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Broken Vows
07/14/2014
Logline: A bride-to-be partying at her bachelorette weekend has a one-night stand with a charming bartender, and the man turns out to be dangerous.
Production Company: Stonecreek Films
Director: Bram Coppens
Executive Producer: Larry Ladove
Producer: Wendy Benge
Cast: Wes Bentley, Jaimie Alexander, Cam Gigandet, Alexandra Breckenridge
Screenwriters: Jim Agnew, Sean Keller
SSN Insight: Project marks the feature directorial debut of Bram Coppens.
Remember
07/14/2014
Logline: A revenge thriller about a Holocaust survivor's pledge, and journey, to exact revenge upon the Nazi officer who killed his family and the family of his lifelong friend.
Production Company: Serendipity Point Films
Director: Atom Egoyan
Executive Producers: Mark Musselman, Anant Singh, Moises Cosio, Jeff Sagansky, Lawrence Guterman, D. Matt Geller
Producers: Robert Lantos, Ari Lantos
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Dean Norris, Bruno Ganz
Screenwriter: Benjamin August
SSN Insight: Project marks the eighth feature film collaboration between producer Robert Lantos and Oscar-nominated director Atom Egoyan.
Master Cleanse
07/11/2014
Logline: When a man goes to a spiritual retreat to cleanse toxins from his body, something far greater than negativity and past traumas is released.
Production Companies: Bron Studios, Gilbert Films, Alcide Bava Pictures
Director: Bobby Miller
Executive Producers: Gary Gilbert, Todd Masters, Margot Hand, John Raymonds
Producers: Jordan Horowitz, Aaron Gilbert, Johnny Galecki
Cast: Johnny Galecki, Anjelica Huston, Anna Friel, Oliver Platt
Screenwriter: Bobby Miller
SSN Insight: Chloe Sevigny was previously attached as a cast member in the role played by Anna Friel.
Insidious: Chapter 3
07/09/2014
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Production Company: Blumhouse Productions
Director: Leigh Whannell
Executive Producers: Steven Schneider, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Peter Schlessel, Lia Buman, Xavier Marchand
Producers: Jason Blum, Oren Peli
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Lin Shaye
Screenwriter: Leigh Whannell
Details: Sequel to
Insidious (USA/2010) and
Insidious: Chapter 2 (USA/2013), directed by James Wan and starring Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne.
SSN Insight: The first film in the franchise,
Insidious, made for $1.5 million and released in 2010, went on to gross $97 million worldwide.
Insidious: Chapter 2 grossed $160 million worldwide and was made for $5 million, which is also the estimated budget for "Insidious: Chapter 3."
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The DUFF
07/09/2014
Logline: Seventeen-year-old Bianca despises slimy hottie Wesley, but finds herself in an "enemies-with-benefits" relationship with him, then realizes to her horror that she’s falling for him.
Studio: CBS Films
Production Companies: Wonderland Sound and Vision, Vast Entertainment
Director: Ari Sandel
Producers: Mary Viola, McG, Lane Shefter Bishop, Susan Cartsonis
Cast: Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne, Ken Jeong
Screenwriter: Josh A. Cagan
Details: Based on the novel
The DUFF, written by Kody Keplinger and published by Poppy on September 7, 2010.
SSN Insight: Screenplay was on the 2011 Black List.
Gods of Egypt
07/11/2014
Logline: A mortal joins forces with the gods to fight an evil, powerful force in ancient Egypt.
Studio: Summit Entertainment, LLC
Production Companies: Thunder Road Pictures, Mystery Clock Cinema
Director: Alex Proyas
Executive Producers: Kent Kubena, Stephen Jones, Topher Dow
Producers: Basil Iwanyk, Alex Proyas
Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau,Gerard Butler, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Courtney Eaton, Chadwick A Boseman
Screenwriters: Alex Proyas, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless
SSN Insight: Of the film's estimated $150 million budget, Gerard Butler said, "It’s the largest budget movie I have ever worked on. It’s huge in every dimension. It’s huge in its scope and in its story and visually." Butler did, however, voice the Viking character Stoick in the
How to Train Your Dragon animated films, the first of which (USA/2010) had a budget of $165 million.
The Circle
07/10/2014
Logline: Six teenage girls who live in a small industrial town in Sweden discover that they're witches who must join forces to defeat an ancient evil.
Production Company: RMV Film
Director: Levan Akin
Producers: Benny Andersson, Ludvig Andersson, Cecilia Norman Mardell
Cast: Josefin Asplund, Irma von Platen, Miranda Frydman, Hanna Asp
Screenwriters: Sara B. Elfgren, Levan Akin
Details: Based on the Swedish young adult fantasy novel
Cirkeln (English title
The Circle) written by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren and published by Rabén & Sjögren in April, 2011.
SSN Insight: Benny Andersson, formerly of the band ABBA, produced with his son Ludvig and served as Music Supervisor.