At the height of Jim Crow, a courageous black attorney with the audacious name of Scipio Africanus Jones risks his life and career to defend eighty-seven men wrongfully accused of murder, taking the case all the way to the United States Supreme Court and achieving a stunning victory that will change American history forever. Based on a true story.
E. Nicholas Mariani
Relativity taps the up and coming writer for the Dwayne Johnson drama adaptation.
Logline: Follows four friends – Schuyler along with NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, and Schuyler’s best friend, Will Bleakley, a former University of South Florida football player – who were on a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico when their boat capsized, stranding the four men at sea.
Logline: When their airplane crash lands on a deserted island, a 32-year old teacher and her pupil develop a strong relationship that becomes tested years later when they’re rescued.
Logline: A small town crippled by WWI and the Spanish flu finds itself facing major moral questions and a brutal invading force when a young girl shows up on a rancher’s doorstep covered in blood.
A small town crippled by WWI and the Spanish flu finds itself facing major moral questions and a brutal invading force when a young girl shows up on a rancher’s doorstep covered in blood.
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The true story of Chief Joseph and his resistance to his tribe’s relocation to a military settlement in Idaho during the 1800s.
Logline: When a young boy from the Bronx is caught trespassing at Yankee Stadium, he’s given the chance to work off his infraction as a helper to clubhouse manager Pete Sheehy. What the boy doesn’t know, though, is that Sheehy died in 1985… and he’s now a ghost.
Logline: On August 1, 1943, the United States Army Air Forces launched a dairing raid on Romanian oil refineries, which were believed to be producing much of the fuel that kept the Nazi war machine running. A Romanian princess helped to take care of the captured soldiers.
