In the near future, humanity has eliminated disease, so people called scythes must kill others to control the population – and two teens are apprenticed against their will to scythes.
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Plot details of Daniel Kunka’s script are being kept in a black hole on the Universal lot, but it’s expected to be a high-concept tentpole in the vein of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Universal already has a relationship with Trachtenberg and Kunka, who are developing Crime of the Century for the studio and producer Chris Morgan.
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 the city’s worst cops are asked to run a simple errand for their captain, they get mixed up with a dirty cop who’ll do anything to save her ass.
The Oscar-winning scribes have come on to polish the script as Universal narrows down its list of potential directors.
Logline is being kept under wraps, but said to be a female-driven action-comedy.
Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—”Bad Monkeys” for short.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps, but spec is being pitched as The Shining or The Conjuring on a boat
The unique, untold American gangster story of Jose Miguel Battle Sr. (“El Padrino”), the leader of the “The Corporation” – also known as “The Godfather.”
10 Cloverfield Lane star John Goodman has been added to the cast of Peter Berg’s Patriot’s Day. He joins Mark Wahlberg and J.K. Simmons in the drama based on the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
A group of enthusiastically overweight dads get a wake-up call when a member of their group has a heart attack, forcing them to abruptly change their hard-drinking and hard-eating lifestyle.
Ted scribe Wellesley Wild and his Family Guy cohorts Kevin Biggins and Mike Desilets have sold a feature comedy pitch about a group of dads who get a wake-up call when a member of their group has a heart attack.
Details being kept under wraps, but pitched as Looper meets Armageddon.
The Big Short star is pulling double duty on the comedy pic, said to be Old School set on a backpacking trip across Europe. Carell will be working from a script by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra.
A 40-something guy reunites with his old college friends to take the European vacation that he never had in his youth.
Having recently won a Golden Globe for The Martian and Alien: Covenant in pre-production, Ridley Scott isn’t taking a break anytime soon when it comes to filmmaking. However, his next project may take him out of space and bring him back to Earth. He is currently circling a film adaptation of the British cult TV series, The Prisoner.
Lennon’s & Garant’s script will have Fleisher helming and Neeson starring.
Logline is kept under wraps, but from the casting, title and writers, it would seem to be a comic vigilante film.
Kept under wraps, but touted as an R-rated comedy.
Peter Berg is in the final round of talks to helm Patriots’ Day, based on former Boston Police commissioner Ed Davis’s account of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
The YA fantasy spec is pitched as Maleficent meets Wicked with insane franchise potential, presenting a new twist on an iconic villain. Sources relate that the project is being viewed as a possible tentpole, with everyone in town aching to read.
The YA tentpole spins a new origin story for Medusa the gorgon, the iconic figure from Greek literature whose hair was made of deadly vipers and gaze turned men to stone.
Plot details are kept mum, but the spec tells a new origin story for Medusa the gorgon, the iconic figure from Greek literature whose hair was made of deadly vipers and gaze turned men to stone.
A film adaptation of the iconic series of the same name, Diesel will star as the lollypop-loving Theo Kojak, a streetwise police lieutenant who outwits criminals and will bend the rules if it brings criminals to justice.
Two best friends that are lackluster fathers have to watch their two-year-old sons for the night, when they magically switch bodies with their toddlers.
Logline: Based on the true events of the Boston Marathon Bombing, the story follows the intense five-day search leading up to the infamous siege where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was pulled from a boat in Watertown.
Logline: Follows an infamous trio of bank robbers who were known for robbing banks in the U.S. and Canada with astounding precision and speed.
Logline: Two border patrol agents investigate a drug cartel operating out of a Native American reservation casino.
Logline: Tells the true story of Rick Wershe, a teenager in Detroit who became the prolific cocaine trafficker known as “White Boy Rick,” but secretly worked as an undercover informant for the FBI and DEA.
Logline: A long-married couple host one final Christmas together, during which they plan to tell the family that they’re breaking up, but the gathering’s chaos, surprises, and dysfunctional family fun prompt them to reassess their decision.
