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Mission: Impossible 5
08/24/2014
Logline: Story details are under wraps.
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Production Company: Skydance Productions, Bad Robot
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Executive Producers: David Ellison, Dana Goldberg
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Tom Cruise
Cast: Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames
Screenwriters: Will Staples (Current draft); Drew Pearce (Previous draft)
Details: Sequel to
Mission: Impossible (USA/1995), directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Cruise; based on the Paramount Television series
Mission: Impossible, which aired on CBS from 1966 to 1973 and was created by Bruce Geller.
SSN Insight: Director Christopher McQuarrie co-wrote and directed
Jack Reacher (USA/2012), and co-wrote
Edge of Tomorrow (USA/2014), both starring Tom Cruise. McQuarrie also did uncredited writing work on
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (USA/2011).
Yoga Hosers
08/19/2014
Logline: Two 15-year-old yoga enthusiasts join forces with a legendary man-hunter to battle an ancient evil and fight for their lives, yoga-style.
Production Companies: StarStream Entertainment, Invincible Pictures, SModcast Pictures
Director: Kevin Smith
Executive Producers: Kim Leadford, Charles Bonan, Tim Nye
Producers: Elizabeth Destro, Jordan Monsanto, Jennifer Schwalbach
Cast: Lily-Rose Depp, Harley Quinn Smith, Justin Long
Screenwriter: Kevin Smith
Details: The film is the second installment in director Kevin Smith’s True North Trilogy of stories that are steeped in Canadian myths and culture, preceded by
Tusk (USA/2014) and reportedly to be followed by
Moose Jaws, which Smith described as "just
Jaws with a moose."
SSN Insight: Director Kevin Smith, a comic book enthusiast who has written for Marvel and DC comics, and who previously wrote an unproduced
Superman screenplay, has said that he considers
Yoga Hosers to be his first comic book-style movie, "but instead of yet another dude saving the day our antiheroes are the most feared and formidable creatures man has ever encountered: two 15-year-old girls."
Prisoner of War
08/25/2014
Logline: An American soldier and a French foreign aid worker must join forces to survive a catastrophic alien invasion.
Production Companies: Voltage Pictures, Automatik Entertainment, 42, The Tea Shop & Film Company
Director: Joe Miale
Producers: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Rory Aitken, Benjamin Pugh, James Harris, Zev Foreman, Nicolas Chartier
Cast: Bérénice Marlohe, Lee Pace
Screenwriters: Rowan Athale, Joe Miale
SSN Insight: Alex Russell was previously in discussions to play the lead.
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Gridlocked
08/20/2014
Logline: While a former SWAT leader is being shadowed by a movie star, the two men join forces to organize an attack on a training facility to combat a team of mercenaries.
Production Company: Hackybox Pictures
Director: Allan Ungar
Producers: Cody Hackman, Bruno Marino, Geoff Hart
Cast: Dominic Purcell, Cody Hackman, Stephen Lang, Vinnie Jones, Danny Glover
Screenwriter: Allan Ungar, Rob Robol
SSN Insight: Cuba Gooding, Jr. previously attached to star.
Untitled (Woody Allen/Joaquin Phoenix Project)
08/20/2014
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Production Company: Gravier Productions
Director: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
SSN Insight: Project marks the second time Emma Stone has worked with Woody Allen, following this summer’s release
Magic in the Moonlight (USA/2014).
Ithaca
8/22/2014
Logline: When his older brother goes to fight in WWII, 14-year-old Homer looks after their family and works as a telegraph messenger, delivering messages of love, hope and pain in their small town.
Production Company: Playtone
Director: Meg Ryan
Executive Producers: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman
Producers: Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Meg Ryan, Erik Jendresen
Cast: Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Jack Quaid, Hamish Linklater
Screenwriter: Erik Jendresen
Details: Based on the novel
The Human Comedy, written by William Saroyan and published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1943.
SSN Insight: Melanie Griffith and Sam Shepard were previously attached as members of the cast.
