Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let-go. Mary Parent, Cale Boyter and Ali Mendes are heading from Disruption to Legendary and more in this week’s exec shuffle!
Cale Boyter
Disruption Entertainment founder Mary Parent is joining Legendary Entertainment, filling the vacancy left behind by former president Jon Jashni. In addition, Thursday’s shuffle will see Legendary’s head of Television and Digital Media, Bruce Rosenblum, exit the company.
Josh Gad will star in and produced feature comedy Heavy Duty, based on his original idea. The script was penned by writing duo Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit.
Story of an ordinary guy who believes losing weight will help him live a more extraordinary life. He signs up for a wellness retreat with a group of fellow underachievers, only to face an unexpected test when things go awry.
Paramount and Nickelodeon have brought in Jared Hess to write and direct the highly anticipated Nicktoons film. He will co-write the project with his wife, Jerusha Hess.
Mary Parent has picked up the hot comedy spec Girls Night Out from up-and-coming screenwriter Ali Segel. Parent is producing through her Disruption Entertainment with Cale Boyter.
Story follows a group of college girlfriends who are forced to reunite and go on an adventure through Los Angeles when their friend goes missing after going on an online date.
Paramount is in development with a remake of The Ten Commandments, with producer Mary Parent eyeing a fresh take on the epic story of Moses and the Exodus.
A re-telling of the epic exodus story, Moses leads his people out of Egypt, freeing them from the oppressive rule of the Pharoah Ramses.
Kept under wraps but pitched as an Avengers/Space Jam/Wreck It Ralph-esque crossover film for all the early 1990s Nicktoons.
Paramount Pictures is resurrecting your childhood with an Avengers-style crossover movie featuring characters from beloved ’90s Nickelodeon series Rugrats, Angry Beavers, Hey Arnold!, Rocko’s Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, and more!
Logline: Two men from opposite walks of life meet at a homeless shelter where one man volunteers his time and the other is a resident.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as being in the vein of “Chronicle” meets “Highlander.”
Logline: A woman decides to simplify her life by unfriending people, but her best friend from sixth grade with only five friends finds out, and decides to track her down.
Logline: A man operating as a mall leprechaun goes around creating mischief.
Logline: Follows a con man who decides to start convincing people that he is actually a leprechaun.
Logline: Pitched as “Jurassic Park” with ghosts, centers on ghosts who are kept in a zoo and the “bookeeper” who cares for them.
Logline: His first night on the job, a by-the books rookie cop and his jaded veteran partner are tasked with transporting a federal witness from New Jersey to Manhattan. The only things standing between them: dirty cops, dirty criminals, and the Hudson River.
Logline: A technician finds himself scrambling for his life when he invents mind control and is hounded by the government and mercenaries who wish to use it.
Logline: Pitched in the tone of “Sherlock Holmes” meets “Romancing The Stone” and speculates about what really happened when Agatha Christie went missing for 11 days.
Logline: A neurosurgeon contracts a rare bacterial meningitis and lays comatose for seven days and awakes with a clear recollection of his journey to heaven.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Danger lurks in an underground subway.
Logline: After a young, friendless boy loses his golden retriever in a car accident, he goes to his grandfather’s dairy farm where he befriends a T-Rex.
Logline: Pitched as “Men In Black†meets “Midnight Run†and “48 Hours,†when a tough cop recruits a geeky sci-fi author to help him track down a mysterious murder witness, they find themselves in the middle of a space opera playing out here on Earth.
Logline: In the vein of DIE HARD meets ALIENS. When an ex-Marine is abducted by aliens he must not only escape their mother ship but rescue the thousands of humans who have also been taken prisoner.
Logline: A young boy cannot help but feel like the “new kid” when all of the other students at his new school are aliens.
Logline: An ordinary cop uncovers the dark secrets of Alpha-One, the world’s only superhero, and he must find a way to outwit and defeat the most powerful being on the planet. It’s man versus super-man on a collision course with the fate of Earth hanging in the balance.
Logline: When a mysterious paralyzing infection sweeps across the planet, one uninfected man and a small band of scientists and soldiers hunt down the source of the infection that may not be human.
