Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. FX and BET have made multiple promotions and Jon Hookstratten joins Sony from Fox.
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Logline being kept under wraps, but a role reversal remake of the 1984 film starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah.
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s latest project is centered around the world of skateboarding. While details of the story are being kept under wraps, we hear that it’s being pitched as 8 Mile meets Lords of Dogtown.
A teenager uses skating to escape the urban blight. Pitched as 8 Mile meets Lords of Dogtown.
The pic, which is being produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard for their Imagine Entertainment shingle, was sold as a pitch from Ben Schwartz in 2012, with Schwartz also hired on to write. Josh Greenbaum is now feeling the pangs of love for the project, and has signed on to direct.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Lolgine: When his long-term mentor dies, an ex-CIA agent leads an elite crew to take on a dangerous banker, only to find out he may have a mole in his team.
Logline: While investigating the murder of his partner, NYPD Detective Jonah Wright discovers not only his supernatural heritage but also a conspiracy that threatens to tear the fabric of our society. To expose the killer, Jonah must compete in Epoch, an ancient fighting tournament that will determine the future of humanity.
Logline: Story of a charismatic voice-over artist who overcomes his inability to fall in love through the pursuit of the founder of his self help group.
Logline: A man calls in sick to skip work only to have his plans for the day go terribly awry, as he falls into a series of disastrous encounters with his neighbors that may endanger his wife’s chances for a job promotion.
Logline: Story will follow the rise of prominent Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali and his tumultuous married life.
Logline: A man, tasked with rewriting history in a totalitarian future society, falls in love, much to the chagrin of the watchful Big Brother.
Logline: The turmoil of Christmas affects a family during the holiday.
Loglime: A runaway teenager carjacks a truck full of dangerous contents and takes the driver hostage to escape a brutal crime.
Logline: A man recounts his coming-of-age moments amidst a small town murder mystery.
Logline: Story centers on a pompous travel show-host who, in turn, alienates his wife and two kids, and on assignment in India, suffers a plane crash that leaves him in a coma for two years. When we awakens, he finds that his family thinks he is dead, and when he attempts to return as a changed man, no one recognizes him due to his facial reconstructive surgery that has completey changed his appearance.
Logline: A young American analyst is brought in to provide information about a potential threat in Northern Europe, which involves a magic wall that has kept magical creatures contained since WWII.
Logline: The story follows two detectives who attempt to take down a group of unpredictable and notorious thugs known as the Uno Bianca gang.
Logline: Story follows the adventures of Vash the Stampede, a mysterious gunslinger who is being hunted for the large bounty on his head.
Logline: Based on the life of J. Edgar Hoover, the man often credited with making the FBI what it is today: an efficient, crime-fighting organization shrouded in secrecy. Hoover founded the organization in 1935 and remained director until his death in 1972.
Logline: A group of twentysomethings reconvene for a weekend in New York after learning that the teacher that shaped their childhoods has fallen into a mysterious coma.
Logline: A merman comes to land so he can win back his mermaid fiancee, who has left him for a real man.
Logline: Story follows the life and times of James Brown, an American singer and songwriter often referred to as “The Godfather of Soul” who renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing.
Logline: Story follows the intertwined destinies of two families–the Trasks and the Hamiltons–whose generations helplessly reenact the rivalry of Cain and Abel.
