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11/10/15
Logline: Eighteen-year-old twins prepare for their last year of school together when tragedy tears them apart.
Production Company(s): Indy Entertainment
Director(s): Tommy Bertelsen
Producer(s): Ross Kohn, Nancy Leopardi, Troian Bellisario, Tommy Bertelsen
Cast: Troian Bellisario, Tom Felton
Writer(s): Tommy Bertelsen
SSN Insight: Felton’s upcoming films include Risen, A United Kingdom, Megan Leavey and Stratton.
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
11/9/15
Logline: In 1970s London, a teenage boy who is into punk music gets involved with a tourist who want to escape from her tour group and explore the dangerous suburb of Croydon.
Studio/Distributor(s): A24
Production Company(s): Fortissimo Films, See-Saw Films, Little Punk
Director(s): John Cameron Mitchell
Executive Producer(s): Michael J. Werner, Winnie Lau
Producer(s): Howard Gertler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, John Cameron Mitchell, Neil Gaiman
Cast: Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson, Matt Lucas
Writer(s): Philippa Goslett, John Cameron Mitchell
Details: Based on the short story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” written by Neil Gaiman and published by neilgaiman.com in 2006.
SSN Insight: John Cameron Mitchell previously wrote/directed/produced the film Shortbus and afterwards directed the film Rabbit Hole.
Tomboy
11/10/15
Logline: After an assassin is double-crossed by gangsters and sent to a rogue surgeon who turns him into a woman, he (now she) sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse.
Production Company(s): SBS Productions
Director(s): Walter Hill
Executive Producer(s):
Producer(s): Said Ben Said, Michel Merkt
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Writer(s): Walter Hill, Denis Hamill
SSN Insight: Producers were interested in Andrea Riseborough to play the assassin, but a potential deal fell through because of scheduling issues with her role on the Netflix series “Bloodline.” Freida Pinto was previously attached to co-star.
True Crimes
11/12/15
Logline: Based on the journalistic account of a cold case investigation by a hard boiled detective, in which an author became a suspect when the incidents described in his hit novel closely resembled the firsthand inner-workings of the unsolved murder.
Production Company(s): InterTitle Films, RatPac Entertainment
Director(s): Alexandros Avranas
Executive Producer(s):
Producer(s): Brett Ratner, David Gerson, John Cheng
Cast: Jim Carrey, Agata Kulesza, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Zbigniew Zamachowski
Writer(s): Jeremy Brock
Details: Based on the article “True Crime” written by David Grann and published in The New Yorker on February 11, 2008.
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development at Focus Features. Roman Polanski was previously in discussions to direct.
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Cruise
11/10/15
Logline: In the summer of 1987, a working-class Italian-American, who has little on his mind but racing cars and chasing girls, meets a Jewish girl from Long Island who has gone to his neighborhood for some illicit thrills on the wrong side of the tracks.
Production Company(s): AG Studios
Director(s): Robert Siegel
Producer(s): Alex Garcia, Laura Walker, Holly Brown, Scott Lastaiti
Cast: Emily Ratajkowski, Spencer Boldman, Kathrine Narducci, Gino Cafarelli, Noah Robbins
Writer(s): Robert Siegel
SSN Insight: Robert Siegel previously wrote the film Turbo and has penned the screenplay for The Founder at The Weinstein Company.
First Round Down
11/7/15
Logline: A former hockey player and hitman returns home to escape his past and care for his brother.
Production Company(s): Marina Cordoni Entertainment, Substance Production
Director(s): Brett M. Butler, Jason G. Butler
Executive Producer(s): Marina Cordoni
Producer(s): Brett M. Butler, Jason G. Butler
Cast: Dylan Bruce, Rachel Wilson, Peter MacNeill, John Kapelos
Writer(s): Brett M. Butler, Jason G. Butler, Ennis Esmer
SSN Insight: Jared Keeso, Lauren Lee Smith, Gil Bellows, and Ennis Esmer were previously attached as cast members.
Midnight Sun
11/10/15
Logline: Sheltered 17-year-old Katie, who has a rare disease that makes sunlight deadly to her, meets Charlie and they have a summer romance.
Production Company(s): Boies/Schiller Film Group, LLC, Rickard Pictures
Director(s): Scott Speer
Executive Producer(s): Alan Ou, James McGough, Scott Speer, David Boies, Hiroki Shirota
Producer(s): John Rickard, Zachary Schiller, Jen Gatien
Cast: Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle, Quinn Shephard
Writer(s): Eric Kirsten
Details: Based on “Taiyo No Uta (Midnight Sun”) (Japan/2006) directed by Norihiro Koizumi and starring Takashi Tsukamoto.
SSN Insight: Project is listed in SSN’s 10 Most Bankable Films for U.S. Audiences at AFM2015, which can be read here.
Shimmer Lake
11/11/15
Logline: This murder mystery centers on a sheriff investigating a series of killings, as well as the disappearance of a bank robber wanted for a heist committed three days earlier.
Production Company(s): Footprint Features, Writ Large
Director(s): Oren Uziel
Executive Producer(s): Daniel Bekerman, Steve Eddy, Youmi N. Ma
Producer(s): Britton Rizzio, Adam Saunders
Cast: Benjamin Walker, Rainn Wilson, Wyatt Russell, Mark Rendall
Writer(s): Oren Uziel
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development at Fox Atomic. Project was previously in development at Josephson Entertainment with Barry Josephson attached to produce. Project was included on the 2009 Black List.
The Boy Downstairs
11/11/15
Logline: A woman moves into her ex-boyfriend’s apartment, reopening old wounds.
Production Company(s): Motion Picture Capital, Cliffbrook Films
Director(s): Sophie Brooks
Executive Producer(s): Paul Brooks
Producer(s): David Brooks, Dan Clifton, Leon Clarance
Cast: Zosia Mamet, Deirdre O’Connell, Matthew Shear, Diana Irvine, Sarah Ramos
Writer(s): Sophie Brooks
SSN Insight: Marks the feature film debut for Sophie Brooks.
The Space Between Us
11/13/15
Logline: A boy born to an American astronaut while on a mission to Mars and raised on a space station returns to Earth as a teen and embarks on a US road trip in search of the father he has never met.
Studio/Distributor(s): STX Entertainment
Production Company(s): Southpaw Entertainment
Director(s): Peter Chelsom
Executive Producer(s): Allan Loeb, Steven Pearl, Sasha Harari, Douglas Urbanski
Producer(s): Gabrielle Jerou
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Gary Oldman, Carla Gugino, Trey Tucker
Writer(s): Peter Chelsom, Tinker Lindsay, Allan Loeb
SSN Insight: Project was previously set up at Relativity Media with Robbie Brenner attached to produce and Ryan Kavanaugh and Tucker Tooley attached as Executive Producers.