Things have gotten chilly here for Natural Selection, the film production company backed by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s son Saadi.

On its office line, a recorded message has been the only answer for much of the last week. And Mathew Beckerman, the producer who made a splash in Variety last year with word that he had rounded up $100 million in financing for the company from Qaddafi and others, is suddenly getting a very cold shoulder.

So it goes when Hollywood begins to suspect it has made a mistake.

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