Overture 'Taken' by Gajdusek pitch

Winkler Films to produce home-invasion thriller

By DAVE MCNARY

Overture Films has snapped up Karl Gajdusek's home-invasion thriller "Taken" and set up the pitch with producers Irwin Winkler and Jill Cutler through their Winkler Films banner.

The project reteams Winkler with Overture toppers Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett, four years after Winkler produced Cole Porter biopic "De-Lovely" for MGM.

Story centers on a marriage coming apart through infidelity and being put back together through unexpected adversity, combined with the high-stakes of a home invasion.

Overture, an arm of Liberty Media, began operations in late 2006 with the goal of releasing a slate of up to a dozen pics annually. Its first films, "Mad Money" and "The Visitor," opened earlier this year, and it will launch its Sundance acquisition "Henry Poole Is Here" in August.