The storyline is being kept under wraps, but is said to be a high-concept supernatural romance.
Soon we’ll be releasing the 2016 Hit List, our compilation of the best year’s best spec scripts as voted on by industry professionals. In preparation for its release, we’re taking a look back at the writers who made the Hit List in 2014 — where they were, and how far they’ve come in just one short year.
Manchester by the Sea is leading the Gotham Independent Film Awards as the nominees were announced today with four nominations including best feature. They will face off against Certain Women, Everybody Wants Some, Moonlight, and Paterson.
Chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago’s South Side.
With Sundance just around the corner, we’re bringing you our picks for what’s worth watching at the festival. In the category of U.S. Dramatic Competition, the festival features domestic narrative films from up and coming filmmakers. Here’s a few of those films that caught our attention.
Logline: Follows Michelle and Barack Obama’s epic first date across the South Side of Chicago.
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Tanne and Baker are set to rewrite Paramount’s angelic movie, starring Zoe Saldana.
Logline: Pitched as “I Know What You Did Last Summer” meets “Prisoners,” centers on a small town mayor’s daughter who goes missing and the detectives, family, and friends who discover she’s just the latest in the town’s dark past of mystery and murder.
Logline: Pitched as “I Know What You Did Last Summer” meets “Prisoners,” centers on a small town mayor’s daughter who goes missing and the detectives, family, and friends who discover she’s just the latest in the town’s dark past of mystery and murder.
New York playwright Brian Podnos’ newest spec hits the market strong!
Logline: Pitched as “The Break-Up” meets “The Princess Bride,” the revisionist take on the most famous love story ever told.
Logline: After a bank heist goes disastrously wrong, a robber, a vigilante, and a cop go toe-to-toe over the course of a day-long manhunt through the streets of Los Angeles.
Logline: A car accident leaves a self-involved prankster in a wheelchair, with only his best friend to care for him. But when the friend’s old crush moves back to town, tensions rise.
Logline: Follows the early life of Julius Caesar as he rose through the ranks of the Roman army, was imprisoned by Cilician pirates and eventually became ruler of Rome.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but centers on a woman who is half human, half angel.
Logline: In order to escape their cruel stepmother, a teenage brother and sister run away to New York City only to be taken in by a friendly and affluent older woman who turns out to be a psychopath. The siblings must now escape from her sprawling apartment building and fight for their lives against a widening group of high-society attackers, all the while uncovering the nature of a conspiracy.
Logline: A terrifying, enormous, insatiable shark is smuggled into the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, wreaking havoc on the gators and residents until the resourceful McDaniel family hunts it down.
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