Fox bets on DreamWorks' 'Robopocalypse'

SpielbergNot flinching after missing with "Cowboys & Aliens," DreamWorks is doubling lower on original sci-fi summer time fare with "Robopocalypse" and -- just like its $160 million-plus genre mash-up -- has arranged outdoors money to hedge the wager. The greatest variations this time around: Rather than Jon Favreau, they have got Steven Spielberg. And rather than Universal/Relativity discussing the danger, DreamWorks is certainly going halfsies with twentieth century Fox. Disney will distribute "Robopocalypse" locally through its Touchstone label, while Fox will handle worldwide areas. The businesses will share equally in worldwide theatrical revenues in the day-and-date release and can unspool the pic within the This summer 4 weekend in 2013 -Body week sooner than Warner Bros.' robots-versus.-aliens pic "Off-shore Rim." The dating is growing rapidly doubly interesting, considering the fact that sources near to "Robopocalypse" say Legendary, which setup "Off-shore Rim" with Guillermo del Toro, had sniffed round the Spielberg project before sooner or later it arrived at Fox. While the thought of Spielberg pointing a advanced summer time tentpole about robots appears just like a sure wager -- compelling some to question why DreamWorks gives away a bit of the net income cake -- the organization has typically arranged a studio partner on large-budget productions. Fox and Spielberg possess a film relationship dating back 2002's "Minority Report," which made nearly $300 million worldwide, and much more lately through twentieth century Fox TV's "Terra Nova," which Spielberg is professional-creating with Peter Chernin. For "Robopocalypse," Spielberg developed the script together with DreamWorks co-chairman and Boss Stacey Snider. Fox have been strongly relationship the project, tempted by Spielberg's heft behind an authentic event film. "It feels to us, in an enormous amount of occasions, that it is really an uber-event," one professional near to the project states. Sci-fi epic was modified from Daniel H. Wilson's novel by scribe Came Goddard. n Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com

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