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NEW ATTACHMENTS
Supreme Ruler
Logline: A local lodge member vies to become the Supreme Ruler, but when an elder rival steps in, the man must gain the support of an established Supreme Ruler at the annual convention in order to win.
Production Company: Solipsist Films
Producers: Steven A. Jones, Stephen L’Heureux, Duane Edwards
Cast:
Anthony Anderson, Peyton List, Ron Livingston, Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Geraghty, Vincent D’Onofrio, Natalie Zea
Writer: Frederick Mensch
Director: Duane Edwards
SSN Insight: This project marks the directorial debut for Duane Edwards.
The Breach
Logline: An ex-cop who's getting back on his feet after a stint in prison finds himself in a power struggle to obtain a mysterious artifact that can bring about the end of the world.
Studio/Distributor:
Lionsgate
Production Companies: DiBonaventura Pictures, Phantom Four
Producers: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, David Goyer, Nellie Stevens (Co-Producer)
Writer: Justin Rhodes
Director:
David Goyer
Details: Based on the novel
The Breach, written by Patrick Lee and published by Harper on December 29, 2009.
SSN Insight: This project drew interest from Warner Bros., Fox, Relativity and Millenium, but Lionsgate’s desire to fast-track it made it the winner.
Queen of Hearts
Logline: A professor tells stories to the daughters of a Dean, all the while falling in love with the Dean's wife, a love affair that results in the writing of "Alice in Wonderland"
Production Companies: OddLot Entertainment, Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Producer: David McIlvain
Writer: Stephanie Shannon
Director:
Seth Gordon
SSN Insight: Project marks first sale for Stephanie Shannon as well as being the 2013 Nicholl’s Fellowship winner and making the 2013 Black List. Shannon wrote the script while she was an assistant on David McIlvain’s desk.
NEW PROJECTS
Long Midnight of Barney Thompson
Logline: A browbeaten Scottish barber accidentally stumbles into serial murder and his dark fantasies turn into reality.
Distributor: Myriad Pictures
Production Companies: Myriad Pictures, Trinity Works Entertainment
Producers: John G. Lenic, Kaleena Kiff, Kirk D’Amico (Executive Producer)
Cast: Emma Thompson, Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Ewen Bremmer
Writers: Richard Cowan, Colin McLaren
Director: Robert Carlyle
Details: Based on the novel The Long Midnight of Barney Thompson, written by Douglas Lindsay and published by Blasted Heath on November 21, 2013.
SSN Insight: This project marks the directorial debut for actor Robert Carlyle.
My Name is Emily
Logline: On her 16
th birthday, Emily escapes her foster home with the boy who loves her to set out on a road trip to find her biological father who is locked up in a psychiatric facility.
Production Companies: Newgrange Pictures,Kennedy Films
Producers: Lesley McKimm, Jackie Larkin, David Kennedy
Cast: Freddie Highmore, James Nesbitt
Director: Simon Fitzmaurice
SSN Insight: Feature directorial debut for Simon Fitzmaurice, who shortly after two of his short films played at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, was diagnosed with a motor neuron disease that has resulted in paralysis. Only able to control his eye movements, Fitzmaurice now completes his scripts using an iris-recognition screen. Additionally, producers raised an estimated €100,000 for this feature film through a crowd-funding campaign, with the help of endorsements from Alan Rickman, Colin Farrell and Sam Neill, Jim Sheridan and Lenny Abrahamson, among others
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