Universal staved off a major push from Warner Bros., which had been courting Peele to direct one of its long-gestating development projects such as Akira, The Flash and Uptown Saturday Night.
Donna Langley
Reboot of the 1933 film based on H.G. Wells novel.
Logline: Follows the antics of the popular hip-hop group LMFAO
Logline: Story follows innocent Anastasia Steele who becomes sexually involved with wealthy entrepreneur Christian Grey, a man with a severe sexual appetite for bondage and sadism.
Logline: A writer attempts to join the outsourcing craze that sweeps corporate America by hiring a sweet assitant to organize his business from India. She is so efficient that soon the writer has a team of India-based assistants handling every part of his life, including dialogue with his parents and gifts for his wife.
Logline: The musical tale centers on an ambitious and unrelenting stage mother driven to turn her two daughters into Vaudeville stage stars, but only succeeds in pushing them out of her life.
Logline: Story centers on an admissions officer at Princeton and her relationship with a prospective student and his teacher.
Logline: A former special forces officer joins an Irish gang and dates his boss’ mistress, leaving himself wide open to acts of retribution.
Logline: Story follows an operative from a covert government program more dangerous than the Treadstone brainwashing program that hatched Jason Bourne.
Logline: A covert US military unit is on the hunt for an AWOL American solider in Iraq. The soldier is looking for his brother, who went missing when fighting in the first Gulf War.
Logline: An overworked manager of a luxury building and his staff plan a heist against a rich fraudster living in their building after they lose their pensions to him in a Bernie Madoff-like scam.
Logline: Explores the origin of Dracula, weaving vampire mythology with the true history of Prince Vlad the Impaler, depicting Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war.
Logline: An Immigration Services agent falls in love with a South American woman while investigating if her marriage is real or only so she could get a green card.
Logline: A group of twentysomethings reconvene for a weekend in New York after learning that the teacher that shaped their childhoods has fallen into a mysterious coma.
Warner Bros.’ Kevin McCormick moving into a producing deal… New Co-Presidents will be Lynn Harris & Greg Silverman.
Rick and Julie Yorn has signed a new deal at Fox. So have former New Line exec turned SEMI-PRO director Kent Alterman & Michael Aguilar who had a previous deal at Fox.
Universal’s President of Production, Donna Langley, has been promoted to Vice-Chairman. Dylan Clark moving up to President.
Logline: An aimless college graduate pursues his dream girl at a wild Labor Day weekend party. He, his twin sister and their best friend struggle with their burgeoning adulthood over the course of the night.
Logline: A man travels back in time to his high school days in 1985. There he tries to fix the worst three days of his life in order to give himself a better future.
After a curse that decomposes his body has been passed to him, an average man must find the next victim to give the curse.
Logline: Centers on the adventures of Thomas Magnum, an ex-Naval Intelligence Agency officer turned private detective.
Logline: True story of W. Mark Felt, the retired FBI man who recently admitted he was the famous anonymous source Deep Throat.
Logline: A trio of powerful Americans travel the world befriending unlikely people in the Middle East, helping Afghanistan with their war against the Russians.
Logline: After the father of a local newscaster dies, the newscaster begins praying for things to happen during his local broadcast, and the prayers begin coming true.