David Katzenberg

They’re the producers of the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s It, and are also currently developing sequels to Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice and the eighties classic Gremlins, with Katzenberg still an exec. on ABC’s The Goldbergs.

In early December, we’re releasing the 2016 Hit List, our compilation of the best year’s best spec scripts as voted on by industry professionals. In preparation for its release, we’re taking a look back at the 2011 Hit List writers — where they’ve been, and where they are now.

Matt Sobel is now set to direct The Scorpio Races, based on the 2011 bestselling YA novel by Maggie Stiefvater, for Focus Features and David Katzenberg.

At Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, an animatronic animal band performs kiddy songs by day, and goes on murderous rampages by night.

A recap of the week’s TV News!

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: Two 14-year-old boys, Jim and William, have a nightmarish experience when a traveling carnival comes to town and uses its evil powers to enslave people, including Will’s father.

Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as being in the vein of “Ghostbusters”

Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as being in the vein of “Ghostbusters”

Diplo himself is producing.

Logline: Pitched as “8 Mile” meets “Project X” in tone, story follows three teens who try to get into Diplo’s Electronic Music Festival.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Brian Cohn learns that he inherited the trophies of his father’s career as a serial killer. Will his madness send him further down into the crawlspace of his father’s mind?

Logline: Follows a patrol cop as he tries to solve a murder mystery in the face of supernatural events.

Logline: Storyline kept under wraps but will be a stop-motion monster film.

Logline: On his first day at a new job, his boss needs him to fire an employee who just beat cancer and was dumped by his girlfriend.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but is pitched in the vein of “Die Hard.”

Warner Bros. taps KatzSmith duo for teen/horror!

Logline: Things go horribly wrong when two high school filmmakers decide to prank their old, neighbor into believing his house in haunted.

THE VOTES ARE IN!

Logline: Follows “The Three Wise Men,” who led by their murderous leader Balthazar, escape from prison and stumble upon the famous manger and its newborn king.

Logline: Every November, people compete in the Scorpio Races- a contest in which riders attempt to stay on their water horses until the finish line. Not everyone will survive.

Logline: Story centers on a Wall Street stock broker who becomes the target of a hit from a rival firm.

Logline: Follows the Three Wisemen from the Bible and what they were really doing in the manger the night Jesus was born.

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “Risky Business” and “Weird Science,” the story follows three desperate guys who, in an attempt to lose their virginity, order a Russian mail-order bride, only for her to arrive with baggage and no plans to bed them.

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “Risky Business” and “Weird Science,” the story follows three desperate guys who, in an attempt to lose their virginity, order a Russian mail-order bride, only for her to arrive with baggage and no plans to bed them.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: After fighting a sadistic clown called Pennywise as kids, the group must come together as adults and fight the creature once again when it resurfaces.

Logline: Six childhood friends reunite in their small hometown in Maine to once again confront an evil entity they thought they had destroyed 30 years earlier.