Lionsgate

Heat meterUpdated 09.02.16: Mark Townend’s high-concept sci-fi action thriller, pitched as Looper meets Safe House, continues to burn up the market ahead of the holiday weekend, with Screen Gems, Legendary Pictures, and AG Capital being the latest to take a closer look at what has become one of the summer’s hottest specs.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMDeaths always come in threes — or more. When two unrelated deaths happen on a college campus, a betting pool is opened on who is next to die. A student wins that pool, but with murderous consequences.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PMLogline: Forced back into action after a rogue special ops team murders her husband, a super-spy who traded in her legendary career for a normal life, embarks on a bloody quest for vengeance that leads to the highest rungs of government, uncovering a secret that could shake the foundations of American democracy. John Wick meets Salt.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMAfter a man and his son witness a thug shooting a bank thief while on a hunting trip, the bank robber takes the boy hostage, in order to recover the key to a locker that contains the loot from the bank heist.

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A modern update of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, it centers on a man with split personalities who struggles to keep his murderous alter ego under control.