CAA and Lit Entertainment is out with SPACE CADET by Liz Garcia. A Florida party girl turns out to be the only hope for the NASA Space Program.
Paradigm is out with TAKE OFF by Jay Thames. After a work for hire art recovery goes bad, Frank Foster has the love of his life die in his arms.
Hopscotch is out with this spec by Peter Barnes. When the sun doesn’t rise, a blind woman navigates a dark world to save her son.
Bellevue Productions is out with this spec. An interracial couple seeks solace in their work at a prestigious theatre company.
Linda Chester Literary Agency and Circle of Confusion are out with THE BLUE AFTERNOON THAT LASTED FOREVER. A NASA physicist discovers a black hole is going to collide with the Earth.
Fictional Entity is out with SAVING ESPERANZA by Betty Sullivan. A grieving mother hastily decides to save a dying local child from the Cartel.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with LOCKDOWN by Jim Starr. In the middle of a pandemic, a nurse struggles to save herself and her fellow riders on a subway train held hostage by an armed terrorist on a suicide mission.
UTA is out with RESURRECTION PARK by Alexander Cadiff & Cameron Dupuy. In a remote national park known for its otherworldly ability to reconnect the living with the dead, a troubled Park Ranger attempting to escape the trauma of his past takes up shop during the off-season.
Netflix picked up DARK DAYS AT THE MAGNA CARTA by Michael Paisley. A woman goes to great lengths to save her family during a catastrophic event.
Verve is out with MR. CHRISTMAS by Byron Willinger & Phil De Blasi. A stressed-out dad who wished Christmas out of existence discovers it’s no easy task bringing it back to the world. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE meets YESTERDAY.
Echo Lake is out with THE EDIT by Neal Baer & Richardo Perez Gonzalez. Centers on CRISPR, a miracle gene-editing tool that homes in on a mutated gene, surgically snips it out and splices in a healthy gene in its place. But when CRISPR is used by rogue scientists, they use the technology to replace healthy genes with time bombs to eliminate a group of people deemed as undesirable.
51 Entertainment is attached to produce WOLF QUEEN by Matt Ross. Story details are being kept under wraps.
CAA is out with THE KITCHEN SINK by Jaquie Brown. A grieving woman finds love and a reason to live when she pulls a clump of hair from her kitchen sink and it becomes a man. But when she discovers that there are more men where he came from and their intentions are evil, she must summon the courage to destroy the one thing that made her happy to save everyone she loves.
The Cartel is out with LONG HAUL by Joshua Henson. It’s 1977, the golden age of trucking. The era of Duel, Convoy, and Smokey and the Bandit. Truckers are the new American cowboys. Scott, a long-haul trucker, picks up a runaway girl who, inexplicably, looks exactly like his late wife. Pursued by a mysterious government agent, Scott has to get her cross-country in 24 hours or less. The fate of the Universe is at stake.
CAA is out with CEREBRAL by Dave Kalstein. A disgraced psychiatrist who used to cater to the world’s most intelligent minds is asked to help investigate a murder in a secluded government-operated Victorian mansion where nine of the smartest people in the world reside.
Verve is out with HOME by Jeff Thomas. Story details are kept under wraps but described as a new psychological thriller dealing with mental illness and dementia, with elements of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST and THE TRUMAN SHOW.
Verve is out with WORLD by Collin Bannon. Story details are being kept under wraps.
ICM is out with RUDDER by Murielle Telio. A man living life on the bayou must overcome the demons of his past when an eleven year old girl shows up outside his doorstep claiming to be his sister.
Phil Hawkins is out with CHARLIE & STAN by Clive Frayne & Davey Morgan. The story of how events on a steamship crossing the Atlantic in 1910 became the inspiration for two of the greatest silent movie stars ever.
REJ Entertainment is out with THE GHOST OF DOHENY by Paul Sanchez Yates. The true story of Jack Nance, the iconic star of ERASERHEAD and TWIN PEAKS, whose real-life Hollywood success, battles with alcoholism, turbulent romances, and mysterious death was more nightmarish than anything David Lynch could even dream up.
WME is out with WE BURY THE DEAD by Zak Hilditch. When the United States is left reeling after a military test instantly kills millions of citizens, Ava Newman volunteers to a body retrieval unit in order to find out if her husband was among the victims.
Heroes & Villians is out with SAVAGE by Enio Rigolin. When their plane crashes in the Amazon, two estranged sisters must bond together to escape the dangers of the jungle and find their way home.
Elevate Entertainment is out with FUSE by Marek Polgar & Martyn Pedler. A government assassin suffering from trauma with two personalities battles as the first persona attempts to complete his mission, while the second tries to stop him. Think MEMENTO meets BOURNE IDENTITY meets TAKEN.
Pantheon has optioned COCAINE by Andi Albin. An overzealous police detective gets involved with a crime family that is heavily connected to the local political scene. With the 1980s cocaine wars as a backdrop, this film is immersed in the history of South Florida’s drug trade, paired with a tumultuous, violent love story.
Legion M is producing CAPTAIN SMALLS by Robert Blake Whitehall. Robert Smalls, an enslaved man in South Carolina at the height of the Civil War, was drafted by the Confederate Navy and forced to serve. Unable to pay the money to free his family, Smalls planned one of the most audacious heists in history. By stealing the Confederate warship CSS Planter, Captain Smalls navigated the treacherous Confederate-surveilled waters to free himself, his crew, and their families.
Paramount made a preemptive deal on MURDER IN THE WHITE HOUSE by Jonathan W. Stokes. The president is murdered in the White House, and a Secret Service agent has one night to find the killer.
Verve out with SINCERELY SAMANTHA SMITH by Joe Ballarini. The incredible, inspiring true story of a 10 year-old girl who prevented World War 3.
In 1982, at the peak of the Nuclear Arms hysteria between the US and Soviets, shy, quiet 10 year-old Samantha Smith shot to world-wide fame when she became pen pals with the Soviet leader who invited her and her family to Russia to discuss peace talks between the super powers.
CAA out with MINOR MODIFICATIONS by Shia LaBeouf. Based on the life of rapper Kevin Abstract; this biographical fiction follows a Texas teen as he struggles with identity, finding meaningful relationships, sexual fluidity, and his direction in life.
A group of black teenagers find themselves lured into a church where a white police officer accused of a racially motivated murder has been taken hostage.
When retired curmudgeon Ed Fitzgerald loses his house to the bank and refuses to go into a nursing home, he decides to take a long shot…he posts a flyer and puts himself up for adoption. Unfortunately, everyone in town knows what a miserable pain the ass he is, so there’s only one taker – a venturesome single mother from China with a troubled teenage son. Inspired by a true story.