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Marisa Paiva
Taraji P. Henson has signed on to play Katherine Johnson, a real-life mathematics genius, in Hidden Figures from Fox 2000. The project will be helmed by St. Vincent director Ted Melfi.
Centers on Katherine Johnson’s involvement in the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Based on the book Hidden Figures: The Story Of The African-American Women Who Helped Win The Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly.
Logline: An adopted young woman who, after being raised in an stuffy, upper-crust household, sets out to find her birth mother–only to discover that she’s a total disaster.
A retired orthopedic surgeon, suffering from dementia, is accused of murdering her best friend, and is not sure if she has committed the crime.
Berman will produce under her Jackal Group moniker. Published in 2012, the novel received overwhelmingly positive reception, and was named Newsday’s best book of the year.
Kept under wraps, but pitched as a sci-fi adventure film.
Logline: In the dystopian future, a boy that has the power to communicate with crows must team with other people that could talk to animals, called “Ferals”, to solve the murder of his parents and fight off the dark forces that are threatening the city.
Logline: Centers on the creation of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command pilot program that allowed elite women soldiers on the battlefield with Green Berets and Army Rangers in Afghanistan in 2010. Dubbed CST-2, the unit was made up of a hand-picked group of women from the Army, hat included first Lieutenant Ashley White, who would become the first CST member killed in action.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will feature Robin Williams as Daniel Hillard aka Mrs. Doubtfire.
A recap of the week’s exec moves!
Logline: Story revolves around four connected marriages over the span of the last one hundred years and will explore everything from divorce, to gay marriage, to infidelity, to the explosion of modern wedding culture.
Logline: A family becomes literally and metaphorically disconnected from each other during a city wide blackout and must try to find each other again.
Logline: Story centers on a futuristic world where the population is afflicted by a deadly virus, and teenagers are “rebooted” after death to become vicious soldiers.
Loglne: Story centers on two people who, while on the way to a destination wedding and with other partners on their minds, hook up and fall in love.
Logline: After discovering that the senior partners have looted the company through corporate malfeasance, interns at the most prestigious bank on Wall Street band together to pull a caper that saves the company from bankruptcy, and the shareholders from losing everything.
Logline: A Facebook-stalking expert uses her abilities to help her friends weed out losers they’re dating, but when she finds the ‘perfect man,’ she uses her social media skills to turn herself into the girl he’d want to date.
Logline: Various people, of differing ages, approach online dating based on circumstances and past experiences.
Logline: The journey of a father trying to put his child down for the night.
Logline: Set in the mid 1990’s, the story centers on Miami’s most notorious smuggler, Michael Van Nostrand, and the Wildlife Service special agent who dedicated his career to putting Van Nostrand away.
Logline: Story will focus on the professional and personal life of singer Peggy Lee, as she sustained her musical career seven decades.
Logline: Based on the true story of Ruth Reichl, a columnist who has to don disguises to hide her identity and is in one of her disguises when she meets and falls in love with a man.
Logline: A young girl with a love of reading experience the rise of the Nazi party while her foster parents harbor a Jewish refugee in their basement.
Logline: A woman has flashbacks about three different men while walking down the aisle at her wedding, making us wonder which one will be waiting for her at the altar.
Logline: Story centers on 16-year old Pi Patel, a young boy on his way to America, who after a horrible shipwreck, finds himself stranded for the next 227 days in shark-infested waters aboard a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger.