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Source: Variety
17 May 2002
Echo Lake, Aura make Big
plans
by Dana Harris
Aura Entertainment and Echo Lake Prods.
are co-financing The Big Empty,
starring Jon Favreau and Rachael Leigh Cook.
Written and directed by Steven Anderson,
Empty is the story of a budding
actor faced with a stalled career and a mountain of debt. After
receiving a
strange financial offer, he embarks on a journey in a California
desert town
that transports him to another world.
The cast also includes Kelsey Grammer,
Sean Bean, Adam Beach, Joey Lauren
Adams, Daryl Hannah, Gary Farmer, Jon Gries, and Bud Cort.
Doug Mankoff and Andrew Spaulding of Echo
Lake are producing with
Rainstorm Entertainment principals Steve Kaplan and Gregg Daniel.
Aura
principals Steven Bickel and Jeffrey Kramer are exec producing
the project,
with Bickel repping the pic.
The Big Empty was the
first script to truly provide the elements we believe
could make for a successful, highly entertaining picture,
says Aura prexy
Bickel. He adds that Aura aims to adapt to the current state
of this changing
business and provide our distributors with a genuine upside by
recognizing
their financial realities.
Aura is a partnership between industry
vets Bickel and Kramer that is part of
Lexington Entertainment Group, which includes East of Doheny Prods.,
Post
Logic Studios, Creo and Lexington Funding.
Lexington Commercial Holdings is LEGs
parent company, with interests in
commercial real estate, U.S. private and public companies and
is the
co-founder of Firstream Group, a European creator and operator
of Internet
and technology companies.
Echo Lake is a production company with
exclusive access to a private
investment fund. The shingle has helped produce and finance Jill
Sprechers
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Allison Anders
Things Behind the
Sun and David Rikers The City.
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