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Barry
03/21/2016
Logline: Based on true events, this drama explores the time in Barack Obama’s life when he was a college student in New York City and forged key personal relationships, including with a fellow student.
Production Company(s): Cinetic Media, Black Bear Pictures
Director(s): Vikram Gandhi
Producer(s): Teddy Schwarzman, Vikram Gandhi, Ben Stillman, Dana O’Keefe
Cast: Devon Terrell, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jason Mitchell, Ellar Coltrane
SSN Insight: Another film, Southside With You, about an early day in the life of Obama will be released by Miramax and Roadside Attractions following the film’s premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
Bonds
03/25/2016
Logline: Two female journalists join a team of international agents in Paris and take on one of the worlds’ most brutal sex trafficking rings. Loosely based on true events.
Director(s): J.R. Niles
Producer(s): J.R. Niles, Audra Cervantes, Ardees Rabang Jundis
Cast: Gabrielle Christian, Salvator Xuereb, Nicholas Downs, Angelica Page, Julia Parker
Writer(s): J.R. Niles
SSN Insight: Niles’ first film was a documentary on climate change, On This Land Kilimanjaro, filmed in Tanzania and her documentary on Women of the French Resistance in WWII, The Art of Resistance.
Justice
03/21/2016
Logline: A US Marshal arrives at a small town in an old frontier fort in the 1860s to find his brother, the town pastor, who died under suspicious circumstances. His investigation uncovers a web of corruption and deceit.
Production Company(s): JLE Cinema Group
Director(s): Richard Gabai
Executive Producer(s): Niko Foster
Producer(s): A.J. Perez, John Lewis, Jim Burleson
Cast: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Robert Carradine, Stephen Lang, Ellen Hollman, John Lewis
Writer(s): John Lewis, Shawn Justice
SSN Insight: Jamie-Lynn Sigler currently appears in Baby Daddy on Freeform. Her upcoming films include I Want Kandee and Justice.
Mayhem
03/21/2016
Logline: A virus capable of making people act out their wildest impulses infects a corporate law office on the very day attorney Derek Saunders is framed by a co-worker and wrongfully fired. Trapped in the quarantined building, Derek is forced to fight tooth and nail for not only his job but also his life.
Production Company(s): Circle of Confusion, Royal Viking Entertainment
Director(s): Joe Lynch
Executive Producer(s): Parisa Caviani
Producer(s): Lawrence Mattis, Matt Smith, Sean Sorensen, Mehrdad Elie
Cast: Steven Yeun, Samara Weaving
Writer(s): Matias Caruso
SSN Insight: Joe Lynch previously directed Everly, Knights of Badassdom and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End.
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Good Time
03/22/2016
Logline: A bank robber desperately tries to escape the dragnet that is closing in on him.
Production Company(s): Elara Pictures
Director(s): Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie
Producer(s): Sebastian Bear-McClard, Oscar Boyson
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Cliff Moylan, Roy James Wilson Jr., Jibril goodman, Ratnesh Dubey
Writer(s): Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein
SSN Insight: Robert Pattinson’s can next be seen in The Lost City of Z and The Childhood of a Leader. He was also cast in The Trap, which is in active development at Focus Features.
Hello Destroyer
03/20/2016
Logline: A young junior hockey player’s life is shattered by an in-game act of violence. As he struggles with the repercussions of the event, desperate to find a means of reconciliation and a sense of identity, his personal journey ends up illuminating troubling systemic issues around violence.
Production Company(s): Type One, Tabula Dada Productions
Director(s): Kevan Funk
Executive Producer(s): Christine Haebler, Trish Dolman
Producer(s): Haydn Wazelle, Daniel Domachowski
Cast: Jared Abrahamson, Sara Canning, Ben Cotton, Max Haynes, Darren Mann
Writer(s): Kevan Funk
SSN Insight: Jared Abrahamson’s recent features include The Submarine Kid and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, on the TV side he played Pete on MTV’s Awkward series.
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
03/25/2016
Logline: When a young nurse is hired to take care of an elderly author of best-selling ghost stories at her country home, she finds that the house has a ghost story of its own.
Production Company(s): Zed Filmworks, Paris Film, Inc., Go Insane
Director(s): Oz Perkins
Executive Producer(s): Alphonse Ghossein
Producer(s): Rob Paris, Robert Menzies
Cast: Ruth Wilson, Bob Balaban, Lucy Boynton, Deborah Harry
Writer(s): Oz Perkins
SSN Insight: Perkins is also the director and writer of the feature February and the writer for The Girl in the Photographs, both awaiting release.
Nine Eleven
03/25/2016
Logline: Five individuals are trapped in an elevator in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. This is their struggle to survive.
Production Company(s): Sunset Pictures, Vitamin A Films, Thunder Studios, Sprockefeller Pictures
Director(s): Martin Guigui
Executive Producer(s): Mark Burg, David Rodrick, Ryan Johnson
Producer(s): Martin Sprock, Dahlia Waingort, Warren Ostergard
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Charlie Sheen, Luis Guzman, Wood Harris, Olga Fonda
Writer(s): Martin Guigui, Steven Golebiowski
SSN Insight: The film was shot in Long Beach, CA for four weeks. Whoopi Goldberg also wrapped on the feature, Black Dog, Red Dog, directed by James Franco.
Secret Agent
03/25/2016
Logline: This period drama takes place in 1930s Korea during the Japanese colonial era.
Studio/Distributor(s): Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Company(s): Grimm Pictures, Harbin
Director(s): Kim Jee-woon, Song Kang-ho
Executive Producer(s):
Producer(s): Jae-weon Choi, Choi Jung-hwa
Cast: Gong Yoo, Song Kang-ho, Han Ji-min, Shin Seong-rok, Seo Young-ju
Writer(s): Lee Ji-min, Kim Jee-woon
SSN Insight: The first-ever Korean-language movie to be financed and distributed by Warner Bros.