ICM Partners sets SONGBIRD by Adam Mason & Simon Boyes at Bay Films and Invisible Narratives. A pandemic leads to a government conspiracy.
ICM Partners is out with THE MONSTER by James Greer & Jonathan Bernstein. This is a contained genre thriller, following two millennials who make quick money by flipping incredible NY apartments they don’t own to new lease applicants willing to pay a premium upfront before they know they’re being scammed, when they run into an apartment owner with a dark secret in his basement who flips the game on them.
ICM is out with AN AMERICAN MEMBER by Morgan Evans. After a party girl accidentally receives an unsolicited dick pic from the President of the United States, her life is in thrown into total peril. Now her only chance for survival is to team up with a whistleblowing NSA agent, and get out of town.
Logline: A young fund manager decides to leave her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend behind to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands.
A group of immigrants plan an elaborate heist after they realize the London Museum houses some of their home country’s most prized artifacts.
A wealthy wife from the Hamptons is accused of murdering her husband after she has a fling with a bartender.
After taking over her grandfather’s trucking company when he passes away, a woman struggles to keep the company afloat with the help of a millionaire despite men attempting to close her business.
Fledgling writer Samuel Liston is enlisted by Floyd Deveraux – the enigmatic, middle-aged father of two – to pen his biography. But the circumstances that lead up to this arrangement in the first place are quite astonishing, and efforts to write the biography are quickly stymied by ensuing chaos.
In the countryside of 19th century France, John McBride investigates an attack by a wild animal, however, he discovers a much deeper and sinister force at play.
When an overstressed young woman joins her best friend at a wellness retreat in the Arizona desert, she begins to suspect that the revitalizing spa treatments, serums, and macrobiotic meals are part of something closer to a dangerous cult, run by the retreat’s charismatic leader.
Story centers on sixteen-year-old Grace who is given the golden ticket to forgo having to spend the holidays with her crazy family and instead go skiing with her new boyfriend Tad. When Tad unceremoniously breaks up with her before the trip, Grace must return home humiliated with a broken heart to endure her embarrassing family and their ludicrous holiday traditions.
A thief finds sanctuary in a retirement home after going on the run.
While vacationing in Paris, an American woman must pretend to be someone else in order to survive after being a victim of mistaken identity.
Chronicles a vacation by a group of girlfriends in their 60’s.
Nora, a trophy wife desperate to hold on to her husband travels to the Hamptons for the summer with her young daughter, while she waits for him to join her, the brother of her live in babysitter appears on her doorstep endangering the life she has created.
Miami, 1975. A true story in the vein of American Hustle, The Fastest Game follows Ronnie Weiss, a law school graduate primed to start his life, who’s suddenly saddled with his late-father’s enormous gambling debt and thrust into a world he’s desperately tried to avoid. To climb out of the hole and escape a notorious Miami Beach bookie, Ronnie and his childhood friend devise a betting system that exploits the glamorous, high-stakes sport of Jai Alai, making millions of dollars and enemies of the Boston Mob and Federal Government in the process.
Details a modern day meeting between President Nixon and Hunter S. Thompson.
When her fiance won’t introduce her to his family, a young bride-to-be takes the initiative to meet her future in-laws, soon finding herself at the center of a terrifying family curse.
A daughter takes over her mother’s social media profiles to help find her a boyfriend.
Desperate to put together a masterpiece painting, Dezzy turns to a new drug called “Diablo”, which soon proves to come with a deadly price to pay.
A group of middle school teachers are on an extended field trip, but a night out drinking causes them to accidentally lose one of the children in their class.
Before The Huffington Post and Breitbart News, there was The Drudge Report. This is the story of how oddball internet reporter Matt Drudge broke the Lewinsky Scandal, and nearly took down a presidency, all from a desktop computer in his one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood.
The story looks at gentrification and the culture clash around food when two Latina American cousins from the Bay Area find themselves fighting over an inherited rundown restaurant and the one thing that originally brought their families together — their late grandfather’s family recipes.
A cultural coming-of-age story about a career-driven Latina American during her “double quinceañera” — celebrated at age 30 because she missed having her first quinceñera at 15. She invites her parents, best friends, and brazen married cousin to a work trip disguised as a double quince, inviting trouble that could jeopardize her job and her relationships.
Collecting stories about the political commodity of water and food in third-world countries and how a people either are fed or starve depending on whatever entity is in control.
The Oscar-nominated actor will also produce the adaptation of Kevin Wignall’s upcoming novel To Die in Vienna under his production company Nine Stories.
The drama is inspired by a number of different stories that piece together a narrative about starvation in third world countries.
Based on the excellent book by Josh Bazell that was adapted by Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the story follows a young ER doctor whose life is upended when a patient recognizes him from his past life as a mafia hitman.
Directed by Stephen Gaghan (Syriana), production for the Universal release has already begun in London with Downey joined by Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Harry Collett and Jim Broadbent.
The surreal L.A.-based coming-of-age comedy is written by author and Vice.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, and it follows Araki directing a number of episodes of the Soderbergh-produced Red Oaks series for Amazon.