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Essential to roll out 7-film slate


October 28, 2008 Features from Natalie Portman, Barry Sonnenfeld and Randall Wallace highlight the seven-film debut slate from Essential Pictures. EP is aiming to develop, package, finance and produce two to three films a year in the $10 million-$40 million range, then sell them via EE, which Kohlberg continues to run with co-founder Jere Haufstater. -- The Natalie Portman starrer "Isabella V," an adaptation of John Richardson's 2003 blog-formatted Esquire article about an heiress on the run from her family.

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