Julia Roberts is set to play Jacob Tremblay’s mother in Lionsgate’s adaptation of R.J. Palacio’s coming-of-age-novel Wonder. The story follows Auggie Pullman, a young boy with a facial deformity that is bullied at school.
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Room star Jacob Tremblay is circling a role in Wonder at Lionsgate. The film is an adaptation of the coming-of-age-novel of the same name by R.J. Palacio.
The improbable story of how a young Armenian man emigrated to the United States, became a kicker in the NFL and eventually helped the Miami Dolphins win the Super Bowl in 1972.
Logline: Centers around a transcontinental car race with autonomous vehicles. What starts as a beta test for competing software companies turns into driver-less car race from Paris to Beijing in which the human subjects find themselves increasingly unwilling to simply sit by passively.
Todd Phillips was previously directing.
Pro tennis players Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King play a high profile match whose outcome is called into question.
Logline: A company’s attempt at outsourcing fails miserably when one of their employees is sent to North Korea and accused of being a spy.
Logline: In the late 1970s, two small-time crooks, sick of living hand to mouth decide they need to find a new successful path to happiness, but instead of leaving crime, they create a list of “Criminal Commandments” – ten simple rules to follow for an easy, and successful robbery. For a long time, the rules leave them riding high, but what happens when you start breaking your own rules?
Logline: Based on the turbulent life of comedian John Belushi.
Logline: Comedy set in the world of competitive ice-fishing.
