Alexander Payne

The drama is based on the legal exploits of Willie Gary, a successful personal-injury lawyer from Mississippi .

Payne and his production partners are joined by director Miguel Arteta, writer Roberto Benabib (Weeds) in this venture to adapt the Dutch series Holland’s Hoop.

Ghostbusters star Kristen Wiig will rejoin her The Martian co-star Matt Damon in Alexander Payne’s upcoming satire Downsizing. Wiig replaces Reese Witherspoon, who had to exit the project due to scheduling conflicts.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Domhnall Gleeson, Christina Applegate, and Thomas Haden Church are starring in Crash Pad, a rom-com from Black List scribe Jeremy Catalino.

When a hopeless romantic falls for a married woman, her husband seeks revenge by moving into his house and adopting his slacker lifestyle.

Logline: Story of a disillusioned journalist who is passed up for a promotion and abandoned by his girlfriend, forcing him to move back home with his mom and get a teaching job at his former high school.

Logline: Story follows an ailing Delhi judge and his beautiful younger Bombay wife who live has separate lives even though they live under the same roof. As he nears death, the judge wants to be sure that his even younger, barely educated mistress is cared for and not cast out.

A man agrees to drive his aging alcoholic father from Montana to Nebraska to cash a sweepstakes winning lotto ticket, the whole time bonding after years of separation, and believing the ticket is not real.

Storyline under wraps.

Logline: Follows a retiree who decides to go back to college.

“The Descendants” duo set for a re-team for Dennis Lehane adaptation?

Nominees announced for the 2011 Gotham Independent Film Awards

Logline: When an adrenaline-junkie interventionist attempts to save a troubled woman, he nearly loses everything in the process.

Logline: Follows a lonely and divorced man repeatedly attempting to engage with life, and then falling back into his hell of pessimism.

Logline: When Samuel finds himself exonerated after a 25 year sentence in federal prison for the murder of a young girl, he is faced with a younger brother he barely knows who has become a gangbanger, and the brother of the murdered girl, who can’t quite reconcile himself to Samuel’s innocence.

Logline: A newly widowed father –and one of the richest men in Oahu, Hawaii–takes off with his two rebellious daughters to track down his wife’s lover on the island of Kauai.

Logline: A man, down on his luck, decides he can have a better life if he undergoes a process to shrink himself.

Logline: A man agrees to drive his aging alcoholic father from Montana to Nebraska to cash a sweepstakes winning lotto ticket, the whole time bonding after years of separation, and believing the ticket is not real.

Logline: When Colin Coyne, a young American filmmaker seeking inspiration in Ireland, catches a pickpocket red-handed, he is hurtled headlong into the bewitching world of Gina Furey, a stunningly beautiful, iron-willed denizen of Dublin’s gypsy criminal underground.