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The pic, which is being produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard for their Imagine Entertainment shingle, was sold as a pitch from Ben Schwartz in 2012, with Schwartz also hired on to write. Josh Greenbaum is now feeling the pangs of love for the project, and has signed on to direct.
Pitched as “The Social Network” meets “Risky Business”… you’re going to wish you had this kid in your class!
Logline: Pitched as “The Social Network” meets “Risky Business,” project is based on the true story of Sam Eshaghoff, the New York teen who created a lucrative business around taking the SATs for wealthy kids.
Logline: The story of famed drug trafficker Barry Seal and the work he did for the Medellin cartel and the CIA in and around Mena, Arkansas.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will chronicle the life of Brazilian soccer player Pele, widely considered the best to ever play the game.
Logline: In post-tsunami Japan, an American intelligence officer falls into the criminal underworld after dealing with a yakuza godfather.
Logline: Two families, one black and the other white, confront racism and misperception in rural Mississippi after World War II
Logline: Story of a charismatic voice-over artist who overcomes his inability to fall in love through the pursuit of the founder of his self help group.
Logline: Follows the true story of boys aged seven to eleven who were forced to flee their homes during Sudan’s civil war in hopes of finding relief in Kenyan refugee camps.
Logline: A man calls in sick to skip work only to have his plans for the day go terribly awry, as he falls into a series of disastrous encounters with his neighbors that may endanger his wife’s chances for a job promotion.
Logline: The turmoil of Christmas affects a family during the holiday.
Logline: In an effort to prove spirits do not exist, a group of individuals enter a supposed haunted home, when things take a turn for the worst.
Logline: A hit man relocates his victims instead of killing them.
Logline: Kids in an inner-city neighborhood look for a way out improve their lives.
Logline: Story centers on a pompous travel show-host who, in turn, alienates his wife and two kids, and on assignment in India, suffers a plane crash that leaves him in a coma for two years. When we awakens, he finds that his family thinks he is dead, and when he attempts to return as a changed man, no one recognizes him due to his facial reconstructive surgery that has completey changed his appearance.
Logline: Story centers on a small IT firm owner, who has been approached to sell his company, but comes up with one big problem – the buyers want to deal with the “Boss” face to face… but, in order to keep morale up in the workplace, the owner created a fake boss to hide behind when unpopular items needed to be dealt with at work. Now, the owner needs to hire a failed actor to step in and play the rolem and hope he doesn’t take the job too seriously.
Logline: Chronicles the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which erupted after the videotaped police beating of Rodney King and led to 53 deaths and a billion dollars in damage.
Logline: Ex-CIA agent turned private operative, Cleopatra Jones, is hired to rescue an anti-war protester from a Jamaican prison, and complications ensue when they discover a diabolical new weapon has been implanted inside the protester.
Logline: Storyline is being kept under wraps.
Logline: When five men come to Las Vegas to live out their fantasy by attending the LeBron James Adult Basketball Camp, they end up dragging James into their various life issues.
Logline: An overworked manager of a luxury building and his staff plan a heist against a rich fraudster living in their building after they lose their pensions to him in a Bernie Madoff-like scam.
Logline: Robert Langdon is called to Washington DC where he must decipher the secret symbols of the Freemasons.
Logline: A new take on the original film The Invisible Man. Where a man discovers a formula his uncle created and is recruited by MI5 British Intelligence during WWII.
Logline: A merman comes to land so he can win back his mermaid fiancee, who has left him for a real man.
Logline: About an uptight spy who stumbles across a stretching formula, which he takes and must now adjust to in everyday life and when fighting crime.
Logline: Centers on a kid from Pacoima with a dead-end job dreams of building the perfect lowrider.
Logline: Story of two spies, once partners, who find themselves on opposite sides of a race to find a deadly bomb. During their search, they discover they’re both taking orders from the same organization that’s made up of rogue CIA and KGB agents.