A full recap of the day’s sales, pick-ups, attachments, exits, deals and more as the 2012 pilot season approaches!
Logline: Follows a man who obeys his future self’s warning not to marry his love, then spend the rest of his life trying to undo this mistake.
Logline: After a near death experience, a teen uses his newfound ability to connect to the afterlife to solve a town’s mystery.
Logline: In the aftermath of the last Hunger Games, a rebellion against the ruling Capitol has begun. Prior contestants must return to the arena in a special edition of The Hunger Games.
Logline: Follows the true story of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympian, and his two crewmates when their plane crashes at sea during World War II and floats adrift for 47 days until capture and sent to a POW camp by the Japanese Navy.
Six More Directors Circle to Tell the Story of Warners’ Gangster Squad.
The shortlist of directors for Lionsgate’s upcoming first installment of the adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel THE HUNGER GAMES has fast become the must-land hot spot for directors, much akin to how the race for the Lisbeth Salander role was for GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. The project, which is being given early hype due to an excellent sales count on the novel side of things, has also been being the praise of being “the next Twilight, but with an edge.” So, exactly who are the directors Lionsgate thinks can deliver…?
Logline: Story centers on Marco Polo, a Venice merchant, who served as an ambassador to the empire of Kublai Khan as he traveled with his father and uncle through a war-torn Asia.
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: Centers on the final days of humanity before a man-made virus is released, transforming people into zombie-like creatures.
Logline: Set in the future, an invincible strongman is betrayed by a woman, to whom he entrusts the secret of his strength. A futuristic retelling of the Samson and Deliah story.
Logline: After human civilization is nearly decimated by intelligent machines known as Cylons, the survivors led by Galactica attempt to find a mythic 13th planet called Earth.
Logline: The love story of Cuban diver Franciso “Pippin” Ferres and the French-born diver Audrey Mestre. Under his guidance and training, she became a freediver who broke several world records. At age 28, Mestre died while attempting a breath-hold dive over 500 feet.
Logline: Pitched as a martial arts retelling of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the tale follows Olivia Snow in 1890s Hong Kong, as she returns to attend her father’s funeral, only to discover her mother is plotting against her. Forced to flee to stay alive Snow escapes to mainland China, where she seeks solace with seven Shao Lin monks who, in turn, come to believe the woman holds the fate of the world in her hands.
Logline: Story follows a man who returns to earth after humans have long since disappeared.