Miramax announced on Tuesday it has “won the bid to option” film rights for Matthew Quick’s The Reason You’re Alive. Allison Shearmur is attached to produce with Quick set to adapt the book for the screen.
Allison Shearmur Productions
A man must move home to assist his estranged, aging father – a Vietnam veteran.
ABC is continuing the trend of reimagining classic films with a new TV movie version of Dirty Dancing. They have attached Abigail Breslin in the role of “Baby,” previously played by Jennifer Grey.
Kept under wraps, but focuses on the adventures of a young Han Solo.
Kept under wraps, but serves as a remake of the 1992 film which starred Whoppi Goldberg as a lounge singer who’s forced into hiding as a nun at a San Francisco convent after a hit is put out on her.
The “30 Rock” creator and star will produce Disney’s “Hocus Pocus” sequel.
Logline: Centers on a silverback gorilla who lives in a cage in a shopping mall along with an elephant and a stray dog.
The dazzling magic of the witch-world is back!
Logline: A witch hunter teams up with a magical housewife to stop a power-hungry evil witch.
Logline: A young woman tries to live a normal life after she contracts a condition that turns her into a monster.
Logline: An elite, highly trained, deep cover operative loses everything, and disappears into Brooklyn. Years later he resurfaces, serving as a beat cop, who just discovered the global organization he was dedicated to fighting is now operating in his new backyard.
