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Krysty Wilson-Cairns has been tapped to pen the DreamWorks thriller The Voyeur’s Motel directed by Sam Mendes.
Logline: Details being kept under wraps, but described as an action thriller about the end of days.
Logline: Angela Davis, accused of murdering a federal judge, became the first woman on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list, became an iconic symbol of an era.
The action thriller from former Marine Betley is being called one of the best debuts in years as it starts to gain some serious heat on the TV and film rights market.
A former Marine is contracted by the FBI to stop a shadowy mercenary syndicate who will stop at nothing to retrieve a flag that contains confidential information.
Ninth City Burning, the debut novel from J. Patrick Black, is the first in an epic new sci-fi series set five hundred years after a devastating alien invasion. The book is already building buzz on the rights market.
Set five hundred years after a devastating alien invasion, the story is set on an Earth which is locked in a grinding war of attrition. The talented few capable of bending the universe-altering weapon known as thelemity to their will are trained in elite military academies, destined for the front lines.
Tells the story of legendary newscaster Mike Wallace who, while building TV news juggernaut 60 Minutes, struggled with a severe chemical depression that he kept hidden from family and friends until the end of his career.
Brad Ingelsby’s drama Claire has been set up at Scott Free, after his spec The Burning Woman was set up there earlier this year. In addition, sources confirm that Erika Olde has come on board to finance both projects through her Black Bicycle Entertainment and produce alongside Ridley Scott.
Tells the story of legendary newscaster Mike Wallace who, while building TV news juggernaut 60 Minutes, struggled with a severe chemical depression that he kept hidden from family and friends until the end of his career.
An elderly woman who hacks out a rough existence on a remote island is forced to help her dimwitted neighbor rescue her daughter whose ex has kidnapped her and escaped into the woods.
Logline: In the vein of Cape Fear, but centers on a female protagonist living on a rural farm who must defend her daughter when she falls in with the wrong crowd.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but based on the Allan Quatermain adventure novels.
Centers on a Navy Seal who joins a rescue team to save his little brother, who’s been kidnapped by a terrorist, and whose father happens to be the President of the United States.
A fisherman sails out of Martha’s Vineyard in search of the shark that killed his fellow sailors while they were stranded in the water for four days after their ship was attacked by a Japanese submarine.
Rights to Vu Tran’s remarkable debut novel Dragonfish have hit the market, with the riveting page-turner starting to catch the eye of producers all over town.
An Oakland detective is hired by a dangerous Vietnamese smuggler to track down his missing girlfriend–a woman who also just so happens to be the cop’s ex-wife.
The Martian author Andy Weir has a new sci-fi novel on the horizon, Zhek, the rights to which are building some astronomical buzz on the TV and film market this week.
A major league umpire communicates with a gorgeous female alien through his remarkably vivid dreams, who warns him of an impending invasion by an enemy race called The Zhek.
Pitched as an epic love story centering on Dante as he descends through the nine circles of hell in order to save the woman he loves.
In 1946, former Murder Inc. Hitman Mickey Solomon returns to New York City on the hunt of a legendary gangland fortune but quickly finds himself in a dangerous battle against Charlie Luciano, Governor Thomas Dewey, and his own violent past as a gunman during New Yorks’ bloodiest era.
Logline In the vein of American Sniper, centers around a marine who, after being denied active duty due to his age and injury, finds himself joining a private military outfit that sends him spiraling into a dangerous state of violence and dismantling his already fractured relationship with his wife and son.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as a “300”-style re-imagining of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”