Jackson Agency is out with MOULIN ROUGE by Aimee Adell Johnson. A Jewish gangster opens the first racially integrated hotel and casino.
Citizen Skull Productions is out with SAINTS OF THE LOWER NINE by Yancey Hrobowski. A Black female cop finds herself in the fight of her life to uncover a mystery.
Kaplan Stahler and Bellevue are out with THE SIDE DOOR by Matt Tente. Tennis coach Gordie Ernst accepts $2.7 million in bribes to help 12 students who never played tennis gain admission.
Zero Gravity Management is out with THE TRESPASSERS by Troy Blake. A young wife becomes increasingly frustrated with her mild-mannered husband.
David Kushner and Joshua Bullock have signed with literary manager Jeff Belkin of Zero Gravity Management!
Based on a true story. Millennial billionaire Joe Sinclair has checked off every item on his bucket list but one: he wants to know what it’s like to kill a man. With his three best friends in tow, Joe heads to Africa for the kind of safari you won’t find advertised in travel brochures.
A New England state trooper with hearing loss is tasked with investigating a gang leader’s prison break out.
A disgraced ex-cop runs up against some old enemies when he searches for his missing daughter and his own soul in the seedy underground club circuit of Los Angeles. A diverse version of TAKEN meets TRAINING DAY.
A young black man is put on death row after he is forced to confess to a crime he didn’t commit.
This week we are joined by Lit Entertainment’s Adam Kolbrenner. He dissects the 2013 Crime/Thriller PRISONERS from scribe Aaron Guzikowski. Kolbrenner lays out the untold story of endless drafts all the way up to the red carpet premiere, taking a completely original idea and turning it into the breakout we know Guzikowski’s PRISONERS to be.
This week we are joined by Lit Entertainment’s Adam Kolbrenner. He dissects the 2013 Crime/Thriller PRISONERS from scribe Aaron Guzikowski. Kolbrenner lays out the untold story of endless drafts all the way up to the red carpet premiere, taking a completely original idea and turning it into the breakout we know Guzikowski’s PRISONERS to be.
When a former drug mule’s son is abducted, she teams up with her estranged older sister, a foul-mouthed, bronze-knuckled cop, to fight their way through a cartel and reunite their family.
A woman gets double-crossed by her friends who she recruited to help her pull off a heist.
Logline: A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who’ve pursued him into the U.S.
Based on a true story – a detective chases an ax murderer in New Orleans in the early 1900s and discovers that the killings are linked to City Hall and a massive corruption scheme.
Plot is being kept under wraps, but is described as a female driven thriller.
A murder triggers the outbreak of an infectious disease, sending an Epidemiologist and a Cop on the hunt for a killer, in a Latino immigrant neighborhood with a deep distrust of police.
The first and only true account of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist in 1990 as told to the screenwriter by the son of the man who masterminded the heist.
Based on a true story, it’s a crime drama/thriller in the vein of MOLLY’S GAME about the first of JFK’s mistresses to be publicly identified, her connection to mafia boss Sam Giancana and involvement in the confidential CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Abby hosts a popular true crime podcast about a brash blue collar troublemaker named Daryl, who she believes was wrongfully convicted of murder. But when Daryl breaks out of prison and shows up at her apartment, she goes from podcaster to accomplice as the unlikely pair team up to try to exonerate him before he’s caught.
Miami, 1975. A true story in the vein of American Hustle, The Fastest Game follows Ronnie Weiss, a law school graduate primed to start his life, who’s suddenly saddled with his late-father’s enormous gambling debt and thrust into a world he’s desperately tried to avoid. To climb out of the hole and escape a notorious Miami Beach bookie, Ronnie and his childhood friend devise a betting system that exploits the glamorous, high-stakes sport of Jai Alai, making millions of dollars and enemies of the Boston Mob and Federal Government in the process.
Out of desperation to save his dying wife, Willard Russell turns to prayer which succumbs to sacrifice in a story told across two decades.
A group of criminals in 1946 pull off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. But while the thieves get caught, the art is never found. Forty years later, the last surviving thief gets out of jail and goes hunting for the loot, involving some innocent college students in his dangerous plan – and thirty years after that, in the present day, the former college kids, now all grown up, are drawn back into danger as the still-missing art tempts a deadly new generation of treasure hunters.
The extraordinary true story of Jeffrey Manchester, a convicted felon who made a daring escape from a North Carolina prison and then hid out inside of a WORKING Toys R Us store for the better part of a year, living in the crawlspaces and in between the displays while casing the store for a Christmas-time heist.
Frog has been the local God-Emperor of drugs in Arkansas since the Reagan Administration, but when Kyle and his buddy Swin arrive, Frog realizes that he’s got serious competition.
A troubled young female street gangster is forced to look back on all her life choices and face the coming consequences after committing an unspeakable act against her gang’s leader.
This is the untold true story of how a straight-arrow U.S. marshal and a hot-headed mafia hitman succeeded in breaking the mob and, in doing so, created the Witness Protection Program. Only much later did the world learn their success was based on a lie, a frame-up that became the greatest scandal in the history of the FBI.
Story follows an ex-journeyman boxer and aging enforcer who attempts to get back into the lives of his estranged children and clean up the messes of his past while coming to terms with the ruined landscape of his twenty-year career in crime.
Follows the rise of a Bangaluru driver from the lower caste society of India to becoming a successful chauffeur and businessman, not always using legal means.
Set in Tokyo, the noir thriller tells the story of a young female expat suspected of murder after her friend goes missing in the wake of a tumultuous love triangle with a handsome local photographer.