The Big Short star is pulling double duty on the comedy pic, said to be Old School set on a backpacking trip across Europe. Carell will be working from a script by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra.
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A 40-something guy reunites with his old college friends to take the European vacation that he never had in his youth.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will center on the patriarch of a family who relocates from city life to island life.
The “Hope Springs” director is helming the adaptation of David Menasche’s uplifting memoir.
Logline: Five UN representatives go on a road trip to find their lost loves.
Logline: After being diagnosed with brain cancer and being told he only had a few months to live, Menasche, a Miami high school teacher managed to extend his life via several surgeries and years of chemo. Then in 2012 decided to embark on a cross-country journey to reconnect with former students from his 15-year teaching career, come to terms with his illness and learn to live fully in the present. (He is still alive.)
Logline: Seven ravens who have been residing in the Tower of London for five hundred years try to solve the theft of the Crown Jewels.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Follows a man who is mysteriously given a supernatural helmet that allows him to experience the inner worlds of those around him, and through his lonely lens, we see the lives of three very distinct individuals.
Logline: A naive single woman looking for love ends up with a husband from Eastern Europe.
Logline: Follows two New Jersey soccer dads whose minor feud escalates to create worldwide consequences, and leave them running for their lives.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Story follows three college friends now in their 40s who decide go on a European backpacking trip.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as “Stakeout” meets “My Best Friend’s Wedding.”
Logline: Centers on a sixty-something Bruce Springsteen-type rocker, who discovers a long-unopened letter addressed to him from John Lennon that inspires him to change his life.
Logline: Story of an eccentric inventor, described as Tony Stark meets Steve Jobs, working inside the ACME warehouse whose inventions take him on a wild adventure.
Logline: A husband tries to get his wife to fall in love with another man in order to escape his stifling marriage
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Centers on the true story of a failed musician, whose transition from superstar writer to singer destroyed his career, until he discovered almost 30 years later during a two week concert tour in the Philippines, that his solo album from the 70’s was the countries most popular, and that here, he was a musical icon.
Logline: Story centers on a sad-sack dad whose cheating wife left him, and the womanizing bachelor who tries to train him in finding a new lady.
Logline: Two FBI agents must pretend to fall in love and get married so their marriage can be used as a mob trap.
Logline: After his wife leaves him, a man seeks solace by going on a bender in Ireland, a gambling trip in Las Vegas, and a sex-tourism trip in Thailand.
Logline: After the death of his wife, a linguistic professor becomes obsessed with teaching their dog, a Rhodesian Ridgeback (the sole witness to the tragedy), to speak in the hopes that he can uncover what happened the day his wife died.
Logline: When a man starts taking testosterone shots, his behavior varies wildly from crying to aggression based on his hormonal levels, and must find a way to deal with his day-to-day life.
