Universal Pictures picked up PHANTOM by John Fusco. A singer ingenue is mentored by a mysterious man, as mysterious mishaps occur in a famed club trying to remain vibrant.
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UTA is out with DREAM POLICE by Mark Gibson & Phil Halprin. Frank Fratto is San Francisco’s toughest cop. So tough he always works alone.
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.
Paramount made a preemptive deal on MURDER IN THE WHITE HOUSE by Jonathan W. Stokes. The president is murdered in the White House, and a Secret Service agent has one night to find the killer.
Story details are being kept under wraps but described as Running Man meets Bloodsport.
Atticus Archer is college football’s version of a fixer. As he juggles chasing the nation’s top prospect, a mental breakdown from a star quarterback, and his own personal demons, an NCAA agent arrives on campus to threaten everything.
Following a cataclysmic event that erases humanity’s memories, a woman wakes up with no memory of her young daughter but must find her amid the chaos using clues she left for herself and her maternal instincts.
A secret agent tasked with an assassination receives help from an unlikely source.
An embattled toymaker and his precocious granddaughter work to finish a magical invention in time for the holidays.
Story details are being kept under wraps, but Rihanna and Lupita play a pair of genius scammers in a heist film.
Centers on seven rival thieves chasing after one heist.
Story details kept under wraps.
Logline: He’s spent most of his life keeping secrets – from the feds, the cartel, even from his wife, Julie. Now, Sean Haggerty, piloting a small aircraft carrying 55 lbs of cocaine across the boarder, is ready to call it quits. He just has to figure out how to survive what’s waiting for him when he lands.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps, but being pitched in the vein of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
Logline: An estranged family faces their first Thanksgiving together since the death of the family matriarch.
Centers around an estranged family that is forced to come together for their first Christmas since the death of the family matriarch.
The in-demand project is feeding the buzz machine.
The crowdfunded short’s incredible visual effects and engaging atmosphere will hook you. It’s “The Matrix” meets “District 9.”
Synopsis: The end of the world seems like a nightmare to Ben. A memory of a past life that doesn’t belong to him. When Ben starts to remember Isabelle, the only love he’s ever known, he realizes she’s missing in his life. An existential descent into confusion and the desperate need to find out the truth begins. This reality depicts a stunning, surprising and dark world. A world that is clearly not his.
Logline: Based on the life-story of Richard Wershe Jr., who at the age of 14, went undercover as an informant for local and federal law enforcement agencies during the mid-80s and quickly went from being an asset to an issue after being arrested for possession of 17 pounds of cocaine at the age of 17 — and then sentenced to life without parole.
Logline: An expert hacker gets sent to a high security prison controlled by an A.I. only for it to be revealed that he put himself in there intentionally.
Logline: Based on the life-story of Richard Wershe Jr., who at the age of 14, went undercover as an informant for local and federal law enforcement agencies during the mid-80s and quickly went from being an asset to an issue after being arrested for possession of 17 pounds of cocaine at the age of 17 — and then sentenced to life without parole.
Logline: Follows a group of misfit cops from foreign cities who travel to the U.S. for an internship with the LAPD where they accidentally stumble upon a major crime.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as high-concept comedy set in Colorado.
Logline: In the vein of “The Grey.” After the death of their son, two great apes must escape Kodiak Island.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will focus on the high school career of NBA star LeBron James.
Logline: Centers on a mild mannered insurance courier who gets caught up in a conspiracy to steal the Crown Jewels in London.
Logline: A renowned conductor is tasked with uncovering the true cause of death of Russia’s most famous composer before he unveils to the nation Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s final and most personal work, Sympathy Pathetique.
Logline: An American doctor’s identity is stolen by a covert operative and the only way he can clear his name is to assume the dangerous mission of the spy who stole it.
Logline: A couple of high school losers find themselves in wish fulfillment mode after they find the iPhone belonging to the hottest and most popular girl in school.
