UTA is out with WHO’S THERE by Will Simmons. A tightly-knit family becomes the target of an ancient evil.
A group of black teenagers find themselves lured into a church where a white police officer accused of a racially motivated murder has been taken hostage.
After accidentally killing a five-year-old girl and losing his closest friend in the aftermath, a teenage boy sets out to help the girl’s father build his home without revealing who he is.
The past two weeks have seen more than a dozen high profile spec, pitch & IP buys, and now going into the weekend the market has turned its attention, and its development funds to a new project that already has A-list directors and talent circling.
Pitched as Memento mets Deja Vu. When an emotionally-broken detective with preternatural abilities loses his wife to a ‘hit’ that he knows was meant for him, he joins a hi-tech law enforcement division that maps his brain and allows him to revisit every memory and case file of his life to track down the killer. In the process he also discovers he has the ability to relive all of the moments of his life with his wife before she died.
When exposure to uranium gives a Congolese miner superpowers, he races to save his adopted daughter, caught in a crossfire between the warring US and Nazi troops, before the radiation ultimately destroys him. A re-imagining of events during The Manhattan Project era of WWII set in the Belgian Congo.
American diplomats formerly based in Cuba and china whom were subjected to sonic weaponry referred to ‘voice of god’ tech.
Man’s mind is portal’d to a distant planet at the edge of our solar system to help in a hi-stakes excavation which beholds elements of sci-fi’d INDIANA JONES .. dually yielding his own metaphysical journey.
An intense sci-fi action feature that will lead our protagonist on a mission to uncover the truth behind his wife’s death, while exploring the implications of a near-future where the brain is a computer – making one’s personality, memory, and identity vulnerable to outside forces.
Story centers on a former basketball star who lost his wife and family in a struggle with addiction, and is now attempting to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate, ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.
Written by Ryan Riley, who previously saw his short story “Encyclopedia Dad” sell to WBTV and his feature spec “Take Back The Night” land with New Regency following a bidding war, the project is being pitched as a socio-political thriller that focuses on the world of tomorrow.
Project is being pitched as a socio-political thriller that focuses on the world of tomorrow – a world drowning in it’s own agenda-driven censorship, and spiraling toward the beginning of an uprising.
After their youngest son vanishes without a trace, a family is haunted by an ancient evil that uses common doors to lure its prey into a lair of unimaginable terror.
Two American brothers, wrongly sentenced to prison in Thailand, are forced to compete in Thai boxing for a chance to win their freedom.
When all of the parents in a remote island community start to murder their children for no apparent reason, a 17-year-old girl fights to save her younger brothers from the people who are supposed to love and protect them.
Two vampires fight to protect their livelihood from the monsters who invaded their farm searching for the only human left on earth: their daughter.
Kept under wraps, but project is being pitched as a contained family drama with global sci-fi implications and resonating socio-political themes.
When her only chance for love is murdered, a badass/smartass woman with mildly explosive ultra-violent impulse control issues goes off her meds and off the chain to wreak bloody hell on those responsible, their friends and colleagues, their pet goldfish, and anyone else unlucky enough to get in the path of her wild rampage of rollicking revenge.
Being pitched as a high concept drama in the vein of This is Us, the short story marks the first big Hollywood sale for the writer and first to originate from digital platform Medium.com.
A young man recieves life advice from his father thanks to a series of DVD videos his father recorded before his death.
Set in the near future, the sci-fi drama follows an artificially intelligent robot who decides to propose to his human girlfriend. However, a series of events show him just how unequal he still is in society, and hint at a coming revolution amongst those like him.
A crew of American oil workers is sent to the outskirts of the frozen Russian tundra to complete a stagnant oil operation and break past the stalled 12KM threshold. Upon penetrating this new depth, the crew is confronted with an unimaginable terror, something that has profound and shocking consequences for everyone involved.
Out of more than 2,000 entries coming to us from 24 different countries, we’re incredibly excited to introduce you to the 2016 LPMC Overall Winner, selected by none other than Ridley Scott and his Scott Free Productions.
In a post-apocalyptic future, an aimless pizza guy encounters a pregnant smartass with a plan to reboot America.
The confusing, sometimes offensive, borderline-insane memories of David Prowse, the irascible Englishman behind Darth Vader’s mask.
Launch Pad alum Irina Ivanova has signed with Brooklyn Weaver at his own Energy Entertainment. Ivanova joins the ranks of over 200 writers who have secured representation from the competition since 2013.
Amongst the violence of Chicago’s inner-city, various millennials struggle to survive as the attempt to reach their true potential.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as being a high concept action comedy rom-com in the vein of True Romance.
Based on the comic, it centers on an angel who fights the forces of evil and often finds herself face-to-face with demons and monsters. Described as John Wick with a fallen angel.
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