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Home Invasion
11/25
Logline: A dysfunctional family must fight for their lives against home invaders.
Production Company: Zinc Entertainment
Director: Sean Carter
Executive Producers: Steve Richards, Joel Silver, Michael Fiore
Producers: Andrew Rona, Alex Heineman, Craig J Flores, Nicola Chartier
Cast: Bella Thorne, Natalie Martinez, Ioan Gruffudd
Screenwriter: Joseph Dembner
SSN Insight: This is Sean Carter’s directorial debut
1:30 Train
11/22
Logline: When two strangers are forced to spend a night together in New York, their late night adventures lead them to question the choices they have made and open them up to the possibility of love.
Production Companies: Baldwin Entertainment Group, Wonderland Sound and Vision
Director: Chris Evans
Executive Producers: Nick Morton, Julie Yorn
Producers: Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin, Ron Bass, McG, Mary Viola, William J. Immerman
Cast: Chris Evans, Alice Eve
Screenwriters: Ron Bass, Jen Smolka
SSN Insight: Joel Schumacher was previously attached to direct, this marks Chris Evans’ directorial debut.
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Top Dog
11/23
Logline: A London criminal gets in over his head when he screws over a dangerous gang.
Production Company: Richwater Films
Director: Martin Kemp
Producer: Jonathan Sothcott
Cast: Leo Gregory
Screenwriter: Dougie Brimson
Details: Based on the novel
Top Dog, written by Dougie Brimson and published by
Headline on April 1, 2002.
SSN Insight: Jonathan Sothcott previously worked with Martin Kemp on
Assassin.
How to Make Love Like an Englishman
11/20
Logline: When a Cambridge University professor with a playboy lifestyle meets a wonderful woman, he decides to change his ways, but the situation becomes complicated when he he impregnates her stepsister.
Production Companies: Irish DreamTime, Southpaw Entertainment
Director: Tom Vaughan
Executive Producers: Jim Seibel, Stepan Martirosyan, Remington Chase, Raj Singh, Kevin Scott Frakes, Lisa Wilson, Myles Nestel, Jon Amiel
Producers: Bill Johnson, Richard Barton Lewis, Beau St. Clair, Grant Cramer
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Jessica Alba, Salma Hayek, Kristin Scott Thomas
Screenwriter: Matthew Newman
SSN Insight: Malin Akerman was previously mentioned to star and Michelle Pfeiffer was originally attached to star.
Wild
11/25
Logline: After a series of hardships, an inexperienced hiker tackles an 1100 mile hike to reclaim her life.
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Production Companies: Pacific Standard, River Road Entertainment
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Executive Producers: Nathan Ross, Nick Hornby, Cheryl Strayed
Producers: Reese Witherspoon, Bill Pohlad, Bruna Papandrea
Cast: Reese Witherspoon
Writer: Nick Hornby
Details: Based on the book
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, written by Cheryl Strayed and published by Knopf on March 20, 2012.
SSN Insight: This is Jean-Marc Vallée’s much anticipated follow up movie after
Dallas Buyers Club.
Madame Bovary
11/23
Logline: The wife of a provincial doctor, Emma Bovary defies cultural expectations in an effort to escape boredom and depression.
Production Company: Occupant Entertainment
Director: Sophie Barthes
Producers: Felipe Marino, Joe Neurauter
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller
Writer: Rose Barreneche
Details: Based on the novel
Madame Bovary, written by Gustave Flaubert and published in 1857.
SSN Insight: Paul Giamatti starred in Sophie Barthes 2009 movie
Cold Souls that she wrote and directed.
Pele
11/20
Logline: A young boy, Pele, goes through many ups and downs growing up on the path to winning his first World Cup at age 17.
Production Company: Imagine Entertainment
Directors: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
Executive Producers: Pelé, Paul Kemsley, Guy East, Sarah Bowen
Producers: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Ivan Orlic, Colin Wilson, Kim Roth, Dany Wolf
Cast: Vincent D’Onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta, Colm Meaney, George Raynor, Seu Jorge
Writers: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
SSN Insight: This is the Zimbalist’s first major motion picture