Oh, October, the month filled with ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and of course, specs.
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CAA is out with THE DIVIDE by Bill Mechanic, Christopher McQuarrie, Michael Colleary, & Mike Werb. Story details are being kept under wraps.
Kids today don’t care about Merlin, King Arthur, or any of this medieval mumbo jumbo. Was that not made evident by the underwhelming box office performance of Guy Ritchie’s recent King Arthur movie?
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit director Peter Jackson is picking up the pen this time to co-write Mortal Engines with his Middle Earth team Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens.
Several people must stop the evil plans of London’s mayor in their futuristic society where cities move around earth on huge wheels as they devour smaller towns to fuel their movement.
Christopher McQuarrie confirmed on Twitter today that he’ll be back to both write and direct Mission: Impossible 6. The Tom Cruise-anchored franchise’s previous installment, Rogue Nation, was smash hit with audiences and critics, hauling in over $600 million worldwide.
Based on the series of books written by T.A. Barron, The Merlin Saga follows the early years of the iconic wizard, long before he helped King Arthur. Gil Netter is producing the fantasy epic, which is intended to start a new franchise akin to Harry Potter.
The popular actor and singer will make his first Hollywood film appearance with the final chapter in the action-packed Resident Evil film series, based on the Capcom video game about the zombie apocalypse.
Kept under wraps, the continuing missions of the IMF, a government agency that faces the impossible.
Logline: Tells the true story of a 1971 experiment in which students role-played prisoners and guards, with harrowing results.
Logline: After being forced to return home after being placed in home detention, a young woman realizes that her mother’s suspicions about the house being haunted may be more accurate than she originally thought.
Logline: Alice and her crew rush to The Hive, where The Red Queen plots total destruction over the human race.
Logline: Follows a young boy who lived through the London bombings of World War II and is now enlisted in the army towards the end of the Korean War.
Logline: After his father’s sudden death, a young man is taken in by the leader of a notorious, outlaw motorcycle gang, and quickly becomes engulfed in Boston’s seedy underworld.
Logline: Follows Navy SEALs and their missions in Afghanistan against the Taliban.
“Three Musketeers 3D” director to tackle historial disaster epic!
Logline: Umbrella has embedded Alice with false memories of a perfect life in order to stop her from taking down the evil, monster making corporation.
Logline: Remake details are kept under wraps, but the original film centered on a race between Russian and American submarines to retrieve confidential documents held by a British spy at the North Pole.
Logline: Story is pitched as an epic space adventure that begins in the year 2199, after the war with the planet Gamilon has turned the Earth’s surface into a radioactive desert, leaving earth with less than a year before their underground cities are uninhabitable. Now, a team of scientists must race to complete a starship in a desperate attempt to find another home.
Logline: Follows the true story of a thriller writer and an Italian journalist as they investigate the Monster of Florence, Italy’s answer to Jack the Ripper, a murderer who stalked the Italian countryside from 1968 to 1985.
Logline: A woman is released back into society after a 15-year prison sentence for the murder of two policemen and is stalked by the sons of one of the men she killed.
Logline: Jack Reacher, and ex-military homicide investigator, seeks the truth behind what seems an open-and-shut murder case after a trained military sniper is arrested for shooting five random victims.
Logline: In a future where the wealthy elite live on a ring-shaped space platform in the skies above Los Angeles, a slum-dwelling guy struggles to find his way there, first to save his own life but later to bring hope to all of humanity.
Logline: Following the loss of his memory, Wolverine (James Logan) drifts through life until he finds himself in Japan, where he finds a chance at a new life, a new love, and a new calling.
Logline: When the woman he loves is gunned down by drug lords, John Kelly begins to methodically murder his way through the drug ring.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will be a futuristic love story.