Gersh & Fictional Entity are out with INBORN by Joe Russo & Chris LaMont. A small-town politician’s perfect life is turned upside-down when a stranger from his past shows up with….
Gersh is out with THE NIGHT SEASON by Jenna Mirza Mattison. When a group of researchers are trapped in a remote facility in Antarctica during “the night season,” a six month period of total darkness, they begin to turn on each other in a shocking….
Gersh is out with JOSH’S MOM by Aaron Karo. A retired schoolteacher enjoys gardening and Mahjong with the gals, but when her secret past in the CIA is revealed…
Bellevue Productions is out with HARLOWE by Colin Waite. After a botched payday, a criminal fixer finds herself in over her head after the FBI blackmails her into rescuing…
Gersh Agency is out with CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING by Kris Pathirana. Seeking closure to a failed relationship, Bobby and Holly agree to Conscious Uncoupling.
When retired curmudgeon Ed Fitzgerald loses his house to the bank and refuses to go into a nursing home, he decides to take a long shot…he posts a flyer and puts himself up for adoption. Unfortunately, everyone in town knows what a miserable pain the ass he is, so there’s only one taker – a venturesome single mother from China with a troubled teenage son. Inspired by a true story.
The first and only true account of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist in 1990 as told to the screenwriter by the son of the man who masterminded the heist.
On the eve of his 75th birthday, billionaire Charles Abernathy invites his four estranged children back home out of fear that tonight someone – or something – is coming to kill him. To ensure his family will help protect him from whatever’s coming, Abernathy puts each of their inheritances on the line.
When a bomb squad veteran finds herself trapped in a room rigged with ticking explosives while simultaneously stuck in the body of the cop that called in the threat she has to defuse the bomb, escape the room and make it back to headquarters to return to her own body before it is too late.
A buck-hunting competition and unexpected pregnancy start a war between two families that envelopes an entire Minnesota town.
Four old college buddies reunite to go helicopter skiing. When their chopper crashes, they’re stranded deep in the mountains of Canada with no hope of rescue and nothing to eat except a backpack full of marijuana edibles.
After a bacterial virus sweeps the globe, a government-mandated pill becomes an essential part of everyday life — you take it or you die. When everyman David MacReady begins showing symptoms of the infection, he takes his family on the run from the CDC, only David isn’t getting sicker, he’s getting stronger.
A young retirement home orderly joins his newest resident, a decorated Korean War veteran, in the hunt for a long-lost stash of treasure buried somewhere on the grounds of the nearby Naval base.
A romantic drama set in the aftermath of a missing airplane where two surviving spouses are drawn together in a search for answers. As their opposing viewpoints collide, an unusual and undeniable relationship emerges that forces them to confront their boundaries of love, faith, and fate.
Loosely based on actual events, story is about the larger-than-life exploits of PENNY BANKS HUMPHREY who quietly embezzled millions of dollars from her small Midwestern town to fund her two passions in life: horse racing and getting back at every bully who ever wronged her. Think TO DIE FOR meets ELECTION.
Logline: When a young boy discovers Sasquatch in the woods, he takes the hulking man home to live in civilization, and an unexpected friendship begins.
Logline: A Holocaust survivor turned Nazi Hunter, who hasn’t aged a day since 1945 due to medical experiments at Auschwitz, tracks down a cabal of Nazis who, like him, are eternally young and plotting to resurrect the Reich.
Logline: Based on true events, a young Lee Marvin fights for his life during the brutal WWII invasion of the island of Saipan—an experience that would later define him as a hard-boiled Oscar-winning Hollywood anti-hero legend.
Logline: Bailey is a well-meaning sweetheart who’s dumped by his girlfriend and learns he has testicular cancer (again). Darla is a cynical reporter whose sex addiction is getting in the way of her sex column. Then Darla has an idea, taking Bailey on an impromptu road trip across the U.S., recreating each of her myriad sexual experiences from state to state. She’s looking for a story and he’s looking for a last hurrah; what they find is something neither expected.
UPDATE (05.12.16): Sony has closed on a pre-emptive deal for The Final Six, which has publishing bids heating up. The town has been buzzing over this red hot book proposal from author Alexandra Monir.
Logline: Details are being kept under wraps, but it’s being pitched as a southern gothic fable involving forbidden love, a slave uprising, and a mummy.
Imagines a present-day world under a first-of-its-kind coalition between the United Nations and the international space agencies, with a plot to send a team of six intrepid teenagers to create the first human settlement on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa.
Logline: When she witnesses the betrayal and murder of her father during a smuggler’s drop, a vigilant and determined young woman calls in the help of a mysterious female assassin to seek revenge against all those responsible.
A twisted new dating service forces two singles inside a nightmarish maze designed to help them find their Soul Mate – or die trying.
My Sundown is a dramedy that follows Mallory Bartlett (30) back to her Jersey hometown to plan her own funeral. In the process, she reconnects with her estranged rock legend father, and sparks a relationship with her best friend from high school.
Logline: When a young girl vanishes from a small town, the investigators focus on a reclusive man suffering from severe parasomnia (sleep disorder); a man with no conscious memory of abducting the child.
Logline: Story centers on the irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly.
Logline: Based on the true story about one man’s inspirational rise from the ashes – the love story of Art Daily and his future wife, Allison, who are being pulled together by forces bigger than themselves. After the tragic death of Art’s wife and two sons, Art Daily must choose to believe that life can truly begin again. He finds the healing power of a stranger’s grace in Allison and through it all, the living memory of Art’s wife and sons guide and comfort them.
Jared Ferrie and Peter Klausner have signed with Greg Pedicin and Noah Jones at Gersh after placing in the Launch Pad Competition with their spec Buck Off.
Based on the true story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese guerilla fighter who held out on a remote island in the Philippines and fought WWII for 30 years after the war ended, finally surrendering in the Spring of 1974.
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