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2015 LPPC scribe Gannon Kenney has signed with Brooklyn Weaver of Energy Entertainment. His political thriller Apalachee is a semi-finalist in the competition, centering on the fascinating and largely unexplored world of the United Nations.

2015 Launch Pad Pilot Competition writer Rohit Kumar has been signed by Benderspink managers Scott Stoops and David Baggelaar. Kumar, who currently has his script Greyshore sitting in our Top 26 semi-finalists, also earned a spot in our honorable mentions this year with his script Unbecomers.

The first 2015 Launch Pad Pilot Writer has been signed! Ben Kawaller wrote the current Top 25 Semi-Finalist The Next Best Thing. His dark comedy tells the story a middle-aged gay man facing the fallout of his longest relationships when he chooses to start dating women for the first time since realizing he was gay.

It was a long fall to 3rd place, with War Room making less than a third of what The Visit pulled in. The faith-based family film sits at $39.6 million domestically, surpassing both writer-director Alex Kendrick’s previous successes Courageous and Fireproof.

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See the first images of the winged pair of superheroes from the DC/CW comic series.

Sources close to The Tracking Board tell us that Hobley signed with Chris Smith and Adrian Garcia in an extremely competitive situation between three agencies. Hobley, an alum of the Young & Hungry List, just sold his spec Titan last month.

In a weekend of thriller releases, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit opens alongside The Perfect Guy. The newcomers will claim the top 2 spots, simply from a lack of other options at the theater.

A lonely department store employee falls for a housewife in the middle of a divorce and the two set out across the country while being pursued by a private investigator hired by a jealous ex-husband.

The story follows a 5-year-old who grows up in an 11-by-11 shed he believes to be the whole world as his young mother has shielded him from the truth that they are captives.

A twisted horror comedy set around the Christmas holiday that is based on an ancient legend about a pagan demon who punishes the wicked.

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In an unexpected upset, War Room seems to have gotten some heavenly help to reach the #1 spot this Labor Day weekend. Officially keeping Straight Outta Compton from holding onto first place for a solid month, the faith-based film saw a minimal 16% drop from last week and pulled in just shy of $9.5 million in its second weekend.

A political consultant goes to South America to help with the local election, but as she witnesses the rampant corruption, she comes to believe that she might be helping the wrong people.

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A young boy is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters when civil war engulfs his West African country.

An anthology of horror tales set around Christmas, including Santa Claus dealing with a zombie outbreak at the North Pole and the Krampus unleashing his reign of terror.

In a future where single people must find a mate in 45 days or risk being turned into an animal, a man and woman start a forbidden romance in the woods outside of their city.

It’s been a rough few weeks to say the least, and the Labor Day box office look to be as lazy as ever. The drop off we’ll see this weekend will be considerably smaller, closer to 20-30%. Still, it’s not looking good for newcomers The Transporter Refueled and A Walk in the Woods.

Three childhood best friends reunite in New York City for their annual tradition of going out on Christmas Eve.

A father raises his young son to fight the world that has slighted him, but the child starts to see life through his own eyes.

Follows a pair of lifelong best friends whose relationship is torn to bits when one becomes pregnant and the other extremely sick.

With the unfortunate conclusion of Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal this past weekend, we found it especially fitting to showcase Matthew Morettini’s video intercuting scenes from three adaptations of Red Dragon

Macbeth, a duke of Scotland, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

When the human race is on the verge of extinction, one of the last survivors on earth, an extraordinary young woman, goes on a mission to track down her younger brother who was abducted by the extraterrestrial creatures colonizing Earth.

A pair of femme fatales wreak havoc on the life of a happily married man while his family has left town on vacation.

Based on the true story of the doctor who discovered CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) in football players, and the uphill battle he faced in bringing the information to the public.

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A boy moves in next to children’s horror writer R.L. Stine, whose stories have all started to come to life.

A gay couple try to have a baby with the help of their best friend Anna.