Melton and Dunstan have been tapped to rewrite Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow’s sci-fi action spec Metronome, formerly known as World War X.
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Melton and Dunstan have been tapped to rewrite Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow’s sci-fi action spec Metronome, formerly known as World War X.
Noah Hawley will be making his feature directorial debut with Man Alive. The spec from first-time scribe Joe Greenberg was acquired by 20th Century Fox in a six-figure deal.
Some sort of deadly virus destroys many people, while a Man and some other survivors try to remain alive.
McKinnon may be headed back to high school, as the actress is in talks to star in Senior Year. The CBS Films comedy comes from the 2015 Hit List script by Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli.
When Snow White takes a bite from the iconic poison apple and falls into Sleeping Death, her sister, Rose red, must undertake a dangerous quest to break the curse and bring Snow White back to life.
Jordin Sparks has landed a recurring role in Time After Time, Sam Neill is a family patriarch in the sweeping family drama The Son, and Alyssa Milano is teaming up with Jason Lee again for What Goes Around Comes Around in tonight’s casting round-up!
Logline: After an alien consciousness takes over the minds of every human but one, the lone outsider must navigate a shaky truce with the alien hive mind, soon learning that there may be another person out there like him – someone with bad intentions.
Logline kept under wraps, but will be based on the E.T.A. Hoffmann book.
After previously signing with Benderspink managers Scott Stoops and David Baggelaar, 2015 Launch Pad alum Rohit Kumar has now been signed by ICM Partners’ Andrew Murphy, Brandy Rivers, and Matt Baldovsky.
Logline: When a failed photographer drags his depressed wife and step-daughter to the country for family support, what they discover are dark cult roots, an isolated hippie heaven, and the terrifying realization that they may not be free to leave alive.
Paradigm and Benderspink are out with a hot new action-thriller with serious franchise potential, and it’s officially into the first round of territories, with more soon to come…
Logline kept under wraps, but being pitched as a contained action thriller in the vein of Argo meets Bourne.
Lars Klevberg’s new horror short, Polaroid, gets picked up for a feature adaptation after winning best short at the LA Horror Competition. Klevberg is attached to direct the adaptation.
Two instagram-obsessed girls unlock a deadly spirit when they try to take a selfie with an old Polaroid camera.
The comedian will play Santa Claus’ irresponsible son who needs the help of Hawaiian locals to save Christmas when he takes over Santa’s duties and crash-lands his sled in Maui.
Stagliano made the 2015 LPPC Semi-Finals with his Peter Pan reinvention Neverland. Stagliano is the 78th writer signed in just the first two years of the Launch Pad Competition!
Logline: Kept under wraps.
A woman’s husband has a top secret job. He warns her that if there’s ever a day on which she receives a text that simply says ‘run’, to drop everything and go. That day finally comes.
After evading an Iroquois war party, a band of seventeenth-century fur traders must traverse undiscovered wilderness where they are hunted by a tribe of legendary giant savages.
Warner will now give Allaine a deal that includes two screenplays. Her first screenplay was a romantic comedy, but that may not be the genre of her two offerings that she will submit to Warner.
Logline: Feeling guilty about his father’s death and watching the love of his life go blind in an accident, a man travels the world through the fall of the Berlin Wall, Desert Storm, the LA riots and 9/11.
Logline: Pitched as a “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” meets “Snow White And The Huntsman” take on the tale of princess-turned-warrior Mulan.
The screenwriter is on board for the upcoming Agatha Christie adventure film.
Logline: A home-invasion crew terrorizes homes in a neighborhood, until they choose the wrong residence.
Logline: A home-invasion crew terrorizes homes in a neighborhood, until they choose the wrong residence.
Logline: Follows students, with high-ranking government official parents, that attend at Langley High — the school that’s located less than a mile away from the CIA. After one parent goes missing and a teacher turns out to be more than he seems, one student becomes caught in the middle of a conspiracy much bigger than anything he could have imagined.
Christopher Cosmos hopes to breathe new life into the long-in-development project.
Divergent writer brought on to pen the newest reboot efforts of the hugely popular video game adaptation.
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