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20th Century Women
9/8/2015
Logline: In 1979 Santa Barbara, three women are teaching a boy about men, women, love and freedom when his mother takes in a boarder, shaking his world view.
Production Company(s): Annapurna Pictures, Archer Gray Productions
Director(s): Mike Mills
Executive Producer(s): Chelsea Barnard
Producer(s): Megan Ellison, Anne Carey, Youree Henley
Cast: Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning, Billy Crudup
Writer(s): Mike Mills
SSN Insight: Greta Gerwig can also be seen in Maggie’s Plan, currently screening at TIFF. Mills wrote and directed Beginners, starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Melanie Laurent in 2010.
Ouija 2
9/9/2015
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Studio/Distributor(s): Universal Pictures
Production Company(s): Platinum Dunes, Hasbro, Inc., Blumhouse Productions
Director(s): Mike Flanagan
Executive Producer(s): Trevor Macy
Producer(s): Jason Blum, Brad Fuller, Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Stephen J. Davis
Cast: Annalise Basso
Writer(s): Jeff Howard, Mike Flanagan
Details: Sequel to “Ouija” (2014) directed by Stiles White and starring Olivia Cooke.
SSN Insight: Flanagan and Howard previously worked with Blumhouse on Oculus in the same positions. That film went on to gross $44 million worldwide.
The Circle
9/11/2015
Logline: A woman lands a job at a powerful tech company called the Circle, where she becomes involved with a mysterious man.
Production Company(s): Playtone, Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation, Likely Story
Director(s): James Ponsoldt
Executive Producer(s): Evan Hayes, Steven Shareshian
Producer(s): Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Anthony Bregman, James Ponsoldt, Walter F Parkes
Cast: Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, Karen Gillan
Details: Based on the novel “The Circle” writte by Dave Eggers and published by McSweeney’s in October, 2013. Alicia Vikander was previously attached to co-star.
SSN Insight: IM Global is overseeing international sales while U.S. rights are being jointly repped by UTA Independent Film Group and CAA.
The Odyssey
9/7/2015
Logline: The life and times of French oceanographer and filmmaker Jean-Yves Cousteau.
Production Company(s): Fidélité Films, Pan Europeenne
Director(s): Jérôme Salle
Producer(s): Nathalie Gastaldo, Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier
Cast: Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou
Writer(s): Laurent Turner
Details: Based on the book “Capitaine de La Calypso” written by Albert Falco and published by Robert Laffont on May 29, 1990.
SSN Insight: Wild Bunch launched sales for the film at Cannes.
The Young Karl Marx
9/7/2015
Logline: This period drama chronicles the turbulent youth and friendship between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and their efforts to create the Communist Manifesto, which led to the labor rights movement.
Production Company(s): AGAT Films & Cie, Artemis Production (Belgium), Velvet Films, Rohfilm GbR
Director(s): Raoul Peck
Producer(s): Nicolas Blanc, Raoul Peck, Remi Grellety
Cast: August Diehl, Alexander Fehling
Writer(s): Raoul Peck, Pascal Bonitzer
SSN Insight: Films Distribution, Nicolas Brigaud-Robert and Francois Yon’s Paris-based arthouse company picked up international sales to the film.
Untitled Jason Bourne Sequel
9/8/2015
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Studio/Distributor(s): Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures
Production Company(s): Kennedy/Marshall Company, Pearl Street Films, Captivate Entertainment
Director(s): Paul Greengrass
Executive Producer(s): Christopher Rouse, Henry Morrison
Producer(s): Frank Marshall, Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass, Jeffrey Weiner, Ben Smith
Cast: Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassel
Writer(s): Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass, Christopher Rouse
Details: Sequel to “The Bourne Identity” (2002) directed by Doug Liman and starring Matt Damon. Based on the novel “The Bourne Supremacy” written by Robert Ludlum and published by Bantam Books in 1987.
SSN Insight: Alicia Vikander was recently seen in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Ex Machina, The Danish Girl. She can next be seen in Weinstein Company’s Tulip Fever, John Wells’ Adam Jones with Bradley Cooper and The Light Between Oceans opposite Michael Fassbender.
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Equity
9/11/2015
Logline: A female investment banker navigating the cutthroat world of Wall Street finds herself threatened by a financial scandal, forcing her to untangle a web of corruption and reexamine the business she has always loved.
Production Company(s): Broad Street Pictures
Director(s): Meera Menon
Producer(s): Alysia Reiner, Sarah Megan Thomas
Cast: Anna Gunn, James Purefoy, Sarah Megan Thomas, Alysia Reiner, Carrie Preston
Writer(s): Amy Fox
SSN Insight: Broad Street was founded in 2014 by Reiner and Thomas to produce films with strong female roles both in front of camera and behind the scenes.
So B. It
9/6/2015
Logline: A 12-year-old girl decides to take a cross-country trip by herself, leaving the safety of her home with her mentally-challenged mother and agoraphobic neighbor.
Production Company(s): Branded Pictures Entertainment, Outside the Box Pictures, LLC
Director(s): Stephen Gyllenhaal
Executive Producer(s): Adam Tenenbaum, Michael Nelson
Producer(s): J. Todd Harris, Orien Richman
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Talitha Bateman, John Heard, Cloris Leachman, Jacinda Barrett
Writer(s): Garry Williams
Details: Based on the young adult novel “So B. It” written by Sarah Weeks and published by Laura Geringer Books in 2004.
SSN Insight: Woodard recently starred on NBC’s State of Affairs. Bateman can next be seen in Sony’s The Fifth Wave opposite Chloe Grace Moretz, and Nine Lives opposite Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Garner.
The Divergent Series: Allegiant
9/11/2015
Logline: In the first part of the last story of the trilogy, the characters are no longer in the gated community of Chicago, but in the world of commerce and big business, devoid of factions and comprised of only two groups: the “genetically pure” and the “genetic
Studio/Distributor(s): Lionsgate, Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Red Wagon Entertainment
Director(s): Robert Schwentke
Producer(s): Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Pouya Shahbazian
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Ansel Elgort
Writer(s): Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Noah Oppenheim
Details: Based on the book “Allegiant,” written by Veronica Roth and published by Katherine Tegen Books on October 22, 2013. 2nd Sequel to the book “Divergent,” written by by Veronica Roth and published by Katherine Tegen Books in May 2011.
SSN Insight: The last novel has been split into two films with part one releasing on March 18, 2016 release and part two following on March 24, 2017.