The world of Wizard of Oz is about to get the horror treatment from Hit List alum Mike Van Waes. New Line Cinema recently picked up a pitch tied to the classic 1900 L. Frank Baum from the up and coming screenwriter.
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Doug Liman will direct the YA movie, which is based on the first book in Patrick Ness’ best-selling trilogy.
The recent bidding war for Little America, a spec written by British filmmaker Rowan Athale, has been won by Universal. Director Michael Bay is set to produce the project with Platinum Dunes. Athale is also attached to helm the film.
After America goes bankrupt and millions flee the country, a Chinese billionaire hires an American PI to rescue his daughter in the American ghetto of Hong Kong.
After America goes bankrupt and millions flee the country, a Chinese billionaire hires an American PI to rescue his daughter in the American ghetto of Hong Kong.
Launch Pad writer and alumni Julia Cooper, who wrote the Phantasmagoria pilot script for this year’s pilots competition, has signed with Laura Leonard and Meredith Bajana of Grandview.
The writing duo of Neil Widener and Gavin James have signed on to pen Lionsgate’s Now You See Me 3. Jon M. Chu, who directed the second installment, is attached to helm the third movie in the magician heist franchise.
Logline: Tasked with finding a game changing take for the sixth Jason Bourne movie, Tom Milton goes deep down the rabbit hole of cracking the story. With the guidance (and abuse) of a professor from his past and Bourne himself, Tom begins workshopping scenes that begin to bleed into real life in unexpected ways.
After being bid on by at least five studios and production companies, Tristar has secured the rights to the book Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson, which arrived in bookstores just yesterday. The book details the 1971 Attica prison uprising.
Chronicles the four-day event of the Attica Prison riots in 1971 where inmates held guards and employees hostage while negotiating with authorities for a better living environment.
A motel owner with a dark past unknowingly befriends a young hitman responsible for a string of violent acts in a small town.
Emmy-winning director Jill Soloway is looking to add another show to her queue at Amazon. She is currently developing a half-hour musical comedy with former Transparent writer Ethan Kuperberg.
MadRiver Pictures has bought The Plane, an original pitch from spy novelist Charles Cumming. The story is being kept under wraps, but is being described as a high concept action-thriller. Marc Butan will produce with Lorenzo Di Bonaventura.
Story details are being kept under wraps, but described as a high-concept action-thriller.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps, but described as a high-concept action-thriller.
The story of a group of prisoners who plan an escape that turns into a huge hostage crisis pitting them against the US army.
A group of journalists covering George Bush’s planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has “weapons of mass destruction.”
Photograph 51 is headed from stage to screen – with playwright Anna Ziegler adapting the script from her own source material. Nicole Kidman, who toplined the West End critical favorite, is set to star with the play’s director Michael Grandage set to direct.
The story of the often-overlooked role of Rosalind Franklin, an x-ray crystallographer, and her involvement in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA whilst at King’s College London.
The Bridge of Spies trio are looking to reunite for a yet-to-be-titled project about iconic newscaster Walter Cronkite and his role in influencing public opinion about the Vietnam War.
Logline kept under wraps, but the story will follow legendary newscaster Walter Cronkite’s relationship with the Vietnam War and his influence on public opinion.
Black Bear Pictures has nabbed the Matthew Orton spec script for Reason of State. The political thriller that is set 24 hours inside 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British Prime Minister.
A political thriller set 24 hours inside of 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British Prime Minister.
After ramping up a bidding war between several major studios, Adam Mervis’s 17 Bridges has landed at STX Entertainment, with directors Joe and Anthony Russo in final negotiations to produce.
A disgraced detective is given a shot at redemption when he is thrust into a city-wide manhunt for a cop killer. As the chase unfolds in a completely locked down Manhattan, he uncovers a massive conspiracy linking much of the NYPD to a criminal empire, and must decide who exactly he is hunting… and who is hunting him. Inside Man meets Heat.
Logline: A political thriller set 24 hours inside of 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British Prime Minister.
Set in the dating world of the near-future, a young single woman is given the opportunity to test the world’s first artificially intelligent boyfriend.
Stand-up comedian Adeel Akhtar is joining the cast of The Big Sick. The film stars Silicon Valley‘s Kumail Nanjiani with Judd Apatow producing.
Logline: Set in the dating world of the near-future, a young single woman is given the opportunity to test the world’s first artificially intelligent boyfriend.
The film follows the real-life lawyer’s landmark case of Signal Hill police brutality case in 1981.
