Heavy scheduling, calendar management, and handling of all administrative duties, including managing grids, lists, and project-related documents. Reading scripts, preparing coverage, and providing thoughtful assessments on incoming material.
Chernin Entertainment
This is a list of Film Mandates for late 2023 and early 2024.
Here is a list of some of the feature-length film mandates for 2022.
Verve is out with WE ARE UNTOUCHABLE by Luke Greenfield & Captain Mauzner. A group of low-level assistants in their 20s work for international embassies.
Between March 1st and March 31st, we tracked a total of 25 specs out. This marks a minimal 2.8% decrease in specs from February’s count. So, while March did not outperform February, we saw little drop-off between the months. Of the 25 specs out, 9 have some type of attachment.
Nineteen years after his death, a man’s consciousness is revived in the body of a recent suicide victim, and he sets off on a journey through an unfamiliar world to find the wife he left behind.
In the town of Sparrow, Oregon, hree sisters drowned in 1822 for being witches inhabit the bodies of three girls to lure boys to their deaths. 17-year old Penny Talbot wants to make sure her new boyfriend Bo Carter doesn’t become their latest victim.
Theoretically, the project being developed with writers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth would be Mangold’s next project for Fox, although he also has Don Winslow’s The Force on his plate.
The story of Brodeur’s relationship with her complicated and charismatic mother, who entangle her daughter in her extramarital affair at a young age.
The story follows newlyweds Alice and Jake, who after receiving an enticing wedding gift, decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact. However, the young lovers are about to discover that for adherents to The Pact, membership, like marriage, is for life.
After joining an exclusive group for married couples known only as The Pact, a pair of young lovers are about to discover that membership, like marriage, is for life. For Alice and Jake, the marriage of their dreams is about to become their worst nightmare.
In the vein of The Heat, two overzealous female FBI agents go undercover — as men — in order to bring down a male-dominated domestic militia group, and in the process discover more about their true selves than they ever imagined.
Set at an exclusive boarding school in England, the story follows a first-year student named Greer, who is invited for a weekend getaway by the Medievals, the school’s elite and most popular group. The invite promises a weekend of bloodsports, but what Greer and the other invitees don’t know is that the Medievals just might be hunting, shooting and fishing them over the next three days.
Will Eubank (The Signal) will direct the adventure thriller for 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment.
After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, a crew of six must navigate two miles in the dangerous unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it safety.
The big screen adaptation of R.L. Stine’s Fear Street series is just around the corner, as 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment have hired Kyle Killen to write the script.
Logline kept under wraps, but it will be a modernized action hero pic based on the ’60s TV series.
The thrilling spec Canary Black from writer Matthew Kennedy is moving into several new territories to start development on the project. It has swiftly captured the attention of numerous producers, now interested in becoming attached.
Logline: After her husband is kidnapped in Prague, an elite CIA agent is forced to commit treason in order to pay the ransom.
Zita sets out on a quest to rescue her friend who is abducted by an alien cult.
Story details are being kept under wraps, but being pitched in the vein of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
Logline: Inspired by true events. When an intelligence leak exposes a covert mission in Afghanistan, a grieving CIA operative and his translator must find their way out of the desert, outgunned and hunted by elite special forces. Sicario meets Bourne.
Female ensemble comedy Women In Business has landed at Fox after multiple studios entered a bidding war. Emma Stone, Kate McKinnon, and Jillian Bell have signed on to star in the project.
Two competitive women on a business trip to Canada find their entire trip derailed when the woman they hired off Craigslist to act as their intern turns out to be far more than they bargained for.
Musician Pharrell Williams has signed on to produce the upcoming NASA drama Hidden Figures starring Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, who was part of a team of African American women who helped launch astronaut John Glen into orbit.
Jim Parsons has landed a role in Fox 2000’s Hidden Figures starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae. The film is based on the true story of the African American women who helped the U.S. win the space race.
UPDATE (3.10.16): Imperative Entertainment wins the war for David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon with a massive $5 million bid, making this one of the richest book deals to go down in recent history. Imperative beat out an offer from Star Wars director JJ Abrams.
The Bridesmaids director is set to helm a new romantic comedy with a contemporary twist.
A subversive take on a romantic comedy centered around a gay wedding.
Kevin Costner has been tapped to play the head of the space program in Fox 2000’s Hidden Figures. The Academy Award-winning actor will join his Black or White co-star Octavia Spencer and Taraji P. Henson.
