Samuel Goldwyn picks up 'Dark Streets'

September 04, 2008 Samuel Goldwyn Films has nabbed domestic rights to the '30s-era blues musical "Dark Streets," which features the first-ever film score from B.B. King. Rachel Samuels' adaptation of producer Glenn M. Stewart's stage musical "The City Club" follows a naive playboy drawn into a treacherous love triangle with two blues singers at his favorite nightclub. Producers Claus Clausen, Andrea Balen and Corina Danckwerts and Stewart will donate half of the film's profits to the Blues Initiative, which aids New Orleans musicians hurt by the Gustav and Katrina hurricanes.

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