A woman talented at assembling jigsaw puzzles sneaks away from her suburban town to New York City where she partners with a man for a puzzle tournament in Atlantic City.
Marc Turtletaub
Twenty-two-year-old Ally breaks up with her college sweetheart, Eric, only to realize some months later he was her soulmate. Shortly after attempting to get back together, Eric is killed in a car accident. For years after, Ally struggles to find her purpose in life. Forcing intimacy with all the wrong men (and one woman) and sabotaging relationships with all the right ones because she just can’t get over Eric. A decade of relationships go by, then, in an effortless instant, Ally realizes she’s already met the one she’s meant to be with but was too self-loathing in the moment to realize it. Hat in hand, they meet again…
Adaptation of Jack London’s classic novel about a canine’s journey from life in the wild to domestication.
Explores the origins of the hugely popular Parker Brothers board game, Monopoly.
Big Beach Films is developing a new film exploring the origins of the world’s most popular board games. The untitled pic, which centers on the creation of the hit Parker Brothers game Monopoly, will be based on Mary Pilon’s book The Monopolists.
Follows the true story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the couple behind the seminal 1967 civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia. After getting married, authorities broke into their home, arrested them, and they were sentenced to a year in the state penitentiary.
Logline: A single mother, who lives with her mother and her mother’s girlfriend, is forced to confront past mistakes while supporting her 15-year-old daughter’s decision to undergo gender transformation.
Logline: Story will offer a glimpse of Mr. Rogers’ private life told through the perspective of a man he helped out of depression.
Logline: After learning he has a serious illness, a single dad takes his teenage daughter on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before.
Logline: Follows three young adults, one of which is struggling with their sexual identity, as they explore love, sex and relationships.
Logline: A cowardly aristocrat hires a criminal to fight in his place in a duel, and his legend grows through duel after duel.
Logline: Set in the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs, which not only monitors the universe for signs of life, but is ready to defend humanity if aliens arrive on Earth, the story follows a shy staffer in the organization who unexpectedly makes first contact when he meets a mysterious beautiful woman and must risk more than his job when they are threatened by forces of this world and beyond.
Logline: Story takes place in a world where the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology live in present-day New York City, and bide their time meddling in the affairs of mortals, often with humorous, yet disastrous results.
Logline: Centers on an idealist dealing with his overbearing mother who crashes into the homes of his three ambitious sisters and, in succession, brings truth, happiness and a sunny disposition into their lives while also wreaking havoc.
Logline: When fourteen-year-old Joe Toy and his buddies tire of their parents overbearing ways, they decide to build their own house in the woods, away from the restraints of the lives they have come to know.
Logline: An overzealous scout master decides to lead a group of sheltered, unprepared young scouts on a perilous weekend wilderness camping trip.
Logline: Follows the true story and friendship between Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey and shortstop Jackie Robinson, a relationship that was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball.
Logline: A loser in love, gets stranded on a deserted island with a group of beauty queens who help him realize that there’s more to life than physical beauty.
