Michael De Luca, veteran movie producer and showbiz executive, had put the comfortably lavish home in the discreetly elite lower Mandeville Canyon area of Los Angeles' Brentwood district back on the market for $7.5 million. The movie producer and his wife Angelique Madrid De Luca purchased the place just two years ago for $5.8 million.
The 6,100-square-foot, lavishly furnished Hamptons-style home has six bedrooms and eight full bathrooms. However, digital marketing materials have advertised the property as one that has three family bedrooms and a master suite with two grand walk-in closets, two way fireplaces, guest suite with direct entrance and a staff quarters located behind the kitchen.
Formal living and dining rooms are connected by a small library with climate appropriate wine closet and a small yet modern media room equipped with blackout curtains, Variety reported. The gigantic, double-island kitchen opens on one side to a family room with a gold covered ceiling. On its other side is a quirky wallpapered breakfast room with amazing accordion glass doors leading to a colossal veranda that overlooks a landscaped children's play area, pool and spa, terrace with fire pit and barbecue.
The three time Oscar nominee previously owned a Colonial in a slightly less exclusive yet premium priced district of Brentwood. He acquired the property in early 2008 for $4.15 million, listed in August 2014 and soon sold for $4.75 million.
Meanwhile, Universal Pictures has hired producer De Luca along with Dylan Clark and Scott Stuber for its film adaptation of "Battlestar Galactica," the sci-fi series, Hollywood Reporter reported.
De Luca signed a contract to produce Universal Pictures' movies for the next three years. He is producing the next two "Fifty Shades of Grey" films. Clark and Stuber, on the other hand, operate through Bluegrass Films, based also at the Universal. In 2014, "The Original" series creator Glen Larson was slated to produce the film at Universal with writer Jack Paglen on board. Larson died later that year.
