In a dive bar in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, takes the stage for his final show. Over the course of a single evening, Dov’s patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood. And in the dance between comic and audience, a deeper story begins to take shape as Dov confronts the decision that has shaped the course of his life—a story that will alter the lives of several of those in attendance.
Village Roadshow Pictures
Mark Rylance is close to pushing the start button on Ready Player One at Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow. The Oscar-winning Bridge of Spies actor is in negotiations for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-selling novel.
Simon Pegg is in talks to join Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One. He would join previously cast Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Ben Mendelsohn.
Tye Sheridan has landed the coveted lead role in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One. Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, and DreamWorks are collaborating to make the film based on the bestselling novel by Ernest Cline.
The cast of the David Frankel-directed Collateral Beauty has just added Keira Knightley to its ever-growing cast of actors.
Kept under wraps, but serves as a sequel to Mad Max: Fury Road.
Logline: Follows the true story of a series of 1971 China-U.S.A. ping-pong matches that paved the way for President Nixon’s visit the next year.
Logline: A recently widowed mute woman bonds with her new community following the death of her husband.
The deal includes four of Sony’s upcoming projects.
Logline: Pitched as “I Am Legend” meets “The Hunger Games.”
Logline: Story centers on the introduction of a human to the secret island civilization known as The D’ni, who have the ability to link worlds together with magical books, and whom you must outsmart in a land designed of puzzles in order to escape the island without being trapped inside one of the mystical lands inside.
Logline: Story centers on a teenager named Wade Watts who escapes his bleak surrounds by logging into Oasis, a globally networked virtual utopia where users lead idyllic alternate lives. When the game’s eccentric billionaire creator dies, he offers up his fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt, one that leaves Watts pitted against powerful corporate foes and several ruthless competitors who’ll do anything, in the Oasis or the real world, to reach the treasure first.
Logline: A group of misfits enlist in the police academy and embark on a series of hilarious adventures.
Logline: The drama follows the spiritual journey of a young martial artist, whose fighting skill brings him to a realm of vast opportunities and painful choices.
Logline: Story centers on a Marine who survives three tours in Iraq. He attributes his good fortune to a photograph he carried of a woman he has never met, and he sets out to meet his good-luck charm when he returns to North Carolina.
Logline: Sequel to the 1999 film, the story follows a surviver who becomes trapped on a riverboat casino as it is attacked by a pack of crazed-possessed sharks.
