TriStar picked up I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY by Anthony McCarten. Centers on the life and career of singer Whitney Houston.
Phil Hawkins is out with CHARLIE & STAN by Clive Frayne & Davey Morgan. The story of how events on a steamship crossing the Atlantic in 1910 became the inspiration for two of the greatest silent movie stars ever.
REJ Entertainment is out with THE GHOST OF DOHENY by Paul Sanchez Yates. The true story of Jack Nance, the iconic star of ERASERHEAD and TWIN PEAKS, whose real-life Hollywood success, battles with alcoholism, turbulent romances, and mysterious death was more nightmarish than anything David Lynch could even dream up.
Verve out with SINCERELY SAMANTHA SMITH by Joe Ballarini. The incredible, inspiring true story of a 10 year-old girl who prevented World War 3.
In 1982, at the peak of the Nuclear Arms hysteria between the US and Soviets, shy, quiet 10 year-old Samantha Smith shot to world-wide fame when she became pen pals with the Soviet leader who invited her and her family to Russia to discuss peace talks between the super powers.
After his daughter’s death and pregnant wife’s near fatal stroke, famed author Roald Dahl uses his storytelling to help his children triumph in the face of tragedy — unknowingly creating many of the classics we know today.
A searing biopic chronicling the rise and fall of the infamous US Senator Joe McCarthy – the last great American demagogue, and a clear predecessor to the one currently occupying the White House.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps but described as I, TONYA meets BEHIND THE CANDELABRA that is based upon a true story about fitness guru Richard Simmons.
Logline: Music pioneer Robert Johnson invents the Delta Blues style.
In the 1950s, an ambitious woman risks her family and business on a crazy idea: a doll she calls Barbie.
When the murder of a migrant worker shakes a southwest border town to its core, the feud between a newspaper owner and the chief of police leads to the blurring of the truth and a dirty fight for justice.
The career of John Dean, White House counsel for Richard Nixon turned whistleblower, is examined.
Chronicles the true story of Albert Woodfox who was sentenced to more than four decades of solitary confinement after being wrongly accused of murdering a prison guard.
An intimate portrait of the sensational First Lady and ERA champion, Betty Ford, as she challenges, scandalizes, dances, and drinks her way through the White House to gain a higher popularity rating than any President in American history – all whilst maintaining a 26 pill-a-day drug habit.
After discovering she has an anxiety disorder, a woman leaves college and moves back in with her parents.
The true story of how Lawrence Tureaud, a poor kid in Chicago with 12 brothers and sisters, fought and charmed his way into becoming the single lettered icon of saintly compassion and macho energy: Mr. T.
A look back at Chuck Blazer’s rise in the world of professional soccer promotion, connected to the World Cup and lots of corruption.
The larger than life journey of André René Roussimoff, the man who would become Andre the Giant, and the giant who would go on to become an icon. From his humble farm life in rural France, to the largest sell out events the world has ever seen, this is the story of the man who sacrificed everything to entertain the masses, and the personal battles he faced on his way to becoming a legend. Think Big Fish meets The Wrestler.
The true story of Richard Williams, the hard-nosed and uncompromising father of tennis prodigies turned superstars, Venus and Serena Williams.
When an ambitious girl from the slums of China manipulates her way into marriage with a media tycoon, she becomes one of the most powerful women in the Western world. This is the story of Wendi Deng, second wife of Rupert Murdoch.
After the courts release a woman’s five alleged rapists due to the lack of supporting evidence, her family takes the law into their own hands and kills one of them. Now, the greatest attorneys of the 20th century, Clarence Darrow, must defend the family but for the first and only time in his career, he might be fighting for the wrong side.
At the height of Jim Crow, a courageous black attorney with the audacious name of Scipio Africanus Jones risks his life and career to defend eighty-seven men wrongfully accused of murder, taking the case all the way to the United States Supreme Court and achieving a stunning victory that will change American history forever. Based on a true story.
Chronicles the true story of Christa McAuliffe, who was an astronaut on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
This is the true story of how a young Prince plucked cocky 18-year old guitar player Wendy Melvoin from obscurity, to help him and their quirky bandmates create something truly magical over the course of one long Minnesota summer… the generation-defining masterpiece known as Purple Rain.
Based on the true story of Chris Wyle, the young gay visionary who created Cambridge Analytica and eventually blew the whistle on them after they defrauded America’s Presidential election.
After their marriage is shattered by the most public sex scandal in sports history, Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren scramble to pick up the pieces while hiding out from the press and the police in their Florida mansion.
In the aftermath of the shocking murder spree of ’69, Hollywood movie star Steve McQueen embarks on a vengeful hunt for the killers — the Manson family. As police hit a dead end, Steve’s unconventional pursuit pulls him deeper into the surreal world of the shamanic leader Charles Manson…while also sending McQueen into a downward spiral with his career and relationship with his family.
Based on the New York Times Best-Seller – In 1955, Emma “Grandma” Gatewood, at sixty-seven years of age, became the first woman to solo-hike the entire Appalachian Trail, all after raising eleven children and surviving decades of horrific domestic abuse.
An inexperienced and idealistic 20-something finds himself at the center of the largest anti-trust suit in modern American history when his idol, billionaire behemoth Bill Gates, wages war against his young internet company.
While a student at Stanford University, Evan Spiegel creates the American multinational technology and social media company Snapchat.
The story of an overweight New Jersey housewife name Jean Niddetch and how she created Weight Watchers.