An Untitled Ada Lovelace Biopic is currently in the works from Alison Own and Debra Hayward of Monumental Pictures. Shawn Slovo is set to pen the script for the project, which is being supported by Google and the National Academy of Sciences’ Science and Entertainment Exchange.
Debra Hayward
Chronicles the true life story of Victorian mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron who formulates an algorithm used by a mechanical device, considered the precursor to the present-day computer.
Tom Hooper has been tapped to take on the big screen adaptation of the smash Broadway musical Cats. The Danish Girl director is set to helm the movie musical for Universal and Working Title.
Logline kept under wraps, but it will be based on the successful Broadway musical, which follows a group of cats called “Jellicles” who decide will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to live a new life.
Franchise star Hugh Grant has elected not to return, but Colin Firth will be reprising his role as Jones’ love interest Mark Darcy. Dempsey’s role is kept under wraps, though he’ll likely fill Grant’s shoes as a new love interest.
Logline: Follows a teenager called Johanna Morrigan who moves to London, reinventing herself as a sexually adventurous music critic.
Logline: A modern-day strong willed wife and a determined husband wage a battle of the sexes.
Logline: When underage Matt and Anna run away to get married, their parents run after them–all over the country, in fact, in an effort to stop them. During the chase, Matt and Anna begin to understand more about what marriage means and their parents develop a new relationship of their own.
Industry executive comings and goings of the last week.
Logline: Story follows a couple – complete opposites – who marry after knowing one another for six months, and what happens during their first year of marriage.
Logline: Set against the backdrop of political upheaval in 19th-century France, the story follows Jean Valjean, an ex-convict who becomes a force for good in the world, but cannot escape his dark past.
Logline: Follows the true story of explorer and adventurer, Sir. Henry Morton Stanley, who became famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone.
Logline: A movie star lothario finds himself falling in love with a beautiful Chinese actress and her female translator.
Logline: Story picks up with fumbling, bumbling British spy Johnny English taking on a new assignment, and a new partner.
Logline: A security guard struggling to support his family gets an opportunity to do a smuggling job on a freighter between Reykjavik and Rotterdam.
Kept under wraps, but focuses on Bridget Jones having a child.
Logline: Story circles a veteran secret service spy, who is called back in to track down the identity of a “mole” in the service.
Logline: Two science fiction geeks on a road trip befriend and end up helping a space alien escape as they are chased by federal agents.
