Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, races to make contact with the crew of the Aether spacecraft as they try to return home to Earth.
Collecting stories about the political commodity of water and food in third-world countries and how a people either are fed or starve depending on whatever entity is in control.
Originally, Ben Affleck was in talks to direct the Afghanistan War movie, but Sony has gone with the director of the 2017 sci-fi thriller Life instead.
After previously snagging Killers of the Flower Moon, Imperative Entertainment has made another big buy with the novel Tangerine. George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures is attached to produce and Scarlett Johansson has come aboard to star.
The mystery/thriller set in 1950s Morocco is about a woman named Alice Shipley who tries to leave both her past and her college roommate behind after the man she intends to marry suddenly dies. Years later, she reconnects with that same roommate, Lucy, and then Alice’s husband disappears.
George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s indie production company Smokehouse Pictures is partnering with Making a Murderer filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos for America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker based on a series of Huffington Post articles by Steven Brill.
UPDATE (3.10.16): Imperative Entertainment wins the war for David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon with a massive $5 million bid, making this one of the richest book deals to go down in recent history. Imperative beat out an offer from Star Wars director JJ Abrams.
A massive bidding war is underway right now as some of Hollywood’s biggest players compete for the rights to Lost City of Z author David Grann’s upcoming Killers Of The Flower Moon. A-listers are attached and studios are swarming as the year’s biggest bidding war gets underway!
Chronicles the real-life 1920s mystery surrounding the suspicious deaths of several Osage Indians, who were at the time among the richest people on the planet. The story follows the twists and turns of the investigation that eventually became the first major case solved by J. Edgar Hoover’s brand new FBI.
George Clooney is setting up an all-star cast for his next directing project. After signing on to helm Suburbicon, written by Joel and Ethan Coen, he is now in talks with Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, and Josh Brolin to join the cast.
Logline: Recounts efforts by Joe Navarro, during his career the FBI’s leading body-language expert, to track down Clyde Lee Conrad, an Army officer who sold secrets to Hungary during the Cold War.
Logline: Focuses on the British phone hacking scandal that brought down News of the World.
A recap of the week’s TV news!
Logline: In the 1980s, a man laying underwater pipeline in the North Sea experiences a tragic accident–but his quest to get to the bottom of it may prove more dangerous still.
Logline: Story follows a man who, along with his brother, is laying pipeline in the North Sea, when a sudden, tragic accident changes everything.
Logline: Based on the true story about students of Coronado High School who were employed as mules to smuggle drugs into their San Diego suburb.
Logline: Kept under wraps but revolves around New York crime organizations.
Logline: An American rises through the ranks after helping Castro overthrow the Cuban government, but falls prey to accusations of his loyalties to both Cuba and the US.
Logline: Story follows the Smothers brothers, who, famously squabbled on and off screen, were transformed by the period’s social upheaval.
A 1930s-set story centered on the University of Washington’s rowing team, from their Depression-era beginnings to winning gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Logline: The story centers on Neel Kashkari who helped create the controversial TRAP initiative, which bailed out the big banks after the financial collapse in 2008, to then immediately escaped from Washington after doing so.
Logline: Follows the true story of a thriller writer and an Italian journalist as they investigate the Monster of Florence, Italy’s answer to Jack the Ripper, a murderer who stalked the Italian countryside from 1968 to 1985.
Logline: A communications director for a rising politician becomes victim to backstabbing and deception on the campaign trail.
Logline: Follows the loves, lives, and fates of four Formula One drivers through a racing season.
Logline: Story chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis–the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades.
Logline: A political consultant goes to South America to help with the local election, but as she witnesses the rampant corruption, she comes to believe that she might be helping the wrong people.