SCREENPLAY SALES SEPTEMBER 2013

Title:     The Forger
Date:     Thursday, August 22, 2013
Logline:     Story of a former child art prodigy and second-generation petty thief who buys his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to commit one last crime.
Writer:     Richard D'Ovidio
Genre:     Drama , Crime , Indie
Saletype:     Script
Production Company:     Code Entertainment, Prospect Park, The Solution
Producer:     Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt, Eugene Musso, Rob Carliner, Jonathan Dana, Randi Michel, Myles Nestel, Lisa Wilson.
Agent:     WME, ICM
More:     John Travolta, Tye Sheridan attached to star. Philip Martin attached to direct.


Title:     Noble Assassin
Date:     Thursday, August 22, 2013
Logline:     Based on the true story of a French aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur named Robert de la Rochefoucauld. De la Rochefoucauld grew up in privilege in France, but when the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, he fled and joined the British Special Operations Executive. He was trained to crack safes and to kill and was sent back to France where he helped organize the resistance. He blew up train stations and munitions factories, was tortured for months when caught and twice escaped execution.
Writer:     Paul Kix
Genre:     Thriller , Action , Adventure , Period
Saletype:     Pitch , Novel
Production Company:     Anonymous Content
Producer:     Cary Fukunaga,
More:     Cary Fukunaga attached to direct.


Title:     Janis Joplin Biopic
Date:     Thursday, August 22, 2013
Logline:     Story of the life of blues singer Janis Joplin.
Genre:     Biography
Saletype:     Pitch
More:     Amy Adams attached to star. Lee Daniels attached to direct.


Title:     Focus
Date:     Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Logline:     Story of a con man who becomes romantically involved with a novice. He is then thrown off his game when the former flame shows up just as he's staging an elaborate con in Buenos Aires.
Writer:     Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Genre:     Thriller , Crime
Saletype:     Script
Studio:     Warner Bros
Executive Overseeing:     Courtenay Valenti
Producer:     Denise Di Novi
More:     Will Smith, Rodrigo Santoro attached to star. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa attached to direct.


Title:     The Longest Ride
Date:     Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Logline:     The story runs on two tracks that ultimately converge. One focuses on an elderly man who lies trapped in a car accident. While fighting to remain conscious, he sees visions of his deceased wife and their life together. The second centers on a high school senior who meets a young bull rider with a secret.
Writer:     Nicholas Sparks, Craig Bolotin
Genre:     Drama
Saletype:     Novel , Adaptation
Production Company:     Temple Hill
Producer:     Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey
Agent:     Gersh Agency
Manager:     Echo Lake Management
More:     Bolotin to adapt Sparks' novel.


Title:     Cannibal
Date:     Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Logline:     Project is described as a surreal crime thriller set in the world of illegal organ trading.
Writer:     Ronnie Porto
Genre:     Thriller , Crime
Saletype:     Pitch
Production Company:     1984 Private Defense Contractors
Producer:     Adi Shankar, Spencer Silna
Agent:     Creative Artists Agency (CAA), United Talent Agency (UTA)
Manager:     Caliber Media
More:     Alexandre Moors attached to direct.


Title:     Max Steel
Date:     Thursday, August 08, 2013
Logline:     The story focuses on a teen named Max who's imbued with an energy power called TURBO, which stands for Tachyon Unlimited Radiant Bio-Optimized. He is partnered with Steel, a technological alien who protects him.
Writer:     Christopher Yost
Genre:     Action , Sci-Fi , Fantasy , Live Action/Animation
Saletype:     Rights Option , Adaptation
Production Company:     Dolphin Entertainment, Mattel
Agent:     Verve and Industry Entertainment (Yost)
More:     Stewart Hendler attached to direct.


Title:     Expendables 3
Date:     Thursday, August 08, 2013
Logline:     A team of mercenaries are hired to eliminate a national security threat.
Writer:     Sylvester Stallone, Dave Callaham
Genre:     Action , Adventure , Suspense
Saletype:     Sequel
Studio:     Lionsgate
Production Company:     Nu Image/Millennium Films
More:     Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, Jackie Chan and Nicolas Cage are attached to star.


Title:     The Giver
Date:     Thursday, August 08, 2013
Logline:     The story is about a society in which there is no conflict, racism or sickness.
Writer:     Lois Lowry, Vadim Perelman
Genre:     Sci-Fi , Fantasy
Saletype:     Script , Novel , Adaptation
Studio:     The Weinstein Co.
Production Company:     Walden Media, Tonik Productions
Producer:     Nikki Silver, Neil Koenigsberg, Jeff Bridges,
More:     Phillip Noyce attached to direct. Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges and Brenton Thwaites are attached to star. Vadim Perelman adapted Lois Lowry's novel.


Title:     Star Trek 3
Date:     Thursday, August 08, 2013
Logline:     No logline given.
Writer:     Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
Genre:     Action , Sci-Fi , Fantasy
Saletype:     Sequel
Studio:     Paramount Studios
Production Company:     Skydance Productions, Bad Robot
Producer:     J.J. Abrams
Agent:     CAA (Kurtzman, Orci)
Attorney:     Michael Gendler (Kurtzman, Orci)
More:     Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana are attached to star.


Title:     A Good Marriage
Date:     Monday, June 24, 2013
Logline:     A woman discovers the sinister and gruesome double life that her husband and the father of her two children has been living.
Writer:     Stephen King
Genre:     Thriller , Suspense
Saletype:     Script , Novel , Adaptation
Production Company:     Reno Productions
Producer:     Peter Askin, Will Battersby
More:     Joan Allen, Theo Stockman and Anthony LaPaglia attached to star. Peter Askin attached to direct. Stephen King adapted his own novel.


Title:     Encyclopedia Brown
Date:     Monday, June 24, 2013
Logline:     The son of a local police chief, who runs his own detective agency out of the family s garage.
Writer:     Donald J. Sobol
Genre:     Adventure , Family , Crime , Fantasy
Saletype:     Novel , Adaptation
Studio:     Warner Bros.
Executive Overseeing:     Jesse Ehrman
Producer:     Roy Lee, Howard David Deutsch, Jon Zakin


Title:     Rochester
Date:     Monday, June 24, 2013
Logline:     The story is about Jane Eyre, an orphaned girl who becomes an independently-minded governess at the estate of Edward Rochester.
Writer:     Aline Brosh McKenna, Charlotte Bronte
Genre:     Drama , Romance , Period
Saletype:     Script , Novel , Adaptation
Studio:     Fox Studios
Production Company:     Archaia Publishing
Producer:     Aline Brosh McKenna, Simon Kinberg, Stephen Christy, Jack Cummins
Agent:     CAA and Hansen Jacobson (McKenna)
Price:     seven figures
More:     Aline Brosh McKenna will adapt Charlotte Bronte's novel.


Title:     Cinderella
Date:     Friday, June 21, 2013
Logline:     When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from her Fairy Godmother and lives happily ever after with the prince.
Writer:     Aline Brosh McKenna, Chris Weitz
Genre:     Family , Romance , Fantasy
Saletype:     Script
Studio:     Disney Studios
Producer:     Simon Kinberg, Allison Shearmur, David Barron
More:     Kenneth Branagh is attached to direct. Helena Bonham Carter, Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Sophie McShera and Holliday Granger are attached to star.


Title:     Hercules
Date:     Friday, June 21, 2013
Logline:     Hercules is portrayed not as the son of Zeus but rather as a mortal with a fearsome reputation. He leads a team of mercenaries on a job where all is ominously not what it appears.
Genre:     Action , Fantasy
Saletype:     Comic , Adaptation
Studio:     MGM, Paramount
Producer:     Brett Ratner, Beau Flynn, Barry Levine
More:     Dwayne Johnson, Tobias Santelmann, Ian McShane, Joseph Fiennes, John Hurt and Rebecca Ferguson are attached to star. Brett Ratner is attached to direct.


Title:     Maggie
Date:     Friday, June 21, 2013
Logline:     The story is about a father whose daughter is infected by a walking-dead virus that has spread across the country.
Writer:     John Scott 3
Genre:     Action , Supernatural , Fantasy
Saletype:     Script
Producer:     Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Matt Baer, Trevor Kaufman, Colin Bates, Joey Tufaro, Bill Johnson, Jim Seibel, Ara Keshishian, Hubert Gibbs, Claudia Bluemhuber, Arnold Schwarzenegger , John Scott 3
More:     Henry Hobson attached to direct. Arnold Schwarzenegger attached to star.


Title:     The Gunman
Date:     Friday, June 21, 2013
Logline:     An international operative is betrayed by the organization he works for, forcing him into a game of cat and mouse across Europe.
Writer:     Jean-Patrick Manchette, Pete Travis
Genre:     Thriller , Action
Saletype:     Script , Novel , Adaptation
Production Company:     Silver Pictures
Producer:     Joel Silver, Andrew Rona, Steve Richards
More:     Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Jasmine Trinca, Mark Rylance and Idris Elba attached to star. Pete Travis adapted Jean-Patrick Manchette's novel. Pierre Morel is attached to direct.


Title:     After
Date:     Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Logline:     The story of two bus-crash survivors who share the same dream while in a coma.
Writer:     Jason Parish, Ryan Smith
Genre:     Drama , Fantasy
Saletype:     Script
Production Company:     Jinga Films, Mongrel Media
More:     Steven Strait and Karolina Wydra star in film. Ryan Smith directed film.


Title:     Epsilon
Date:     Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Logline:     Set after a failed robot rebellion on Earth, the remaining robots seek refuge on a space station and begin to raise their own human lab rats, which they train to act as their agents.
Writer:     Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Genre:     Action , Sci-Fi
Saletype:     Script
Studio:     Sony Studios
Executive Overseeing:     Jonathan Kadin
Producer:     Michael DeLuca, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Price:     $1 million
More:     Greg Berlanti attached to direct.


Title:     Outliers
Date:     Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Logline:     No logline given.
Writer:     Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan
Genre:     Action , Supernatural
Saletype:     Pitch
Studio:     Fox Studios
Executive Overseeing:     Jason Young
Production Company:     Underground
Producer:     Peter Chernin, Trevor Engelson, Mike Larocca, Jenno Topping
Agent:     Underground and WME (Melton, Dunstan)
More:     David Karlak attached to direct.


Title:     Stretch
Date:     Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Logline:     A down-on-his luck limo driver nicknamed Stretch, who is trying to get clean and pay back a debt owed to a bookie when he gets the passenger from hell.
Genre:     Thriller
Saletype:     Script
Production Company:     Blumhouse
Producer:     Jason Blum
More:     Joe Carnahan attached to direct. Ed Helms, Patrick Wilson and Chris Pine attached to star.


Title:     The Purge
Date:     Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Logline:     The story is set in a society where once a year, there's a 12-hour period when all crime is allowed and condoned.
Genre:     Horror , Crime , Fantasy
Saletype:     Sequel
Studio:     Universal Studios
Producer:     Jason Blum


Title:     Choose Your Own Adventure
Date:     Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Logline:     No logline given.
Writer:     Edward Packard, R. A. Montgomery
Genre:     Fantasy
Saletype:     Novel , Adaptation
Studio:     Fox Studios
Production Company:     Chooseco, Red Crown, Davis Entertainment
Producer:     R. A. Montgomery, Shannon Gilligan, John Davis, John Fox, Damien Saccani, Daniela Taplin


Title:     Romeo and Juliet
Date:     Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Logline:     The story is about a tragic love affair.
Writer:     William Shakespeare, Julian Fellowes
Genre:     Drama , Romance , Period
Saletype:     Script , Novel , Adaptation
Production Company:     Relativity Media, Amber Entertainment, Swarovski Entertainment, Echo Lake Entertainment
Producer:     Julian Fellowes, Ileen Maisel, Lawrence Elman, Nadja Swarovski, Simon Bosanquet, Alexander Koll, Dimitra Tsingou, Doug Mankoff, Andrew Spaulding
More:     Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Paul Giamatti, Stellan Skarsgard, Damian Lewis and Ed Westwick star in film. Carlo Carlei directed film. Julian Fellowes adapted William Shakespeare's novel.


Title:     Pixels
Date:     Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Logline:     The story is about characters who come out of a video game to wreak havoc in the real world.
Writer:     Tim Dowling, Patrick Jean
Genre:     Action , Sci-Fi , Fantasy
Saletype:     Script , Short Story , Adaptation
Studio:     Sony Studios
Production Company:     Happy Madison, One More Production
Producer:     Patrick Jean, Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Benjamin Darras, Johnny Alves, Matias Boucard
More:     Chris Columbus attached to direct. Tim Dowling adapted Patrick Jean's short.


Title:     Alice in Wonderland
Date:     Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Logline:     The story about a girl named Alice, who is transported to a magical world.
Writer:     Linda Woolverton
Genre:     Adventure , Family , Fantasy
Saletype:     Sequel
Studio:     Disney Studios
Producer:     Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd
More:     James Bobin attached to direct.


Title:     Fables
Date:     Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Logline:     The story centers on fairy and folktale characters ranging from Snow White and Cinderella to the Big Bad Wolf and Little Boy Blue, who are kicked out of their world and now live in a secret pocket of New York City.
Writer:     Jeremy Slater. Bill Willingham
Genre:     Fantasy
Saletype:     Comic , Adaptation
Production Company:     Heyday Films
Producer:     David Heyman, Jeffrey Clifford
Agent:     UTA and Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment (Slater)
More:     Nikolaj Arcel attached to direct. Jeremy Slater will adapt Bill Willingham's comic.


Title:     A Prophet
Date:     Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Logline:     The story centers on a young Algerian man, who is mentored by a crime boss while in prison and rises to lead a syndicate.
Genre:     Drama , Crime
Saletype:     Remake
Studio:     Sony Studios
Production Company:     Original Film
Producer:     Neal H. Moritz, Toby Jaffe


Title:     Timecop
Date:     Thursday, May 23, 2013
Logline:     Set in the near future, the story is about where time travel is regulated by a police force.
Genre:     Action , Sci-Fi , Fantasy
Saletype:     Remake
Studio:     Universal Studios
Production Company:     Global Produce
Producer:     Marc Shmuger, Tom McNulty


Title:     The Dead Men
Date:     Thursday, May 23, 2013
Logline:     The story centers on an American running from his past, who is brought into a group of young underground radicals called The Dead Men, only to discover a centuries-old spiritual battle.
Writer:     Andrew Poston
Genre:     Thriller , Action , Fantasy
Saletype:     Script
Production Company:     Contento Films
Producer:     Brad Furman, Alejo Arango, Laura Gomez, Aaron Ginsberg
More:     Kirk Sullivan attached to direct. Diego Boneta and Jackson Rathbone attached to star.

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