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Clinical
04/25/2016
Logline: After she’s attacked by a patient, Dr. Jane Mathis decides to change her career path as a psychiatrist. Traumatized by the experience, Jane self-medicates and begins to suspect that the patient that attacked her is after her once again. Working with a new post-trauma patient against her better judgment, Jane’s own sanity comes into question as her paranoia takes hold.
Production Company(s): Campfire
Director(s): Alistair Legrand
Producer(s): Ross M. Dinerstein
Cast: Vinessa Shaw, Henry Thomas, Wilmer Calderon
Writer(s): Alistair Legrand, Luke Harvis
SSN Insight: Legrand also wrote and directed the horror sci-fi film The Diabolical, released in 2014 by XLrator Media.
Day of Reckoning
04/25/2016
Logline: The story is set in Los Angeles 15 years after the world suffered a horrendous disaster when demon-like-creatures invaded Earth and nearly destroyed mankind. A mediocre husband and father, David Shepperd, tries to save his family when demon creatures return to wreak havoc.
Production Company(s): Epic Pictures Group
Director(s): Joel Novoa
Executive Producer(s): Patrick Ewald, Shaked Berenson
Cast: Jackson Hurst, Heather McComb, Hana Hayes, Jay Jay Warren, Raymond Barry
Writer(s): Greg Gieras
SSN Insight: Novoa also produced and directed the 2013 film Esclavo de Dios which won the Nueva Vision Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Love Sonia
04/24/2016
Logline: Tells the heartfelt and brave story of Sonia, a young Indian village girl whose life irrevocably changes when she is entrapped into the vicious global sex trade network.
Production Company(s): Big Stuff
Director(s): Tabrez Noorani
Executive Producer(s): Pravesh Sahni, Hannah Zhang
Producer(s): David Womark
Cast: Paul Dano, Mrunal Thakur, Freida Pinto, Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadda
Writer(s): Ted Caplan, Alkesh Vaja
SSN Insight: Kay Buck, CEO/exec directing of CAST (Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking) is advisor on the film and Apne Aap Woman Worldwide founder Ruchira Gupta is providing support for the actors as they research their roles.
Okja
04/23/2016
Logline: Follows Mija, a young girl who must risk everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive animal named ‘Okja’.
Production Company(s): Plan B Entertainment, Lewis Pictures
Director(s): Bong Joon-Ho
Producer(s): Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Lewis Taewan Kim, Woo-Sik Seo
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Kelly Macdonald, Lily Collins
Writer(s): Bong Joon-Ho
SSN Insight: Bill Nighy was previously attached.
Rebel in the Rye
04/25/2016
Logline: Follows the legendary and secretive author J.D. Salinger through his life — from his rebellious youth, the bloody front lines of World War II, experiencing great love and terrible loss, a life of rejection, his writing in the pages of The New Yorker, and the PTSD-fueled writer’s block that led to the birth of his iconic novel The Catcher in the Rye.
Production Company(s): Blue Star Entertainment, Bruce Cohen Productions, Black Label Media
Director(s): Danny Strong
Producer(s): Danny Strong, Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill, Thad Luckinbill, Bruce Cohen
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Brian d’Arcy James, Hope Davis
Writer(s): Danny Strong
Details: Based on the biography “JD Salinger: A Life” written by Kenneth Slawenski and published by Random House in 2010.
SSN Insight: Hoult will next be seen in Equals by A24, X-Men: Apocalypse by Fox, and Collide by Open Road Films.
Return to Montauk
04/26/2016
Logline: A novelist travels to New York to promote his latest book and runs into a German expat he had a fling with 17 years earlier. Although he had intended to never see her again, he lets her embark with him on a trip to Montauk, at the far end of Long Island.
Production Company(s): Gaumont, Pyramide International, Volksfilm GMBH, Ziegler Film GMBH & Co. KG
Director(s): Volker Schlondorff
Producer(s): Regina Ziegler
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss, Niels Arestrup, Michael Epp
Writer(s): Volker Schlondorff
SSN Insight: Volker Schlondorff is one of the major directors of the New German Cinema, the group of filmmakers who, in the late 1960s and early 70s, revitalized a moribund German film culture.
Sidney Hall
04/23/2016
Logline: Story follows three stages in the life of the title character, who writes the book of his generation before disappearing without a trace. Meanwhile, a literary rival searches for him, hoping to solve the mystery behind his disappearance.
Production Company(s): Super Crispy Entertainment, Fuzzy Logic
Director(s): Shawn Christensen
Executive Producer(s): Shawn Christensen, Logan Lerman
Producer(s): Jonathan Schwartz, Fielder Jewett
Cast: Logan Lerman, Elle Fanning, Michelle Monaghan, Kyle Chandler, Nathan Lane
Writer(s): Jason Dolan, Shawn Christensen
SSN Insight: Joe Russo was previously attached to direct. Paper Street Productions was previously attached to produce with Scott Free. Jim Sturgess was previously attached to star.
Slumber (Diablo Entertainment)
04/25/2016
Logline: When a car accident puts a woman into a coma, she is enlisted in an experimental procedure where doctors pump her mind with nightmares in an attempt to scare her awake.
Production Company(s): Diablo Entertainment
Director(s): Darrell Wheat
Executive Producer(s): Jaremy Aiello, Keith Fowler, Hank Hoffman, Cyrus Zahabian, Ilana Zahabian
Producer(s): Eric B. Fleischman, Sean Tabibian
Cast: Darby Stanchfield, Emily Bett Rickards, Meaghan Rath, Chris Mulkey, Richard Harmon
Writer(s): Darrell Wheat
SSN Insight: Wheat also wrote and directed the film Recovery for Diablo Entertainment.
Street Gang – The Complete History of Sesame Street
4/23/2016
Logline: A documentary based on the history of ‘Sesame Street’
Production Company(s): Macrocosm Entertainment, Citizen Skull Productions
Director(s): Marah Strauch
Executive Producer(s): Trevor Crafts
Producer(s): Mark Myers, Matt Daley, Heather Kenyon
Details: Based on the 2008 New York Times best selling book Street Gang – The Complete History of Sesame Street by writer Michael Davis.
SSN Insight: To be released in 2017. Marah Strauch, who’s first feature Sunshine Superman was a breakout hit at TIFF in 2014.
The Grizzlies
04/23/2016
Logline: A high school teacher arrives at a struggling Canadian Arctic community plagued by alcoholism, abuse, and the highest suicide rate in North America and creates a lacrosse league that transforms his students’ lives. Based on a true story.
Production Company(s): Pacific Northwest Pictures, Northwood Productions
Director(s): Miranda De Pencier
Executive Producer(s): Frank Marshall, Jake Steinfeld
Producer(s): Miranda De Pencier, Zanne Devine, Damon D’Oliveira, Stacey Aglok MacDonald, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Cast: Ben Schnetzer
Writer(s): Moira Walley-Beckett, Graham Yost
SSN Insight: Miranda De Pencier previously produced Thanks for Sharing, Beginners and Cake.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
04/25/2016
Logline: After a 50-year-old woman’s daughter is murdered, she confronts the police in her town who she believes are more interested in persecuting African-Americans than getting justice.
Production Company(s): Blue Print Pictures
Director(s): Martin McDonagh
Executive Producer(s):
Producer(s): Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh, Diarmuid McKeown
Cast: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Caleb Landry Jones
Writer(s): Martin McDonagh
SSN Insight: Originally developed by Film4 at an early stage.
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6 Below
04/23/2016
Logline: Olympic hockey player Eric LeMarque becomes hopelessly lost while snowboarding through a massive storm. Now he must somehow survive in the frozen tundra with nothing but his wits to sustain him and while simultaneously coming to terms with his drug addiction, and the selfish and destructive behavior that left him stranded.
Production Company(s): Sonar Entertainment, Tooley Productions, Rock Pile Studios
Director(s): Scott Waugh
Producer(s): Tucker Tooley, Thomas Lesinski, Scott Waugh, Simon Swart, Brad Pilz
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Mira Sorvino, Sarah Dumont, Jason Cottle, Austin R. Grant
Details: True story of Olympic hockey player Eric LeMarque.
SSN Insight: Josh Hartnett is also in the cast of Gut Instinct in active devlopment and Valley of the Gods in preproduction.
Barry
04/25/2016
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, Ashley Judd
SSN Insight: Ashley Judd is also in the cast of Twin Peaks, ordered to series by Showtime.
Fashionista
04/24/2016
Logline: A structurally unique thriller about a fashion-conscious young woman who uses clothes as an emotional crutch and what happens when her life spirals out of control.
Director(s): Simon Rumley
Executive Producer(s): Tim League, Adam Goldworm
Producer(s): Simon Rumley, Bob Portal
Cast: Amanda Fuller, Ethan Embry, Eric Balfour, Alexandra Essoe, Alexandria Deberry
Writer(s): Simon Rumley
SSN Insight: Amanda Fuller has previously been seen on Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy and starred in The Brittany Murphy Story.
San Bernardino Bound
04/29/2016
Logline:
Studio/Distributor(s): Netflix
Production Company(s): The Collective, Friendly Films, Blue Creek Pictures
Director(s): Chester Tam
Producer(s): Sam Maydew, David Friendly
Cast: Josh Peck, Tony Revolori, Chester Tam, Kevin Corrigan, Channing Tatum
Writer(s): Chester Tam
SSN Insight: Andy Samberg and Christopher Mintz-Plasse were previously attached to star.
Temple
04/29/2016
Logline: Follows a team of trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound after its artificial intelligence is suddenly shut down. There, they begin to experience strange and horrific phenomena.
Studio/Distributor(s): WWE Studios
Production Company(s): Erebus Pictures
Director(s): John Stockwell
Producer(s): Gene Simmons, Wesley Snipes, Michael Luisi
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Anne Heche, Dave Annable, Seth Rollins, Gene Simmons
Writer(s): Matt Savelloni
SSN Insight: Wesley Snipes and his banner Maandi Media DMM have signed a multi-film deal with WWE Studios to develop and produce elevated branded content as well as films.
To The Bone
04/29/2016
Logline: A young woman suffering from anorexia tries to find a doctor who can help her.
Production Company(s): Mockingbird Pictures, Sparkhouse Media
Director(s): Marti Noxon
Producer(s): Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn, Karina Miller
Cast: Lily Collins, Keanu Reeves, Ciara Bravo, Carrie Preston, Liana Liberato
Writer(s): Marti Noxon
SSN Insight: Noxon is also the EP and showrunner for HBO’s Sharp Objects that has been ordered to series.
What’s the Point? (And Other Fair Questions About Marriage)
04/29/2016
Logline: Ensemble comedy about the concept that marriage should be a seven-year contract with an option to renew.
Production Company(s): More Films, Cold Iron Pictures , Ways & Means
Director(s): Lake Bell
Executive Producer(s): Jason Beck, Andrew Bohn
Producer(s): Lake Bell, Jett Steiger, Miranda Bailey, Amanda Marshall
Cast: Lake Bell, Ed Helms, Mary Steenburgen, Paul Reiser, Amber Heard
Writer(s): Lake Bell
SSN Insight: The film received financing from Cold Iron Pictures and The Film Arcade. The film shot in Los Angeles.
Where the White Man Runs Away
04/24/2016
Logline: In 2008, rookie Canadian journalist Jay Bahadur’s impulsive plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia provided the first close-up look at these men and the forces that drive them.
Production Company(s): Hungry Man, BCDF Pictures, Kalahari Films & Media
Director(s): Bryan Buckley
Executive Producer(s): Jane Rosenthal, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross
Cast: Evan Peters, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith, Barkhad Abdi, Edward Gelbinovich
Writer(s): Bryan Buckley
SSN Insight: Al Pacino has also been cast in The Trap for Focus Features which is in active development.
Wind River
04/25/2016
Logline: A lone female FBI agent is sent to investigate a murder on a remote Indian Reservation in the dead of winter, and she finds assistance from a man with a haunted past.
Production Company(s): Thunder Road Pictures, Film 44, Acacia Entertainment, Savvy Media Holdings
Director(s): Taylor Sheridan
Executive Producer(s): Erica Lee, Braden Aftergood, Elizabeth Bell
Producer(s): Basil Iwanyk, Peter Berg, Matthew George
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Jon Bernthal, Austin R. Grant, Kelsey Asbille
Writer(s): Taylor Sheridan
SSN Insight: Chris Pine was previously attached to co-star.