J.C. Spink

Those who knew Spink are invited to a memorial service that will be held this Thursday, May 4, at 10 a.m. at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, which is located at 504 N. Camden Drive in Beverly Hills. Following the memorial, there will be a small reception on the church grounds.

His company, Benderspink, was a behemoth in the lucrative spec market, but Spink didn’t just have an eye for broad commercial fare. He also had good taste in edgy material as evidenced by A History of Violence, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination.

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After 18 years together, Benderspink manager-producers Chris Bender and J.C. Spink have ended their professional relationship, in what is said to be an amicable split.

Melton and Dunstan have been tapped to rewrite Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow’s sci-fi action spec Metronome, formerly known as World War X.

McKinnon may be headed back to high school, as the actress is in talks to star in Senior Year. The CBS Films comedy comes from the 2015 Hit List script by Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli.

Logline: Feeling guilty about his father’s death and watching the love of his life go blind in an accident, a man travels the world through the fall of the Berlin Wall, Desert Storm, the LA riots and 9/11.

Logline: A small group of skilled militants defends the last bastion of peace in a post-apocalyptic world from an invading army.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

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Logline: With France and England at war, Robin Hood finds himself at odds with the legendary D’Artagnon and the Three Musketeers as they both try to seek an end to the conflict.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but involves Greek Gods living on Earth in the modern day.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: While planning a bank heist, a thief gets trapped between two sets of criminals.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Set in Las Vegas, the story centers on the most famous magician pair in the world, as one of them dies in a high-risk stunt. Now, the surviving magician must find a way to rediscover his love for magic.