Eric Newman

Paradigm is on a roll this summer as they hit the town with their latest prospect Glass from Calvin Starnes. As the piping hot spec has made its way into a dozen territories, some A-list talent is already circling what could become the summer’s next great bidding war.

In one of the biggest packages we’ve seen so far this year, Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are attached to star in the Max Landis spec Bright, with David Ayer on board to direct. Let the bidding begin…

Logline: In a world where magical creatures live side by side with humans, a human cop is forced to work alongside an Orc to track down a powerful wand that everyone is willing to kill for.

Logline: Chronicles an English sailor’s failed attempt to create an island paradise far from the reach of British justice on the remote Pitcairn island.

Grand Electric is Newman’s newly formed production banner.

Logline: Story of two young Holocaust survivors who are sent to Brazil to hunt down and kill the escaped Nazis who ran their concentration camp.

Logline: Follows the events, both natural and supernatural, that occur when a small town’s Christmas Candle goes missing.

Logline: A documentary crew finds themselves fighting for their lives when they go to investigate a cult-like community called “Eden Parish.”

Logline: As a wedding approaches, the families of the bride and groom compete in a variety of physical and mental games to determine which last name the couple will take.

Logline: Follows the life and music of influential country singer Hank Williams.

Logline: When six friends decided to purposely become demonically possessed as part of an extreme experiment, they soon discover they’re in for much more than they bargained for.

Logline: An all-star baseball player is forced to return home and deal with his substance abuse problem after a suspension.

Logline: After the events of the first film, Nell tries to get her life back together in a New Orleans half-way house, but the demon that haunted her has not left yet.

Logline: Story follows a man who, after a hypnosis stage show, “awakens” with the realization that we are surrounded daily by the presence of aliens that are controlling society.

Logline: Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out how he made the list.

Logline: Story follows a young wife of a murdered highway patrolman on the hunt of a masked murderer leaving a trail of dead bodies across the U.S.

Logline: An ordinary family is caught in Disneyland after hours, only to see the park turn into a real magic kingdom populated with living Disney characters.

Logline: An American scientific expedition to Antarctica makes an incredible discovery — an alien spaceship with a mysterious and sinister frozen “thing” found nearby. They decide to drill through the ice encasement, ultimately freeing the trapped organism and triggering a series of horrific incidents and attacks.

Logline: Centers on a blacksmith who forges weapons for the inhabitants of a village readying for war in feudal China.

Logline: Set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off and overpopulation runs rampant. In a world where time has become currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities, a poor young man questionably comes into a fortune of time and ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as “time keepers.”

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: After an extramarital affair, a man receives a disturbing film from his scorned mistress.

Logline: Alien invasion, in the vein of CLOVERFIELD.

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Logline: In feudal China, a small village’s weapon-maker must defend its peoples.

Logline: Knight Dante Aligheri travels through the nine circles of hell with the poet Virgil to save his wife Beatrice.

Logline: In a dystopic & crime ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him.

Logline: On an expedition deep into an uncharted area of the Amazon, a science team discovers a prehistoric humanoid fish monster, who happens to fall in love with the one of the female scientists.

Logline: A small-town woman discovers that she is immune to magic in a world full of it.

Logline: Four teens are trapped in a fun house with a psychotic killer.