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Entourage
1/16/2014
Logline: Storyline is under wraps
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Studio: Warner Brothers Pictures
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Production Companies: Leverage Management, Closest to the Hole Productions, HBO Films
Director: Doug Ellin
Producers: Doug Ellin, Mark Wahlberg, Stephen
Levinson
Cast: Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jeremy Pivon, Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara
Screenwriters: Doug Ellin
Details: Based on the television series
Entourage, created by Doug Ellin that aired on HBO from 2004-2011.
SSN Insight: This is Doug Ellin’s first feature film he is directing since
Kissing A Fool in 1998.
Warcraft
1/20/2014
Logline: An epic fantasy set in a world populated with orcs, trolls, elves, and the undead.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Production Companies: Legendary Entertainment, Activision Blizzard, Liberty Films
Director: Duncan Jones
Executive Producers: Michael Morhaime, Paul Sams, Stuart Fenegan, Jillian Share, Brent O’Connor
Producers: Jon Jashni, Thomas Tull, Charles Roven, Alex Gartner
Cast: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Colin Farrell, Clancy Brown, Dominic Cooper
Screenwriters: Charles Leavitt (current draft), Duncan Jones (current draft)
Details: Based on the video game
Warcraft, released by Blizzard Entertainment in 1994.
SSN Insight: Sam Raimi was previously attached to direct and produce.
Man Up
1/20/2014
Logline: Nancy is on her way to her parents' anniversary celebration when she’s mistaken for a stranger’s blind date.
Production Companies: Big Talk Productions, StudioCanal
Director: Ben Palmer
Executive Producers: Simon Pegg, Matthew Justice, Rachael Prior, Dan Cheesbrough, Danny Perkins, Jenny Borgars, Christine Langan, Joe Oppenheimer
Producers: Nira Park, James Biddle
Cast: Simon Pegg, Lake Bell, Olivia Williams, Rory Kinnear, Harriet Walter
Screenwriter: Tess Morris
SSN Insight: The script made the 2011 Brit List.
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Chappie
1/20/2014
Logline: Two gangsters steal a robot so they can use him in their criminal enterprises.
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Production Company: Media Rights Capital
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Producers: Neill Blomkamp, Simon Kinberg
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Dev Patel, Die Antwoord
Screenwriters: Terri Tatchell, Neill Blomkamp
SSN Insight: Die Antwoord are a futuristic rave rap crew from South Africa, this will be their first venture in acting.
Fury
1/18/2014
Logline: In 1945, an American tank crew fights against the German army in its last throes.
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Production Companies: QED International, Le Grisbi Productions, Crave Films
Director: David Ayer
Executive Producers: Paul Hanson, Ethan Smith, Alex Ott
Producers: Bill Block, John Lesher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña
Screenwriter: David Ayer
SSN Insight: The spec was purchased by QED for $1million. This will be Brad Pitt’s second World War 2 movie after
Inglorious Basterds.
The Giver
1/17/2014
Logline: Set in the future, a boy suspects that the utopia may not be as it appears. Every member of this society has a specific role, and 12-year-old Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. The Giver is an old man who teaches the young boy how to use his gift, and slowly Jonas uncovers the truth behind his world’s past. He discovers that many years earlier his forefathers gave up humanity in order to have a stable society.
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Production Companies: AsIs Productions, On Screen Entertainment, Tonik Productions
Director: Phillip Noyce
Producers: Neil Koenigsberg, Jeff Bridges, Nikki Silver, Harvey Weinstein, Dylan Sellers, Julie Rapaport
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgård, Cameron Monaghan, Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift
Writer: Michael Mitnick
Details: Based on the novel
The Giver, written by Lois Lowry and originally published by Bantam Books in 1993.
SSN Insight: Jeff Bridges was previously attached to star and produce through his AsIs Productions, before the project was acquired by Warner Bros. in 2007. When that option lapsed, Jeff Bridges acquired the material once again.
