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NEW ATTACHMENTS
The Politician
Logline: A politician in Washington D.C. is caught in a scandal with some hookers and his career goes downhill from there.
Studio/Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Production Companies: Point Grey Pictures, Mark Gordon Company
Producers: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver Mark Gordon
Cast:
Vince Vaughn
Writers: Matthew Bass, Theodore Bressman
Director:
Michael Dowse
Details: Screenplay was included in the 2013 Black List.
SSN Insight: Project marks first studio project for Michael Dowse.
CHiPs
Logline: California motorcycle cops take down a criminal organization.
Studio/Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Companies:
Primate Pictures, Panay Films
Producers: Andrew Panay, Rick Rosner (Executive Producer)
Cast:
Dax Shepard, Michael Peña
Writers:
Dax Shepard, Paul Kaplan (previous draft), Mark Torgove (previous draft)
Director:
Dax Shepard
Details: Feature film version of television series
CHiPs (USA/1977-1983), which featured Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada.
SSN Insight: Project marks the first studio film that Dax Shepard will direct.
How Starbucks Saved My Life
Logline: An older advertising executive loses his job and family and has to go work at Starbucks to pay the bills. He befriends the young manager and learns about life and love.
Studio/Distributor: The Weinstein Company
Production Company: Polymorphic Pictures
Producers: Polly Johnson, Christy Ezzell
Writer:
Ned Benson (current draft), Robert Nelson Jacobs (previous draft)
Details: Based on the book
How Starbucks Saved My Life, written by Michael Gates Gill; published by Penguin Books January 1, 2007.
SSN Insight: Project reunites Ned Benson with The Weinstein Company since
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.
Untitled (Fox 2000/Peggy Lee Biopic)
Logline: The professional and personal life of singer Peggy Lee, whose career spanned seven decades.
Studio/Distributor: Fox 2000
Production Companies: Marc Platt Productions, Pacific Standard
Producers: Marc Platt, Reese Witherspoon
Cast: Reese Witherspoon
Writers: Doug Wright (current draft), Nora Ephron (previous draft)
Director:
Todd Haynes
SSN Insight: Project re-teams Reese Witherspoon with Marc Platt since the
Legally Blonde films.
The Magnificent Seven (Remake)
Logline: A group of seven tough gunslingers are hired by a village to put a stop to the vicious bandit and his gang who have been pillaging it for years
Studio/Distributor: MGM
Production Company: Roger Birnbaum Productions
Producer: Roger Birnbaum
Cast:
Denzel Washington
Writers: John Lee Hancock (current draft), Nic Pizzolatto (previous draft)
Director:
Antoine Fuqua
Details: Remake of
The Magnificent Seven (USA/1960), directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brenner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson.
SSN Insight: Project reteams Fuqua and Washington again since
The Equalizer.
NEW PROJECTS
The Book of Vision
Logline: An Italian doctor studying the history of medicine discovers mysterious information about an 18th century doctor.
Production Companies: Citrullo International, Twiga Film
Producers: Philipp Kreuzer, Terrence Malick (Executive Producer)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Carice Van Houten
Writers: Carlo Hintermann, Marco Saura
Director: Carlo Hintermann
SSN Insight: Project marks the feature directorial debut of Carlo Hintermann.
49-0/The Brockton Blockbuster
Logline: The life of undefeated heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano is chronicled.
Production Company: City of Peace Films
Producer: Yochanan Marcellino
Writer: Dustin Marcellino
Director: Dustin Marcellino
SSN Insight: Project marks the second feature for director Dustin Marcellino (
The Identical).
We All Looked Up
Logline: Two months before a meteor likely to destroy life on Earth arrives, the lives of four high school seniors intersect.
Studio/Distributor: Paramount Insurge
Production Company: Davis Entertainment
Producer: John Davis
Details: Based on the debut novel
We All Looked Up, written by Tommy Wallach and to be published by Simon & Schuster on March 31, 2015.
SSN Insight: Project marks the second recent genre deal between Insurge and Davis Entertainment (
Prism).
Hansel and Gretel
Logline: When their evil stepmother abandons them in the forest, little Hansel and Gretel wind up in a house made of gingerbread, owned by a witch who intends to eat them.
Production Company: Four Chickens For a Fiver
Producer: Juliet Blake
Details: Based on the graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti, and to be published by Toon Books on October 28, 2014. The graphic novel is based on the classic German fairytale recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812.
SSN Insight: Project marks the second feature film for producer Juliet Blake since
The Hundred-Foot Journey.
Victor the Assassin: The Killer
Logline: Mysterious, charismatic hitman Victor gets in trouble with his employers when his conscience begins to bother him.
Studio/Distributor: StudioCanal
Production Companies: The Picture Company, Sentient Entertainment
Producers: Andrew Rona, Alex Heineman, Renee Tab, Christopher Tuffin
Director: Pierre Morel
Details: Based on the novel The Killer, written by Tom Wood and published by Thomas Dunne Books in 2010. It is the first book in the six-book series
Victor the Assassin,written by Wood.
SSN Insight: Project marks first deal for Heineman and Rona’s new company, The Picture Company. It also reunites them with director Pierre Morel since
The Gunman.
