LATEST SCREENPLAYS SALES IN HOLLYWOOD: OCTOBER 2010 (goodbye creation)

Dear readers,

I’ve just received the latest screenplays sales for October 2010.
Nothing original, nothing we haven‘t seen a thousand times before, lots of adaptations, sequels and of course the usual 3D (ridiculous) sharks movies…Save your money and buy theater tickets instead!  The Hollywood film world was a very inspirational industry in the 90’S, but obviously it’s officially over now!


Title:     Four Saints
Date:     Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Logline:     The story of four young women who defied the British Army, as well as German bombs and bullets, to operate an illegal medical dressing station on the Allied front lines during World War I.
Writer:     Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Genre:     Drama , War
Saletype:     Script , Novel , Co-Production , Adaptation
More:     Lorena Rincon, Rhona Mitra, Selma Blair, Melanie Lynskey, Cary Elwes and Arnold Vosloo attached to star. Jean-Pierre Isbouts attached to direct and adapted his own novel.


Title:     Sweep
Date:     Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Logline:     Story about a 16-year-old girl who discovers she's a blood witch, descended from an ancient and powerful line. Ultimately, she must decide whether to use her powers for good or evil.
Writer:     Robert Nelson Jacobs, Cate Tiernan
Genre:     Fantasy , Teen
Saletype:     Novel , Adaptation
More:     Robert Nelson Jacobs will adapt Cate Tiernan's novel.


Title:     Untitled Drama
Date:     Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Logline:     TBA
Writer:     Pamela Falk, Michael Ellis
Genre:     Drama
Saletype:     Pitch
More:     Sandra Bullock attached to star. Anne Fletcher attached to direct.


Title:     Emergency!: This Book Will Save Your Life
Date:     Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Logline:     The motivational story of one man's journey on how to stay alive and protect his loved ones by learning to survive in the wild.
Writer:     Neil Strauss, Allan Loeb
Genre:     Adventure , Drama , Comedy
Saletype:     Novel , Adaptation
More:     Robert Downey Jr. attached to star. Allan Loeb will adapt Neil Strauss' book.



Title:     Tiger Eyes
Date:     Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Logline:     Story about a teenage girl whose family is forced to move in with relatives in New Mexico after her father is killed in a convenience story robbery.
Writer:     Judy and Lawrence Blume
Genre:     Drama
Saletype:     Script , Novel , Adaptation
More:     Judy and Lawrence Blume, who is directing, adapted her novel.


Title:     Bait 3D
Date:     Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Logline:     Story follows a group of tsunami survivors trapped inside a flooded supermarket with a pack of man-eating sharks.
Writer:     Russell Mulcahy
Genre:     Thriller , Action , Drama , Suspense
Saletype:     Script
More:     Phoebe Tonkin, Dan Wylie, Lincoln Lewis, Alice Parkinson, Alex Russell, Martin Sacks, Cariba Heine, Damien Garvey, Adrian Pang, Yuwu Qi and Xavier Samuel attached to star. Kimble Rendall attached to direct.



Title:     The Lost Diary of Don Juan
Date:     Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Logline:     Set in Spain s Golden Age against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition, the story follows Juan Tenorio from his days as an orphan in a nunnery (where he corrupts one of the sisters) through his teenage years as a thief and spy and finally to his perilous rise through Sevilla society as a notorious libertine.
Writer:     Douglas Carlton Abrams, Alfonso Pineda Ulloa
Genre:     Drama , Comedy , Romance
Saletype:     Novel , Adaptation
More:     Alfonso Pineda Ulloa will adapt Douglas Carlton Abrams' novel and direct.



Title:     Outlander
Date:     Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Logline:     Set at the end of WWII, an Army nurse takes a second honeymoon in Scotland with her husband and finds herself transported back to a time when the clans ruled the Highlands and her husband's English ancestors are the enemy.
Writer:     Diana Gabaldon, Ann Peacock
Genre:     Fantasy
Saletype:     Novel , Adaptation
More:     Ann Peacock will adapt Diana Gabaldon's novel.
Title:     Friends With Kids
Date:     Monday, October 18, 2010

Title Friends with Kids
Logline:     Story revolves around a pair of thirtysomething best friends who observe the toll that having kids has taken on the couples they know and resolve to bypass that stress by having a child and then date other people.
Writer:     Jennifer Westfeldt
Genre:     Comedy
Saletype:     Script
More:     Megan Fox, Jon Hamm, Adam Scott and Kristen Wiig attached to star. Jennifer Westfeldt attached to direct and star.


Title:     The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best
Date:     Monday, October 18, 2010
Logline:     The story centers on a singer-songwriter who has a bizarre run-in with a self-appointed music revolutionary and forms a two-man band that sets across the country.
Writer:     Ryan O'Nan
Genre:     Comedy
Saletype:     Script
More:     Michael Weston, Arielle Kebbel, Andrew McCarthy, Christopher McDonald, Melissa Leo, Jason Ritter and Wilmer Valderrama attached to star. Ryan O'Nan attached to direct.


Title:     I Don't Know How She Does It
Date:     Monday, October 18, 2010
Logline:     Story about the struggles of a working mother.
Writer:     Allison Pearson
Genre:     Comedy
Saletype:     Script
More:     Sarah Jessica Parker attached to star. Douglas McGrath attached to direct.


Title:     The Troll Hunter
Date:     Monday, October 18, 2010
Logline:     Story follows a group of film students who try to capture a real-life troll, after discovering the existence of the monsters has long been covered up by the government.
Writer:     Andre Ovredal
Genre:     Fantasy
Saletype:     Script


Title:     Eternal
Date:     Friday, October 15, 2010
Logline:     Story centers on a recovering alcholic who believes that he's cheated on his wife and discovers that the other woman is a ghost who is in pursuit of his soul.
Writer:     David Loughery, Richard D'Ovidio
Genre:     Thriller , Supernatural
Saletype:     Script
More:     Paul Verhoeven attached to direct.


Title:     Collared
Date:     Friday, October 15, 2010
Logline:     Story is centered on a mysterious group of prisoners held captive in Southern Nevada in the secretive military base Area 51.
Writer:     Bill Birch
Genre:     Action , Comedy
Saletype:     Script


Title:     Muppets
Date:     Friday, October 15, 2010
Logline:     An evil oil tycoon is set on destroying the Muppet Theater to drill for the oil he believes it's sitting on.
Writer:     Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller
Genre:     Family , Comedy , Fantasy
Saletype:     Script
More:     Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones and Jason Segel attached to star. James Bobin attached to direct.



Title:     Damsels in Distress
Date:     Thursday, October 14, 2010
Logline:     The story revolves around a group of style-obsessed college girls who take in a new student and teach her their misguided ways of helping people at their grungy university.
Writer:     Whit Stillman
Genre:     Drama , Comedy
Saletype:     Script
More:     Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody attached to star. Whit Stillman attached to direct.


Title:     Top Gun
Date:     Thursday, October 14, 2010
Logline:     The macho students of an elite US Flying school for advanced fighter pilots compete to be best in the class.
Writer:     Christopher McQuarrie
Genre:     Action , Drama , Suspense
Saletype:     Sequel
More:     Tom Cruise attached to star. Tony Scott attached to direct.



Title:     The Little Prince
Date:     Thursday, October 14, 2010
Logline:     A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.
Writer:     Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Genre:     Adventure , Family , Fantasy
Saletype:     Novel , Adaptation
More:     Mark Osborne attached to direct.



Title:     Red Lights
Date:     Thursday, October 14, 2010
Logline:     Story about a psychologist and her assistant whose study of paranormal activity leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic.
Writer:     Rodrigo Cortes
Genre:     Psychological Thriller
Saletype:     Script
More:     Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver attached to star. Rodrigo Cortes attached to direct.



Title:     The Art of Love
Date:     Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Logline:     Story about two women who are the last survivors of an ancient line of goddess worshippers and sell art at a shop.
Writer:     Peter Hutchings, Christina Mengert, Claude Dal Farra
Genre:     Romance , Fantasy , Teen
Saletype:     Script , Novel , Adaptation
More:     Olympia Dukakis, Virginia Madsen, Aidan Quinn, Zosia Mamet, Nat Wolff and Jee Young Han attached to star. Maggie Greenwald attached to direct. Peter Hutchings and Christina Mengert adapted Claude Dal Farra's book.


Title:     For the Love of Money
Date:     Wednesday, October 13, 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
More:     James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Jeffrey Tambour, Edward Furlong, Delphine Chaneac and Yehuda Levi attached to star. Ellie Kanner attached to direct.


Title:     Black Gold
Date:     Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Logline:     The story follows the rivalry of two young Emirs set against the backdrop of 1930s Arab states at the peak of the oil boom.
Writer:     Hans Ruesch, Menno Meyjes
Genre:     Drama
Saletype:     Script , Novel , Adaptation*
More:     Jean-Jacques Annaud attached to direct. Antonio Banderas, Tahar Rahim, Mark Strong, Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed and Liya Kebede attached to star. Menno Meyjes adapted Hans Ruesch's novel.


Title:     R.I.F.
Date:     Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Logline:     A high-ranking officer at the Police Criminal Investigation Unit is framed for his wife's disappearance and has to hide with his son while searching for her.
Writer:     Frank Mancuso
Genre:     Thriller
Saletype:     Script
More:     Yvan Attal stars in film. Frank Mancuso directed film.


Title:     Kill The Dead
Date:     Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Logline:     Set in the near future, the story is about a reality TV show where contestants kill people recently brought back to life for that purpose.
Writer:     Shaune Harrison
Genre:     Sci-Fi
Saletype:     Script


Title:     Goon
Date:     Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Logline:     The story is about legendary hockey tough guy Ross Reardon.
Writer:     Jay Baruchel, Evan Goldberg, Doug Smith, Adam Frattasio
Genre:     Comedy , Sports
Saletype:     Script , Novel , Adaptation
More:     Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Allison Pill and Marc-Andre Grondin attached to star. Michael Dowse attached to direct. Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg adapted Doug Smith and Adam Frattasio's book.


Title:     All the Masks
Date:     Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Logline:     The true story of Han van Meegeren, a run-of-the-mill painter, who gained celebrity and even respect faking Vermeers.
Writer:     Isa Campo, Joaquim Oristrell, Isaki Lacuesta
Genre:     Psychological Thriller
Saletype:     Script , Co-Production
More:     Isaki Lacuesta attached to direct.


Title:     Set Up
Date:     Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Logline:     Story revolves around a group of friends who are catapulted into the middle of a diamond heist turned deadly.
Writer:     Mike Gunther
Genre:     Thriller , Action , Drama , Crime
Saletype:     Script
More:     Curtis Jackson and Paul Walker attached to star. Mike Gunther attached to direct.


Title:     How to Train Your Dragon 2
Date:     Monday, October 11, 2010
Logline:     TBA
Writer:     Dean DeBlois, Cressida Cowell
Genre:     Action , Adventure , Family , Comedy , Animation , Fantasy
Saletype:     Novel , Adaptation
More:     Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig attached for voice-over work. Dean DeBlois attached to direct and adapt Cressida Cowell's book.


Title:     Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Date:     Monday, October 11, 2010
Logline:     Story centered on treasure hunter Nathan Drake.
Writer:     David O. Russell
Genre:     Action , Adventure , Comedy
Saletype:     Video Game , Adaptation
More:     David O. Russell attached to direct and adapt playstation 3 vidgame.



Title:     Red Dog
Date:     Friday, October 08, 2010
Logline:     Set in the 23rd century, 200 years after a lethal virus has forced mankind to shelter in Egas, an underwater base on the Atlantic Ocean floor.
Writer:     David Pantaleon, Aitor Guezuraga, Enrique Martinez
Genre:     Sci-Fi , Psychological Thriller
Saletype:     Script , Co-Production
More:     David Pantaleon attached to direct.