Annapurna will have to really up the star power to eclipse the Weinstein Company’s upcoming event series, and that starts with the role of David Koresh. Paul Dano or Shia LaBeouf would make for excellent casting, but so would Matthew Rhys or Billy Crudup.
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Amberville is a darkly comedic animated crime show set in a city populated by living, breathing stuffed animals. The story concerns a reformed Teddy Bear who is pulled back into the criminal underworld when his former boss enlists him for an impossible new job.
After her fiance is falsley imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.
An anthology of six short films that take place in the 19th century post-Civil War era during the settling of the old west.
While most of the Hollywood contingent at Sundance has already left Park City, there are still plenty of festival deals being made, chief among them one for Dee Rees’ acclaimed drama Mudbound, which is the hottest acquisition title left on the board.
Chronicles Megyn Kelly and the women who brought down the man once considered the most powerful in media with accusations of sexual harassment, as well as the wife, Elizabeth Tilson, who propped him up.
Kept under wraps, but will take place in the fashion world during the 1950s.
Details are being kept under wraps but it is based on a true crime drama amid the Detroit riots in 1967.
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are set to team up with Megan Ellison of Annapurna Pictures for The Hustlers at Scores based on the New York Magazine of the same name by Jessica Pressler.
The Me and Orson Welles scribes are once again teaming up with director Richard Linklater to adapt Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go Bernadette. Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter wrote a previous draft of the script.
Ghostbusters star Kristen Wiig will rejoin her The Martian co-star Matt Damon in Alexander Payne’s upcoming satire Downsizing. Wiig replaces Reese Witherspoon, who had to exit the project due to scheduling conflicts.
The remarkably true, modern Robin Hood story of a group of ex-strippers who stole money from filthy, rich men.
Logline: A young boy, raised his entire life by three very different women, finds his idea of masculinity changed when a male boarder comes to live with them in 1979 Santa Barbara
Logline: Follows a crime ring of dirty cops who operated out of the 75th Precinct in New York in the early 90s.
Ellison will produce the spiritual sequel to Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused” under her Annapurna banner.
Logline: Follows a college freshman in 1980 who moves into the baseball house on his campus and befriends the hard-partying inhabitants.
The Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu western could get new financing.
Logline: Based on the true story of self proclaimed “Arab slayer” Mark Stroman who murdered two immigrants in Texas days after the September 11th attacks. A third man survived being shot in the head and worked to keep his attacker from being executed.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as “Easy A” meets “Mean Girls.”
Logline: Heist thriller about the daring 1965 jail break at age 22 to the legendary career pilfering treasures from museums all over New England, Myles Connor’s life is the stuff of adventure novels. Now, with the aid of novelist Siler, the notorious art thief recounts his scores and sets the record straight on one of the biggest art heists ever – at Boston’s Isabella stewart Gardner Museum.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
A mother goes missing and it’s up to her teenaged daughter to put the pieces together and find her.
Logline: When a model is released from prison after serving thirteen years for a murder she did not commit, she seeks out the real killer to exact revenge.
Logline: Story follows the disappearance of a once famous architect-turned-recluse, which forces her teenage daughter to find her.
Logline: Follows a woman who turns to a new psychiatrist to cope with the anxiety of the upcoming release of her husband from prison and the love triangle that forms between the three of them.
Logline: A lonely writer purchases a newly released operating system designed to fulfill the users needs. Over time the writer and operating system begin a serious relationship.
Logline: A 16 year old girl, all alone in a zombie-infested world, meets a mentally disabled guy who has a note on his coat asking for someone to deliver him to an address in Texas.
Logline: John Connor discovers that Skynet has a weapon unlike anything ever seen and plans to assassinate him in the past, where a young Sarah Connor has been raised by an aging T-800.
Logline: Story follows a group of world leaders who gather to decide every seismic event that happens on the planet, from oil prices to the wars that are waged.
Logline: Story is based on the Black Ops mission to kill Osama Bin Laden.
