Script Sales: August/September, 2009
October 23rd, 2009
SCRIPT SALE OF THE WEEK:
SCRIPT: "We Love You", The story centers on two close friends who discover they're dating the same woman and try to disentangle the situation.
Writer: Alan Yang
Genre:bromantic comedy
Production Notes: Summit Entertainment, Jon Shestack will produce. Yang counts "South Park" and "Parks and Recreation" among his credits; he also sold the interracial adoption comedy "White Dad" to Sony and has done a rewrite of the David Dobkin project "Boss Go Home" at Warners.
SCRIPT: "Reel to Real", story involves a magical film projector.
Writer: pitch by Eric Saiet and Andrea Maywhort-Scully.
Genre: family fantasy
Production Notes: Disney. Saiet and Maywhort-Scully, based in New York, are newcomers to the screenwriting.
SCRIPT: "Supermax", set in a maximum-security prison for the supernatural. The story centers on a skilled prison guard who is reassigned to Supermax. After a riot erupts, he must join forces with one of the prison's monstrous inmates in order to survive and fight his way out.
Writer: Mitch Rouse and Christopher Nelson
Genre: Supernatural
Production Notes: Columbia Pictures. Todd Garner will produce via his Broken Road Productions banner, is unrelated to Warner Bros.' "Super Max," which is based on the DC Comics hero Green Arrow.
SCRIPT: "Mercy" , centers on a family intent on protecting their dying mother, and their individual financial interests, from the violent wrath of a religious sect.
Writer: Chris Sparlin
Genre: Thriller
Production Notes: Gold Circle Films has preemptively picked up the spec script. Gold Circle is fast-tracking the project, eyeing a shoot in early 2010. The company recently released "The Haunting in Connecticut" through Lionsgate and has "The 4th Kind," starring Milla Jovovich, going out November 6 via Universal. Sparling is best known for "Buried," his first feature script. The thriller, now in production, centers on a civilian contractor (Ryan Reynolds) who is kidnapped and awakens to find he has been buried alive in the Iraqi desert with only a phone and a lighter at his disposal inside a coffin.
SCRIPT: "Gene", a modern take on the classic genie story from writer Randi Mayem Singer.
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Production Notes: Walden Media was keeping plot details tucked in the proverbial bottle, the studio said the pitch "combines originality, humor, heart and broad appeal that all ages can enjoy."
SCRIPT: "Horrible Bosses", story centers around three friends who decide to whack their abusive "superiors" in a desperate bid for happiness.
Writer: Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
Genre: Comedy
Production Notes: New Line hires Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley to work over the screenplay. Daley and Goldstein do a lot of business with New Line. They sold their original script "The $40,000 Man" to the studio and worked on the in-development magician comedy "Burt Wonderstone" there.
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SCRIPT: "We Love You", The story centers on two close friends who discover they're dating the same woman and try to disentangle the situation.
Writer: Alan Yang
Genre:bromantic comedy
Production Notes: Summit Entertainment, Jon Shestack will produce. Yang counts "South Park" and "Parks and Recreation" among his credits; he also sold the interracial adoption comedy "White Dad" to Sony and has done a rewrite of the David Dobkin project "Boss Go Home" at Warners.
SCRIPT: "Reel to Real", story involves a magical film projector.
Writer: pitch by Eric Saiet and Andrea Maywhort-Scully.
Genre: family fantasy
Production Notes: Disney. Saiet and Maywhort-Scully, based in New York, are newcomers to the screenwriting.
SCRIPT: "Supermax", set in a maximum-security prison for the supernatural. The story centers on a skilled prison guard who is reassigned to Supermax. After a riot erupts, he must join forces with one of the prison's monstrous inmates in order to survive and fight his way out.
Writer: Mitch Rouse and Christopher Nelson
Genre: Supernatural
Production Notes: Columbia Pictures. Todd Garner will produce via his Broken Road Productions banner, is unrelated to Warner Bros.' "Super Max," which is based on the DC Comics hero Green Arrow.
SCRIPT: "Mercy" , centers on a family intent on protecting their dying mother, and their individual financial interests, from the violent wrath of a religious sect.
Writer: Chris Sparlin
Genre: Thriller
Production Notes: Gold Circle Films has preemptively picked up the spec script. Gold Circle is fast-tracking the project, eyeing a shoot in early 2010. The company recently released "The Haunting in Connecticut" through Lionsgate and has "The 4th Kind," starring Milla Jovovich, going out November 6 via Universal. Sparling is best known for "Buried," his first feature script. The thriller, now in production, centers on a civilian contractor (Ryan Reynolds) who is kidnapped and awakens to find he has been buried alive in the Iraqi desert with only a phone and a lighter at his disposal inside a coffin.
SCRIPT: "Gene", a modern take on the classic genie story from writer Randi Mayem Singer.
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Production Notes: Walden Media was keeping plot details tucked in the proverbial bottle, the studio said the pitch "combines originality, humor, heart and broad appeal that all ages can enjoy."
SCRIPT: "Horrible Bosses", story centers around three friends who decide to whack their abusive "superiors" in a desperate bid for happiness.
Writer: Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
Genre: Comedy
Production Notes: New Line hires Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley to work over the screenplay. Daley and Goldstein do a lot of business with New Line. They sold their original script "The $40,000 Man" to the studio and worked on the in-development magician comedy "Burt Wonderstone" there.
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