Lionsgate

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.

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 16 STATES by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa. A mother tries to reach her family during a zombie pandemic.

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.

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.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM 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.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM 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.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM 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.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM 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.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM 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.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM 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.