Astronaut Scott Kelly spent 340 consecutive days in space on the International Space Station and now Sony Pictures has optioned the rights to his upcoming memoir, Endurance: My Year in Space, to be co-written by Kelly and Margaret Lazarus Dean.
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Based on the life of astronaut Scott Kelly, detailing his time as a Navy test pilot and the 340 consecutive days he spent in space for a special mission on the ISS.
A Naval officer must prove himself when he is given command of a destroyer named Greyhound.
In the near future where global video surveillance has rendered the witness protection program obsolete, time travel is used to hide high profile witnesses.
Updated 09.02.16: Mark Townend’s high-concept sci-fi action thriller, pitched as Looper meets Safe House, continues to burn up the market ahead of the holiday weekend, with Screen Gems, Legendary Pictures, and AG Capital being the latest to take a closer look at what has become one of the summer’s hottest specs.
Logline: In the near future where global video surveillance has rendered the witness protection program obsolete, time travel is used to hide high profile witnesses.
Chronicles the four-day event of the Attica Prison riots in 1971 where inmates held guards and employees hostage while negotiating with authorities for a better living environment.
A guy’s high school girlfriend disappears the day after prom and six years later, her ghost returns and forces him to team-up with a detective from her cold case to track down her killer.
A young woman dreams of becoming a beauty queen but when she witnesses a gang hit in a nightclub, the mob rigs an upcoming pageant and she’s dragged into the world of drug cartels and corrupt cops.
Logline: Forced back into action after a rogue special ops team murders her husband, a super-spy who traded in her legendary career for a normal life, embarks on a bloody quest for vengeance that leads to the highest rungs of government, uncovering a secret that could shake the foundations of American democracy. John Wick meets Salt.
Based on the video game series which follows the adventures of treasure hunter Nathan Drake.
The red hot sci-fi thriller RIFT from Larry Lasky continues to set the town on fire as it makes its way into every major studios and over a dozen top production companies. We’re also hearing that an A-list director is circling, cranking up the heat around what could be the summer’s next big spec sale.
Paradigm is on a roll this summer as they hit the town with their latest prospect Glass from Calvin Starnes. As the piping hot spec has made its way into a dozen territories, some A-list talent is already circling what could become the summer’s next great bidding war.
The spec market is heating up once again as the red hot sci-fi thriller RIFT from Larry Lasky makes its way around town. Circle of Confusion’s Zach Cox is leading the charge on this one, which already has Rock Shaink attached to produce under his Romark Entertainment banner.
A contemporary Kung-Fu story that intertwines Shaolin mythology with many of the current issues faced by teens growing up in a gentrifying neighborhood like Harlem.
Sony Pictures has put Ghostbusters: Ecto Force on their television slate. The original film’s director Ivan Reitman will oversee the new show which is looking at a 2018 debut.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps, but spec is being pitched as The Shining or The Conjuring on a boat
Lori Evans Taylor has sold an untitled micro-budget thriller pitch to Sony Pictures. Akiva Goldsman has signed on to produce.
Centers on a couple who rents out their home to a woman who soon begins to invade their lives.
Imagines a present-day world under a first-of-its-kind coalition between the United Nations and the international space agencies, with a plot to send a team of six intrepid teenagers to create the first human settlement on Jupiter’s icy moon.
Imagines a present-day world under a first-of-its-kind coalition between the United Nations and the international space agencies, with a plot to send a team of six intrepid teenagers to create the first human settlement on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa.
Sony is planning to bring the popular books series back to the bring screen as they announce Goosebumps 2 is in development. They are currently closing deals for director Rob Letterman and scribe Darren Lemke to reteam on the project.
Robert Downey Jr. is expected to make a fly by appearance as Tony Stark in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Downey Jr. will join Tom Holland for the Sony-Marvel collaboration.
Nina Dobrev is in talks to join Ellen Page and Diego Luna for Sony’s remake of Flatliners.
Donny Herbert fell into a vegetative state that lasted nearly a decade. Until one day he woke up and spoke almost nonstop to his family and loved ones for nearly sixteen hours.
Jackie Earle Haley will sink his teeth into the role of the evil vampire, Sayre in the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower.
Michael Keaton could be the latest A-list actor to join the ranks of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Oscar-nominated actor is circling the villain role in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
UPDATE (4.7.16): Paramount has come out on top in the fight for T.J. English’s The Corporation with a stunning seven figure offer. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson will produce through their Appian Way banner, with Benicio Del Toro set to star.
Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds has taken an interest in The Rosie Project as he is currently circling. If Reynolds joins, he would be the first major attachment since Jennifer Lawrence and director Richard Linklater dropped out.
The unique, untold American gangster story of Jose Miguel Battle Sr. (“El Padrino”), the leader of the “The Corporation” – also known as “The Godfather.”
