THE LATEST SCREENPLAYS SALES IN HOLLYWOOD
As usual a lot of fantasy remakes and adaptations...
Title: The Reluctant Communist
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Logline: The story of Charles Robert Jenkins' 1965 desertion and subsequent 40-year imprisonment in North Korea.
Genre: Drama , Comedy
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Brett Ratner attached to direct. Ross Katz will adapt Charles Robert Jenkins and Jim Frederick's book.
Title: Of All the Things
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Logline: Story centers on songwriter-producer Dennis Lambert.
Writer: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley
Genre: Drama , Documentary
Saletype: Remake
Steve Carell attached to star.
Title: Terri
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Logline: Story centers on the friendship between an overweight 15-year-old and a high school vice principal.
Writer: Patrick Dewitt
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
John C. Reilly, Jacob Wysocki, Creed Bratton, Tim Heidecker and Olivia Crocicchia star in film. Azazel Jacobs directed film.
Title: Little Girl Lost
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Logline: The story of a New York City private investigator who is stunned to learn that his high school girlfriend -- a stripper -- has been murdered. The last he knew, she had moved to the Midwest to become an eye doctor. He sets out to learn the truth about her death.
Writer: Richard Aleas, Michael Bacall
Genre: Drama , Crime
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Jonathan Levine attached to direct. Michael Bacall attached to adapt Richard Aleas' novel.
Title: Vampire Summer Camp
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Logline: Story centers on a musical-theater competish between two summer camps, one of which is a camp for youthful-looking vampires.
Writer: Jenny Jaffe, James Merendino
Genre: Horror , Comedy
Saletype: Script
James Merendino attached to direct.
Title: Lizard Music
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Logline: Story about an 11-year-old boy who exists in a highly imaginative fantasy world of his own creation, until he meets a group of lizard musicians who just might be real.
Writer: Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Joel Hopkins
Genre: Drama , Fantasy
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Joel Hopkins attached to direct and adapt Daniel Manus Pinkwater's book.
Title: Girlfriend
Date: Monday, September 27, 2010
Logline: A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Writer: Justin Lerner
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
Jackson Rathbone, Evan Sneider, Amanda Plummer and Shannon Woodward star in film. Justin Lerner directed film.
Title: Trollhunters
Date: Monday, September 27, 2010
Logline: A fairy tale about trolls that hunt.
Writer: Guillermo del Toro
Genre: Animation
Saletype: Pitch
Title: The Dark Divine
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Logline: Story centers on a 16-year-old pastor's daughter who falls in love with a boy who reveals he's a werewolf.
Writer: Bree Despain
Genre: Supernatural , Fantasy , Teen
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Title: Underworld
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Logline: Story about vampires versus werewolves.
Writer: John Hlavin, J. Michael Straczynski
Genre: Action , Supernatural , Fantasy
Saletype: Sequel
Kate Beckinsale attached to star.
Title: 21 Jump Street
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Logline: Story of young undercover cops.
Writer: Michael Bacall
Genre: Drama , Crime
Saletype: Remake
Phil Lord attached to direct. Jonah Hill and Emma Stone attached to star.
Title: When Santa Fell to Earth
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010
Logline: The story follows Niklas, the last real Santa, who's on the run after the evil leader of the Great Christmas Council outlaws all of the old, magical ways, replacing reindeers with snowmobiles and banning elves and angels. With the help of local kids Ben and Charlotte, Niklas leads the fight to preserve all that is magical and special about Christmas while avoiding the Council's menacing nutcracker army.
Writer: Cornelia Funke, Benjamin Bien, Robin Getrost
Genre: Family , Fantasy
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation
Oliver Diekmann attached to direct. Benjamin Bien and Robin Getrost adapted Cornelia Funke's novel.
Title: Wicked Lovely
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010
Logline: Story centers on a teenaged girl who has seen dangerous faeries her entire life must suddenly go against everything she was taught in order to confront a world she was raised to fear.
Writer: Melissa Marr, Caroline Thompson
Genre: Fantasy
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Kimberly Peirce attached to direct. Caroline Thompson is adapting Melissa Marr's novel.
Title: The Legacy
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010
Logline: Story is about a perfect crime centering on a mother in her 30s and her two amazing boys.
Writer: Gregg Hurwitz
Genre: Drama , Crime
Saletype: Pitch
Title: Expulsion
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010
Logline: Story centers on a small band of survivors escaping to a planet beyond the solar system after a terrorist attack destroys Earth.
Writer: Gregg Hurwitz
Genre: Sci-Fi
Saletype: Pitch
Title: Mr. Popper's Penguins
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Logline: A New York business man suddenly inherits six penguins. Taking care of the animals is no easy matter, and he quickly hits major hurtles, both at home and at work.
Writer: Richard and Florence Atwater, Sean Anders, Jared Stern, John Morris
Genre: Family
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Carla Gugino and Jim Carrey attached to star. Mark Waters attached to direct. Sean Anders, Jared Stern and John Morris adapted Richard and Florence Atwater's children's book.
Title: Darling Companion
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Logline: Story focuses on a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. The husband then loses the dog after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies.
Writer: Lawrence & Meg Kasdan
Genre: Drama , Comedy
Saletype: Script
Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, Richard Jenkins and Elisabeth Moss attached to star. Lawrence Kasdan attached to direct.
Title: Untitled Drama
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Logline: The story is about the complex relationship between John Gotti Jr. and his mobster father.
Writer: Leo Rossi
Genre: Drama , Crime , Biography
Saletype: Pitch
Title: The Zookeeper's Wife
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Logline: The true story of how Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the keepers of the Warsaw zoo, turned the zoo into a safe haven for Jews after the Germans invaded Poland during World War II.
Writer: Diane Ackerman, Angela Workman
Genre: Drama , War
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Angela Workman will adapt Diane Ackerman's novel.
Title: First Grader
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Logline: The true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan man's battle to get an education.
Writer: Ann Peacock
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
Oliver Musila Litondo and Naomie Harris star in film. Justin Chadwick directed film.
Title: Meek's Cutoff
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Logline: Set in 1845 on the Oregon Trail, the story is focused on a wagon train of three families who have hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains only to become lost in the dry rock and sage in pursuit of a short cut.
Writer: Kelly Reichardt
Genre: Drama , Western
Saletype: Script
Kelly Reichardt directed film. Bruce Greenwood, Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson, Tommy Nelson and Neal Huff star in film.
Title: 360
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Logline: The story follows pairs of characters and their sexual encounters.
Writer: Peter Morgan
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Play , Adaptation
Peter Morgan will adapt script based on a 1900 play 'Reigen.' Rachel Weisz attached to star. Fernando Meirelles attached to direct.
Title: For the Love of Money
Date: Monday, September 20, 2010
Logline: Story centers on the themes of family, friendship and the ties that bind between Jewish gangsters.
Writer: Jenna Mattison
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
Delphine Chaneac and Yehuda Levi attached to star. Ellie Kanner attached to direct.
Title: Firelight
Date: Monday, September 20, 2010
Logline: Story follows twin teenage sisters, the descendants of dragons who live in secret with their endangered pride. When their mother learns that the pride has a dark plan for one of the girls who possesses the rare talent of fire breathing, she spirits the twins away to live a normal life among humans.
Writer: Sophie Jordan
Genre: Supernatural , Teen
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Title: Little White Lies
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Logline: The story is about tensions that arise when a group of old friends gather at a beach house.
Writer: Guillaume Canet
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script , Co-Production
Marion Cotillard, Francois Cluzet, Benoit Magimel, Gilles Lellouche, Laurent Lafitte and Jean Dujardin star in film. Guillaume Canet directed film.
Title: Pinocchio
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Logline: The tale about a woodcarver who makes a wooden boy puppet that comes to life.
Writer: Bryan Fuller
Genre: Action , Family , Fantasy
Saletype: Remake
Title: Untitled drama
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Logline: The biopic story is about Freddie Mercury.
Writer: Peter Morgan
Genre: Drama , Biography
Saletype: Pitch
Sasha Baron Cohen attached to star.
Title: A Horrible Way to Die
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Logline: Story follows an escaped serial killer as he searches for his ex-girlfriend.
Writer: Simon Barrett
Genre: Thriller , Suspense
Saletype: Script
Adam Wingard directed film. A.J. Bowen, Amy Seimetz and Joe Swanberg stars in film.
Title: Kiseki (Miracle)
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Logline: Two siblings separated by the divorce of their parents, with one living in Fukuoka and the other in Kumamoto -- cities on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu. Hearing that a miracle occurs the instant a "Tsubame" bullet train from the north and a "Sakura" bullet train from the south pass each other, the two boys start making plans.
Writer: Hirokazu Kore'eda
Genre: Family , Drama , Fantasy
Saletype: Script
Hirokazu Kore'eda attached to direct. Koki and Oshiro Maeda attached to star.
Title: Paradise Lost
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Logline: The story of the epic war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer.
Writer: John Milton, Ryan Condal, Lawrence Kasdan
Genre: Action , Fantasy
Saletype: Script , Adaptation , Poem
Alex Proyas attached to direct. Lawrence Kasdan and Ryan Condal adapted John Milton's poem.
Title: The Reluctant Communist
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Logline: The story of Charles Robert Jenkins' 1965 desertion and subsequent 40-year imprisonment in North Korea.
Genre: Drama , Comedy
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Brett Ratner attached to direct. Ross Katz will adapt Charles Robert Jenkins and Jim Frederick's book.
Title: Of All the Things
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Logline: Story centers on songwriter-producer Dennis Lambert.
Writer: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley
Genre: Drama , Documentary
Saletype: Remake
Steve Carell attached to star.
Title: Terri
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Logline: Story centers on the friendship between an overweight 15-year-old and a high school vice principal.
Writer: Patrick Dewitt
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
John C. Reilly, Jacob Wysocki, Creed Bratton, Tim Heidecker and Olivia Crocicchia star in film. Azazel Jacobs directed film.
Title: Little Girl Lost
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Logline: The story of a New York City private investigator who is stunned to learn that his high school girlfriend -- a stripper -- has been murdered. The last he knew, she had moved to the Midwest to become an eye doctor. He sets out to learn the truth about her death.
Writer: Richard Aleas, Michael Bacall
Genre: Drama , Crime
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Jonathan Levine attached to direct. Michael Bacall attached to adapt Richard Aleas' novel.
Title: Vampire Summer Camp
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Logline: Story centers on a musical-theater competish between two summer camps, one of which is a camp for youthful-looking vampires.
Writer: Jenny Jaffe, James Merendino
Genre: Horror , Comedy
Saletype: Script
James Merendino attached to direct.
Title: Lizard Music
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Logline: Story about an 11-year-old boy who exists in a highly imaginative fantasy world of his own creation, until he meets a group of lizard musicians who just might be real.
Writer: Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Joel Hopkins
Genre: Drama , Fantasy
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Joel Hopkins attached to direct and adapt Daniel Manus Pinkwater's book.
Title: Girlfriend
Date: Monday, September 27, 2010
Logline: A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Writer: Justin Lerner
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
Jackson Rathbone, Evan Sneider, Amanda Plummer and Shannon Woodward star in film. Justin Lerner directed film.
Title: Trollhunters
Date: Monday, September 27, 2010
Logline: A fairy tale about trolls that hunt.
Writer: Guillermo del Toro
Genre: Animation
Saletype: Pitch
Title: The Dark Divine
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Logline: Story centers on a 16-year-old pastor's daughter who falls in love with a boy who reveals he's a werewolf.
Writer: Bree Despain
Genre: Supernatural , Fantasy , Teen
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Title: Underworld
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Logline: Story about vampires versus werewolves.
Writer: John Hlavin, J. Michael Straczynski
Genre: Action , Supernatural , Fantasy
Saletype: Sequel
Kate Beckinsale attached to star.
Title: 21 Jump Street
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Logline: Story of young undercover cops.
Writer: Michael Bacall
Genre: Drama , Crime
Saletype: Remake
Phil Lord attached to direct. Jonah Hill and Emma Stone attached to star.
Title: When Santa Fell to Earth
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010
Logline: The story follows Niklas, the last real Santa, who's on the run after the evil leader of the Great Christmas Council outlaws all of the old, magical ways, replacing reindeers with snowmobiles and banning elves and angels. With the help of local kids Ben and Charlotte, Niklas leads the fight to preserve all that is magical and special about Christmas while avoiding the Council's menacing nutcracker army.
Writer: Cornelia Funke, Benjamin Bien, Robin Getrost
Genre: Family , Fantasy
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation
Oliver Diekmann attached to direct. Benjamin Bien and Robin Getrost adapted Cornelia Funke's novel.
Title: Wicked Lovely
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010
Logline: Story centers on a teenaged girl who has seen dangerous faeries her entire life must suddenly go against everything she was taught in order to confront a world she was raised to fear.
Writer: Melissa Marr, Caroline Thompson
Genre: Fantasy
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Kimberly Peirce attached to direct. Caroline Thompson is adapting Melissa Marr's novel.
Title: The Legacy
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010
Logline: Story is about a perfect crime centering on a mother in her 30s and her two amazing boys.
Writer: Gregg Hurwitz
Genre: Drama , Crime
Saletype: Pitch
Title: Expulsion
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010
Logline: Story centers on a small band of survivors escaping to a planet beyond the solar system after a terrorist attack destroys Earth.
Writer: Gregg Hurwitz
Genre: Sci-Fi
Saletype: Pitch
Title: Mr. Popper's Penguins
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Logline: A New York business man suddenly inherits six penguins. Taking care of the animals is no easy matter, and he quickly hits major hurtles, both at home and at work.
Writer: Richard and Florence Atwater, Sean Anders, Jared Stern, John Morris
Genre: Family
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Carla Gugino and Jim Carrey attached to star. Mark Waters attached to direct. Sean Anders, Jared Stern and John Morris adapted Richard and Florence Atwater's children's book.
Title: Darling Companion
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Logline: Story focuses on a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. The husband then loses the dog after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies.
Writer: Lawrence & Meg Kasdan
Genre: Drama , Comedy
Saletype: Script
Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, Richard Jenkins and Elisabeth Moss attached to star. Lawrence Kasdan attached to direct.
Title: Untitled Drama
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Logline: The story is about the complex relationship between John Gotti Jr. and his mobster father.
Writer: Leo Rossi
Genre: Drama , Crime , Biography
Saletype: Pitch
Title: The Zookeeper's Wife
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Logline: The true story of how Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the keepers of the Warsaw zoo, turned the zoo into a safe haven for Jews after the Germans invaded Poland during World War II.
Writer: Diane Ackerman, Angela Workman
Genre: Drama , War
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Angela Workman will adapt Diane Ackerman's novel.
Title: First Grader
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Logline: The true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan man's battle to get an education.
Writer: Ann Peacock
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
Oliver Musila Litondo and Naomie Harris star in film. Justin Chadwick directed film.
Title: Meek's Cutoff
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Logline: Set in 1845 on the Oregon Trail, the story is focused on a wagon train of three families who have hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains only to become lost in the dry rock and sage in pursuit of a short cut.
Writer: Kelly Reichardt
Genre: Drama , Western
Saletype: Script
Kelly Reichardt directed film. Bruce Greenwood, Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson, Tommy Nelson and Neal Huff star in film.
Title: 360
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Logline: The story follows pairs of characters and their sexual encounters.
Writer: Peter Morgan
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Play , Adaptation
Peter Morgan will adapt script based on a 1900 play 'Reigen.' Rachel Weisz attached to star. Fernando Meirelles attached to direct.
Title: For the Love of Money
Date: Monday, September 20, 2010
Logline: Story centers on the themes of family, friendship and the ties that bind between Jewish gangsters.
Writer: Jenna Mattison
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
Delphine Chaneac and Yehuda Levi attached to star. Ellie Kanner attached to direct.
Title: Firelight
Date: Monday, September 20, 2010
Logline: Story follows twin teenage sisters, the descendants of dragons who live in secret with their endangered pride. When their mother learns that the pride has a dark plan for one of the girls who possesses the rare talent of fire breathing, she spirits the twins away to live a normal life among humans.
Writer: Sophie Jordan
Genre: Supernatural , Teen
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Title: Little White Lies
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Logline: The story is about tensions that arise when a group of old friends gather at a beach house.
Writer: Guillaume Canet
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script , Co-Production
Marion Cotillard, Francois Cluzet, Benoit Magimel, Gilles Lellouche, Laurent Lafitte and Jean Dujardin star in film. Guillaume Canet directed film.
Title: Pinocchio
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Logline: The tale about a woodcarver who makes a wooden boy puppet that comes to life.
Writer: Bryan Fuller
Genre: Action , Family , Fantasy
Saletype: Remake
Title: Untitled drama
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Logline: The biopic story is about Freddie Mercury.
Writer: Peter Morgan
Genre: Drama , Biography
Saletype: Pitch
Sasha Baron Cohen attached to star.
Title: A Horrible Way to Die
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Logline: Story follows an escaped serial killer as he searches for his ex-girlfriend.
Writer: Simon Barrett
Genre: Thriller , Suspense
Saletype: Script
Adam Wingard directed film. A.J. Bowen, Amy Seimetz and Joe Swanberg stars in film.
Title: Kiseki (Miracle)
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Logline: Two siblings separated by the divorce of their parents, with one living in Fukuoka and the other in Kumamoto -- cities on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu. Hearing that a miracle occurs the instant a "Tsubame" bullet train from the north and a "Sakura" bullet train from the south pass each other, the two boys start making plans.
Writer: Hirokazu Kore'eda
Genre: Family , Drama , Fantasy
Saletype: Script
Hirokazu Kore'eda attached to direct. Koki and Oshiro Maeda attached to star.
Title: Paradise Lost
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Logline: The story of the epic war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer.
Writer: John Milton, Ryan Condal, Lawrence Kasdan
Genre: Action , Fantasy
Saletype: Script , Adaptation , Poem
Alex Proyas attached to direct. Lawrence Kasdan and Ryan Condal adapted John Milton's poem.
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