Read about the 24 specs tracked in February 2020: 7 with a studio or production company attached; 12 with producers; 7 with directors; & 5 with talent attached.
When retired curmudgeon Ed Fitzgerald loses his house to the bank and refuses to go into a nursing home, he decides to take a long shot…he posts a flyer and puts himself up for adoption. Unfortunately, everyone in town knows what a miserable pain the ass he is, so there’s only one taker – a venturesome single mother from China with a troubled teenage son. Inspired by a true story.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps but described as Ready Player One if it were a lower budget horror film.
Set in a recording studio in the 1920’s, over the course of one afternoon, a group of musicians and the legendary blues singer Ma Rainey record several songs as they discuss the questions of prejudice and the problems facing black people in American society.
Congratulations to three-time Launch Pad Alum John Wikstrom whose Hit List / Black List script AMA: ASK ME ANYTHING has attached Zelda Williams to direct with Assemble Media’s Jack Heller producing.
True story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917, which was a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers seeking retribution for the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers. The two-hour riot led to the largest murder trial in history.
An Amblin style horror film about a young woman trying to connect with her boyfriend’s children while struggling to deal with a monster from under their bed.
Deep in the winter woods of upstate New York, a retiring public school teacher uncovers a carefully guarded secret in an abandoned house.
After finding out that their first time was the centerpiece of a virginity pact, a group of girls decides to get even with the boys who wooed them. Think SUPERBAD meets MEAN GIRLS
In the aftermath of the shocking murder spree of ’69, Hollywood movie star Steve McQueen embarks on a vengeful hunt for the killers — the Manson family. As police hit a dead end, Steve’s unconventional pursuit pulls him deeper into the surreal world of the shamanic leader Charles Manson…while also sending McQueen into a downward spiral with his career and relationship with his family.
A love story set in the afterlife where themes of selfless love and redemption are explored.
After a Native American trucking baron and his family disappear, the lives of three women – an FBI agent investigating the case, a parolee searching for her missing son, and a young girl with psychic abilities – collide on an oil-rich Indian Reservation haunted by demons both figurative and literal.
A weekend getaway falls apart for a childless couple when they lose their friends’ kids in the woods.
In the vein of NETWORK and TO DIE FOR, a satire about a desperate Uber driver who goes on a killing spree and streams it so he can go viral.
On the eve of his 75th birthday, billionaire Charles Abernathy invites his four estranged children back home out of fear that tonight someone – or something – is coming to kill him. To ensure his family will help protect him from whatever’s coming, Abernathy puts each of their inheritances on the line.
Passed over for promotions and chronically single, a Korean woman decides to undergo drastic plastic surgery in order to get ahead in all areas of her life. Her dreams come true, at first, until she gives birth to a daughter who looks nothing like her current beautiful self, causing the vicious cycle to begin again.
Many marriages and crowns later, Prince Charming must hunt down and kill yet another dragon but during his journey reconnects with his old flames like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty etc. to understand what went awry in their relationships.
This is the untold true story of how a straight-arrow U.S. marshal and a hot-headed mafia hitman succeeded in breaking the mob and, in doing so, created the Witness Protection Program. Only much later did the world learn their success was based on a lie, a frame-up that became the greatest scandal in the history of the FBI.
Clooney was originally slated to play Colonel Cathcart, but that role will now go to Chandler. Clooney will instead play the supporting part of Scheisskopf, which gives him more time to focus on directing and producing.
The writers of Battleship and the upcoming The Meg will write the family movie in which Bautista plays a CIA operative who gets paired with a 9-year-old girl.
Jennifer Morrison is also in talks for the drama from the writer of Contagion and The Bourne Ultimatum that looks at the CIA’s interrogation procedures post-9/11.
When her long me friend and secret crush returns home from years abroad, a lonely twenty-something fresh off a breakup sees an opportunity to nally have everything go her way. However, her hopes are upended when she meets her friend’s gorgeous new fiancée, and finds herself oddly drawn to this mysterious woman.
Miranda July has lined up an all-star cast for her heist feature including Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins, and Debra Winger. Production is set to begin in May.
The film follows a New Orleans bartender (Hammer) whose life begins to unravel after a series of disturbing and unexplainable events transpire when he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
Actor-comedian Sinbad is headed to the small screen for Fox’s comedy pilot Rel. Joining him is Jessica “Jess Hilarious” Moore who replaces previously cast Angel Laketa Moore. All this and more on today’s TV casting round-up.
A father starts stalking his daughter’s ex boyfriend. It’s a tight thriller in the vein of THE GIFT / LAKEVIEW TERRACE.
Matt Ryan’s portrayal of the role has found great success following the cancellation of the series Constantine on NBC. In addition to appearances on Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow, Ryan has also voiced the role in the upcoming series on CW Seed and the animated film Justice League Dark.
Just days after announcing her exit from Grey’s Anatomy, Sarah Drew has landed the the role of Cagney in CBS’s Cagney & Lacey reboot. Michelle Hurd has nabbed the role of Lacey. All this and more on today’s TV casting round-up.
Set twenty years after the death of Dr. Victor Frankenstein (and the events depicted in Mary Shelley’s novel), THE LAST FRANKENSTEIN follows Ernest Frankenstein, Victor’s youngest brother and the only surviving member of the Frankenstein Family, as he embarks on a dangerous quest to find his brother’s journal before it falls into the wrong hands.