The popular mobile game has led to six video games, books and other merchandise that’s right in line with some of Columbus’ past work including Gremlins, Night at the Museum and the first two Harry Potter movies.
Chris Columbus
Chronicles the true story of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.
In a reimagining of the Jane Eyre story, Jane Steele, a fresh and determined Victorian orphan, is forced to resort to extreme measures to make sure that life turns out the way she needs it to – even if that means murder.
A dirty cop, exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student, visits the boy’s father at his barbershop, and while receiving a straight razor shave listens to him recount the story of his son’s life.
A woman rescues a baby from her reckless mother and pretends the child is hers, with the help of her ex-boyfriend’s mother. Everyone assumes the baby girl has been kidnapped, and when she is returned to her rightful mother, the three women form a close bond.
Logline: Barbara Thorson, a young girl battling monsters both real and imagined, faces her fears in this coming of age story.
Haim Saban and Jeremy Zag are also on board for ZAG Animation Studios.
Logline: After the death of his family, a post-WWII-era minister joins the crew of a ship that is illegally carrying Jewish emigrants from France to Palestine.
Columbus wrote the script of the 1984 cult classic; now he’ll produce Warner Bros.’ remake.
Logline: A boy accidentally unleashes an epidemic of mischievous creatures known as gremlins on his town.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will feature Robin Williams as Daniel Hillard aka Mrs. Doubtfire.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
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Logline: Tells the true story of a young worker who tries to reunite with his best friend during Italy’s worst race riots.
Logline: Pitched in the vein of ‘Super 8’ and ‘Chronicle’. Two brothers set out to prove that Santa Claus is real, using their home video camera. The boys get more than they bargained for when they end up joining Santa’s epic Christmas Eve ride. After inadvertently causing Santa’s sleigh to crash, the brothers need to work together to save Christmas.
It must be dangerous to drive in 8-bit mode.
Columbus set to reinvent Holmes/Watson from original Spielberg/Marshall/Levinson vision!
Logline: Story will follow the young Holmes and Watson as they solve mysteries and have adventures.
Logline: Focuses on the themes of relationships, forgiveness and redemption in the world of Major League Baseball.
Logline: Story centers on a woman who, in addition to being a wife and mother, is a Blackhawk pilot in the National Guard and is called to serve a tour of duty in Iraq.
A full recap of the day’s sales, pick-ups, attachments, exits, deals and more as the 2012 pilot season approaches!
Logline: Story centers on a time travel machine repairman who has spent the past 10 years traveling back and forth in time in search of his father and ends up stuck in a time loop.
Columbus in talks to helm sci-fi action comedy.
Logline: Follows a group of students who investigate a series of mysterious bear killings, but learn that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.
Logline: Set during the Great Depression, the story follows a battle-hardened WWI veteran in the Civilian Conservation Corps. who’s plagued by premonitions of death.
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Logline: Story follows an American family as they are trapped in a magical Korean temple.
Logline: After a young man tries to kill himself, he’s haunted by four ghosts who won’t stop haunting him until he helps each of them fulfill one wish.
Logline: The magical borders that protect Camp Half-Blood have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and unless Percy Jackson and his friends find a cure, the only safe haven for demigods will be destroyed.
Logline: Story follows a teen werewolf and his friends — a vampire, a mummy and a monster — as they form a hip gothic rock band in Frightsylvania.
