Drummed out of Vietnam, misfit American pilots were given a choice: Face the music of military justice or serve with other oddballs and rule breakers. Dubbed the Ravens, they soon learned they can fly, fight, and drink as they pleased in a CIA-sponsored secret war.
Pouya Shahbazian
Pitched in the vein of OCEAN’S 11 meets ARGO. In September 1960, three CIA agents, led by a headstrong engineer with something to prove, bungled their way into Fidel Castro’s clutches attempting to bug a diplomatic residence in Havana, Cuba. On the eve of the most dangerous international standoff of the 20th century, disavowed by the CIA, the three were sentenced to ten years in Cuba’s most notorious prison. To get out, they would need a Hail Mary plan, a Dirty Dozen of prison conspirators, and a woman who refused to bow to authority. Based on an article for the new digital media magazine Truly*Adventurous.
Andrea Arnold’s American Honey has come out on top of the British Independent Film Awards with four wins at Sunday night’s event. The film won prizes in directing for Arnold, star Sasha Lane for acting, craft for Robbie Ryan, and top British Independent Film.
Divergent author Veronica Roth has a pair of Young Adult novels in the works, set to be published by HarperCollins in 2017 and 2018, with the rights to both starting to seriously heat up on the market.
In the vein of Star Wars, the story is centered on a boy and the enemy with whom he forms an unlikely alliance.
The debut novel by Becky Albertalli will be adapted by scribes Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker. Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner of Temple Hill Entertainment produce, along with Pouya Shahbazian of New Leaf Literary & Media.
A closeted gay teen must find a way to reinvent himself after his secret is exposed.
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out.
A teen escapes a mental institution only to get lost in a land of ice, where she learns her destiny is to save the mysterious land from an evil king.
From the bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die comes a new spin on The Snow Queen, described as “Frozen all grown up.” Story follows a teen who escapes a mental institution only to get lost in a land of ice, where she learns her destiny is to save the mysterious land from an evil king.
Published via HarperCollins on August 23, 2011, the property was soon snatched up by Sony Pictures, with Matt Tolmach producing. Tolmach and his Matt Tolmach Productions will also make the jump to Lionsgate.
Kept under wraps, but pitched as Cinderella in the world of Game Of Thrones.
Pitched as The Craft meets Son of Anarchy, centers on teenage witch searching for her kidnapped best friend in a dark, dangerous world of black magic, warring families, and deadly motorcycle gangs.
Kept under wraps, but based on the upcoming novel by Stephanie Garber.
Pitched as Breaking Bad meets Marie Antoinette, a modern teen must navigate a new kind of high society–a pocket kingdom existing entirely within the Palace of Versailles–and when she finds herself betrothed to a dangerous man, she’ll do anything to finance her escape– including peddling a designer drug to those she calls her friends.
Kept under wraps, but pitched as
Logline: During an uprising that threatens the wealthy, thirty-five underprivileged girls are chosen to compete to live in a life of luxury.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but described as “The Goonies” meets “Lost” set in the bermuda triangle.
Logline: Pitched as “Frozen” meets “Avatar,” as the Twenty Year Truce of a centuries long war is about to end, the balance of power – and magic – on a continent ruled by three empires falls on the shoulders of two young women.
Logline: Kept under wraps but centers on a pair of unlikely heroes caught up in the underground world of blood magic.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but involves Greek Gods living on Earth in the modern day.
Logline: A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
“King Kong” and “The Ring” actress may star in the the franchise’s next installment!
Sequel to “Divergent” and “Insurgent,” part two of the explosive conclusion to the trilogy that reveals the secrets of the dystopian future.
Sequel to “Divergent” and “Insurgent,” part one of the explosive conclusion to the trilogy that reveals the secrets of the dystopian future.
Logline: A new YA trilogy being pitched as “Game or Thrones” meets “Romeo & Juliet”, centering around rivaling families of assassins.
Logline: A former New York cop under witness protection in New Mexico is drawn into an investigation about a missing woman.
Logline: Kept under wraps but said to revolve around the Greek Gods set in modern day in the vein of “The Avengers.â€
Logline: Kept under wraps but said to revolve around the Greek Gods set in modern day in the vein of “The Avengers.”
Logline: Everything about Anna’s life is secret. Her father works for the government, running secret experiments on four genetically altered boys in the basement of their farmhouse. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, one of them stages an escape, and now on the run, Anna discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected
