Universal Pictures is focused on determining what theatrical looks like in this new landscape as well as what makes sense for Streaming.
Accelerate Entertainment is out with FLY GIRLS by Gigi Gaston. A diverse and determined group of pioneering female pilots defy expectations.
Legion M is producing CAPTAIN SMALLS by Robert Blake Whitehall. Robert Smalls, an enslaved man in South Carolina at the height of the Civil War, was drafted by the Confederate Navy and forced to serve. Unable to pay the money to free his family, Smalls planned one of the most audacious heists in history. By stealing the Confederate warship CSS Planter, Captain Smalls navigated the treacherous Confederate-surveilled waters to free himself, his crew, and their families.
Logline: The crew of an American B-24 bomber steers their damaged plane through enemy territory to complete a critical mission behind enemy lines.
In 1980’s West Berlin, a CIA operative discovers a classified military exercise that could cause a nuclear war.
The photographer. The distributor. And the recruit. Told in an intertwining story during WWI, a British combat cinematographer, a newspaper tycoon and an army soldier all face the same question: follow their conscience or follow their orders?
Project details are kept under wraps, but story is said to be a drama set during WWI.
A timely tale of three families during World War II whose worlds are turned upside down following Pearl Harbor. Divided by war, internment, and racism, but united by tragedy, these families from Hawaii, Tokyo, and Oregon try to make sense of their loss, and attempt to rebuild their shattered world.
Story is based on the true story of Greville Wynne, a British businessman who helped the CIA penetrate the Soviet nuclear program during the Cold War. Wynne and his Russian source, Oleg Penkovsky, provided the crucial intelligence that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Tells the story of an entirely African-American combat unit whose heroism during WWII led to the desegregation of the armed forces.
Set in WWII Britain, it deals with the women who were considered crucial after the Blitz occurred, becoming a movement that lifted morale across the country.
The true story of the B-17 Bomber known as “Old 666” and her crew, the “Eager Beavers.” On June 16th, 1943, over the Solomon Sea in the South Pacific, they engaged in what is still the longest sustained dogfight in the annals of the U.S. Air Force, and became the most highly decorated flight crew in American history.
The true story of Nancy Wake, the most decorated servicewoman in WWII, who led resistance fighters in a series of dangerous missions in Nazi-occupied France.
Freed during WWII, a man goes from camp to camp to find the woman he loves, the one he had to leave behind just to find her again.
Chronicles the attack of marines by the Vietnamese army at Khe Sanh.
Chronicles the attack of the USS Laffey destroyer by Japanese kamikaze planes during World War II.
Logline: A cabaret performer in San Francisco’s burgeoning gay underground scene disguises himself as a female entertainer to find his boyfriend who has gone missing in action in the thick of the Vietnam War.
Logline: Oppressed by increasingly deadly Roman rule, Jewish resistance members regroup after a loss and their leader is anointed as the new messiah, while a young, defiant Jesus prepares to accompany his carpenter father to rebuild a sacked city, and the sons of Herod scheme to strengthen their individual ties to Rome.
Based on recently declassified materials, tells teh incredible true story of Arthur Meyerowitz, an American turret-gunner whose B-24 bomber was shot down over Vichy France in 1943.
Based on Saunder’s short story about a veteran and his troubled family after he returns home from war.
A short story about a veteran and his troubled family after he returns home from war.
Based on the story of famed mime Marcel Marceau, who learned to mime while saving the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents were murdered by Nazis.
Based on a true story, on New Year’s Day, 1944 a bomber aircrew face certain death when on a mission to bomb Japanese-held territory.
The fictionalized story of the real life Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin who escaped from the Nazis in 1940.
One soldier accepts a covert mission to infiltrate and liberate a prison camp that will become the site of the largest mass murder in history.
The story of the first Female Airforce Service Pilots who flew during WWII.
An account of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II and their legacy remaining classified for 35 years after the war.
A well-known and seasoned war correspondent, dedicated to showing the price of war and uncovering the truth, is killed covering events in Syria.
Trapped in the ball turret of a B-17 on a routine service flight in 1944, a Women’s Airforce Captain must contend with the domineering antagonism of her crewmates, a string of mysterious technical malfunctions, and a series of shadows moving below them in the clouds.
Logline: Based on true events, two lovers are torn apart by Hitlerʼs little known but relentless persecution of gays. One becomes a prisoner, the other his captor.