Some points from Done Deal

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David Kramer of UTA is an agent that has made sales for two comedy writers.

Universal Pictures will pay seven figures for Joss Whedon's "Goner." The fantasy thriller is about a young woman's journey, which involves a lot of horror and heroics. Mary Parent and Scott Stuber will produce. Whedon will also direct. He was repped on the deal by Chris Harbert of CAA and attorney Sam Fischer of Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman & Cook.

David Auburn will write "St. George and the Dragon" for high six against low seven figures. Auburn was repped by William Craver of Paradigm.

J.R. Moehringer' memoir "The Tender Bar" sold to Scott Rudin Productions for a high six figures against seven figures. The drama focuses on a boy, growing up not knowing his father, who finds surrogates by haunting the Manhasset pub where his uncle is the bartender. The boy goes on to become a copyboy at the New York Times and to eventually winning a Pulitzer prize for feature writing at the L.A. Times.

Title: Love and Other Dilemmas
Logline: A feisty woman is determined to have her perfect wedding day and come hell or high-water nothing is going to stop her regardless of the fact that she's nine-months pregnant, gets robbed, is kidnapped and is led to think her fiancé is dead... and then, there's her grandmother's curse.
Writer: Deborah Peraya
Agent: Linda Saint of The Saint Agency
Buyer: The Goodman Company
Price: n/a
Genre: Dark Comedy
Logged: 10/3/05
More: Option. The Goodman Company's Ilyssa Goodman and Clarity Films' Clare Hodge & Alex Raffe will produce. Larry Di Stefano will direct.

Title: Eleven Minutes
Log line: Centers on the sexual awakening of a Brazilian woman as she heads to Geneva with visions of being a dancer. By the time she returns home, she is hardened and cynical after a stint as a high-priced call girl.
Writer: Paulo Coelho (author)
Agent: n/a
Buyer: New Line Cinema
Price: n/a
Genre: Drama
Logged: 9/21/05
More: Novel. Hollywood Gang Productions’ Gianni Nunnari, Nathalie Peter-Contesse and Craig J. Flores will produce. Hollywood Gang will distribute the film in Latin America.

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