| Title: |
Howl |
| Date: |
February 20, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story centers on the obscenity trial over Allen Ginsberg's poem, as well as an animated reimagining of the poem itself.
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| Writer: |
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
Werc Werk Works, Telling Pictures |
| Producer: |
Elizabeth Redleaf, Christine Walker, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Gus Van Sant |
| More: |
James Franco attached to star. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Dead Spy Running |
| Date: |
February 20, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Origin story of a newly trained spy in a tone that mixes the grittiness of "The Bourne Identity" with the wittiness of John Le Carre's oeuvre.
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| Writer: |
Jon Stock, Stephen Gaghan |
| Genre: |
Action
, Adventure
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| Saletype: |
Novel
, Adaptation
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| Studio: |
Warner Bros. |
| Production Company: |
Wonderland Sound and Vision |
| Producer: |
McG, Jeanne Allgood |
| Agent: |
William Morris Agency (WMA) |
| More: |
Gaghan to adapt Stock's novel. McG attached to direct. |
| Title: |
We Bought a Zoo |
| Date: |
February 20, 2009 |
| Logline: |
True account of how Benjamin Mee and his family used their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside. Mee, along with his children, had to balance caring for his wife, who was dying of brain cancer, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.
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| Writer: |
Benjamin Mee |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
|
| Studio: |
20th Century Fox |
| Executive Overseeing: |
John Fox (20th Century Fox) |
| Producer: |
Julie Yorn, Marc Gordon |
| Title: |
Old Timers |
| Date: |
February 20, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of two sixtysomething cons who have one final night to do everything they've wanted and reunite their gang before one of them meets his demise.
|
| Writer: |
Noah Haidle |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Crime
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment |
| Agent: |
United Talent Agency (UTA) |
| Manager: |
BenderSpink |
| Title: |
Five Killers |
| Date: |
Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story kicks off when a woman meets the man of her dreams while on vacation. Married bliss is turned upside down when they discover that their neighbors may be assassins hired to kill them. |
| Genre: |
Thriller
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Studio: |
Lionsgate Films |
| Production Company: |
Katalyst Films |
| Producer: |
Scott Aversano, Jason Goldberg, Mike Karz, Josie Rosen, Christopher Pratt, Chad Marting |
| More: |
Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher attached to star. Robert Luketic attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Salt |
| Date: |
Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story centers on Evelyn Salt, a CIA officer who is fingered as a Russian sleeper spy. She eludes capture by superiors who are convinced she is out to assassinate the president. While trying to reunite with her family, she struggles to prove someone else is the traitor. |
| Genre: |
Thriller
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Studio: |
Columbia Pictures |
| Producer: |
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Sunil Perkash, Ric Kidney, Mark Vahradian |
| More: |
Liev Schreiber, Angelina Jolie attached to star. Phillip Noyce attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Article II |
| Date: |
Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story about two friends who become bitter rivals for the presidential election, which is won by computer fraud.
|
| Writer: |
Charles McCarry, David Koepp |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Production Company: |
Pariah Pictures |
| Producer: |
Gavin Palone |
| More: |
Koepp to adapt McCarry's novel "Shelley's Heart. |
| Title: |
Billionaire's Vinegar |
| Date: |
Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story about a scandal that erupted when an auctioned cache of wine purported to have been culled from the stocks of Thomas Jefferson were deemed fakes by some.
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| Writer: |
Benjamin Wallace, David Koepp, John Kamps |
| Genre: |
Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Studio: |
Columbia Pictures |
| Production Company: |
Escape Artists, Overbrook Entertainment |
| Producer: |
James Lassiter, Will Smith, Ken Stovitz, Todd Black, Steve Tisch, Jason Blumenthal |
| More: |
David Koepp attached to direct. Koepp and Kamps to adapt Wallace's novel. |
| Title: |
The Blindside |
| Date: |
Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| Logline: |
True story of football player Michael Oher, who is projected to be one of the first players selected in this year's NFL draft.
|
| Writer: |
Michael Lewis, John Lee Hancock |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Comedy
, Sports
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Production Company: |
Alcon Entertainment |
| Producer: |
Gil Netter, Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Molly Smith, Erwin Stoff, Tim Bourne |
| Agent: |
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) |
| More: |
Sandra Bullock attached to star. John Lee Hancock attached to direct. Hancock adapted Lewis' novel. |
