Variety
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118048976
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According to Variety, Universal has pre-emptively bought Thirteen, a spec by Benjamin Magid, and set it up with Uni-based Strike Entetrainment and Brooklyn Weaver at Energy Entertainment.
Veteran production exec Kristel Laiblin brought the project in to Strike’s Eric Newman and will oversee. Thirteen centers on possession and is understood to utilize a mixture of found footage point of views. The story is reminiscent of 1990’s Flatliners, which starred Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland as medical school students experimenting with the line between life and death.
The sale closed Friday night. More as it comes.