F&ME takes an 'Ugly' turn

May 17, 2009 Dutch director Martin Koolhoven's "The Ugly" is the first in a pair of movies to emerge through deals brokered for the U.K.-based finance and production house via its pact with William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. The uberagency has brokered a deal uniting Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's F&ME and Els Vandevorst's Amsterdam-based Isabella Films for a brace of films to be made during the next two years. The script revolves around a gang of misfit cowboys, led by brothers Red and Bobby, who accidentally steal a side-show freak -- the "ugly" of the title -- and begin showing her around the Wild West for money.

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