| Title: |
Old Boy |
| Date: |
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of a man's mysterious kidnapping, 15-year imprisonment and feverish quest for revenge upon being released.
|
| Writer: |
Mark Protosevich |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Pitch
, Remake
|
| Studio: |
Dreamworks |
| Production Company: |
Mandate Pictures |
| Producer: |
Will Smith, Steven Spielberg |
| Agent: |
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) |
| More: |
Project is a remake of the 2003 Korean Film. |
| Title: |
War Monkeys |
| Date: |
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of two janitors who, during a Christmas holiday, get trapped in an underground research facility after accidentally unleashing military-trained Rhesus monkeys. |
| Writer: |
Chris Patton, Cleve Nettles |
| Genre: |
Horror
, Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
Dark Horse Films, Infinite Filmed Entertainment, 7 Renegades Entertainment |
| Producer: |
Chris Patton, Robert Sanchez, Ruben Arizpe, Faith Zuckerman |
| More: |
Kevin Monroe attached to direct. Sammo Hung attached to star. Nettles' screenplay based on Patton's original story. |
| Title: |
Suicide Squad |
| Date: |
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of a desperate con man, out on the latest of many paroles, as he recruits a crew of amateur criminals to rip off the Kentucky Derby. |
| Writer: |
Chris Johnson, Matt Eddy, Billy Eddy |
| Genre: |
Thriller
, Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Short Story
|
| Studio: |
Universal Pictures |
| Production Company: |
Working Title Films |
| Producer: |
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner |
| Agent: |
William Morris Agency (WMA) |
| More: |
Eddy and Eddy rewrote Johnson's original screenplay. Seth Gordon attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Untitled Prison Riot Story |
| Date: |
Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| Logline: |
True story of the riots and siege of Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in 1987. Cuban and American prisoners seized control of the maximum security facility and took more than 100 federal prison staff members hostage. The situation was so extreme that the FBI's hostage rescue team was ill-equipped to handle the riots, and Delta Force, the Special Forces detachment, was called in to retake the prison.
|
| Writer: |
Ari Rubin |
| Genre: |
Action
, Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Studio: |
Warner Bros. |
| Executive Overseeing: |
Josh Bratman (De Luca) |
| Production Company: |
Wild Eyes, De Luca Productions |
| Producer: |
Michael De Luca, David Keane, Mark Bowden, Aaron Bowden, Erwin Stoff |
| Agent: |
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) |
| More: |
Francis Lawrence attached to direct. |
| Title: |
August: Osage County |
| Date: |
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 |
| Logline: |
No logline given. |
| Writer: |
Tracy Letts |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Pitch
, Play
|
| Production Company: |
Weinstein Co. |
| Producer: |
Harvey Weinstein, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel |
| More: |
Letts to adapt the Broadway play. |
| Title: |
Dear John |
| Date: |
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of a young soldier who meets the girl of his dreams while on military leave.
|
| Writer: |
Nicholas Sparks, Jamie Linden |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Romance
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Studio: |
Screen Gems |
| Production Company: |
Relativity Media, Temple Hill Entertainment |
| Producer: |
Ryan Kavanaugh, Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Tucker Tooley, Jeremiah Samuels, Jamie Linden |
| More: |
Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins attached to star. Lasse Hallstrom attached to direct. Linden adapted Sparks' novel. |
| Title: |
Above Suspicion |
| Date: |
Monday, November 10, 2008 |
| Logline: |
True story of the only FBI agent to be convicted of murder. Mark Putnam was a dutiful family man and ambitious rookie agent who embarks on a dangerous affair with an informant. When the affair threatens to unravel his career and marriage, it takes a turn for the worse.
|
| Writer: |
Joe Sharkey, Chris Gerolmo |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Production Company: |
Bold Films |
| Producer: |
Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Waters, David Lancaster, Colleen Camp, Amy Adelson, Angela Amato, Garrick Dion |
| More: |
Phillip Noyce attached to direct. Gerolmo adapted Sharkey's novel. |
| Title: |
Making Jack Falcone |
| Date: |
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of Joaquin "Jack" Garcia, also known as Jack Falcone, a Cuban-American FBI agent who successfully went undercover in the Gambino crime family.
|
| Writer: |
Peter Buchman |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Pitch
, Novel
|
| Studio: |
Paramount Pictures |
| Production Company: |
Double Feature Films |
| Producer: |
Steven Soderbergh, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher |
| Agent: |
United Talent Agency (UTA) |
| Title: |
Boondock Saints II |
| Date: |
Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of crusading fraternal twins Connor and Murphy MacManus, who seek revenge on the tough Boston underworld. |
| Writer: |
Troy Duffy |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Comedy
, Dark Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Sequel
|
| Producer: |
Chris Brinker, Don Carmody, Lloyd Segan, Rob Fried |
| More: |
Troy Duffy attached to direct. Sean Patrick Flanery, Billy Connolly and Norman Reedus attached to star. |
| Title: |
Shoe Addicts Anonymous |
| Date: |
Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of a support group for shoe addicts that quickly entangles four of its female members in each other's complicated lives.
|
| Writer: |
Beth Harbison, Laurie Taylor-Williams |
| Genre: |
Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Production Company: |
Galgos Entertainment |
| Producer: |
Mark Bozek, Russell Nuce |
| More: |
Laurie Taylor-Williams to adapt Harbison's novel. |
| Title: |
Burning Palms |
| Date: |
Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Project is a satire of Angeleno stereotypes as told through five interlacing stories.
|
| Writer: |
Christopher Landon |
| Genre: |
Dark Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
Films in Motion |
| Producer: |
Oren Segal, Steven Prince, Jason Hewitt, Tyler Thompson, Vince Morella, Naz Jafri |
| More: |
Christopher Landon attached to direct. Dylan McDermott, Zoe Saldana, Lake Bell, Nick Stahl, Paz Vega and Shannen Doherty attached to star. |
| Title: |
Public Enemy No. 1 |
| Date: |
Monday, July 07, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story about infamous French criminal Jacques Mesrine |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Period
, Biography
|
| Saletype: |
Rights Option
|
| Studio: |
Senator Entertainment |
| Producer: |
Thomas Langmann |
| More: |
Vincent Cassel, Gerard Depardieu attached to star. |
| Title: |
Big Man on Campus |
| Date: |
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of the most popular girl in school who is unexpectedly rejected by the nerdiest guy. Her social status drops, his rises, and the rules of popularity shift for the entire school.
|
| Writer: |
Gina Wendkos, Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont |
| Genre: |
Comedy
, Teen
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Rewrite
|
| Studio: |
Columbia Pictures |
| Producer: |
Hal Lieberman |
| Agent: |
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) |
| Manager: |
BenderSpink |
| More: |
Kaplan and Elfont to rewrite Wendkos' screenplay. Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont attached to direct. |
| Title: |
An Invisible Sign of My Own |
| Date: |
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story about a 20-year-old loner named Mona Gray who as a child turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Gray now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises. |
| Writer: |
Aimee Bender, Michael Ellis, Pamela Falk |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Coming Of Age
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Production Company: |
iDealPartners Film Fund |
| Producer: |
Jana Edelbaum |
| Agent: |
Endeavor |
| More: |
Marilyn Agrelo attached to direct. America Ferrera attached to star. Michael Ellis and Pamela Falk adapted Bender's novel. |
| Title: |
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail |
| Date: |
Sunday, April 20, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story centers on Madea, whose penchant for trouble-making lands her behind bars. She comes to the rescue of Candy, a fellow inmate preyed upon by a large woman named Big Sal. |
| Writer: |
Tyler Perry |
| Genre: |
Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Play
|
| Studio: |
Lionsgate Films |
| Producer: |
Tyler Perry, Reuben Cannon |
| More: |
Keshia Knight Pulliam, Tyler Perry, Derek Luke, Tamela Mann and David Mann attached to star. Tyler Perry attached to direct. Perry adapted his own stage play. |
| Title: |
The Dark Fields |
| Date: |
Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of a loser who gets his hands on a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes you smarter. He experiences sudden financial and social success but soon discovers that the drug has lethal and lasting side effects, including "trip-switching," a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality. |
| Writer: |
Alan Glynn, Neil Burger, Dirk Wittenborn |
| Genre: |
Thriller
, Sci-Fi
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Studio: |
Universal Pictures |
| Executive Overseeing: |
Peter Cramer (Universal) |
| Production Company: |
Intermedia |
| Producer: |
Scott Kroopf |
| More: |
Shia LaBeouf attached to star. Neil Burger attached to direct. Wittenborn adapted Glynn's novel. |
| Title: |
Timecrimes |
| Date: |
Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Project is a noirish thriller about a man who travels back in time half an hour to prevent a serious crime. |
| Writer: |
Timothy Sexton, Nacho Vigalondo |
| Genre: |
Thriller
, Action
, Sci-Fi
|
| Saletype: |
Pitch
, Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Studio: |
United Artists |
| Producer: |
Steven Zaillian, Agnes Metre |
| Agent: |
Endeavor |
| More: |
Sexton to adapt Vigalondo's novel "Los Cronocrimenes." |
| Title: |
Wuthering Heights |
| Date: |
Sunday, April 13, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of the intense, elemental and yet ultimately thwarted passion between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. |
| Writer: |
Emily Bronte, Olivia Hetreed |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Romance
, Period
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Production Company: |
Ecosse Films, HanWay Films |
| Producer: |
Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae |
| More: |
Hetreed adapted Bronte's novel. John Maybury attached to direct. Natalie Portman attached to star. |
| Title: |
Cheri |
| Date: |
Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of Madame Peloux, a famed courtesan in 1920s France, who sends the spoiled Cheri to her courtesan pal Lea de Lonval for an adult education, but their six-year affair comes to a painful end when he's forced to marry a wealthy young woman. |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Period
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Studio: |
Miramax, Pathe Pictures |
| More: |
Rupert Friend, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates attached to star. Stephen Frears attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Gigantic |
| Date: |
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story revolves around a mattress salesman and a young woman he meets at his store. |
| Writer: |
Matt Aselton, Adam Nagata |
| Genre: |
Romantic Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
Killer Films, Epoch Films |
| Producer: |
Christine Vachon, Charles Pugliese, Paul Dano, Mindy Goldberg |
| More: |
Matt Aselton attached to direct. Paul Dano attached to star. |
| Title: |
The Master and Margartia |
| Date: |
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 |
| Logline: |
The story begins in pre-WWII Moscow, where the devil appears as a mysterious man who insinuates himself into a literary crowd. Amid a series of deaths and disappearances, the devil brings together the title characters, a despairing novelist and his devoted but married lover. The story shifts to the setting of the master's rejected novel, Jerusalem in the time of Pontius Pilate, and then to a supernatural world where Satanic forces have taken over Margarita's life. |
| Writer: |
Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Genre: |
Supernatural
, Drama
, Period
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
|
| Production Company: |
Stone Village Pictures |
| Producer: |
Scott Steindorff, Chris Law, Danny Greenspun, Robin Greenspun, Scott Lastati, Dylan Russell, Michael Lang |
| Price: |
Low-to mid-six figures against low-seven figures |
| Title: |
Intruder in the Dust |
| Date: |
Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of a black man in rural Mississippi falsely accused of shooting a white neighbor in the back. The imprisoned man must stave off a lynch mob with the help of an unlikely band of locals who search for the evidence that will prove his innocence. |
| Writer: |
William Faulkner |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
|
| Production Company: |
Plum Pictures, Picture Entertainment |
| Producer: |
Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer, Daniela Taplin, Lee Caplin, Carl Colpaert, Joy Goodwin |
| Title: |
She's Out of My League |
| Date: |
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story centers on an average Joe named Kirk, who after meeting and falling for Molly -- who is described as a "perfect 10" -- becomes surprised when she takes an interest in him. |
| Writer: |
Sean Anders, John Morris, Tim Dowling |
| Genre: |
Romantic Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Rewrite
|
| Studio: |
Dreamworks |
| Executive Overseeing: |
Kira Goldberg (Dreamworks), Ashley Brucks (Dreamworks), Adam Goodman (Dreamworks) |
| Producer: |
Jimmy Miller, George Gatins, David Householter |
| More: |
Alice Eve, T.J. Miller, Nate Torrence, and Jay Baruchel attached to star. Dowling rewrote Anders and Morris' original screenplay. |
| Title: |
Pet |
| Date: |
Thursday, February 07, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of a man who bumps into his old high school crush and quickly becomes obsessed with her. He takes her captive underneath the animal shelter where he works but soon suspects that his old flame is not who she seems to be.
|
| Genre: |
Psychological Thriller
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Studio: |
MGM |
| Executive Overseeing: |
Jason Weiss (MGM), Alex Ankeles (MGM) |
| Producer: |
Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone, Steven Schneider, Dan Katman |
| More: |
Edna McCallion attached to direct. |
| Title: |
The Public |
| Date: |
Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story, set in Los Angeles, takes place during a 48-hour period on the two coldest days in the city, with the library overwhelmed by people seeking shelter. After getting rebuffed by the administration to keep the doors open, one librarian stages an act of civil disobedience. He ends up dealing with the library's new inhabitants, many of them mentally ill. |
| Writer: |
Chip Ward, Emilio Estevez |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Article
|
| Production Company: |
Eleven Eleven Films |
| Producer: |
Bobby Schwartz, Ross Dinerstein, Lisa Niedenthal, Shaun Redick, Michael Green |
| Agent: |
Endeavor |
| More: |
Emilio Estevez attached to direct. Estevez' draft based on Ward's article. |
| Title: |
The Girl |
| Date: |
Sunday, February 03, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of a Texas woman who finds the young daughter of an illegal immigrant who has become separated from her mother. Saddled with a child she doesn't wish to care for, the woman then searches for the child's mother, a quest that takes her south of the border.
|
| Writer: |
David Riker |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
Journeyman Pictures |
| Producer: |
Paul Mezey |
| More: |
David Riker attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Gentlemen Broncos |
| Date: |
Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of a high school outcast who attends a camp for writers where his story gets ripped off by a legendary fantasy novelist.
|
| Writer: |
Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess |
| Genre: |
Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
Ripcord |
| Producer: |
Mike White, Ben LeClair |
| More: |
Michael Angarano, Sam Rockwell and Jemaine Clement attached to star. |
| Title: |
The Hobbit |
| Date: |
Monday, January 28, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story centers on Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who joins a group of dwarves and the wizard Gandalf on a quest to find the treasure of a dragon named Smaug. |
| Writer: |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Genre: |
Action
, Adventure
, Fantasy
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
|
| Studio: |
New Line Cinema, MGM |
| Producer: |
Peter Jackson |
| More: |
Guillermo del Toro attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Cadillac Records |
| Date: |
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Project is a tale of sex, violence, race and rock 'n' roll in 1950s Chicago that follows the turbulent lives of musical legends Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf and Elvis Presley. |
| Writer: |
Darnell Martin |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Period
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Studio: |
Sony BMG |
| Producer: |
Andrew Lack, Sofia Sondervan |
| More: |
Darnell Martin attached to direct. Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Columbus Short, Cedric the Entertainer, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Tammy Blanchard attached to star. |
| Title: |
Bush |
| Date: |
Monday, January 21, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of President George W. Bush. |
| Writer: |
Stanley Weiser |
| Genre: |
Biography
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Producer: |
Moritz Borman, John Kilik, Oliver Stone |
| More: |
Oliver Stone attached to direct. Josh Brolin attached to star. |