Universal Pictures is focused on determining what theatrical looks like in this new landscape as well as what makes sense for Streaming.
John Grisham
A young black man is put on death row after he is forced to confess to a crime he didn’t commit.
Bestselling author John Grisham is back on the rights with new novel Rogue Lawyer that is primed for the television market. The book is repped by David Gernet at The Gernet Company and they are already looking at offers.
Sebastian Rudd defends people other lawyers won’t go near: a drug-addled, tattooed kid rumored to be in a satanic cult, who is accused of molesting and murdering two little girls; a vicious crime lord on death row; a homeowner arrested for shooting at a SWAT team that mistakenly invaded his house.
Logline: A young lawyer fresh out of law school finds his career threatened by a dark secret from his college days.
Logline: An up-and-coming law school grad must litigate against his former firm when his new company takes on a class-action law suit against a pharmaceutical company.
Logline: An incarcerated former attorney, who is the only person who knows the killer of a circuit judge, tries to use the information to barter his way out of jail.
Logline: Focuses on the themes of relationships, forgiveness and redemption in the world of Major League Baseball.
Logline: A recent college graduate is manipulated into joining a prestigious law firm where he is given sensitive information about a massive lawsuit.
A recap of the last week in Sales, Pick-ups, Attachments, Exits, Deals, Renewals, Cancellations & More.
CBS re-teams with a Seinfeld alum, CW likes Beautiful Strangers, Disney Channel looks for the new Hannah Montana replacement, while Fox picks up another medical series, and NBC dives into John Grisham land. Meanwhile, HBO kills Alan Ball’s next, Starz wants more sandal epics, and Michael Eisner plots his return with a pitch pilot in hand!
Logline: Upon his death, a billionaire leaves his inheritance to his illegitimate daughter and an alcoholic lawyer helps defend her against relatives trying to claim the money as their own.
Logline: When a disillusioned lawyer gets wind of his firm’s plan to defraud the government, he steals the $90 million, stages his own death and successfully disappears for many years.
