Ted Melfi

Hidden Figures writer-director Ted Melfi has sold the dark, holiday comedy El Camino Christmas to Netflix. Melfi wrote the script with Chris Wehner and has lined up a solid cast for the ensemble.

Follows a young man who seeks out a father he has never met and, through no fault of his own ends up barricaded in a liquor sotre iwht five other people on Christmas Eve.

In early December, we’re 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 2010 Hit List writers — where they’ve been, and where they are now.

A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions.

A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions.

Story details are being kept under wraps, but being pitched in the vein of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps, but being pitched in the vein of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

Musician Pharrell Williams has signed on to produce the upcoming NASA drama Hidden Figures starring Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, who was part of a team of African American women who helped launch astronaut John Glen into orbit.

Jim Parsons has landed a role in Fox 2000’s Hidden Figures starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae. The film is based on the true story of the African American women who helped the U.S. win the space race.

Kevin Costner has been tapped to play the head of the space program in Fox 2000’s Hidden Figures. The Academy Award-winning actor will join his Black or White co-star Octavia Spencer and Taraji P. Henson.

Taraji P. Henson has signed on to play Katherine Johnson, a real-life mathematics genius, in Hidden Figures from Fox 2000. The project will be helmed by St. Vincent director Ted Melfi.

Centers on Katherine Johnson’s involvement in the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Based on the book Hidden Figures: The Story Of The African-American Women Who Helped Win The Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly.

St Vincent director Ted Melfi and Warm Bodies’ helmer Jonathan Levine are the favorites, but Vacation directors John Francis Daley & Jonathan M. Goldstein and indie director Jon Watts are also contenders to direct.

Sony and Marvel have narrowed down their search for the director of the next “Spider Man” movie. Back in March, there were talks of “Cabin In The Woods” director Drew Goddard taking on the project. Now, there are a new set of directors in the mix as the project moves forward.

Ted Melfi to re-team with the Weinstein Company for “Every Exquisite Thing.”

Logline: A conscientious student athlete is inspired by a book to get in touch with her wild side.

A fatherless boy befriends his new neighbor, a grumpy old man, and together the unlikely pair learn the true value of friendship.

Producer turned writer/director in talks to finish what he started.

Logline: Chronicles the story of how a man grew up without a father but surrounded himself with unlikely surrogates: the patrons who haunted a pub in Manhasset, Long Island where his uncle tended bar.

Logline: A group of retired, bored, senior citizens decide to rob a bank.

Logline: In the vein of “As Good as it Gets,” a fatherless boy befriends his new neighbor, a grumpy old man, and together the unlikely pair learn the true value of friendship.

Logline: In the vein of “As Good as it Gets,” a fatherless boy befriends his new neighbor, a grump old man, and together the unlikely pair learn the true value of friendship.

Logline: The story centers around a corrupt high school principal who invents bogus teachers to skim from the school’s salary fund, and an unpopular colleague who discovers the scam.

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Logline: A lonely California man responds to a exotic woman’s phishing email and an unlikely romance blossoms.

After the death of their newborn baby, Lily attempts suicide and is subsequently admitted to a mental health clinic while Jack remains in the “real” world, dealing with his own…