Hollywood Trade Ad Pays Off for New Jersey Screenwriter

Eclectic Pictures has optioned an action-horror script tied to the legend of the New Jersey Devil.

When Eric D. Wilkinson took out a full-page ad in the Nov. 20 issue of our sister publication The Hollywood Reporter, he was aiming squarely at Bruce Willis, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and director Len Wiseman. A month later however, it is a different set of Tinseltown movers and shakers who are being credited with the unlikely happy ending.

Impressed with the ideas pitched in the ad by Wilkinson for the next Die Hard movie, Conor Charles, senior vice president at L.A.’s

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