As Harvey Weinstein finds himself brought in for some uncomfortable questioning by the New York City Police Department, his brother Bob Weinstein has laid out a reported $15-million minimum guarantee to win U.S. rights in a CAA bidding war for “Syriana” director Steve Gaghan’s mining drama “Gold,” a movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez that is going into production in June in Thailand, New York and New Mexico.
Advance footage was screened for buyers in Berlin. Open Road, Focus Features and STX were reportedly in the bidding. Numbers are escalating as new buyers drive up prices in this heated sellers market; Netflix recently outbid Focus Features, buying world rights to Cary Fukunaga’s “Beasts of No Nation” for $12 million.
McConaughey stars as a failing businessman and prospector who teams up with a hapless geologist/explorer (Edgar Ramirez). They head into the Indonesian jungle on the trail of undiscovered gold.
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