Kaplan Stahler & Bellevue are out with CONCERNED CITIZEN by Matt Tente. A stringer for a security App is falsely identified as a terrorist bomber .
Varun Monga
Empirical Evidence & Kaplan Stahler Agency are out with MOTHER MOUNTAIN by Andy Friedhof. Two scam artist brothers attempt to con a poor village by hiring a prostitute to act as a cave-dwelling Incan goddess.
Kaplan Stahler and Bellevue are out with THE SIDE DOOR by Matt Tente. Tennis coach Gordie Ernst accepts $2.7 million in bribes to help 12 students who never played tennis gain admission.
Kaplan Stahler Agency and Recon Literary are out with ESCAPE OF THE ASSASSIN by John James Halligan. A young warden and his guards plunge into the rugged Tennessee mountains in a desperate hunt for a man.
In 1997 Andre Agassi was ranked 141st in the world, married to a celebrity and consumed with hate for the game that gave him everything. Hitting rock bottom, he embarks on a soul searching mission to slay the nightmare dragon of his youth and feel the power of true love on his way to the 1999 French Open and maybe the greatest comeback in sports history.
The untold true story of Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson, two former rodeo cowboys who, in 1967, went on an expedition in the forests of Northern California and recorded the first ever motion picture footage of the creature known as Bigfoot. But as they attempted to cash in on their discovery, distrust, greed and rumors of a hoax threatened to tear everything apart. This is the story of America’s first viral film, which took Bigfoot from an obscure rural folklore to a popular household name.
The larger than life journey of André René Roussimoff, the man who would become Andre the Giant, and the giant who would go on to become an icon. From his humble farm life in rural France, to the largest sell out events the world has ever seen, this is the story of the man who sacrificed everything to entertain the masses, and the personal battles he faced on his way to becoming a legend. Think Big Fish meets The Wrestler.
In Juarez, a Catholic nun struggles to perform an exorcism on the son of a Mexican drug lord — only to realize that that evil possessing the boy might not be what it seems.
Noel Green, head of Santa’s Secret Service, is a man on a mission: to protect Santa and the North Pole. But when a vengeful elf from the South Pole threatens to take Santa down just before Christmas, everything starts to snowball out of control.
Years after an alien invasion devastated the Earth, a lone veteran of the human resistance must put aside his hatred of the enemy when the only chance to save his abducted daughter is with the help of an enslaved alien.
Story details being kept under wraps.
Norma, a hyper intelligent gorilla and her primatologist, Sarah, work together to save the latter’s baby in a world where small scale alien invasions have become routine.
Based on true events, HELEN AND TED reveals the fiery romantic and creative partnership between Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and wife Helen, who dedicated her life to the literary genius. When Helen is struck by a devastating illness, it threatens to destroy the magical world she and Ted have created.
When a plot surfaces to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of his presidential inauguration, a renowned and decorated detective, Allan Pinkerton, must infiltrate a secret cabal of Southern secessionists to uncover their conspiracy and circumvent their attempts to kill the president-elect as he passes through Baltimore.
The storyline is under wraps, but is being pitched as Misery meets the sticom Full House.
It’s 1970 and Bear Bryant, the winningest coach in college football history, is coming off of a losing season. His all-white University of Alabama Crimson Tide team lacks strength and speed. When he engineers an exhibition game against the USC Trojans, a team powered by the first all African American backfield, the mystery of this enigmatic strategist deepens.
Logline: Based on a book of the oral histories, this tells the story of an ordinary group of women who did something extraordinary: 11,000 safe, illegal abortions in Chicago from 1968 to 1973.
Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: After realizing that a skyscraper he designed is destined to collapse, engineer William J. LeMessurier risks his professional reputation to organize an undercover repair operation.
After her ex-husband abducts their daughter and flees into ISIS-held Syria, a desperate mother enlists the help of a people smuggler to infiltrate the deadly war zone and find her kidnapped child.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: After her ex-husband abducts their daughter and flees into ISIS-held Syria, a desperate mother enlists the help of a people smuggler to infiltrate the deadly war zone and find her kidnapped child.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of The Skeleton Key, story centers on a San Francisco attorney who inherits a house in upstate New York that not only contains the dark secrets of the family she never knew, but may also be occupied by unwanted guests.
Logline: Former-nerd Nathan is a Secret Service agent sworn to protect the vice president’s daughter, who just so happens to be his childhood bully, Vicki.
Following the announcement of his TB Recommended pilot Radicalized earlier this week, we’re thrilled to announce that Albuliwi has signed with ESA agents Varun Monga, Antoni Kaczmarek and Martin To, and become the 17th recommended writer signed, and joined over 150 others who have been signed since the Launch Pad program began 3 years ago.
Logline: The true story of Gloria Steinem and Phyllis Schlafly’s ideological clash over feminism, and the hypocrisy of their own positions during the proposed 1972 Equal Rights Amendment.
Logline: Returning to their childhood home after their mother’s death, a brother and sister discover their mother had a dark past as an exorcist. That past was what killed her — and now it’s coming for them as well.
After negligently killing a hunter with their patrol car, a Sheriff’s Deputy and her superior must decide what to do with the only witness to their crime – a death row inmate only days from execution.
Hoping to rekindle his relationship with his estranged daughter, Joy, Amos Jones, the reclusive frontman of a seminal 70s rock band gives his first album in 20 years to Eli Quinn, a struggling young singer who’s in love with Joy. Amos’ well-laid plan snowballs out of control when Eli becomes a superstar and their secret is questioned by a journalist with a knack for expose.
