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LOS ANGELES—In their third team-deal in six months, screenwriting partners Anna Gilson and Michael Steven Gregory have optioned their just-finished feature Valentine Carol to Pendle View LLC for an undisclosed amount. A relationship drama, it is described as a re-imagining of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in which three cynical "spirits" determined to break an irrepressible romantic's faith in true love urge her to settle for less and marry Mr. Right.

The acquisition marks the team's second by Pendle View LLC. Wish, a romantic comedy in which a dispirited entrepreneur makes a deal with a rum bottle genie to get a wish by fulfilling those of three strangers, only to fall in love with the one whose wish he can only grant by forfeiting his own, was picked up by producer Craig Nicholls in November.

In September, Gilson and Gregory 's ensemble drama Armageddon Jones sold to indie startup Mnemosyne Pictures on pitch, with Gregory slated to direct, Summer 2003.

Established in October 2001, Pendle View LLC is headed by former Blue Rider Pictures' Director of Development & Production Craig Nicholls. During his tenure at Blue Rider Nicholls developed and delivered fifteen features and a documentary, working with partners such as Walden Media, Dimension Films, Artisan Entertainment, Showtime Networks, Trimark Pictures, the Fox Family Channel, et al.

He has worked with the following actors: Robin Williams, Minnie Driver, James Spader, Josh Brolin, Jennifer Tilly, Daryl Hannah, Bruce Greenwood, Ian Holm, Rodney Dangerfield, Michael Biehn, Roy Scheider, Christopher Plummer, Stuart Wilson, Margot Kidder, Vincent Gallo, David Warner, Mickey Rourke, et al. In addition to productions in the U.S., Mr. Nicholls has served in a production executive or producer capacity on projects throughout Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany.

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