The biopic follows John Callahan, who became paralyzed following a car accident at age 21, and turned to drawing as a form of therapy. The artist’s work raised eyebrows for its depiction of taboo topics, leading to numerous boycotts in his hometown of Portland.
Gus Van Sant
An American man, Arthur Brennan, travels to the “Suicide Forest” (Aokigahara forest) to kill himself at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, the site of numerous suicides. There he encounters a Japanese man, Takumi Nakamura, who wants to kill himself as well, and both men begin a journey of self-reflection and survival.
A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
Van Sant replaces Shane Black at the helm of Warner Bros.’ adaptation of the popular manga.
We knew it would happen eventually….
Logline: A gay man is taunted so much it drives him to the brink of insanity, and he becomes an anti-gay Christian pastor in response.
Logline: Story of Michael Glatze, a young gay activist who had a religious awakening and renounced homosexuality, becoming a fundamentalist Christian.
A recap of the week’s TV news!
Drama spec gets an actor and a director!
Logline: After her husbands’ death, a crime family matriarch must fight to keep the family business from falling apart.
Story follows a salesman who’s life is called into question when he arrives to a small town.
Good Will Hunting director tapped to reunite with Damon for corporate flick!
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Story follows a salesman who’s life is called into question when he arrives to a small town.
10 Networks… 15 Shows… 26 Actors… 1 Director… All TV.
CBS reteams with Riggle & Smigel, GSN gives a 40-episode order to Drew Carey, NBC is ready for Several Children, and Starz brings Kelsey Grammer back as the Mayor of Chicago!
Logline: A woman and single mother, bordering on the edge of mental illness and taken care of by her fifteen year old son, tries to maintain balance in her life.
Twilight’s latest planned installment in the franchise “Twilight: Breaking Dawn” has put offers out to the top 3 directors on their shortlist…
Logline: Centers on two artists who were hot in the California scene that committed suicide, one after the other, following fits of paranoia the two suffered, fearing the government and religious organizations were conspiring against them. Theresa Duncan, a video game designer for girls, killed herself in her bedroom. Jeremy Blake, a popular “digital painter,†found her there and ended his life by walking into the ocean a week later.
Logline: A high school student, after discovering a supernatural notebook that allows him to kill anyone by writing the victim’s name, attempts to cleanse the world of evil by using the book.
Logline: A retelling of the life of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters as they drove across the country in a DayGlo painted school bus dubbed Furthur, reaching personal and collective revelations through the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs in the 1960’s.
