| 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. |
| Title: |
Ranger's Apprentice |
| Date: |
Sunday, January 06, 2008 |
| Logline: |
Story of an orphan boy named Will who becomes an apprentice ranger and fights to keep the mythical kingdom of Araluen safe from invaders, traitors and other dangers with the help of his master Halt. |
| Writer: |
John Flanagan, Paul Haggis |
| Genre: |
Family
, Fantasy
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Studio: |
United Artists |
| Agent: |
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) |
| Manager: |
Intellectual Property Group |
| Attorney: |
Richard L. Charnley, Peter Dekom |
| Price: |
Seven Figures (Novel) |
| More: |
Haggis to adapt Flanagan's novels. |
| Title: |
The Secret Life of Bees |
| Date: |
Monday, December 24, 2007 |
| Logline: |
Story, set in the Southern U.S. in the 1960s, centers on teenager Lily Owens and her friend Rosaleen who flee their hometown to escape their harsh upbringing and seek to uncover the mysteries of Lily's late mother. Along the way, they encounter three beekeeping sisters, who take the pair in to their South Carolina home. |
| Writer: |
Sue Monk Kidd, Gina Prince-Bythewood |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Period
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Adaptation
|
| Studio: |
Fox Searchlight |
| Production Company: |
The Donners' Co., Overbrook Entertainment |
| Producer: |
Lauren Shuler Donner, Jack Leslie, James Lassiter, Will Smith, Joe Pichirallo |
| More: |
Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Dakota Fanning, Alicia Keys and Sophie Okonedo attached to star. Gina Prince-Bythewood attached to direct. Prince-Bythewood adapted Kidd's novel. |
| Title: |
The Rite |
| Date: |
Thursday, December 20, 2007 |
| Logline: |
True story of an American priest who studied at an exorcism school in Italy.
|
| Writer: |
Matt Baglio, Michael Petroni |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Biography
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Studio: |
New Line Cinema |
| Executive Overseeing: |
Toby Emmerich (New Line), Richard Brener (New Line), Merideth Finn (New Line) |
| Production Company: |
Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson |
| Producer: |
Contrafilm, Fletcher & Parry Films |
| Agent: |
United Talent Agency (UTA), William Morris Agency (WMA) |
| Manager: |
Industry Entertainment (Andrew Deane) |
| More: |
Petroni to adapt Baglio's novel. |
| Title: |
Mission: Intolerable |
| Date: |
Sunday, December 09, 2007 |
| Logline: |
Story of a wannabe CIA agent who starts a business as a "temp from hell" whom companies hire to get unwanted employees to quit their jobs. His latest assignment goes awry, however, when his new target fights back. |
| Writer: |
Steven List, Astrid Neal, Fax Bahr, Adam Small |
| Genre: |
Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Rewrite
|
| Production Company: |
Weinstein Company, Our Stories Films |
| Producer: |
Robert L. Johnson, Tracey Edmonds, Mike Karz, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein |
| More: |
Kat Williams attached to star. Bahr and Small rewrote List and Neal's original screenplay. |
| Title: |
The Thacker Case |
| Date: |
Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| Logline: |
Story is based on the real-life 1983 wrongful death case of Kevin Thacker.
|
| Writer: |
Stuart Pepper, Robert Dean Klein |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Short Story
, Adaptation
|
| Production Company: |
Roberts/David Films |
| Producer: |
Mark Roberts, Lorena David, Stuart Pepper |
| More: |
Gabriel Mann, Eliza Dushku and John Savage attached to star. Brian Jun attached to direct. Klein adapted Pepper's short story. |
| Title: |
Sugar |
| Date: |
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
| Logline: |
Story follows Miguel "Sugar" Santos, a Dominican baseball prospect who is sent to play in a small Midwestern town after being scouted in his home country.
|
| Writer: |
Anna Boden |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
HBO Films, Journeyman Pictures, Hunting Lane Films |
| Producer: |
Paul Mezey, Jamie Patricof |
| Title: |
Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins |
| Date: |
Sunday, December 02, 2007 |
| Logline: |
Terminator story continues with John Connor, now in his 30s, as he leads what is left of the human race against the machines. |
| Genre: |
Action
, Sci-Fi
|
| Saletype: |
Sequel
|
| Studio: |
Warner Bros. |
| Production Company: |
Halcyon Co. |
| Producer: |
Victor Kubicek, Derek Anderson, Moritz Borman |
| More: |
Christian Bale attached to star. McG attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Planet 51 |
| Date: |
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 |
| Logline: |
Story is set on Planet 51, whose inhabitants live in fear of an alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when astronaut Capt. Charles "Chuck" Baker arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, the astronaut has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and return home.
|
| Writer: |
Joe Stillman |
| Genre: |
Adventure
, Family
, Sci-Fi
, Comedy
, Animation
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Studio: |
New Line Cinema |
| Executive Overseeing: |
Guy Stodel (New Line), Sejin Park (New Line) |
| Production Company: |
Handmade Films International |
| Producer: |
Ignacio Perez Dolset |
| More: |
Jorge Blanco attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Final Destination 4 |
| Date: |
Friday, November 23, 2007 |
| Logline: |
Story in which death is cheated and stalks the people involved until it finishes the job. |
| Writer: |
Eric Bress |
| Genre: |
Horror
|
| Saletype: |
Sequel
|
| Studio: |
New Line Cinema |
| Executive Overseeing: |
Richard Brener (New Line), Walter Hamada (New Line) |
| More: |
David R. Ellis attached to direct. |
| Title: |
The Ghost |
| Date: |
Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| Logline: |
Story of a ghostwriter, hired to help a former British leader complete his memoirs, who becomes enmeshed in a web of espionage and political intrigue.
|
| Writer: |
Robert Harris |
| Genre: |
Thriller
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Production Company: |
Random House Group |
| More: |
Roman Polanski attached to direct. Harris to adapt his own novel. |
| Title: |
Green Lantern |
| Date: |
Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| Logline: |
Story of Hal Jordan, a test pilot who finds a downed alien spacecraft. A dying alien passes his ring to Jordan, introducing the man to a wider world that includes an interstellar police force known as the Green Lantern Corps and its overseers, the Guardians of the Universe, who live on the planet Oa. |
| Writer: |
Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Michael Green |
| Genre: |
Action
, Adventure
, Fantasy
|
| Saletype: |
Comic
, Adaptation
|
| Studio: |
Warner Bros. |
| Executive Overseeing: |
Greg Silverman (WB), Gregory Noveck (DC) |
| Production Company: |
DC Comics |
| Producer: |
Donald De Line |
| Agent: |
United Talent Agency (UTA), Endeavor |
| More: |
Greg Berlanti attached to direct. |