Amblin Partners

Similar to what we shared last Spring, here are the updated PODS for the TV industry in 2021.

An asteroid miner who, after crash-landing on an alien planet, must make his way across the harsh terrain, running out of oxygen, hunted by strange creatures, to the only other survivor: a woman who is trapped in her escape pod.

Chronicles a vacation by a group of girlfriends in their 60’s.

Deep in the winter woods of upstate New York, a retiring public school teacher uncovers a carefully guarded secret in an abandoned house.

A group of middle school teachers are on an extended field trip, but a night out drinking causes them to accidentally lose one of the children in their class.

Project details are kept under wraps, but story is said to be a drama set during WWI.

The studio hopes to mirror the success of horror films Mama and Lights Out, which both originated from short films.

The untold story of a group of young Jewish women and girls who fought in the resistance against the Nazis regime.

Reuniting with his “Project Almanac” writers Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan for the second major directing attachment for Amblin’s latest supernatural thriller.

The duo are branching away from comedy with an adaptation of Chris Pavone’s novel by “Scarface” writer John Herman that has a “Hitchcockian premise” ala “North by Northwest.”

An ordinary man and his son must survive a journey through the tallest, craziest, most amazing house in the world while trying to repair their fractured relationship.

An R-rated action buddy comedy about two hapless cops who stumble on a case that exposes a conspiracy of corruption in their own precinct.

When a legendary retired assassin is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, she must return to the life she left behind and complete one final job in order to secure a future for her young daughter. Think a female John Wick. Or more accurately, think a female who could kick John Wick’s ass.

When a legendary retired assassin is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, she must return to the life she left behind and complete one final job in order to secure a future for her young daughter. Think a female John Wick.

While working at a Connecticut hospital, Ruth, a widowed labor/delivery nurse with 20 years of experience caring for newborns, is told not to touch the baby of a couple who are white supremacists. When the baby subsequently dies while Ruth is the only one present, she is taken to court by the couple.

Fresh off winning a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for Fences, Viola Davis has signed on to co-star alongside Julia Roberts in Small Great Things, an adaptation of the Jodi Picoult novel that is coming together at Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners.

Based on the real story of the Pentagon Papers and the Washington Post’s editor and publisher challenging the federal government to publish them in 1971.

Logline kept under wraps.

The family-oriented thriller is right in Spielberg’s wheelhouse as it centers on a newly divorced couple and their journey to get home to their children in the suburbs from downtown Atlanta during an alien invasion.

Finding themselves in the middle of an alien invasion, a newly divorced couple must survive a dangerous real-time journey on foot from downtown Atlanta to the suburbs, where their young children are home alone.

Logline kept under wraps, but the story will follow legendary newscaster Walter Cronkite’s relationship with the Vietnam War and his influence on public opinion.

Jonathan Herman has signed on to adapt Chris Pavone’s The Travelers for DreamWorks. Herman was nominated for an Oscar alongside Andrea Berloff for penning last year’s Straight Outta Compton.

In advance of its July release, DreamWorks has nabbed the rights to the horror-thriller novel about a couple whose house-swap vacation doesn’t go as planned, leaving them with the unsettling feeling that there’s now something sinister about their own home.

A couple hopes a house swap with a Parisian couple will be the perfect chance to leave their troubles behind, but the apartment is a run-down wreck. When they return home, the couple can’t shake the feeling that there’s now something sinister about their own home.

Amy Schumer has been tapped to showcase her dramatic acting chops in the DreamWorks Pictures film, Thank You For Your Service. Adapted from the book of the same title by David Finkel, the film follows a group of U.S. soldiers adapting back to family and civilian life after returning from the war in Iraq.

Mark and Steph hope a house swap with a Parisian couple they meet online will be the perfect chance to leave their troubles behind them, but the Paris apartment is a run-down wreck and the French couple can’t be reached. When they return home, Mark and Steph can’t shake the feeling that there’s now something sinister about their own home.

Orange Is The New Black’s Laura Prepon has joined the all-star cast of DreamWorks’ adaptation of Paula Hawkin’s buzzy bestselling novel The Girl On The Train.

Adaptation of the upcoming novel from Mystic River author Dennis Lehane, who will also write the screenplay. DreamWorks acquired the rights after a heated bidding war with several studios. It is described as a Hitchcockian thriller set in Boston.

The Shawn Levy-produced pic, which has been touted as It’s a Wonderful Life in tone, follows an unhappy man who discovers that he’s able to revisit moments in his life via his old home movies, and attempts to change things for the better.

Logline: A group of East Texas women, feeling left out by the snobby, serious book clubs they’ve encountered in the past, start a new kind of club.