The film presents a scheduling conflict with Late Night, the Mindy Kaling-Emma Thompson comedy at Fox 2000, which is expected to start shooting in the fall.
Jessica Sharzer
The next YA fantasy novel poised to take the Hollywood stage is Marie Lu’s The Young Elites. Its rights were acquired by Fox and Temple Hill Entertainment in 2015, and writer Jessica Sharzer has been tapped to pen the screenplay.
When pressured by friends to join a popular online game, a girl decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game takes a sinister turn.
Betrayals, reversals, a dead body, and doubts abound in a small town when the best friend of a mommy blogger suddenly disappears with her husband.
ABC is continuing the trend of reimagining classic films with a new TV movie version of Dirty Dancing. They have attached Abigail Breslin in the role of “Baby,” previously played by Jennifer Grey.
Logline: The survivors of a deadly plague called the blood fever have been physically transformed and discover that they’ve acquired special powers, which they must use to battle the evil that threatens them.
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Logline: A teenage girl gets caught up in an online game of dares called Nerve, but what starts out as fun and leads to fame, turns deadly as the mysterious company behind it all plays on contestants fears.
Logline: A taut thriller in the tradition of “Fatal Attraction†and “Unfaithful.â€
