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Di Bonaventura Pictures
Logline: Inspired by true events. When an intelligence leak exposes a covert mission in Afghanistan, a grieving CIA operative and his translator must find their way out of the desert, outgunned and hunted by elite special forces. Sicario meets Bourne.
Charles Band’s classic horror franchise The Puppet Master is posed to get a modern makeover courtesy of Transformers producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian.
A reboot of the 1989 franchise, the story follows a man who attempts to sell a Puppet Master doll at a convention only to have it and other puppets at the convention come to life and go on a killing spree.
Michael Keaton will star in CBS Films and Lionsgate’s adaptation of the best-selling series American Assassin. Based on the novels by the late Vince Flynn, the film will be directed by Michael Cuesta from a script by Stephen Schiff.
Die Hard Year One is in development at 20th Century Fox and Di Bonaventura Pictures. The new film with take place in the late ’70s depicting the early years of John McClane.
Sixth installment of the John McClane film franchise, depicting a young McClane in 1979 New York City and showing “how he became a die hard kind of guy.”
Paramount and Di Bonaventura nabbed the Swedish horror director to take on the forces of hell for them.
Jordan Schur has found directors for two of his projects under the new Suretone Pictures banner.
Explores the concept that if someone is able to obtain an individual’s DNA, then it is possible to create a personalized virus that will only effect that specific individual.
Originally conceived as a potential plot for a Jack Ryan sequel, the project will now stand on its own as a feature thriller exploring the concept that if someone is able to obtain an individual’s DNA, then it is possible to create a personalized virus that will only effect that specific individual.
A convicted criminal named James Griffin-Mars is identified as one of a select group ideally suited for time-travel missions that could delay humanity’s demise.
Some of the industry’s top producers as taking the hot new spec into major territories
Logline: After a car accident kills his family, a daring neuroscientist vows to stop at nothing to bring them back, even if it means going up against the authorities and the physical laws of science.
Logline: Based on the true events on the evening of 9/11 when terrorists overran an American embassy outpost in Benghazi, Libya during an under-the-radar visit from US Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Logline: A grieving teenage girl moves to a new city and falls in love with the man who lives next door–only to discover that he is the young new teacher at her school.
Logline: The true story of a group of 19 members of an elite firefighting crew who perished while fighting the Yarnell Hill wildfire in what became the largest loss of firefighters since 9/11.
Recounts the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during a legendary flood.
Logline: Follows a mother who will stop at nothing to rescue her abducted son.