“In this situation, when the president of a studio is calling you, you’re pretty confident that you’re not going to oversell yourself”
In the spirit of all things horror this October, David Boxerbaum of Verve joins us this week to break down the Horror/Thriller box-office hit THE SHALLOWS from writer Anthony Jaswinski. The script gained mass appeal when it hit the market, landing Jaswinski on the Black List, Blood List, and Hit List that year.
Jaume Collet-Serra
How their earlier thriller Non-Stop led to them making another transportation thriller, and why Disney’s Jungle Cruise starring Dwayne Johnson is actually very different from Jumanji.
Reuniting with Jaume Collet-Serra (“Non-Stop”) along with Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, for the Jan. 2018 thriller.
The in-demand Spanish filmmaker directed many hit movies for Warner Bros. but now he’s heading to Disney to direct a film based on its theme park attraction.
He’s a homegrown director for Warner Bros., where he made House of Wax, Orphan, Unknown and Run All Night. The studio also hired him to direct Akira at one point.
Annapurna will have to really up the star power to eclipse the Weinstein Company’s upcoming event series, and that starts with the role of David Koresh. Paul Dano or Shia LaBeouf would make for excellent casting, but so would Matthew Rhys or Billy Crudup.
Neeson will play a successful Wall Street executive who’s on his way to work when he discovers that a bomb has been planted in his car. He’s subsequently forced to follow a series of orders throughout the day, or else the mysterious bomber will be detonate the device. The situation is even more dire because the man’s family is in the car with him.
A young woman is stranded alone on a buoy with a great white shark circling the waters between her and the shore.
Jaume Collet-Serra has signed on to helm The Commuter. Liam Neeson is attached to star. The two previously worked together on Non-Stop and Run All Night.
Blake Lively is in talks with Sony for their psychological shark thriller.
A terrorist aboard a flight tells a U.S. Air Marshall he will kill a passenger every twenty minutes until his demands are met.
Logline: A man with the ability to enter people’s minds tries to determine whether a young girl is a sociopath or merely traumatized.
Logline: A soccer team struggles with the elements and each other after their plane crashes on a deserted island.
“Unknown” director in talks to re-team Liam Neeson.
“Unknown” director in talks for midair thriller!
“Hangover” star in talks for Revolutionary-era monster movie.
Logline: Story follows an immigrant who witnesses a fatal hit-and-run and pursues the car.
Logline: An aging hitman must protect his family as he goes up against his boss in a single night.
Logline: Pitched in the vein of “District 9” and “War of the Worlds”. A physicist must protect his family and the future of the human race by destroying a time travel portal he created.
Logline: A terrorist aboard a domestic flight tells a U.S. Air Marshall he will kill a passenger every twenty minutes until the Air Marshall kills himself.
Live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese manga gains momentum!
There can only be one!
Logline: Story follows a man with the ability to enetr people’s minds who utilizes it on a 16-year-old girl in order to discover is she is a psychopath or the victim of traumatic abuse.
Logline: The story follows a British navel officer who is hired by a wealthy shipping magnate to investigate the disappearance of merchant ships that might be the work of a mysterious sea serpent.
Director of the just-opened movie “Unknown” continues to build his Hollywood resume, moving in to yet another studio thriller!
One pilot dies… and eleven add directors, showrunners, and EPs.
An Action Director, Horror Director, and Dance Director All Enter A Bar At the Same Time… This is not a joke… this is GI Joe 2!
Logline: Follows the adventures of Jonathan Harker, a Scotland Yard detective on the hunt for Dracula.
Logline: Set in the very near future, the story takes place in the midst of World War 3, a war fought fought with nukes, and a vicious new strain of chemical virus that turned the remaining survivors of the nuclear fallout into something monstrous. Now, the three remaining survivors of Bangor, Maine, must cling together to survive the elements, the freezing temperatures, and the things that come in the night.
Logline: A cool aristocratic thief and an escaped murderer join forces in a jewel heist but must contend with a wily police superintendent determined to catch the duo.
