He also said that there were no active talks between the companies.
In addition, advisers to company say they are in active talks with about 110 suitors.
However, the US site claims Lawrence is in active talks, rather than simply being on Tarantino's casting wishlist.
Northwest is in active talks with its pilots' union on the first stage of cost cuts and hopes to wrap up talks sometime this fall, Mr. Steenland said.
The Guardian reported earlier on Sunday that War and Peace producers Lookout Point were in "active" talks with Davies and his team about working on another "major classic".
"I'm more active talking to management of smaller companies," he said, "because we can gather information that's not well understood on the Street".
There are no active talks between the Mets and the Cubs regarding Sosa, and the Mets seem to think that acquiring Sosa would deplete them for the future.
"We are in active talks with European refineries to find out what quality they want and we are ready to ship it as soon as they need it.
Colin A. Sebastian, an analyst with Lazard Capital Markets, said the video game industry had been abuzz for months that both MTV and Activision, the makers of the competing Guitar Hero franchise, were in active talks with Apple Corps.
No publishers have signed on as yet as clients, but several major newspaper and magazine publishers have been in active talks with Journalism Online about how such a system should work.
