Circle of Confusion

Another adaptation of a series of young adult novels is preparing to launch. Broadway producer Vivek J. Tiwary has acquired the rights to Dave Roman’s bestselling graphic novel series Astronaut Academy.

The red hot sci-fi thriller RIFT from Larry Lasky continues to set the town on fire as it makes its way into every major studios and over a dozen top production companies. We’re also hearing that an A-list director is circling, cranking up the heat around what could be the summer’s next big spec sale.

A group of diverse women form a cheerleading club in a retirement community.

The spec market is heating up once again as the red hot sci-fi thriller RIFT from Larry Lasky makes its way around town. Circle of Confusion’s Zach Cox is leading the charge on this one, which already has Rock Shaink attached to produce under his Romark Entertainment banner.

Logline: A romantic thriller inspired by and based on the true story of the Pink Panther gang, who performed audacious jewel heists around the world.

When a political fight over the future of the top secret RIFT teleportation technology puts his family in the crosshairs, an ex-special forces operative must steal the device and go rogue in order to save them before they become collateral damage. Think Bourne Identity meets Jumper.

Boom! Studios and Twentieth Century Fox are set to adapt the graphic novel Mouse Guard for the big screen and has tapped Rogue One: A Star Wars Story writer Gary Whitta to pen the script.

Tells of anthropomorphic mice set in medieval times, focusing on a brotherhood of mice that is sworn to protect the common folk.

Logline: An irrelevant economics professor at the end of his career becomes convinced his stock charts are forecasting a cataclysmic event.

Kept under wraps.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: In post-apocalyptic Portland, an 18-year-old girl becomes pregnant with a zombie baby and must protect the rapidly growing fetus from both zombies and threatening townspeople. Juno meets Zombieland.

It was a banner day on the spec market, as three major sales went down. The Jennifer Lawrence-Adam McKay pitch Bad Blood was the first to find a home, followed closely by Moonfall from director Roland Emmerich and Mary from Anthony Jaswinski.

The Shallows scribe Anthony Jaswinski is having a pretty good month. Not only is his shark thriller hitting theaters this weekend, but his spec Mary has just been bought by Tooley Productions in a competitive situation, with several buyers circling the red hot script.

Pithed as The Shining meets The Conjuring on a boat, centers on a struggling family who buys an old ship a with the hopes of starting a charter business, only to discover its horrifying secrets on the isolated open waters.

About a girl, who on the eve of her big interview at Princeton, decides to get herself a fake ID – unbeknownst to her, she’s inheriting the identity of a cyberterrorist who is at large.

Mary, pitched as The Shining/The Conjuring on a boat, has made its way into the hands of some of the biggest producers in town, and with some huge talent circling, it looks like it could be the latest feeding frenzy to hit the spec market.

The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse – until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.

The HBO offshoot is in development with a television series built around the Marvel character Scarlet from Brian Michael Bendis. Bendis discussed the project at the ATX Television Festival on Friday.

The market is buzzing as Paradigm and Circle of Confusion launch the latest spec script from The Shallows screenwriter Anthony Jaswinski, Mary, which is being pitched as The Shining meets The Conjuring on a boat.

Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps, but spec is being pitched as The Shining or The Conjuring on a boat

The critically acclaimed improv show is being adapted into a feature, with creator Jordan Black teaming with Lance Crouther to write and direct for Voltage Pictures.

The story centers around a successful business woman named Merlyn who is more in love with weddings than she is with marriage.

Revolves around a serial killer in 1930s Chicago who stumbles upon a time traveling device.

Brian Duffield will adapt the upcoming YA novel Spontaneous for Awesomeness Films. The novel, which will be published by Dutton in August, comes from author Aaron Starmer.

Snow, best known for her role in the hit musicals Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2, is set to star in and produce the romantic comedy with Cranium Entertainment and Eclectic Pictures.

Logline: After a drug deal goes sideways, a young black Gulf War vet escapes from the police and barricades himself in his apartment with his wife and daughter. As SWAT begins to surround the house, his demand to speak to the lone black cop in the sea of blue leads to a spark in the local community, and media coverage, as together these two men face issues of race, justice, brutality, fatherhood, and what it means to be a man in today’s world.

Pitched as being in the vein of Top Gun, story centers on a young FDNY cadet who finds himself pushed to his limits by his veteran instructor, while falling in love with a woman way out of his league.

The unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in United States history – an incredible true story that pits corrupt educators against dogged student journalists against the backdrop of a cutthroat Long Island suburb.

Dafoe, who portrayed The Green Goblin in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man triology, has joined the cast of Warner Bros.’ next installment of its DC Universe franchise, Justice League.