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Graham King
Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander will star as Lara Croft in the forthcoming reboot of the action-adventure series Tomb Raider, it was announced Thursday.
Lizzy Caplan, star of Showtime’s Masters of Sex, has been cast opposite Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, and Jared Harris in a new action thriller form The Walk director Robert Zemeckis.
Robert Zemeckis has cast Jared Harris in his next feature, an untitled spy thriller set in World War II. He joins Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard.
Anthony McCarten has been hired to rewrite the long-awaited Freddie Mercury biopic from Sony. Spectre’s Ben Whishaw is considered the favorite for the role of the operatic frontman.
After making a splash with his Best Foreign Language Oscar submission The Wave, Norway’s Roar Uthaug will helm the much-anticipated Tomb Raider reboot for Warner Bros., MGM and GK Films.
Set on the eve of the apocalypse triggered by the entire galaxy at war, Hyperion tells the story a group of pilgrims who travel the universe seeking answers, with one holding the fate of the human race in his hands.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is drawn back into his crime-ridden Boston neighborhood to investigate a series of murders that appear to be the work of his childhood friend.
Follows married assassins who fall in love and wed in Casablanca whilst on a mission to assassinate a German ambassador; however, their happiness is abruptly ended when the husband receives intel that his wife may be a double agent working for the Germans.
King will produce under his GK FIlms production banner.
The “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” star will appear in the Freddie Mercury biopic.
Logline: Two spies begin a heated romance during World War II, only to return home to London to uncover that they both might not be who they said they were.
Logline: An Australian heroin addict convicted of robbery escapes from maximum-security prison and flees to India and reinvents himself as a doctor in the slums of Bombay. He gets involved in counterfeiting, smuggling and gunrunning, which leads him to Afghanistan, where he and a mob boss battle the Russians.
Production Co. signs first-look deal.
Logline: A man meets a beautiful woman on a plane who later disappears in the airport, but while searching for her, he attracts attention from an assassin.
Logline: When the human race is on the verge of extinction, one of the last survivors on earth, an extraordinary young woman, goes on a mission to track down her younger brother who was abducted by the extraterrestrial creatures colonizing Earth.
Logline: As a newly married family move into their new home, the couple’s assorted step-kids find themselves on the adventure of a lifetime, when they stumble into a pan-dimensional world tucked inside their attic.
Logline: A nerdy guy and his wild older sister travel to Miami to try and sell a million-dollar stash of ’70s cocaine they found in the trunk of their late father’s car.
Logline: A small town crippled by WWI and the Spanish flu finds itself facing major moral questions and a brutal invading force when a young girl shows up on a rancher’s doorstep covered in blood.
Logline: Story centers around the largest and most sustained air battle to date between the German Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force over London in 1940.
Logline: An erratic young man, recently released from prison, stays at his deceased father’s home where he begins to suspect his father is haunting him.
Logline: Story centers on a group of divers who, off the coast of Nov Scotia, uncover a sarcophagus with unusual remains and inadvertently unleash an ancient evil.
Logline: Focuses on the rebel leader who took on the Roman Empire for two years with 70,000 gladiators and 50,000 freed slaves.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: A neurotic sexual amateur hits the road seeking Playboy’s “Playmate of the Millenium” and emerges more sexually mature.
Logline: A young boy discovers a sasquatch in the woods of Oregon and they form a bond.
4 Networks continue to expand the buying season, while Sony TV locks up four creatives in 2/7s, and two showrunners join shows, while GK and Valhalla set to create Deadwood on the Ocean!
Logline: Story follows the adventures of Lara Croft, a British archaeologist who ventures into ancient, hazardous tombs and ruins around the world in search of rare artifacts.
Logline: Story centers on a trio of brothers who provide each other with relationship advice, based on their own experiences.