Tuesday, November 9, 2010

LATEST SCREENPLAYS SALES IN HOLLYWOOD: NOVEMBER 2010

Here are the latest screenplays sales for November of 2010. The titles in the bold are the ones I’m planning to watch.
  
    

Title: Downers Grove
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Story revolves around a cursed high school in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove. At the end of each school year, one senior dies in a bizarre death.
Writer: Michael Hornberg, Bret Easton Ellis
Genre: Thriller 
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation  
More: Hayden Panettiere, Rebecca De Mornay and Nikki Reed attached to star. Bret Easton Ellis adapted Michael Hornberg's novel. Nelson McCormick attached to direct.


Title: Innocence
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Story about a family doctor accused of raping two young girls.
Genre: Drama 
Saletype: Pitch 

More: Jan Hrebejk attached to direct. Ana Geislerova attached to star. 


Title: Agnosia
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Set in 1899, a heiress has been bequeathed with vital industrial secrets. But she suffers a brain condition, Agnosia, which prevents her from correctly understanding what she sees.
Writer: Antonio Trashorras
Genre: Thriller , Period 
Saletype: Script 
More: Eugenio Mira directed film. Barbara Goenaga, Eduardo Noriega and Martina Gedeck star in film.


Title: Zebras
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: The true-life tale of a music producer who discovers talented young soccer players in the ghettos of Soweto, South Africa, and forms them into a successful team dubbed the Zebras, because it brings together black and white players. 
Writer: David Williamson
Genre: Drama 
Saletype: Script 
More: Ryan Kwanten and Camilla Belle attached to star. Bruce Beresford attached to direct.


Title: Eliza Graves
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Story centers on a Harvard Medical School graduate who takes a job at an insane asylum, unaware of the fact that it has been taken over by its occupants.
Writer: Edgar Allan Poe, Joe Gangemi
Genre: Psychological Thriller 
Saletype: Script , Short Story , Adaptation 
More: Oren Peli attached to direct. Joe Gangemi adapted Edgar Allan Poe's short story.

Title: Bunker
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: The story of a maestro with the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra who begins to doubt his girlfriend's fidelity, only to discover that she's disappeared. He finds solace in his music and a beautiful waitress as questions begin to surface about the disappearance of his other love. 
Writer: Andi Baiz, Hatem Khraiche Ruiz-Zorrilla
Genre: Psychological Thriller 
Saletype: Script 
More: Quim Gutierrez, Clara Lago and Martina Garcia attached to star. Andi Baiz attached to direct.

Title: Dark Shadows
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: Gothic soap opera about supernatural beings' everyday lives.
Writer: Seth Grahame-Smith
Genre: Supernatural , Drama , Comedy 
Saletype: Script 
More: Johnny Depp attached to star. Tim Burton attached to direct.


Title: Wrecked
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: A man wakes up in a car-wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff, having no memory of who he is or how he got there, leaving him forced to discover his true identity. 
Writer: Christopher Dodd
Genre: Psychological Thriller 
Saletype: Script 
More: Michael Greenspan directed film. Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas and Ryan Robbins star in film.


Title: Shadowland
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: Story follows two young boys who spend a summer with a famous magician, who teaches them more than just harmless tricks but real sorcery. 
Writer: Peter Straub, Larry Leahy, Benjamin Straub
Genre: Horror 
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation 
More: Jackson Rathbone and Bill Nighy attached to star. Erik Canuel attached to direct. Larry Leahy and Benjamin Straub will adapt Peter Straub's novel.

Title: The Whistleblower
Date: Thursday, November 04, 2010
Logline: A Nebraskan police officer takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and finds her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up and intrigue
Writer: Ellis Kirwan, Larysa Kondracki 
Genre: Drama 
Saletype: Script 
More: Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci and David Strathairn star in film. Larysa Kondracki directed film.

Title: Jack Falls
Date: Thursday, November 04, 2010
Logline: Story follows an undercover police officer who returns to London to seek revenge and settle some scores with former criminals and police colleagues. 
Writer: Paul Tanter, Alexander Williams
Genre: Drama 
Saletype: Script , Comic , Adaptation 
More: Tamer Hassan, Jason Flemying, Simon Phillips, Alan Ford, Dexter Fletcher and Martin Kemp star in film. Paul Tanter and Alexander Williams directed film and adapted script.

Title: The Expatriate
Date: Thursday, November 04, 2010
Logline: A former CIA agent hopes to make a fresh start with his estranged 15-year old daughter. He moves to Belgium to take work as a security expert and one day discovers that his colleagues have mysteriously vanished and a trained operative is intent on killing both him and his daughter.
Writer: A.E. Amel
Genre: Thriller , Action , Suspense 
Saletype: Script 
More: Aaron Eckhart attached to star. Phillip Stolzl attached to direct.


Title: Tracker
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: A former Boer War guerrilla in New Zealand is sent out to bring back a Maori accused of killing a Brit soldier.
Writer: Nicolas van Pallandt
Genre: Thriller , Action , Suspense 
Saletype: Script 
More: Ray Winstone stars in film. Ian Sharp directed film.


Title: 11:11:11
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: Story centers on the emergence of the number 11 in people's lives that is believed to alert people to spirits or angels trying to communicate with them.
Writer: Darren Lynn Bousman
Genre: Supernatural 
Saletype: Script 
More: Darren Lynn Bousman attached to direct. 


Title: Arbitrage
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: A hedge fund magnate is in over his head and desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire to a major bank before his fraud is revealed. But an unexpected, bloody error forces him to turn to the most unlikely corner for help.
Writer: Nicholas Jarecki
Genre: Thriller 
Saletype: Script 
More: Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon and Eva Green attached to star. Nicholas Jarecki attached to direct. 



Title: Under the Skin
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: Storyline revolves around an alien disguised as a mesmerizing woman who snares human prey on remote highways and other desolate spots with her voracious sexuality. But over time, she begins to change her thinking about humans and finds herself on a collision course with her own kind. 
Writer: Michel Faber, Jonathan Glazer, Walter Campbell
Genre: Sci-Fi 
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation 
More: Scarlett Johansson attached to star. Jonathan Glazer attached to direct and adapted Michel Faber's novel with Walter Campbell.


Title: Untitled Fantasy
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Logline: TBA
Writer: Melissa Wallack
Genre: Fantasy 
Saletype: Script 
More: Tarsem Singh attached to direct.


Title: New Year's Eve
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Logline: Set in New York, it follows intertwining stories of characters trying to navigate their way through romance on New Year's Eve. 
Writer: Katherine Fugate
Genre: Drama , Romantic Comedy 
Saletype: Script 
More: Abigail Breslin and Lea Michelle attached to star. Garry Marshall attached to direct.


Title: Rites of Passage
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Logline: Story centers on an anthropology bookworm who laments his place in a society that lacks a ceremony to mark his transition into manhood and leads his hard-partying, stressed-out classmates to his family's abandoned ranch -- where his brother lives in a psychotic world of drugs, guilt and Chumash Indian rituals.
Writer: Peter Iliff
Genre: Thriller 
Saletype: Script 
More: Christian Slater, Stephen Dorff, Wes Bentley and Kate Maberly attached to star. Peter Iliff attached to direct.


Title: God of Carnage
Date: Monday, November 01, 2010
Logline: Story about two sets of parents who meet to discuss a playground fight between their sons. The meeting degenerates into conflict, criticism, racism and misogyny.
Writer: Roman Polanski, Yasmina Reza
Genre: Drama 
Saletype: Script , Play , Adaptation 
More: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly attached to star. Roman Polanski attached to direct and adapted Yasmina Reza's play. 



Title: Aaron and Sarah
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Logline: The story follows a geeky guy and a popular girl who become friends as freshmen in high school and see their relationship deepen through the four years, four proms and one funeral before graduation. 
Writer: Chad Gomez Creasey, Dara ResnikCreasey
Genre: Romantic Comedy 
Saletype: Script 
More: Emma Roberts and Josh Hutcherson attached to star. Neil Patrick Harris attached to direct.


Title: The Demonologists
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Logline: The story sees a family of ghost hunters, a mild-mannered occupation, who find themselves out of their league when they encounter a demon
Writer: Teddy Tenenbaum
Genre: Horror 
Saletype: Script 
More: Dennis Iliadis attached to direct.

Title: Losing My Virginity
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Logline: Story about billionaire Richard Branson's rags to riches life.
Writer: David Mirkin, Richard Branson
Genre: Drama , Biography 
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation 
More: David Mirkin will adapt Richard Branson's memoir and direct.



Title: Celda 211
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Logline: The story centered on a rookie prison guard who turns up for his new prison job a day early and is knocked unconscious by a falling chunk of ceiling. He's rushed to cell 211 and awakens to find a rebellion in progress, led by a convict. 
Writer: Jorge Guerricaechevarria, Paul Haggis
Genre: Drama , Crime 
Saletype: Remake , Adaptation 
More: Paul Haggis will adapt Jorge Guerricaechevarria's screenplay.



Title: The Ides of March
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Logline: Story follows a young press spokesman who falls prey to backroom politics, the treacherous manipulations of veteran operatives and the seduction of a young intern. 
Writer: Beau Willimon, George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Genre: Drama 
Saletype: Script , Play , Adaptation 
More: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood attached to star. George Clooney also attached to direct and adapted Beau Willimon's play with Grant Heslov. 


Title: Master Daddy
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: A multi-racial martial arts comedy.
Writer: Mark Heyman
Genre: Comedy 
Saletype: Script 
More: Wesley Snipes, Chuck Norris, Chiba, Frazier, Gracie, Hung, Inosanto, Jaa, Rhee, Kim, Lee Mosely, Bob Wall, Rampage, Anderson Silva and Ron Van Cleff attached to star. 


Title: Play Dead
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: Story revolves around football player zombies bent on revenge in a gridiron-obsessed Texas town. 
Writer: Ryan Brown, Joe Schreiber
Genre: Thriller , Supernatural , Horror , Suspense 
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation 
More: Joe Schreiber adapting Ryan Brown's novel.


Title: The Dark Knight Rises
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: The story of a caped crusader, who fights crime, named Batman.
Writer: Jonathan Nolan, David Goyer
Genre: Action , Drama , Crime , Fantasy , Suspense 
Saletype: Script , Sequel 
Studio: Warner Bros.
More: Christopher Nolan attached to direct.



Title: Avatar 2
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: Story of a mystical planet Pandora and its native people.
Writer: James Cameron
Genre: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi , Drama , Fantasy 
Saletype: Sequel 
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Production Company: Lightstorm Entertainment
Producer: James Cameron, Jon Landau
More: James Cameron attached to direct.


Title: Ted
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Logline: Story about a grown man whose cherished teddy bear comes to life as the result of a childhood wish. 
Writer: Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild
Genre: Comedy 
Saletype: Script 
More: Seth MacFarlane attached to direct and star.