Avenue 220 is out with THE GIRL AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE by Bobby Lee Darby. During the Queen’s birthday celebration at Buckingham Palace, the Princess Royal vanishes without a trace.
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Universal Pictures has picked up UNTITLED ANKELES/JURGENSON ADVENTURE PROJECT by Alex Ankeles & Morgan Jurgenson. Described as a four-quadrant adventure-comedy.
A father who peaked in college tries to reclaim his earlier glory on a family weekend at his alma mater. On campus, he is horrified to hear his fraternity has become the lamest on the row and goes on a mission to make both his son.
After a car accident leaves her blind, a once promising architect finds herself trapped in a unique home that she designed with a pair of killers after something they desperately want in the smart house.
A mother and daughter take a trip in a small plane in an attempt to repair their relationship. After their pilot suffers a heart attack the pair are stranded mid-air, fighting for survival.
The children of a famous heist gang are brought together to do a heist at the iconic Cannes Film Festival in order to save their parents from prison.
Pitched as a female driven high concept thriller in the vein of In The Line of Fire. During the New York Marathon, a young female secret service agent is forced to try to kill the female presidential candidate who is running in the race.
Logline: Frustrated husband Robert Ogden places an online Craigslist ad to have his wife killed, but the young hitman who responds turns out to be unhinged and goes too far. A game of cat and mouse ensues between the two men while the investigating police detective discovers that there’s more at stake than a simple murder.
Logline: Follows a young William Shakespeare as he embarks on a thrilling journey and meets the iconic characters that will later inform his most famous works. Described as a potential tentpole adventure movie using the Shakespeare universe, the tone is Pirates of the Caribbean meets Snow White and the Huntsman.
Everyone knows fairy tales’ most famous princesses – Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Beauty from “Beauty and the Beast” – but what about their three princes? Prince Edward (aka Prince Charming), Prince Ansel, and Prince Taron, are estranged cousins who must band together in in order to save their kingdoms from a vengeful witch.
Logline: After learning of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, a space-obsessed 12-year-old comes up with a crazy plan to save his cancer-stricken father: build a spaceship that will travel fast enough to slow down his aging, and therefore the spread of his cancer. He’ll team up with an unhinged former astronaut who claims to know how to make it happen… and in the process, maybe just learn how to say goodbye. A coming-of-age story in the vein of Super 8, Stand By Me, and E.T.
Logline: After his brother is murdered, a bodyguard returns to the dangerous urban environment he once called home to bring his sibling’s killer to justice.
A ring of con men, led by Bob Cratchit and Charles Dickens, plot to steal the crown jewels being transported for Queen Victoria’s Christmas holiday in the country.
The holiday season may be over but it is clearly still on everyone’s mind as we can confirm that Brian Sawyer & Gregg Rossen’s spec Guess Who’s Coming To Christmas is now in three territories and more on the way!
A middle-class suburban mixed race father (think The Rock or Ice Cube) finds his conservative world turned upside down when his daughter comes back from college with her new fiance… hip-hop star, Killer B.
Adapted from Henry James’ classic suspense novel, this is a modern-day, franchise take in the vein of The Orphanage.
Pitched as a a female Ocean’s Eleven, in the vein of Pitch Perfect on a heist, follows two estranged sisters who unite and put together an all-girl team to pull off a heist at the world’s ultimate fashion event – The Met Gala.
Kept under wraps, but based upon the iconic Pez candy dispensers.
The latest spec from Patrick Doody and Chris Valenziano is making the rounds today!
The latest project from the writing duo is getting some early buzz!
Logline: In the vein of “Annabelle” and “The Exorcist,” follows a family on the spaceship Salvation who are seeking a new life on Mars and a young priest on a mission to build the first church there. They soon realize that there is something else aboard the ship with them – the devil.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “I, Robot” and “Die Hard,” centers on a brilliant young scientist who must save his daughter when a robot he designed to consume garbage develops an unfortunate taste for human flesh.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as a sci-fi adaptation of “The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Logline: Kept under wraps but is inspired by the Nativity Story.
Logline: When scientists discover a parallel solar system on the far side of the sun, four astronauts pilot a revolutionary spacecraft on an exploratory mission to the parallel earth. But moments after lift-off, an identical spacecraft with four identical dead astronauts crashes nearby – and no one realizes human kind has just 48 hours until it’s decimated.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Pitched as “Elf” meets “Night at the Museum,” story of an aspiring writer and his future step-children who magically fall into the pages of a popular children’s book, “Hippity Hoppity,” and must help the Easter Bunny save Easter, ending the perpetual Winter.
Logline: Pitched as “Final Destination” meets “The Conjuring.” A female horror author reunites with her childhood friends at their abandoned elementary school. When the group tells ghost stories, the tales come to life, haunting each of them as they learn the truth about the school’s mysterious past.
Who will be the lucky buyer?
Action-thriller spec tears up the town!
