CBS feels like it’s still in transition. Considering the overall grim landscape of year-on-year ratings decline, Les Moonves seems relatively happy with his picks last season, leaving room for maybe 3 more fall dramas this time around.Get the complete breakdown in our CBS Drama pilots preview.
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It’s the seventh day of the festival and more studio deals pop up for a heartwrenching doc about cyberbullying, Clea DuVall’s directorial debut, a street magician drug dealer, and a movie about a nerdy quiz team trying to lose their virginity.
We’re halfway through Sundance and people are still buzzing about Daniel Radcliffe’s “farting corpse” movie. More importantly, studios are paying top dollar for the hottest movies playing at the festival — and The Birth of a Nation is one of them.
In order to make ends meet after his mother’s death, a young street magician turns to drug dealing in the Los Angeles party scene. When he gets into trouble with his supplier, his sister is kidnapped and he is forced to rely on both his sleight of hand and brilliant mind to save her.
Logline: A consumer affairs representative, tired of dealing with irate customers, decides to play hooky one day and randomly calls a stranger with whom she begins to fall in love.
