| Title: |
Cartel |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story follows Ed Marker as he journeys to protect his son after his wife is brutally murdered in the gritty world of Mexican cartels.
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| Writer: |
Peter Craig |
| Genre: |
Drama
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| Saletype: |
Script
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| Studio: |
Universal Pictures |
| Production Company: |
Imagine Entertainment |
| Producer: |
Brian Grazer, Asger Leth, Robert Stone, Webster Stone |
| Details: |
Sean Penn attached to star. Asger Leth attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Last Man |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
In the story, a hardened captain assigned to protect an outpost on a distant planet must lead a group of young, inexperienced American soldiers in battle against an alien race. |
| Writer: |
David Ayer |
| Genre: |
Thriller
, Action
, Sci-Fi
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| Saletype: |
Pitch
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| Studio: |
20th Century Fox |
| Production Company: |
New Regency, Stuber Company |
| Producer: |
Erwin Stoff, Scott Stuber, Pam Abdy |
| Details: |
David Ayer attached to direct. |
| Title: |
The Complete History of My Sexual Failures |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story centers on a man who sets out to interview every girl he has dated and ask the all-important question, "What's wrong with me?" |
| Writer: |
Chris Waitt, Jay Reiss |
| Genre: |
Comedy
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| Saletype: |
Rights Option
, Adaptation
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| Studio: |
Universal Pictures |
| Production Company: |
Original Film, Warp Films |
| Producer: |
Neal Moritz, Jay Roach, Waitt Trotter, Henry Trotter |
| Agent: |
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) |
| Details: |
Jay Reiss to adapt Waitt's documentary. |
| Title: |
Mr. Popper's Penguins |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story is about Mr. Popper, a house painter whose dreams of Arctic exploration prompt him to write letters to real explorers. One of them sends him a penguin, which he keeps in the icebox. Before he knows it, the painter has a litter of 12 beaked birds. They eat voraciously, leading him to form Popper's Performing Penguins, a stage act that goes on tour and creates mayhem at every stop. |
| Writer: |
Richard Atwater, Florence Atwater, Sean Anders, John Morris |
| Genre: |
Family
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| Saletype: |
Novel
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| Studio: |
20th Century Fox |
| Production Company: |
Davis Entertainment, IPG |
| Producer: |
John Davis, Joel Gotler |
| Price: |
Seven Figures |
| Details: |
Anders and Morris to adapt the Atwaters' novel. |
| Title: |
Dinotrux |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story takes place in a fictional prehistoric age, when the world was ruled by Dinotrux, creatures that were part trucks, part dinosaurs, with species like the Craneosauraus, Garbageadon and Tyrannosaurus Trux plowing and bulldozing their way across the terrain. |
| Writer: |
Chris Gall |
| Genre: |
Animation
, Fantasy
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| Saletype: |
Novel
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| Studio: |
Dreamworks |
| Title: |
The Roommate |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of a college student who is randomly assigned to a freshman dorm with a stranger named Rebecca. Things turn deadly when Rebecca becomes obsessed and begins targeting people in Sara's life.
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| Writer: |
Sonny Malihi |
| Genre: |
Thriller
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| Saletype: |
Script
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| Studio: |
Screen Gems |
| Executive Overseeing: |
John Graham (Screen Gems) |
| Production Company: |
Vertigo Entertainment |
| Producer: |
Roy Lee, Doug Davison, Sonny Malihi |
| Details: |
Leighton Meester attached to star. Christian E. Christiansen attached to direct. |
| Title: |
The Reliable Wife |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Set in rural Wisconsin in 1908, the story centers on a middle-aged widower who places a newspaper ad seeking "a reliable wife." Instead of fielding a homely applicant, the man finds himself welcoming a gorgeous former courtesan with an agenda of her own. |
| Writer: |
Robert Goorick |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Period
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| Saletype: |
Novel
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| Studio: |
Columbia Pictures |
| Executive Overseeing: |
Josh Bratman (De Luca) |
| Production Company: |
De Luca Productions |
| Producer: |
Michael De Luca |
| Manager: |
Gotham Group |
| Title: |
Mile Zero |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of a young woman who takes a job on an Alaskan oil rig so she can prove her father's innocence in a series of murders.
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| Writer: |
Holly Brix |
| Genre: |
Horror
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| Saletype: |
Script
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| Production Company: |
Phoenix Pictures, BenderSpink |
| Producer: |
JC Spink, Chris Bender, Mik,e Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer, James Vanderbilt |
| Details: |
Milla Jovovich attached to star. Marcel Langenegger attached to direct. |
| Title: |
The Cabin in the Woods |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
No logline given. |
| Writer: |
Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard |
| Genre: |
Horror
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Studio: |
United Artists |
| Producer: |
Joss Whedon |
| Details: |
Drew Goddard, Anna Hutchison, Jesse Williams attached to star. Drew Goddard attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Warrior |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of an ex-Vietnam vet boxer-turned-steel mill worker whose family was torn apart by his alcoholism; the now-sober and remorseful dad welcomes back his youngest son and trains him to compete in a mixed martial arts tournament. He and his older brother are on a collision course in the ring. |
| Writer: |
Gaviin O'Connor, Anthony Tambakis |
| Genre: |
Action
, Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Script
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| Studio: |
Lionsgate Films |
| Producer: |
Gavin O'Connor, Greg O'Connor |
| Details: |
Gavin O'Connor attached to direct. Nick Nolte, Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison attached to star. |
| Title: |
The Bang Bang Club |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of the so-called Bang Bang Club, four combat war photogs -- Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva -- whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa.
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| Writer: |
Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Steven Silver |
| Genre: |
Drama
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| Saletype: |
Script
, Novel
, Adaptation
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| Production Company: |
Foundry Films, Out of Africa |
| Producer: |
Daniel Iron, Lance Samuels, Adam Friedlander |
| Details: |
Malin Akerman, Ryan Philippe attached to star. Steven Silver attached to direct. Silver adapted Marinovich and Silva's novel. |
| Title: |
Untitled College Comedy |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
No logline given. |
| Writer: |
Chris McCoy |
| Genre: |
Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Studio: |
Dreamworks |
| Production Company: |
Double Feature Films |
| Producer: |
Stacey Sher, Michael Shamberg |
| Title: |
Lullaby for Pi |
| Date: |
March 10, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of a jazz singer so traumatized by the death of his wife that he loses the ability to sing. |
| Writer: |
Benoit Philippon |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Romance
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
Killer Films, Minds Eye Entertainment, Forecast Pictures, Studio 37 |
| Producer: |
Christine Vachon, Kevin DeWalt, Jean-Charles Levy |
| Details: |
Benoit Philippon attached to direct. Rupert Friend, Clemence Poesy attached to star. |
