

The Possibility Of Fireflies has found its leads in Courtney Love and Joey King. The film is an adaptation of Dominique Paul’s popular novel.
The Possibility Of Fireflies has found its leads in Courtney Love and Joey King. The film is an adaptation of Dominique Paul’s popular novel.
Set in 1989 in suburban Maryland, the story follows Ellie Roma, a precocious teenager who dreams of becoming a writer but must cope with her chaotic, a self-destructive mother Susanna.
When a disgraced astronaut enlists on a mission to reach the bottom of a recently discovered oceanic trench, he becomes subject to an increasing amount of danger and is reluctantly pulled into a psychological and physical battle with unexpected forces.
Max Landis’s spec Deeper is gaining traction as the script was circulated this week and has attached Oscar-nominated actor Bradley Cooper.
In a world where magical creatures live side by side with humans, a human cop is forced to work alongside an Orc to track down a powerful wand that everyone is willing to kill for.
In one of the biggest packages we’ve seen so far this year, Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are attached to star in the Max Landis spec Bright, with David Ayer on board to direct. Let the bidding begin…
Logline: In a world where magical creatures live side by side with humans, a human cop is forced to work alongside an Orc to track down a powerful wand that everyone is willing to kill for.
Jacqueline Fitzgerald’s comedy script Hooking Up has been set up at McG’s Wonderland Sound & Vision, and sources have confirmed that up-and-coming director Nick Weiss is set to direct. Oren Uziel and Sebastian Dungan will also produce.
David S. Goyer has just picked up buzzy scribe Max Landis’ latest script, the psychological drama Deeper. Goyer will produce under his Phantom Four banner, along with Addictive Pictures. Sources report that Phantom and Addictive beat out others clamoring for the project, as Landis has quickly established himself as a hot, up-and-coming talent.
In a competitive situation, FX has bought the dark comedy crime series Caper from Dutch Southern and Magnus Martens. The series is being described as a Southern Gothic Texas Noir.
Making his feature directorial debut, Oren Uziel is helming his 2009 Black List script that follows a crime investigation backwards from the end to the beginning over the course of a week, and Benjamin Walker is attached to star.
A sheriff tries to solve a botched bank heist in a story that unfolds backwards over a week.
Logline: An underground thief and hacker is unwillingly pulled into a stranger’s personal heist plot.
When a genius finds his world-changing invention used against him, he fights to prevent the destruction of his own life and everyone he loves.
A bargain brand secret agent in charge of stopping mad scientists before they start finds himself in over his head when his new target, bullied genius Olivia Wexler, has attracted the attention of an old enemy.
Logline: When a genius finds his world-changing invention used against him, he fights to prevent the destruction of his own life and everyone he loves.
Described as Life Is Beautiful in tone, adapts the hopeful memoir written by renowned therapist Viktor Frankl nine days after he was released from a three-year imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps.
Logline: A love story, set in Los Angeles, centering on two strangers brought together by a strange offer from an unknown entity: spend two hours together once a week for a year, and they’ll each receive half a million dollars.
The writer of NBC’s “Hannibal” signs on for the upcoming reboot.
Logline: An American woman ventures into Japan’s legendary Aokigahara forest in search of her missing twin sister and meets a man who changes her life, but he’s not who she thinks he is.
Logline: Described as Argo in tone, the story centers around a secret mission in which a CIA agent convinces a Tibetan scholar to sneak into Tibet to enlist the help of the Dalai Lama to keep communism from taking over the continent of Asia.
Two under-employed twenty-somethings are determined to hook up with each other, but find their efforts repeatedly foiled over the course of one maddening night.
Two under-employed twenty-somethings are determined to hook up with each other, but find their efforts repeatedly foiled over the course of one maddening night.