Company Announces Deal With Runaway Bride to Make a Movie About Her Life

[Chauga]

Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks made a deal with a company that is pitching a movie about her life to networks - annoying officials who spent thousands of dollars searching for her.

ReganMedia, a New York multimedia company, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for a story in Thursday's papers it has acquired all media rights to the "life stories" of Wilbanks and her fiance, John Mason.

The company did not say whether any money had changed hands.

"I am looking forward to developing the scripted project with Wilbanks and Mason," company president Judith Regan said in a statement. "Theirs is an unexpected and compelling story of love and forgiveness that has certainly taught me a thing or two."


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB3FSPO0AE.html

[rooboy]

1. Wow... what an original, exciting project THAT will be!!!

:sarcasm:

[Javaman]

26. I used to work on crappy TV movies like this...

Nothing more than a paycheck.

[Bhaisahab]

2. "...has certainly taught me a thing or two"

like how to make quick cash by
1. rehashing old hollywood scripts and
2. pitching a sub-standard movie supposedly based on the story of a dubious person to a gullible coke-guzzling audience

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

3. Isn't Regan Press a RW press and...

isn't Judith Regan one of the women that used to boink Bernard Kerik at his taxpayer-funded lover's nest in Battery Park City?

[youspeakmylanguage]

34. RB isn't right-wing - they are equal opportunity tabloid media whores...

...with Regan being the Grand Madame.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. There's only one thing I can say about that --

Good for her!

Considering how she was held up to public humiliation by a police chief, DA, and news media hell-bent on national attention, then vilified by people had no business complaining about how "she violated (their) trust", I hope she makes a boatload of money.

And kicks her Jesus-lusting family in the ass, too.

--p!

[CottonBear]

10. She's already "payed' the city of Duluth $13,000

and may be found liable and ordered to pay more. (I live in GA and my stepdaughter lives in Duluth.) Wilbanks never asked anyone to look for her.
Taxes are the price that we pay for a civil society. No one complained when Duluth spent money to fund police efforts when the courthouse shooter was holed up in that Duluth apartment with the young woman.

Has anyone wondered where she got $13,000 in cash? She must have a big bank account or else she raided her 401K or maybe the future in-laws gave her some money.

[LisaL]

16. Her parents were offering 100 grand reward for her safe return.

LOL. Maybe she raided her reward fund to pay miserly 13 grands.
:eyes:

[northzax]

29. actually, when she reported herself as kidnapped

she asked for them to look for her, reporting a crime to the police tends to do that.

[CottonBear]

32. In New Mexico, not Georgia. NM chose not to charge her. n/t

[ovidsen]

31. Applause!

I do think she's a dumb twit. But she's not the first bride (or groom) to suffer a panic attack on the eve of the "big day". She won't be the last either. And anyone who thinks she is responsible for the media mayhem that followed her vanishing act is almost as much of a twit as she is. It's the fault of CNN, FNC, et. al., and a thumb sucking public that doesn't know and/or doesn't care that the country's being led by MEGA-twits who think nothing of launching massive foreign adventures that are resulting in fiscal and moral bankruptcy. Bread and circuses! We need more bread and circuses! Runaway brides! Michael Jackson!

Let her cash in on her 15 minutes of fame. The $$ will come from people who voluntarily buy her confessions. Hey, it's the American way!

Me? I could give a flying rat's ass. I've got far more important things to think about.

[Vinca]

5. If there's a hell, it's right here on earth.

I had hoped we would never hear of the runaway bride or Terri Schiavo ever, ever, ever, ever again. Someone please just put a gun to my head.

[Javaman]

27. News reporting is suck on repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat....

[Ganja Ninja]

6. And they could call it, "Crazy Days & Crazy Nights".

:crazy:

[Massachusetts]

7. Runaway Bride to Make a Movie

Sounds familiar

[trapper914]

8. I originally thought her punishment was fair...

...now I wish they'd have thrown the book at her.

Hmmm...what despicable thing can I do for a half mil?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

9. Waste of film and airtime, IMHO.

[Deja Q]

11. My childhood would make a far more interesting movie & there's originality

that has never been aired in any form before.

And Judith Regan, isn't she a shill on the fox cable 'news' network? This movie is a joke.

[CTyankee]

12. This will never end

We are on a merry go round with these stories. They never stop. Next up (after they find the poor kid)will be the girl in Aruba's "story."
Aren't they making a movie about Elizabeth Smart? Is there a film deal on Terry Schiavo now that the autopsy results are in (fade to black)? How about that girl with cancer down in Texas, I'm sure there's plenty of bucks in that tragedy.

Meanwhile, nothing on GMA news about the Conyer's hearing. The nets know that most people don't give a rat's ass about the DSM.

We have lost our minds.

[rucky]

13. It should star Julia Roberts...

and they should call it Runaway Bride.

I'm not a genius, these great ideas just come to me naturally.

[catzies]

43. snarf! good one.

Wow, you really are talented! :rofl:

[leesa]

14. I have never read one word or seen one "news" clip about this story.

You know, if we don't give crap like this any of our time, we can diffuse this practice of no news reporting.

[LynnTheDem]

15. Jeebus fucking Cripes.

Fucking unbelievable.

[dddem]

17. could someone PLEASE explain to me

why we're supposed to give a gray rat's furry ass about this story?

[Kber]

18. Oh thank God

I missed the media battery on this and am very relieved that I can catch up on this very important story now.

Sarcasm off

[Mike Daniels]

19. The cynic in me is starting to think it was all a ploy from the start

Her story cracks early enough before a search for the "perps" really gets underway and she pays a fine that shrinks in comparison to the big pay-off she'll receive with media deals and story rights.

The fixation FOX News has on these cases and the husband to be's whorish enthusiasm when he found out that the channel had a news team on the scene also makes me wonder if they didn't bank on the media being an easy touch for this type of story angle.

I have a hard time buying the idea anymore that this was some spontaneous panic induced flip-out by Wilbanks given this recent development.

[underpants]

20. Come one Hugh Hefner come on

She's just sitting there waiting for the call

:evilgrin:

[Mike Daniels]

21. Playboy's too classy for her....

I could see Hustler or Oui in her future though....

[underpants]

24. Airbrushing is a godsend

:bounce:

[chelsea0011]

22. I'm taking bids on the rights to a movie about my life

It's the story of a TV hound who has to put up with all the crap they keep feeding us.

[slor]

23. Cool!

Another show I can look forward to NOT watching.

[Javaman]

25. Wow, a new flavor of the week tv movie, knock me over with a feather.

Reminds me of a Simpsons episode, were Krusty the Klown gets out rated by Gabbo.
He's sitting on the street corner and when some senile old guy with his pants down near him starts singing,"the old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be".
Then later that night, he's watching Gabbo, featuring the Crazy Old Man singers, singing, "the old gray mare". Just another flavor of the week.

[0007]

28. If Wilbanks was a non speaking English Hispanic or Black

there would be no market for this bullshit.

[Larkspur]

30. Maybe this deal was part of her amended pre-nuptial with her hubby

He wants to rake in as much cash as he can from her idiotcy.

[Janice325]

33. All I can say is WTF, I won't be watching

I live in Georgia and I've had enough of this crap.

[Roland99]

35. Something could actually pass "Justin and Kelly" as worst movie EVER

[gauguin57]

36. Oh, for uck-fay's ake-say!

What in the hell? I'm so disgusted at the way people get famous in this country. For being unbalanced, basically!

Sick of it, I tell you!

[Enraged_Ape]

37. The name of the movie is "Who Gives a F**k?!!"

Women have been getting cold feet and leaving their fiances at the altar since the institution of marriage was invented in ancient Mesopotamia. If Bush hadn't been taking a beating on his shameful war in Iraq, the press would never taken it upon themselves to beat us over the head with this stupid non-story.

And what actress could they find who can duplicate that glassy, deer-in-the-headlights gaze that scares the crap out of me every time I see it? They would have to CGI those freakish eyes.

[AgadorSparticus]

45. ROFLMAO! your subject line just cracked me up silly.

:)

[Historic NY]

38. A short story I hope....she is from the gene pool w/o a lifeguard.

[ernstbass]

39. Yawn

Who really gives a damn about this?

[demokatgurrl]

40. Do you suppose her life is really all that interesting?

Maybe I could make some money on a movie about my life....
Been running from marriage for 40 years.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

41. Charge her with a felony...

It's one thing to make a stupid decision to creates unnecessary panic and costs the taxpayers a bundle. She has no right to turn a profit from this -- and by law she can't profit from book of movie rights that are the result of a felony. Charge her. Convict the stupid twit.

[anitar1]

42. Brain dead people will love it. n/t

[AgadorSparticus]

44. i can't believe some nimwit thinks this is interesting to people.

just because they force it on TV doesn't mean everyone is interested. it wasn't even an interesting story the first time around. and now, this is just OLD, tired, has been news.

it'll tank like waterworld. they will have wasted that time slot and lose out to the other networks smart enough not to air this garbage. i hope it goes to a deserving network like nbc or abc.