This is a list of Film Mandates for late 2023 and early 2024.
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From scribe Peter Hoare, DOWN UNDER COVER is sure to be heating up Cannes this year with Chris Hemsworth and Tiffany Haddish!
Remake of Joachim Trier’s film. A young woman who has been sheltered by her parents discovering the raw nature of the world around her when she goes to college.
Story is based on the true story of Greville Wynne, a British businessman who helped the CIA penetrate the Soviet nuclear program during the Cold War. Wynne and his Russian source, Oleg Penkovsky, provided the crucial intelligence that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Story details under wraps, but described as a modern wedding comedy in the vein of FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL.
A mother takes her 10-year-old deaf daughter on a treacherous journey through the Alaskan wilderness in search of her husband.
The Sundance Film Festival has reached its halfway point and the sales market has been brisk thanks to streaming giants like Amazon and Netflix, who as expected, have been as active as anyone in Park City.
Amazon Studios lands festival favorite The Big Sick at this year’s Sundance. The romantic comedy has received plenty of praise since premiering on Friday and sold to Amazon in one of the festival’s biggest deals to date.
The true story of Gloria Steinem and Phyllis Schlafly’s ideological clash over feminism, and the hypocrisy of their own positions during the proposed 1972 Equal Rights Amendment.
The spec market is heating up yet again as the buzz around P.J. McIlvaine’s The Man On Lincoln’s Nose begins to build. The script, centered on the man who sculpted Mt. Rushmore, has made its way into the hands of some big name producers heading into the weekend…
Logline: Gutzon Borglum, the iconic, controversial, visionary sculptor/artist whose passion and perseverance resulted in the creation of one of America’s most beloved and enduring landmarks – Mt. Rushmore – while battling an indifferent public, recalcitrant politicians and the Great Depression.
Meghann Fahy has been added to the growing cast of the Jessica Chastain vehicle, Miss Sloane. The film follows a top lobbyist in Washington D.C. as she pushes for tighter gun control laws.
Douglas Smith is the latest to sign on to the drama, Miss Sloane. He is set to play as a young lobbyist who joins a coalition in order to pass important legislation in regards to gun control.
Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan have been tapped to star in The Big Sick. The film written by Nanjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon tells the story of the relationship challenges faced by a Pakistani man and his American girlfriend.
A Pakistani-born man and his girlfriend face challenges from their relationship.
Set in the summer of 1974, the story wraps a murder mystery around the beginnings of modern Wall Street mergers-and-acquisitions hustlers as seen in films like The Wolf of Wall Street.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw has signed on to the EuropaCorp thriller Miss Sloane and will star opposite Jessica Chastain. The Concussion star will play a gun control lobbyist.
J.C. Chandor is set to go the distance with an American remake of the German action thriller, The Robber. The film is based on the Martin Prinz novel, Der Rauber. Benjamin Heisenberg directed and co-wrote the original adaptation with Prinz in 2010.
A marathon runner uses races as a cover-up for bank robberies.
Alison Pill has signed on to join Jessica Chastain in the drama thriller Miss Sloane from EuropaCorp and FilmNation. John Madden is set to direct.
Shane Carruth has assembled a massive, all-star cast for his next feature film, The Modern Ocean, including Anne Hathaway, Daniel Radcliffe, and Keanu Reeves. Carruth wrote the 200-page script.
Storyline revolves around vengeance and the fierce competition for valuable shipping routes and priceless materials that converge in a spectacular battle on the rolling decks of behemoth cargo ships.
Elusive director Adrian Lyne has signed on to direct Silent Wife starring Nicole Kidman, which will be introduced to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market. The film is an adaptation of the novel by A.S.A. Harrison.
Based on the true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who in 2013, after 4 failed attempts and at the age of 64, became the first person ever to open-swim from Cuba to Florida (55 hours non-stop) overcoming impossible odds, personal tragedy, and 103 miles of open ocean.
Based on the true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who in 2013, after 4 failed attempts and at the age of 64, became the first person ever to open-swim from Cuba to Florida (55 hours non-stop) overcoming impossible odds, personal tragedy, and 103 miles of open ocean.
When presented with a mysterious legacy, a man finds himself contending with a past he had never thought much about, and delves back into his personal history to reassess his relationships with those closest to him and revise his understanding of his own nature.
Logline: A seasoned lobbyist takes on a well-financed and unscrupulous member of the Gun Lobby as she and her small team attempt to pass the most important legislation in the history of gun control into Federal law.
The “Amazing Spider-Man 2” director tackles less super fare.
Logline: A man fights for custody of his brilliant niece against his mother, who believes the girl is not living up to her potential.
Logline: A man goes on a search for a corpse bride for his dead brother but ends up falling in love himself.
