UTA is out with TEXTBOOK BEHAVIOR by Tess Morris. Centers on debunking the myth that there is a certain set of rules, a tried and tested path, to getting over someone….
Amanda Hymson
CAA is out with INTERCEPTOR by Stuart Beattie & Matt Reilly. Story details are being kept under wraps.
Brillstein Entertainment Partners & UTA are out with THE BLACK BELT by Randall Green. Eighth-grader Simon Paluska dreams of being a Taekwondo Black Belt.
Oakhurst Entertainment and Gloria Sanchez Productions Unite for Randall Green’s Black List Spec CARTOON GIRL with Amanda Marsalis in Talks to Direct!
When renowned Interventionist Warren Mann’s daughter, Christy suffers a relapse, and her family is forced to deal with their inner demons at the site of a tragedy that tore them apart. As her intervention unfolds, it slowly becomes clear that this is no ordinary relapse, but something much more sinister.
Five years after a school shooting, the grandma of the shooter and a bullied teen whose brother was injured in the shooting, become the most unlikely of friends when they are forced to work together in the small town’s supermarket.
Newly transitioned trans girl Sophie Crumb starts her tumultuous first year of high school, complete with a love triangle (or square), the return of her estranged father, her brother’s drinking problem, a dissolving best friendship and a role in a school play that she didn’t even audition for.
The true story of how both Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin raced to find the cure for polio.
Logline: In the process of organizing a fourth of July surprise party for her boyfriend, the “perfect” sister of the family sees her plans derailed when she discovers her brother has relapsed on heroin while caring for his two-year-old daughter, and must now convince him to go into detox at any cost.
An overprotective mother attempts to keep her teenage daughter, young son, and rowdy sister together, while sailing on the doomed voyage of the Titanic. Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead meets Titanic.
Logline: Loosely based on true events, a teenager in Anchorage convinces a local DJ to help her sneak into a hotel where The Beatles are staying so she can lose her virginity to George Harrison.
Described as Interstellar meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the story centers around a team of assassins who are able to navigate between dimensions.
Logline: A precocious young writer becomes involved with her high school creative writing teacher in a dark coming-of-age drama that examines the blurred lines of emotional connectivity between professor and protégé, child and adult.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of Top Gun, story centers on a young FDNY cadet who finds himself pushed to his limits by his veteran instructor, while falling in love with a woman way out of his league.
Set five years after a school shooting, the grandmother of the shooter and a bullied boy whose brother was shot become the unlikeliest of friends when they are forced to work together at the local supermarket.
Details being kept under wraps, but story is a musical comedy focused on dance.
Logline: Two women discover they were married to the same man after he goes missing from a suspicious plane crash, only to discover he’s still alive and wanted by the Mob.
Logline: When their surrogate decides to keep the child, a successful middle-aged artist decides to pay her husband’s young and easy-going lover to move in and have his child for them. Her presence in their home evokes a mixed response as she forces them to examine the issues of their marriage.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Kept under wraps, but pitched as a raunchy, R-rated virginity comedy in the vein of Superbad.
Kept under wraps, but touted as an R-rated comedy.
A pregnant, recently-married twentysomething gradually bonds with her older husband’s ex-wife after insisting that she move in with them while treating a recent cancer diagnosis.
Logline: A reclusive war hero turned gunsmith must come out of retirement when his sister is kidnapped. The only man who can help him find her is one of Boston’s biggest crime bosses… who just happens to be his younger brother. This is a gritty, modern twist on the Cain & Abel tale. JOHN WICK meets THE TOWN.
Based on the true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who in 2013, after 4 failed attempts and at the age of 64, became the first person ever to open-swim from Cuba to Florida (55 hours non-stop) overcoming impossible odds, personal tragedy, and 103 miles of open ocean.
Based on the true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who in 2013, after 4 failed attempts and at the age of 64, became the first person ever to open-swim from Cuba to Florida (55 hours non-stop) overcoming impossible odds, personal tragedy, and 103 miles of open ocean.
Summer camp friends reunite years after their improbable victory over the “evil” Camp Ironjaw, in a desperate attempt to save their old stomping grounds from foreclosure.
Logline: Three dejected and unhappy adults attempt to save their old summer camp from bankruptcy and reignite a spark of youth within themselves when they go undercover as counselors at the “evil” rival camp across the lake – Camp Ironjaw.
Logline: When a star academic on scholarship is challenged by her eccentric professor to act on her emotions, they begin a fiery and inmate relationship that stands to threaten both of their promising careers and reputations.
Logline: When his eleven-year-old son discovers the cartoon girl he’s in love with is based on a real person, a single-father is dragged across the country to find her.