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Taraji P. Henson has signed on to play Katherine Johnson, a real-life mathematics genius, in Hidden Figures from Fox 2000. The project will be helmed by St. Vincent director Ted Melfi.
Centers on Katherine Johnson’s involvement in the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Based on the book Hidden Figures: The Story Of The African-American Women Who Helped Win The Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly.
Logline: Centers on the creation of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command pilot program that allowed elite women soldiers on the battlefield with Green Berets and Army Rangers in Afghanistan in 2010. Dubbed CST-2, the unit was made up of a hand-picked group of women from the Army, hat included first Lieutenant Ashley White, who would become the first CST member killed in action.
The exec has signed a first look deal with the production company.
Logline: 8 MILE meets THE SOCIAL NETWORK. Pasquale Rotella started as a promoter of the rave scene in the 90s and became the architect of Insomniac, the company that stages the biggest EDM events in the US
Logline: Follows a high school girl whose beloved older sister has died under mysterious circumstances. As a cathartic exercise, she starts writing letters to the dead including Kurt Cobain, Judy Garland, Amelia Earhart and Amy Winehouse which ultimately reveals the painful truth of her past.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will feature Robin Williams as Daniel Hillard aka Mrs. Doubtfire.
Logline: Story of Margo and Quentin, two friends who make a pact to take revenge on everyone who has hurt them until Margo disappears and Quentin is left alone to follow the clues she leaves behind.
Logline: Kept under wraps but said to be an ‘Americanized’ version of the source material.
Logline: Story follows two intertwining love stories. The first story focuses on a 90-year old man stuck in his car after a major crash on an isolated road who sees visions of his life love, who died earlier. The other story follows a young art history major and a handsome bull rider who fall in love despite coming from completely different backgrounds.
Logline: Set in the mid 1990’s, the story centers on Miami’s most notorious smuggler, Michael Van Nostrand, and the Wildlife Service special agent who dedicated his career to putting Van Nostrand away.
Logline: A modern-day re-imagining of the classic “Romeo & Juliet” tale, but told from the perspective of Romeo’s former lover Rosaline.
Logline: Story will focus on the professional and personal life of singer Peggy Lee, as she sustained her musical career seven decades.
Logline: Follows legendary biker Sonny Barger’s entry into and time in Hell’s Angels.
Logline: A young girl with a love of reading experience the rise of the Nazi party while her foster parents harbor a Jewish refugee in their basement.
Logline: Story takes place after the cruise ship Alvin & the Chipmunks are on crashes, leaving them along on a Polynesian Island.
Logline: Story centers on three men who try to outdo each other in a bird-watching competition to spot the rarest birds in North America.
Logline: Story centers on a young boy who lives in a prison that is a complete society; outside the prison, the world is stuck in the 17th century and run by computers. The boy comes into contact with the warden’s daughter, who lives in her own sort of jail, and they find a key that can change everything.
Logline: Jacob Jankowski is about to take his final exams in veterinary medicine at Cornell when his parents are killed in a car accident. He drops out and joins Benzini Brothers, a second-rate traveling circus trying to survive during the Depression.
Logline: A Brooklyn bartender funnels cash to local gangsters through “money drops” until he finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and becomes entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood’s past.
Logline: A mother suffering from empty nest syndrome when she drops her son off at college becomes far too involved with his school life and starts to imagine that he is the target of a plot to destroy him.
Logline: Story centers on 16-year old Pi Patel, a young boy on his way to America, who after a horrible shipwreck, finds himself stranded for the next 227 days in shark-infested waters aboard a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger.
Logline: The true story of the quest for the discovery and identification of a German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey.
Logline: An American woman goes to Argentina and falls in love with a man and a culture and rediscovers herself in the process.
Logline: A Seattle teen inherits a house filled with mischievous demons. The youth has to keep his charges in the house and thwart the Thin Man, a creepy character who wants to free and exploit them for evil purposes.