With Sundance just around the corner, we’re bringing you our picks for what’s worth watching at the festival. The Spotlight, Special Events and Shorts program include something new from J.J. Abrams, Cannes-darling The Lobster, and Don Cheadle as Miles Davis.
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Tom Wheeler is done at DreamWorks for the moment, but still has his hands full with a Dora the Explorer adaptation and a chance to bring Micronauts out of development purgatory.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but described as a biopic portraying Thomas Edison as a rugged and eccentric genius.
Best-selling novel eyes biggest box-office draw for feature adaptation!
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Story will chronicle the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: A CIA agent must team up with his estranged father, who works for Mossad, to track down a fugitive Nazi scientist in 1970s Brazil.
Logline: A woman wakes up in a bomb shelter with a mysterious man who says he rescued her from an apocalyptic event.
Logline: A man’s life falls into disarray when his ex-wife marries a better man, his college-bound daughter reveals she’s pregnant and he finds out he could die any minute.
Logline: Plot kept under wraps.
Logline: Follows microscopic robots who live in a microscopic world called the Microverse.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but described as swashbuckling robots with swords.
ABC goes to war… with a hospital, NBC makes it official with the Playboy, and JJ Abrams has another PULPy project ready for buyers next week!
Logline: A bipolar man attempts to hold onto his stability in order to take care of his two daughters while their mother does her best to start a career.
Smilovic sets up “The Detail,” Fox commits to a new Guggenheim procedural, and JJ Abrams gets two projects picked up!
Logline: Kept under wraps, but said to be a horror/thriller about two teens who go into a closet as part of the titular game “7 minutes in heaven” and find all their friends dead when they come back out.
Logline: Centers on the story of the world’s first robot, who, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fought alongside Terry Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia, journeyed to the South Pole and was involved in the silent movie business before disappearing on the battlefields of World War I.
Logline: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth — something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: When a rich, but totally disconnected New York family redo their home, the architect sets about to secretly try and bring them back together by designing a home with its own mysteries where the family must work in unison in order to solve.
Logline: Kept under wraps but follows the events of the biggest earthquake in modern day Los Angeles history.
