Curate is out with BAD TIME by Todd Waldman & Emma Koenig. A bitter party girl and a happy-go-lucky stoner become reluctant allies.
New Line Cinema is developing UNTITLED SPILIOTOPOULOS-ZOBEL SCI-FI PROJECT by Andrea Berloff. Story details are being kept under wraps.
Fourth Wall Management is out with TYPHON by Adam Alleca. A crew is forced to enter a deadly game of cat and mouse with the deep-space monster.
Fourth Wall is out with SLEEP DEMON by Clement Virgo & Caleigh Bacchus. When a mysterious figure begins stalking a woman, she struggles to maintain control.
Alas, we reach the end of August and with Labor Day just around the corner, we’re returning to cooler weather and pumpkin spice lattes invading our life yet again.
Lionsgate bought ARCANA by Alex Litvak & Michael Finch. The mixed-race son of an undocumented immigrant mother and absentee father discovers the existence of secret communities of magic hiding in plain sight.
After being sidelined by an injury, a former high school football star finds a new purpose when he discovers similarities between the disturbing graffiti in his algebra textbook and a grisly local murder.
A brother and sister navigate magical worlds hidden around England.
The children of undercover DEA agents play a game of cat and mouse with their parents as they rob from a dangerous cartel.
Story details are being kept under wraps but described as Running Man meets Bloodsport.
When Renato finds out that the father who long ago abandoned him is dying, he travels to America only to discover he has a half-crazy half-brother, Asher, and the two of them are thrust into a road trip together, masterminded by their father.
UNSEEN is set in the year 1906 when artist Hilma af Klint was first commissioned by a Spirit on the Astral Plane to create the world’s first modernist paintings. Klint was the world’s first modern painter – a true revolutionary – but she was forced to create her work in secret
Paranoia descends at a North Carolina truck stop, when two local women suspect that their lives are in danger.
For most people, prom is a walk in the park or a night to remember. For Penny it’s complicated. With the help of her two best friends, she must find her dream date and battle her dysfunctional family, all while trying to keep her sneakers fresh.
A rookie teacher in a Los Angeles high school teams up with a street gang to fight German terrorists. The teacher’s mysterious past comes back to haunt him, as he works to stop the terrorists from detonating a nuclear bomb in the mean streets of an American city.
When a violent LA street gang murders three teenage girls, a police task force must race to solve the crime before a mysterious death squad, La Sombra Negra, exacts their own brutal justice.
A modernized version of The Big Chill with a primarily diverse cast.
The film and television superstar will produce the project, which is about the hunt for the Mongolian dictator’s tomb, along with his manager Dany Garcia and their production company. Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers will also be involved with the production.
Centers on seven rival thieves chasing after one heist.
On the mean streets of Hong Kong, a small-time hustler plots to rob a bank during Chinese New Year in order to buy the freedom of a working girl from a ruthless mob boss.
Logline: A grounded character-driven comedy that tells the story of a former history professor-turned-Abraham Lincoln impersonator who is stuck in his life due to an earlier trauma. He is befriended by a local high school student, who convinces him to get his life back on track by putting on a Lincoln-themed ice capades production, An Evening with Abraham Lincoln.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go, including multiple hires at Pop network and a new executive position at Amazon Studios.
Logline: Everyday average Uber driver Stu has his world turned upside-down when a hard-nosed detective (who just had Lasik), needs him to drive him across the city in pursuit of the man who killed his former partner.
On an island off the coast of New England, an eccentric scientist has constructed a research facility where the subject of her studies are all real ghosts.
Logline: After a young African woman’s village is destroyed and her sister is kidnapped by a paramilitary unit claiming to be Christians, she must employ any weapon at her disposal to exact her revenge, through any means necessary
Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as “Guardians of the Galaxy” meets “Elf”
Logline: Kept under wraps, but project is being pitched as “The Shining” meets “Moon.”
Logline: A famous children’s author, with an affinity for drugs and hookers, finds himself on a journey of self-discovery with a dead stripper and her 8-year-old son.
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