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Ouija
12/09/2013
Logline: A group of teens anxiously try to undo what they have done after playing with a Ouija board and making contact with the evil spirit of their dead friend.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Production Companies: Platinum Dunes, Hasbro, Inc. , Blumhouse Productions
Director: Stiles White, Juliet Snowden
Producers: Jason Blum, Brian Goldner, Bennett Schneier, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Michael Bay
Cast: Daren Kagasoff, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Smith
Screenwriters: Stiles White, Juliet Snowden
Details: Project is inspired by the board game
Ouija produced by Hasbro's Parker Brothers since 1966.
SSN Insight: Both Pierre Morel and McG were previously attached to direct.
Pale Blue Dot
12/04/2013
Logline: High school students and their parents deal with sexual pressures due to the Internet’s world of pornography, blogs and social networking.
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Production Company: Right of Way Films
Director: Jason Reitman
Producers: Jason Reitman, Helen Estabrook
Cast: Adam Sandler, Rosemarie DeWitt, K.C. Hughes, Jennifer Garner
Screenwriters: Jason Reitman, Erin Cressida Wilson
Details: Based on the novel
Men, Women and Children, written by Chad Kultgen and published by Harper Perennial in 2011.
SSN Insight: Jason Reitman is reteaming with Jennifer Garner after their success with the edgy high school comedy
Juno.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Sequel
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Production Company: Blue Print Pictures
Director: John Madden
Executive Producers: John Madden
Producers: Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin
Cast: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren
Screenwriter: Ol Parker
Details: Sequel to
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (USA/2012), directed by John Madden and starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, and Maggie Smith.
SSN Insight: John Madden is reteaming with Helen Mirren after the drama “The Debt” in 2011.
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Paddington Bear
12/03/2013
Logline: The adventures of a talking bear who is adopted by a London family when they find him lost at Paddington Station.
Production Company: Heyday Films
Director: Paul King
Executive Producer: Rosie Allison
Producers: David Heyman, Jeffrey Clifford
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins
Screenwriter: Hamish McColl
Details: Based on the series of books
Paddington Bear, written by Michael Bond and published between 1958 and 1979.
SSN Insight: Previously in development at Warner Bros.
Cinderella
12/04/2013
Logline: "Cinder" Ella has to fight her way out of the enchanted forest to prevent the prince from entering into a marriage that will destroy the kingdom.
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Production Companies: Genre Films, Runaway Fridge Films, Ltd. Allison Shearmur Productions
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Producers: Simon Kinberg, Allison Shearmur, David Barron
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Holliday Grainger, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Madden
Screenwriters: Chris Weitz, Aline Brosh McKenna (previous draft)
Details: Based on the classic fairy tale.
SSN Insight: Aline Brosh McKenna sold the pitch to Disney in 2010 in a reported seven-figure deal.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
12/07/2013
Logline: During the height of the Cold War, CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin put aside their differences and work together to stop an international organization that could destroy the world.
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Companies: Davis Entertainment, Big Kid Pictures, Ritchie/Wigram Productions, Wigram Productions
Director: Guy Ritchie
Producers: David Dobkin, Jeff Kleeman, John Davis, Lionel Wigram, Guy Ritchie
Cast: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander
Screenwriters: Guy Ritchie
Details: Based on the television series that ran from 1964-68, starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum.
SSN Insight: Quentin Tarantino considered writing the screenplay for the project in the mid-1990s.
