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Pixels
06/02/2014
Logline: Aliens unleash old-school video game characters in an attack on the real world, and a former almost-champion childhood gamer turned home-entertainment theater installer must lead a motley group of highly skilled video game players to save the planet.
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Production Companies: Happy Madison Productions, One More Production, 1492 Pictures, Arcade Productions
Director: Chris Columbus
Executive Producers: Tim Herlihy, Barry Bernardi, Jack Giarraputo, Patrick Jean, Seth Gordon, Heather Parry
Producers: Adam Sandler, Benjamin Darras, Michael Barnathan, Matias Boucard, Mark Radcliffe, Johnny Alves, Allen Covert
Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan
Screenwriters: Timothy Dowling, Tim Herlihy
Details: Based on the 2010 animated short film
Pixels, created and directed by Patrick Jean.
SSN Insight: Seth Gordon had been previously mentioned to direct.
Rock the Kasbah
06/01/2014
Logline: When a burned-out manager finds himself stranded in Afghanistan, he discovers a girl with an outstanding voice and he takes her Kabul to compete on the Afghan version of American Idol.
Production Companies: QED International , Venture Forth Productions, Shangri-La Entertainment, Baltimore Pictures
Director: Barry Levinson
Executive Producers: Brian Grazer, Tom Freston
Producers: Bill Block, Jacob Pechenik, Steve Bing, Mitch Glazer, Marsha L Swinton
Cast: Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Leem Lubany, Kate Hudson, Zooey Deschanel, Scott Caan
Screenwriter: Mitch Glazer
SSN Insight: Yusef Islam, aka Cat Stevens, wrote four new songs for Leem Lubany's character to sing in the film.
Insurgent
05/27/2014
Logline: Tris Prior must try to save those she loves as she grapples with looming war between factions, her own conflicted feelings, new discoveries, and shifting relationships, all while she embraces and comes to terms with her Divergence.
Studio: Summit Entertainment, LLC
Production Companies: Red Wagon Entertainment, New Leaf Literary & Media, Mandeville Films/TV
Director: Robert Schwentke
Executive Producers: Barry Waldman, Neil Burger
Producers: Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Pouya Shahbazian, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Octavia Spencer
Screenwriters: Akiva Goldsman, Brian Duffield
Details: Based on the book
Insurgent, written by Veronica Roth and published by Katherine Tegen Books on May 1, 2012. Sequel to
Divergent.
SSN Insight: Neil Burger, the director of
Divergent, was unable to direct this film as post production and pre-production overlapped.
Wraps
The Moon and the Sun
05/30/2014
Logline: A magical sea monster is captured by Louis XIV, who believes the creature holds the keys to immortality. Meanwhile, the king's illegitimate daughter with his favorite lover comes of age and is summoned to his court. The fates of the creature and the girl intertwine to make history.
Production Companies: Pandemonium, Cosmos Filmed Entertainment, Brookwell-McNamara Entertainment, Good Universe
Director: Sean McNamara
Producers: Ralph Kamp, Bill Mechanic, Paul Currie, Timothy Mou
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Kaya Scodelario, William Hurt
Screenwriters: Bill Mechanic, Barry Berman, James Schamus, Laura Harrington
Details: Based on the novel
The Moon and the Sun, written by Vonda N. McIntyre and published by Pocket Books on September 1, 1997.
SSN Insight: Project was previously set up at Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
American Sniper
05/30/2014
Logline: A Navy SEAL sniper with the highest number of enemy kills tries to balance family and going to war.
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Companies: Mad Chance Productions, Malpaso Productions, 22nd & Indiana
Director: Clint Eastwood
Executive Producers: Jason Dean Hall, Tim Moore
Producers: Bradley Cooper, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Peter Morgan, Steven Spielberg
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Navid Negahban
Screenwriter: Jason Dean Hall
Details: Based on the autobiography
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, written by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice and published by William Morrow on January 3, 2012.
SSN Insight: Steven Spielberg was previously attached to direct.
Set the Thames On Fire
05/29/2014
Logline: Two boys survive in a London which is a present-day Sodom and Gomorrah that is controlled by a violent leader.
Production Company: Blonde to Black Pictures
Director: Ben Charles Edwards
Producers: Sadie Frost, Emma Comley
Cast: Sadie Frost,Michael Winder, Max Bennett, Sally Phillips, Noel Fielding
Screenwriter: Al Joshua
SSN Insight: Project marks the feature directorial debut of Ben Charles Edwards.