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The unique, untold American gangster story of Jose Miguel Battle Sr. (“El Padrino”), the leader of the “The Corporation” – also known as “The Godfather.”
UPDATE (3.10.16): Imperative Entertainment wins the war for David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon with a massive $5 million bid, making this one of the richest book deals to go down in recent history. Imperative beat out an offer from Star Wars director JJ Abrams.
A massive bidding war is underway right now as some of Hollywood’s biggest players compete for the rights to Lost City of Z author David Grann’s upcoming Killers Of The Flower Moon. A-listers are attached and studios are swarming as the year’s biggest bidding war gets underway!
Chronicles the real-life 1920s mystery surrounding the suspicious deaths of several Osage Indians, who were at the time among the richest people on the planet. The story follows the twists and turns of the investigation that eventually became the first major case solved by J. Edgar Hoover’s brand new FBI.
Remake of the 1973 kung fu classic about a fighter who goes up against a former peer that sabotaged his master.
Logline kept under wraps, but will be based on Henry Hill’s Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal.
Writer, director and actress Sarah Polley has been commissioned by Brett Ratner and his RatPac Entertainment to adapt David Gilbert’s bestselling novel & Sons, about a legendary and reclusive writer who tries to reconnect with his three sons after having an emotional breakdown.
In the vein of The Social Network, the story of the Russian creator of Tetris in the USSR during the communist 1980s.
Brett Ratner and James Packer are developing a biopic about Alexey Pajitnov, the inventor of Tetris, who created the iconic game while living in communist-era Soviet Union. The film is being pitched in the vein of The Social Network.
Logline: An extra-terrestrial investigator encounters incredible findings of alien sightings, cattle mutilations, Native American holy sites and secret government activity located on the 37th degree of latitude.
Logline: Follows the true story of Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich on their wild journey to build a multibillion-dollar empire on oil and aluminum.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as a story focusing on Christmas and the power of music.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as a story focusing on Christmas and the power of music.
Follows the story of two star-crossed lovers and the wild, dangerous journey they must take through Paris to start a new life together.
The hot new comedy spec lands into two new major territories!
New R-Rated Comedy spec Pulls Eyes back to LA, as Benderspink & Gersh Release First Round of in-demand Territories and Six Buyers Enter the Mix!
Logline: Set in Miami in 1962, centers on the most powerful Miami Beach hotel owner who fights to save his family and survive the seedy underground of Magic City.
Brad Pitt’s production company has found a writer for its movie about the infamous Steubenville rape case.
The companies have nabbed the rights to adapt Donna Tartt’s novel for the big screen.
Logline: Two bitter enemies, tasked with assassinating each other, set aside their differences when they import hippopotamuses to Louisiana in an effort to convince Americans to eat them, thereby alleviating the meat shortage in the U.S.
Logline: Based on the true story of Los Angeles Dodgers player Yasiel Puig’s dangerous escape from his home country of Cuba and his hard-fought journey to the major leagues.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as being in the vein of “The Ring” and “Memento.”