Lawrence Grey, DeVon Franklin, Bill Gerber & Matt Tolmach amongst the producers taking this one into every studio!
When his plane is shot down over Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, Lieutenant Commander John McCain fights to survive as a POW at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” prison.
Story details are being kept under wraps, but the project is being pitched as a fresh, contained, high concept twist on the vampire genre in the vein of Panic Room and 30 Days of Night.
The new project from the writer/director of Me and You and Everyone We Know will begin filming in late May with July once again starring in it.
Written by Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins with revisions by Susanna Fogel and Katie Silberman, the comedy is about two high school seniors who realize they spent too much time studying and not enough time partying.
In other news, Babak Anvari is teaming with screenwriter Mary Laws (The Neon Demon, Preacher) on an elevated horror anthology for Annapurna Television and Two & Two Pictures, and that project has multiple bidders.
“Valley Girl” remake scheduled for June 28, Stephen Merchant’s wrestling comedy “Fighting with My Family” set for Sept. 14.
Daniel Barnz (Cake) has been tapped to direct the currently untitled project, which Wash will co-write and executive produce.
Annapurna will have to really up the star power to eclipse the Weinstein Company’s upcoming event series, and that starts with the role of David Koresh. Paul Dano or Shia LaBeouf would make for excellent casting, but so would Matthew Rhys or Billy Crudup.
Amberville is a darkly comedic animated crime show set in a city populated by living, breathing stuffed animals. The story concerns a reformed Teddy Bear who is pulled back into the criminal underworld when his former boss enlists him for an impossible new job.
After her fiance is falsley imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.
An anthology of six short films that take place in the 19th century post-Civil War era during the settling of the old west.
While most of the Hollywood contingent at Sundance has already left Park City, there are still plenty of festival deals being made, chief among them one for Dee Rees’ acclaimed drama Mudbound, which is the hottest acquisition title left on the board.
Chronicles Megyn Kelly and the women who brought down the man once considered the most powerful in media with accusations of sexual harassment, as well as the wife, Elizabeth Tilson, who propped him up.
Kept under wraps, but will take place in the fashion world during the 1950s.
Details are being kept under wraps but it is based on a true crime drama amid the Detroit riots in 1967.
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are set to team up with Megan Ellison of Annapurna Pictures for The Hustlers at Scores based on the New York Magazine of the same name by Jessica Pressler.
The Me and Orson Welles scribes are once again teaming up with director Richard Linklater to adapt Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go Bernadette. Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter wrote a previous draft of the script.
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.
The remarkably true, modern Robin Hood story of a group of ex-strippers who stole money from filthy, rich men.
Logline: A young boy, raised his entire life by three very different women, finds his idea of masculinity changed when a male boarder comes to live with them in 1979 Santa Barbara
Described as The Road Warrior meets Pretty In Pink, centers on a dystopian love story between a cannibal and his food, set in a Texas wasteland.
Ellison will produce the spiritual sequel to Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused” under her Annapurna banner.
Logline: Follows a college freshman in 1980 who moves into the baseball house on his campus and befriends the hard-partying inhabitants.
The Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu western could get new financing.
Logline: Follows Amanda Lindhout, whose deep passion for exploration of the world’s most remote and perilous places, took an unexpected turn when she was abducted in 2008 in Mogadishu, Somalia by a rebel terrorist group.
Logline: Based on the true story of self proclaimed “Arab slayer” Mark Stroman who murdered two immigrants in Texas days after the September 11th attacks. A third man survived being shot in the head and worked to keep his attacker from being executed.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as “Easy A” meets “Mean Girls.”
A recap of this week’s TV news!
Logline: Heist thriller about the daring 1965 jail break at age 22 to the legendary career pilfering treasures from museums all over New England, Myles Connor’s life is the stuff of adventure novels. Now, with the aid of novelist Siler, the notorious art thief recounts his scores and sets the record straight on one of the biggest art heists ever – at Boston’s Isabella stewart Gardner Museum.
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