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Set Fire To The Stars
01/27/2014
Logline: The turbulent relationship between Dylan Thomas and John Malcolm Brinnin is dramatized. Brinnin was the American poet who brought Thomas to visit the U.S. in the early 1950s.
Production Company: Skyline Films
Director: Andy Goddard
Executive Producer: Steve Clark-Hall
Producer: A.J Riach
Cast: Elijah Wood, Celyn Jones, Kelly Reilly
Screenwriters: Andy Goddard, Celyn Jones
SSN Insight: Andy Goddard is known for his directing work on TV shows such as ‘Downton Abbey’
A Most Violent Year
01/29/2014
Logline: An immigrant and his family try to survive one of the most violent years in the history of New York City.
Production Companies: Before the Door Pictures, FilmNation, Washington Square Arts & Films
Director: J.C. Chandor
Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll, Glen Basner, Jonathan King, Joshua Blum, Kerry Orent
Producers: Neal Dodson, Anna Gerb
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac, David Oyelowo, Alfred Molina
Screenwriters: J.C . Chandor
SSN Insight: Javier Bardem was previously attached to star.
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Glassland
01/30/2014
Logline: A young, Dublin taxi driver gets involved in the world of human trafficking while he’s trying to save his mother from her addiction.
Production Companies: Element Pictures, Nine Entertainment
Director: Gerard Barrett
Executive Producer: Andrew Lowe
Producers: Ed Guiney, Juliette Bonass
Cast: Toni Collette, Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, Michael Smiley
Screenwriter: Gerard Barrett
SSN Insight: 26-year old writer-director Barrett won the 2013 Irish Film and Television Awards Rising Star Award for debut feature
Pilgrim Hill, which he also produced and edited.
Unbroken
02/01/2014
Logline: The life story of Lou Zamperini, a high school track star who made an appearance in the 1936 Olympics. In World War II he was in the United States Air Force and his plane crashed in the Pacific. He survived without food and water for 47 days until washing up ashore on a Japanese island behind enemy lines, where he was held as a prisoner of war for two years and tortured by his captors.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Production Companies: Matthew Baer Films, 3 Arts Entertainment
Director: Angelina Jolie
Executive Producer: Mike Garris
Producers: Angelina Jolie, Matthew Baer, Erwin Stoff, Clayton Townsend, Michael Bostick
Cast: Jack O’Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Jai Courtney, Finn Wittrock
Screenwriters: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Details: Based on the book
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, written by Laura Hillenbrand, published by Random House on November 16, 2010.
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development with Plan B Entertainment, Brillstein-Grey and Saturn Films.
