Alas, we reach the end of August and with Labor Day just around the corner, we’re returning to cooler weather and pumpkin spice lattes invading our life yet again.
The Muraviov Company is out with THE UGLY TEAPOT: HANNAH’S STORY by F. Louis Holmes. Eleven-year-old Hannah’s life is turned upside down.
Lionsgate bought ARCANA by Alex Litvak & Michael Finch. The mixed-race son of an undocumented immigrant mother and absentee father discovers the existence of secret communities of magic hiding in plain sight.
Legendary picked up FRESH by Lauryn Kahn. An allegory for the commodification of women’s bodies.
Lionsgate has picked up THE CULLING by Stephen Herman. A troubled priest confines himself in an isolated cabin to confront a demon.
Lionsgate has picked up 16 STATES by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa. A mother tries to reach her family during a zombie pandemic.
Read about the 24 specs tracked in February 2020: 7 with a studio or production company attached; 12 with producers; 7 with directors; & 5 with talent attached.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps but described as a female-driven thriller in the vein of PRISONERS.
The residents of Willowcrest Court like to think of themselves as progressive and “woke”, but when a sober living home moves down the street, they do everything in their power to stop it. After the neighborhood comes under attack from vicious, subterranean creatures, the residents soon realize that the home they so desperately tried to shut down might be the only safe place left, and its inhabitants the only ones with the fortitude to protect them.
A group of immigrants plan an elaborate heist after they realize the London Museum houses some of their home country’s most prized artifacts.
Story details are being kept under wraps but described as a fresh take on Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Set to prove his love to his new Indian girlfriend, a young man travels to India in an attempt to win over her overtly traditional family.
Malko Linge, an Austrian nobleman and freelance CIA operative who spent his formative years in a special Nazi work camp for captured spies. Malko is a gentleman warrior without a country who works according to his own moral code and lives with a wicked wit and a lust for life.
In the near future, a young woman who grew up in her father’s cutlery shop embarks on a blade-wielding rampage across LA to save her dad from a ruthless psychopath.
A murder triggers the outbreak of an infectious disease, sending an Epidemiologist and a Cop on the hunt for a killer, in a Latino immigrant neighborhood with a deep distrust of police.
When Satan’s favorite hell hound, Bub, is booted out of hell by a jealous rival, he is mistakenly adopted by a single dad and his two kids. Despite his bad ways, Bub soon begins to embrace his goodness and falls in love with the family. When Satan wants his dog back and Bub refuses, he must protect his new family from the fury of hell.
Matt Bereson, Kamron Saraye, and Unique Features are all among the producers taking this into studios!
Three high school seniors from a small town discover they all had the same imaginary friend when they were kids. Now that friend is back and he’s not here to play.
Based on TRUE EVENTS. In response to this “astonishing” increase in demand for exorcisms, the Vatican opens a secret exorcism training academy where a young, gifted nun defies the church leadership to join her colleagues in the battle of good versus ultimate evil.
An ambitious CIA officer’s life is flipped when he learns that the notorious assassins he’s hunting are his future mother and father-in-law.
Broken Road Productions, Unique Features, and Alexa Faigen are all among the producers taking this into studios!
The untold true story about the rivalry between painting gurus Bill Alexander and Bob Ross; after Alexander’s long-running show “The Magic of Oil Painting” was cancelled by PBS and replaced with Ross’s show “The Joy of Oil Painting,” Alexander accused the soft-spoken, afro’d Ross of stealing his act, inciting a bitter dispute that changed the lives of both men forever. AMADEUS set in the world of 1980s TV painting culture.
Peter has always been told the voice he hears at night is only in his head, but when he suspects his parents have been lying, he conspires to free the girl within the walls of his house.
On the night of Hurricane Katrina, a desperate family, trapped in their home, comes under siege by vampires.
Lawrence Grey, DeVon Franklin, Bill Gerber & Matt Tolmach amongst the producers taking this one into every studio!
When his plane is shot down over Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, Lieutenant Commander John McCain fights to survive as a POW at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” prison.
Story details are being kept under wraps, but the project is being pitched as a fresh, contained, high concept twist on the vampire genre in the vein of Panic Room and 30 Days of Night.
Story centers on a homeschooled teenager who begins to suspect her mother is keeping a dark secret from her.