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All Eyes On Me
12/14/2015
Logline: This biopic will follow rapper Tupac Shakur’s career, including his time at Death Row Records and his involvement in the rivalry between East coast and West coast rappers, culminating in his murder in 1996.
Studio/Distributor(s): Open Road Films
Production Company(s): Morgan Creek Productions, Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films
Director(s): Benny Boom
Executive Producer(s): Afeni Shakur, Tom Ortenberg, Peter Lawson
Producer(s): James G. Robinson, David C. Robinson, LT Hutton, Randall Emmett, George Furla
Cast: No Actor Available.
Writer(s): John Singleton, Ed Gonzalez, Jeremy Haft, Michael Starrbury, David McKenna
SSN Insight: Antoine Fuqua was previously attached to direct. Soulja Boy was previously mentioned to star. Project was previously in development at Universal.
Carrie Pilby
12/12/2015
Logline: A person of high intelligence struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex and leaving her apartment.
Production Company(s): Braveart Films
Director(s): Susan Johnson
Executive Producer(s): Elaine Harris
Producer(s): Suzanne Farwell, Susan Cartsonis, Susan Johnson
Cast: Bel Powley, Eddie Izzard, Tom Wilkinson, Jason Ritter, Vanessa Bayer
Writer(s): Kara Holden, Dean Craig
Details: Based on the novel “Carrie Pilby” written by Caren Lissner and published by Red Dress Ink in 2003.
SSN Insight: Hailee Steinfeld was previously attached to star.
Marshall
12/14/2015
Logline: Young Thurgood Marshall goes conservative 1940s Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur in a famous attempted murder trial.
Production Company(s): Chestnut Ridge Productions, Super Hero Films, Ltd.
Director(s): Reginald Hudlin
Executive Producer(s): Peter Luo, Jialing Deng, Beely Lee
Producer(s): Paula Wagner, Reginald Hudlin, Jonathan Sanger, Jun Dong
Cast: Chadwick A Boseman
Writer(s): Michael Koskoff, Jacob Koskoff
SSN Insight: Marshall is being financed by China-based Super Hero Films, Ltd. Boseman will next be seen as the Black Panther in the Marvel film Captain America: Civil War.
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A Bus Could Run You Over
12/14/2015
Logline: Connor doesn’t want to leave London and go to Ibiza, but only he can help his best friend who’s mixed up with a drug gang. He might even be happy there, if he can stay alive.
Production Company(s): Fulwell 73 Productions
Director(s): Benjamin Turner
Executive Producer(s): Max Leverett, Jeremy Bussey, Andy Ruhan, Tony Truman, Wayne Lineker
Producer(s): Leo Pearlman
Cast: Billy Zane, Owain Arthur, Lyndon Ogbourne, Joel Dommett, Billy Boyd
Writer(s): Colin Butts
Details: Based on the novel “A Bus Could Run You Over” written by Colin Butts and published by Orion on July 1, 2004.
SSN Insight: Executive producers and investors on the project include owners of Ibiza bars and clubs, which will provide access to the dance scene of the island.
Assassin’s Creed
12/18/2015
Logline: A bartender finds out he comes from a long line of assassins. He is captured by a secret corporation who sends him back to various times and places in order to bring back artifacts.
Studio/Distributor(s): Regency Enterprises, 20th Century Fox Distribution
Production Company(s): Kennedy/Marshall Company, New Regency Productions, DMC Films, Ubisoft Motion Pictures
Director(s): Justin Kurzel
Executive Producer(s):
Producer(s): Jean-Julien Baronnet, Eli Richbourg, Michael Fassbender, Conor McCaughan, Frank Marshall
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Ariane Labed, Michael K. Williams, Jeremy Irons
Writer(s): Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Scott Frank, Mike Lesslie
Details: Based on the video game “Assassin’s Creed” published by Ubisoft and first released on November 14, 2007.
SSN Insight: Columbia Pictures was in negotiations to produce in 2011. Alicia Vikander was previously in discussions to play the role ultimately filled by Ariane Labed.
Bridget Jones’ Baby
12/15/2015
Logline: Bridget Jones tries to have a baby.
Studio/Distributor(s): Universal Pictures,
Production Company(s): Working Title Films, Monumental Television
Director(s): Sharon Maguire
Executive Producer(s):
Producer(s): Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Jonathan Cavendish
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Ed Sheeran
Writer(s): Paul Feig, Helen Fielding, David Nicholls
Details: Sequel to “Bridget Jones’s Diary” (2001), directed by Sharon Maguire and “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” (2004), directed by Beeban Kidron.
SSN Insight: Paul Feig was previously attached to direct. Shooting delayed from a February start due to script changes.
Colossal
12/18/2015
Logline: After a giant lizard starts destroying Tokyo, a young woman in New York comes to realize that the power of her mind is connected to the far-off events and she tries to halt the destruction.
Production Company(s): Brightlight Pictures, Voltage Pictures, Sayaka Producciones
Director(s): Nacho Vigalondo
Executive Producer(s): Nacho Vigalondo, Garrett Basch
Producer(s): Nicolas Chartier, Shawn Williamson, Nahikari Ipina, Anne Hathaway
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, Dan Stevens
Writer(s): Nacho Vigalondo
SSN Insight: Godzilla copyrights holders Toho took Voltage Pictures and writer-director Nacho Vigalondo to court over the film and they reached an undisclosed settlement.
Crash Pad
12/18/2015
Logline: When a man learns that his “true love” was just using him as revenge against her husband, he threatens to tell her husband, but then the husband decides to move in with him.
Production Company(s): Sodona Entertainment, Wonderful Films, Indomitable Entertainment, Windowseat Films
Director(s): Kevin Tent
Executive Producer(s): Alexander Payne, Dominic Ianno, Jon Ferro, Stuart Pollok, Joseph McKelheer
Producer(s): Bill Horberg, Lauren Bratman
Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Christina Applegate, Thomas Haden Church, Nina Dobrev
Writer(s): Jeremy Catalino
SSN Insight: Domhnall Gleeson can be seen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This film reteams Church and Payne who previously worked together on Sideways.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
12/18/2015
Logline: In New York, seventy years before Harry Potter’s birth, an ambitious magiczoologist named Newton Artemis Fido Scamander, aka Newt, is commissioned to write a reference guide to magical beasts, which would eventually become a definitive Hogwart’s textbook
Studio/Distributor(s): Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Company(s): Heyday Films, Wigram Productions, Bronte Film and Television
Director(s): David Yates
Producer(s): J.K. Rowling, David Heyman, Steve Kloves, Lionel Wigram
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Alison Sudol, Samantha Morton
Writer(s): J.K. Rowling
Details: Based on the novel “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” by J.K. Rowling; published by Arthur A. Levine June 2001 .
SSN Insight: Project is the first in a trilogy. Alfonso Cuaron had previously been mentioned to direct.
Feed
12/18/2015
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
Executive Producer(s):
Producer(s): Ross Kohn, Nancy Leopardi, Troian Bellisario, Tommy Bertelsen
Cast: Troian Bellisario, Tom Felton, Amanda Collier
Writer(s): Tommy Bertelsen
SSN Insight: Production took place in Los Angeles. The film marks Bellisario’s first feature-length screenplay.
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
12/18/2015
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: The project reteams Mitchell with Kidman, who worked together on the Rabbit Hole (2010) for which Kidman received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
Leavey
12/17/2015
Logline: Megan Leavey, a US Marine who was injured with her dog Rex by an IED while on patrol in Iraq, was awarded the Purple Heart, and years later fought through bureaucratic red tape to adopt and reunite with Rex upon his retirement from duty.
Production Company(s): LD Entertainment
Director(s): Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Producer(s): Mickey Liddell, Jennifer Hilton Monroe, Pete Shilaimon
Cast: Kate Mara, Edie Falco, Ramon Rodriguez, Tom Felton, Damson Idris
Writer(s): Annie Mumolo, Tim Lovestedt, Jordan Roberts, Pamela Gray
SSN Insight: Cowperthwaite previously directed Blackfish. LD Entertainment will finance as it did previously with Risen and Antropoid.
Man Down
12/15/2015
Logline: When a US Marine is discharged following a catastrophic error in Afghanistan, he seeks long-lost relatives across America as a trauma counselor guides him through the darkest, most thrilling recesses of his mind that leads them to an unprecedented discove
Production Company(s): Mpower Pictures, TT Games Publishing
Director(s): Dito Montiel
Executive Producer(s): John Shepherd, Myles Nestel, Lisa Wilson, Roger Goff, Russell Geyser
Producer(s): Dawn Krantz-Weiner, Federico Bauder, Steve McEveety, Jon Burton
Cast: Kate Mara, Jai Courtney, Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, Clifton Collins Jr.
Writer(s): Adam Simon
SSN Insight: Terrence Howard was previously in talks to star.
Phil
12/17/2015
Logline: After a dentist’s patient dies in his chair, he impersonates a plumber to get into the home of his widow.
Production Company(s): Bron Media Corp.
Director(s): Greg Kinnear
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Emily Mortimer, Kurt Fuller, Taylor Schilling, Megan Charpentier
Writer(s): Stephen Mazur
SSN Insight: The film, previously entitled Phil: A Tale of Flossing and Plumbing, marks the directorial debut for Kinnear.
She Has A Name
12/18/2015
Logline: An American lawyer tries to convince a young girl in Bangkok to testify against her pimp, putting her life in danger.
Production Company(s): Unveil Studios
Director(s): Matthew Kooman, Daniel Kooman
Producer(s): Donna Abraham, Shari Aspinall, Daniel Kooman, Matthew Kooman, Andrew Kooman
Cast: Will Yun Lee, Eugenia Yuan, Teresa Ting, Giovanni Mocibob, Gil Bellows
Writer(s): Andrew Kooman
Details: Based on a play written by Andrew Kooman in 2009 as a single act and expanded to full length in 2010.
SSN Insight: The play from which it was based, received strong endorsement from Canadian activists including MP Joy Smith, Ratanak International’s Brian McConaghy, and IJM Canada’s Jamie McIntosh.
The Last Poker Game
12/18/2015
Logline: Dr. Abe Mandelbaum forms an unlikely friendship with a womanizing gambler, but their their relationship is tested when they each tries to convince a mysterious nurse that he is her long-lost father.
Production Company(s): Long Road Film
Director(s): Howard Weiner
Executive Producer(s): Dennis Selko
Producer(s): Peter Pastorelli, Marshall Johnson, Eddie Rubin
Cast: Martin Landau, Paul Sorvino, Maria Dizzia
Writer(s): Howard Weiner
SSN Insight: First feature from Long Road Film, launched by producers Peter Pastorelli, Marshall Johnson and Eddie Rubin with the goal of producing several films per year with budgets of $5 million-$10 million.