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.
Story details are being kept under wraps but described as Running Man meets Bloodsport.
McG is currently in talks in taking the reins of the movie based on the Mattel toy line about He-Man, a prince that becomes a powerful warrior via his magical sword to defend the land of Eternia against the villainous Skeletor.
Paramount and Di Bonaventura nabbed the Swedish horror director to take on the forces of hell for them.
Paramount Pictures is moving forward with Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters 2, with renowned French director Bruno Aveillan at the helm. The sequel, which was rumored to be in jeopardy after the first film’s director Tommy Wirkola announced that he would not be returning, is being reworked with a new take from Aveillan.
A genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47 becomes conflicted by his conscience and unfamiliar emotions.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but described as a Dirty Dozen set in the Middle Ages, complete with huge action pieces, castles, and plagues, etc.
Logline: A genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47 becomes conflicted by his conscience and unfamiliar emotions.
An ex-CIA operative is brought back for a mission involving the future Russian president and engages in a deadly game with a former pupil.
The “Predators” scribe is set to adapt the popular video game.
An ex-CIA operative is brought back for a mission involving the future Russian president and engages in a deadly game with a former pupil.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as “Crash” as an action film.
Logline: An LAPD detective receives a ransom video of a missing child with a bomb strapped to him but the kidnapper is killed before the child’s location is disclosed. The detective has 6 hours and 42 minutes to locate the bomb before it detonates.
Logline: A genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47 becomes conflicted by his conscience and unfamiliar emotions.
Logline: An ex-CIA operative is brought back for a mission involving the future Russian president and engages in a deadly game with a former pupil.
Logline: In a technologically advanced but chaotic future, a nano-tech enhanced counter terrorist unravels a conspiracy on a global scale.
Logline: After losing his fiancee in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103, a young man joins the CIA in order to exact revenge. Origin story of Mitch Rapp.
Logline: Story centers on a factory where made-to-order heroes are built for specific missions across the universe.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but being pitched as a deep space action/thriller.
Logline: Pitched as “Ocean’s 11” meets “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” where everyone’s going to die, but it’s how you get there that matters.
Logline: A mathematician discovers a cure for his son’s autism that also turns him into a vessel for the devil.
Logline: Story centers on Prince Adam, who, after uttering the magic words “By the power of Grayskull, I have the power,” magically turned into the heroic He-Man, the hero who along with his allies — Battle Cat, Man-at-Arms and Orko — defended the planet Eternia, and their Castle Grayskull from the evil forces of Skeletor.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “The Expendables,” story of a strike force, comprised of criminals, goes to Hell in order to prevent the End of Days.
Logline: Described as “The Dirty Dozen†set in the Middle Ages and centering on seven prisoners — a gypsy, a thief, a samurai, a knight, a monk, an Arab and a Viking.
Logline: In a future where corporations rule city states, extreme high speed racing exosuits called Vicious Cycles race for entertainment on the track driven by captive members of bloodline genetically bred solely for speed. Zee, the son of an escaped driver, returns to the city manipulated by his father to fulfill his fate as a savior for the enslaved racers. Despite realizing this, Zee joins the illegal street race known as the Freedom Formula–a path that will rush him and all those around him to a fate with an exacting price.
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