As they do every year, CinemaCon has bestowed more than a dozen awards upon actors, directors, producers and other members of the industry, so let’s take you through this year’s honorees, shall we?
Christopher Meledandri
Follows the further adventures of the characters in Sing.
Cumberbatch will voice the titular character in How The Grinch Stole Christmas, a new animated feature based on the classic Dr. Seuss story from Universal and animation house Illumination Entertainment.
Set in 2150, an intergalactic delivery man travels throughout the universe to deliver packages, encountering strange and bizarre planets, accidentally causing trouble wherever he goes.
After the two-legged residents head for work and school, their pets must thwart an evil plot led by a human-hating cat and make it back in time for dinner.
Logline: After the two-legged residents head for work and school, their pets must thwart an evil plot led by a human-hating cat and make it back in time for dinner.
Logline: The Grinch attempts to ruin Christmas for the residents of Whoville by stealing all their presents and Christmas trees.
Logline: A group of young operatives of a psychic detection agency battle an epidemic of dangerous ghosts.
Logline: Set in 1960 at an evil convention, Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.
Logline: An inspirational gospel singer helps a group of teens in Harlem overcome their difficulties in life while learning the art of gospel.
Logline: Follows Clifford and his owner Emily Elizabeth, whose love for the small puppy makes him grow into a 25-foot tall red dog, forcing the family to move from the city to the New England countryside.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Story chronicles the life and career of classic children’s author and illustrator Dr. Seuss.
Logline: Story centers on Vy Higginsen, an accomplished gospel singer who started a program for teens in Harlem, New York with the intention of preserving the art form by introducing it to a young generation. In the process she helped the inner-city students overcome their problems at home and succeed in more than just signing.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but will be inspired by the popular toy franchise.
Logline: Centers on Gesicht, a Europol robot detective trying to solve the case of a string of robot and human deaths.
Hot scribe Brian Lynch has signed an exclusive deal with the company behind ICE AGE and DESPICABLE ME, Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment.
Repped by WME and Benderspink, Lynch recently penned the adaptation of the best-selling PC game, THE SIMS, a children’s adventure spec called NIGHTCRAWLERS for Fox, and shared screenplay credit with Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio on HOP, about a slacker forced to save Easter after he takes out the Easter bunny with his car.
Logline: A stop-motion animation about the eccentric and macabre household of “The Addams Family.”
Logline: A slacker forced to save Easter after he takes out the Easter bunny with his car.
Logline: Despite warnings from the tree-loving Lorax, a greedy entrepreneur strips a forest of its stock of Truffula trees to manufacture clothing.
