Russell Ackerman

Chronicles the true story of Arthur Ashe, the African American tennis champion and humanitarian who created the Arthur Ashe Foundation after contracting HIV.

Chronicles the final days of notorious gangster Al Capone as he succumbs to dementia and relives his past through tormenting memories.

A coming-of-age story which centers on five kids who discover the body of the world’s greatest super hero in the woods after school one day.

Kept under wraps, but in the vein of ’71.

Waypoint Entertainment has acquired the rights to Captain America: Civil War comic book writer Mark Millar’s American Jesus and Supercrooks, with plans to develop each into a feature film.

Centers around a boy who realizes at age 12 that he is the second coming of Jesus Christ and sets out to try one last time to save mankind.

When a disgraced astronaut enlists on a mission to reach the bottom of a recently discovered oceanic trench, he becomes subject to an increasing amount of danger and is reluctantly pulled into a psychological and physical battle with unexpected forces.

Kept under wraps, but inspired by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s experiences growing up in Laredo, Texas.

The crime thriller is inspired by Gomez-Rejon’s experiences growing up in Laredo, Texas. Waypoint Entertainment, the shingle behind Shane Black’s The Nice Guys and Gus van Sant’s The Sea of Trees, is producing.

David S. Goyer has just picked up buzzy scribe Max Landis’ latest script, the psychological drama Deeper. Goyer will produce under his Phantom Four banner, along with Addictive Pictures. Sources report that Phantom and Addictive beat out others clamoring for the project, as Landis has quickly established himself as a hot, up-and-coming talent.

Based on William Giraldi’s 2014 novel, a village hires an expert hunter to bring back a child that has been stolen by wolves, but as he travels across the tundra, he begins to wonder who is hunting who.

The director and star of Blue Ruin will helm and adapt, respectively, the dark novel that attempts to plumb human despair and inadequacy in the Arctic Circle.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but described as in the vein of “Looper”

Producers Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder option the script from Matthew Kennedy.

Logline: Kept under wraps but being pitched as a contained “Misery” that spirals into an epic “Usual Suspects” face off between two legendary assassins.

Logline: After a series of ancient tomes are stolen by a madman hellbent on the destruction of humanity, occult detective John Constantine seeks out a group of heroes that specialize in the mystic and arcane in order to save the world.

Logline: Centers on a woman who returns to her new husband’s childhood home to discover it’s haunted by ghosts who have a grave warning for her.

Logline: Set in the 19th century, finds Bram Stroker’s fabled monster hunter Van Helsing summoned to a distant Eastern European land to vanquish evil

Logline: Follows seven supervillains as they travel to superhero-deprived Europe in order to commit the biggest heist of their careers.

Logline: A father becomes a drug mule in order to save his his daughter from a Colombian gang by trafficking cocaine to London on a midnight flight.

Logline: A young girl is woken up by her sister, who is insistent they leave the house due to something unpleasant returning.

Logline: Story centers on a woman who, upon returning to the orphanage where she grew up, discovers that her son’s imaginary friend is the same person who terrorized her when she was a child.