The RENT MOVIE Official site

Don't think so. I've been looking around, and also would think Anthony will announce it when it happens.

whois info: Warner Bros. has registered "rentthemovie.net" but it's not up yet.

It isn't up yet, but should be http://rent.warnerbros.com

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Yeah I figured that they'd probably put it up when they have more stuff to put on the site from the filming, so maybe in May? I don't know thats just my guess.

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My question is: Why Warner Bros? Isn't "Rent" being produced by De Niro's Revolution Studios and distributed by Columbia Pictures?

What about Dreamworks?

*feels like starting confusion*

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Ha. I have no clue who is doing it, I just felt like adding more names into the mix.

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This was all discussed before recently, but I guess some of you missed it. Warner Brothers was associated with RENT briefly a year or so ago, but as far as I can tell no longer has anything to do with it. They no doubt got that domain name when they thought they might need it.

Revolution is producing RENT in association with DeNiro's Tribeca Productions and a couple of others. Revolution has a distribution deal with Sony, and I would expect the official site to be with either Sony or Revolution.

Updated On: 4/17/05 at 10:08 PM

That's good to know. Anthony Rapp has written that the RENT site will include blogs and video diaries.

This doesn't seem to to be accurate, but this message was posted on 4/5/05 in the "Welcome Anthony Rapp" thread in reply to a question i asked:

"Robert DeNiro (the very same) and his company, Tribeca Films, optioned the film rights to Rent back in '96."

Hmmmmm...

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not sure. but maybe they'll put pictures on the official movie site.

I think Broadway Baby's right Anthony did mention DeNiro. But I'm still not sure.

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Parade Magazine
August 23, 1998

Q: I hear the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent is being made into a film by Miramax. When will it come out? --M.A., Vernon Hills, Ill.

A: "Because the show is still sold out and there are plans to open companies in Japan and Australia, the producers are not ready to finalize any sales of rights," says a publicist for
Rent. But he acknowledges that Miramax and its partner, Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions, "have the intention of buying the rights."


So Anthony was substantially correct in saying De Niro's interest in this project dates way back. Miramax is out of it now, of course, but De Niro and his producing partner Jane Rosenthal are still two of the movie's producers, and their Tribeca Productions is one of the participating companies.

It gets really confusing these days with so many entities involved. There are four companies listed as producers for the film, including Revolution, Tribeca and 1492, which is Chris Columbus' company. (He's also one of the producers.) The fourth one, called simply RENT Productions, is a company no doubt created specifically for this film. There always seems to be one of those in the projects I work on.

So much for producers. Then there are the distributors - Sony (which has a deal with Revolution) for the US, and Columbia for some foreign markets. Head spinning enough?