," Paramount Classics Co-president David Dinerstein told the online indieWIRE on Sunday. Hustle & Flow, he said, "is the best film at this festival."
1 article from 2005