Title: Burlesque
Logline: Story of an ambitious smalltown girl with a big voice who finds love, family and success in a Los Angeles neo-burlesque club that appears to be right out of Bob Fosse’s “Cabaret.”
Writer: Steven Antin, Susannah Grant
Genre: Musical
Saletype: Script
Studio: Screen Gems
Executive Overseeing: Clint Culpepper (Screen Gems)
Production Company: De Line Pictures
Producer: Donald De Line
More: Christina Aguilera attached to star. Steven Antin attached to direct. Grant rewrote Antin’s original screenplay.
Title: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
Logline: Ollestad’s memoir recounts how his father infused his love for extreme sports in him as a boy, pressing him to become a competitive surfer and skier, experience that allowed him to survive when a plane crash stranded him on an icy mountaintop at age 11.
Writer: Norman Ollestad
Genre: Drama , Sports
Saletype: Novel
Studio: Warner Bros.
Production Company: Storyopolis, Gerber Pictures
Producer: Fonda Snyder, Rob Weisbach, Bill Gerber, Norman Ollestad
Agent: Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
Title: The Dry Land
Logline:Story follows a young soldier who returns home from a tour of duty only to find that his small-town life no longer fits.
Writer: Ryan Piers Williams
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Maya Entertainment
More: Wilmer Valderrama, Jason Ritter, Ryan O’Nan, America Ferrera attached to star. Ryan Piers Williams attached to direct.
Title: Everybody Loves Whales
Logline: The script tells the story of three California gray whales who were found trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle in October 1988. The subsequent rescue attempt became a huge global event, as scores of journalists converged on the nearby Eskimo town of Barrow, Alaska, and the U.S. and Soviet government enjoyed a rare moment of collaboration. The two-week drama played out at a time of geopolitical change, with Mikhail Gorbachev in the midst of his glasnost initiative and Ronald Reagan preparing to leave office after his second term. In addition to the rescue attempt, Amiel and Begler’s script centers on a love story between a nonprofit aid worker and a journalist.
Writer: Jack Amiel, Michael Beglar
Genre: Family , Drama
Saletype: Script
Studio: Warner Bros.
Executive Overseeing: Jon Berg (WB), Jesse Ehrman (WB)
Production Company: Anonymous Content
Producer: Steve Golin, Michael Sugar
Agent: William Morris Agency (WMA)
Manager: Anonymous Content
Title: Help Me Spread Goodness
Logline: Story about a Chicago banker who gets swindled in a Nigerian Internet scam.
Writer: Mark Friedman
Genre: Drama , Comedy
Saletype: Script
Executive Overseeing: Jonathan King (Participant), Ricky Strauss (Participant)
Production Company: Participant Media
Producer: Ben Stiller, Stuart Kornfeld, Jeremy Kramer
More: Ben Stiller attached to direct.
Title: The Pale Horsemen
Logline: Project is described as a supernatural thriller that revolves around a gang of hitmen who are forced to work together to uncover who killed their mentor.
Writer: Kevin Grevioux
Genre: Thriller , Supernatural
Saletype: Comic , Adaptation
Production Company: Nehst Studios, Sandrunner Entertainment, DarkStorm Filmworks
Producer: Larry Meistrich, Ari Friedman, Shane Walker, H. Michael Heuser
More: Grevioux to adapt his own graphic novel. Kevin Grevioux attached to direct.
Title: Q
Logline: Story centers on marionettes in Central Park who escape from their theater and embark on a fanstastical adventure.
Writer: Alec Sokolow, Joel Cohen
Genre: Adventure , Animation , Fantasy
Saletype: Script
Executive Overseeing: David J. Steinberg (Starz)
Production Company: Starz Media Animation
Producer: Alec Sokolow, Joel Cohen
Agent: Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
Manager: Gotham Group
Title: Ghostopolis
Logline: Story story centers on a man who works for the government’s Supernatural Immigration Task Force. His job is to send ghosts who have escaped into our world back to Ghostopolis. When a living boy accidentally is sent to the other side, the agent must team with a female ghost (and former flame) to bring him back.
Writer: Doug Tennapel
Genre: Thriller , Action , Supernatural
Saletype: Comic
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Production Company: Seed Productions, Gotham Group
Producer: Hugh Jackman, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Palermo
Manager: Gotham Group
More: Hugh Jackman attached to star.
Title: Tribes of October
Logline: Story is set in a future in which New York has become surrounded by an endless desert plagued by heat storms, and the city’s technology is such that nothing made after 1960 works any more. In this environment, a detective goes after a Mafia don who is going after the remnants of the NYPD. The detective is simultaneously searching for the love of his life.
Writer: Nick Vellelonga, Paul Sloan
Genre: Thriller
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Cinepro Pictures, Finance in Motion
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Karinne Behr
More: Philippe Martinez attached to direct. Ray Stevenson, Jaime King, Stephen Moyer, Robert Duvall, and James Caan attached to star.
Title: Love Child
Logline: Story of an ex-con trying to go straight whose plan is thwarted by a loan shark forcing the ex-con to attempt one last heist.
Writer: Michael Melski
Genre: Crime
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Myriad Pictures, Alcina Pictures
Producer: Paul Barkin, Larissa Giroux, Kirk D’Amico
More: Rebecca Romjin, Sarah Roemer, Rossif Sutherland and Donald Sutherland attached to star. Risa Bramon Garcia attached to direct.
Title: Cold Skin
Logline: Project is an Antarctic island-set horror/psychological thriller.
Writer: Albert Sanchez Pinol, Jesus Olmo
Genre: Horror , Psychological Thriller
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation
Production Company: Kanzaman
Producer: Denise O’Dell, Mark Abela
More: Olmo adapted Pinol’s novel. David Slade attached to direct.
Title: Planet B-Boy
Logline: Story about the international world of B-boying, commonly known in the U.S. as breakdancing.
Writer: Benson Lee
Genre: Drama , Musical
Saletype: Rights Option
Studio: Screen Gems
Executive Overseeing: Clint Culpepper (Screen Gems), Shannon Gaulding (Screen Gems)
Production Company: Contrafilm
Producer: Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson, Amy Lo, Lisa Zambri
More: Benson Lee attached to direct. Project will be based on Lee’s documentary.
Title: Fancy Hardware
Logline: Story of a womanizing salesman in the 1930s.
Writer: A.J. Carothers
Genre: Drama , Period
Saletype: Script
Producer: David Foster, Ryan E. Heppe, Caryl Carothers
Title: Sixty-Six
Logline: Story about a group of characters coming of age in 1966 Baltimore on the eve of significant historical events such as the counterculture movement and the war in Vietnam.
Writer: Barry Levinson
Genre: Drama , Coming Of Age
Saletype: Script
More: Barry Levinson attached to direct.
Title: Signals
Logline: Thriller is said to be in the vein of “Three Days of the Condor,” Sydney Pollack’s milestone of the 1970s paranoid-thriller era.
Writer: Richard Potter, Matthew Stravitz
Genre: Thriller
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Media Rights Capital
Agent: William Morris Agency (WMA)
Manager: Principal Entertainment
