Shane Salerno

A desperate mother of a kidnapped daughter must kidnap a child herself to secure the safe release of her own child.

Microsoft’s iconic video game franchise boasts more than 45 million players worldwide, who have generated more than $1 billion in sales for the series.

The story follows a corrupt NYPD cop who is forced to choose between his family, his brothers in blue, and his own life, which finds itself threatened by an assortment of unsavory types ranging from Harlem drug dealers and the mob to the mayor’s office and relentless federal investigators.

Based on the novel Afterlife.

In a city on the brink of racial conflagration an NYPD detective struggles between his idealistic views the corrupt cop he’s become.

Tells the story of a corrupt detective in the NYPD’s most elite crime-fighting unit. Sergeant Denny Malone is forced to choose between his family, his partners, and his life.

HarperCollins won a multi-house auction to serve as the publisher of Michael Mann Books, the publishing imprint founded by the Oscar-nominated writer, director and producer earlier this year.

Follows a career criminal trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter, all the while fighting to get out from under a mob boss’s thumb.

The novel’s been pitched as Taken meets The Equalizer and follows career criminal Nick Mason after he’s released from prison after serving five years of a twenty-five year sentence.

Follows a career criminal trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter, all the while fighting to get out from under a mob boss’s thumb.

Ridley Scott and 20th Century Fox are teaming up for The Cartel, an adaptation of Don Winslow’s novel that centers on the Sonora drug cartel led by the infamous Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Scott is set to direct the project, with a script by Shane Salerno.

Logline: Tells the intertwined story of two friends whose paths diverged when one went to work for the DEA and the other joined the Sonora drug cartel, led by notorious Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

Logline: Centers on Mack Bolan, an elite anti-terrorist operative who can crack even the toughest of cases.

Logline: Centers on Mack Bolan, an elite anti-terrorist operative who can crack even the toughest of cases.

Josh Friedman, Amanda Silver, Rick Jaffa, and Shane Salerno will cowrite the three “Avatar” sequels with James Cameron.

Logline: When a massive shark species believed to have gone extinct rises from the ocean, a team of scientists are sent in to capture it.

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Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Story will focus on the period in JD Salinger’s life between his service in World War II and the publishing of Catcher In The Rye, examining the effects war can have on an artist.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Yo dawg, I heard you liked “Avatar” so I took your Avatar and mixed it with Avatar and threw on two more Avatars.

Logline: Story will follow the many aspects and characters involved in a Mexican drug empire.

Logline: A disgraced cop becomes an arson investigator and develops an obsession with a brutal, unsolved murder.

Logline: A young genius is contracted to pick locks for a group of gangsters.

Logline: Revolves around two men who inevitably collide, amidst a host of supporting characters.

Centers on two pals from Laguna Beach who share the same girlfriend and a thriving business growing and distributing the best-quality pot on the planet. When they resist being muscled by a Mexican drug cartel, the girl is kidnapped and the ransom is every cent they’ve made for the last five years. They agree to pay but hatch an alternate plan to get her back, get revenge, and then get lost.

Logline: Follows a Westerner who is raised in Japan where he is trained as an assassin, only to later become caught-up in the chaos of post WWII, as the U.S. and Soviet Union maneuver for power.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Centers on two pals from Laguna Beach who share the same girlfriend and a thriving business growing and distributing the best-quality pot on the planet. When they resist being muscled by a Mexican drug cartel , the girl is kidnapped and the ransom is every cent they’ve made for the last five years. They agree to pay but hatch an alternate plan to get her back, get revenge, and then get lost.

Logline: The adventures of repo-men reclaiming boats and planes from the wealthy.