INDUSTRY SCREENPLAY SALES
Lots of science fiction and comedies this month, which is a good thing, since I'm pitching science fiction screenplays and a comedy at this time!
Title: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011
Logline: The tale of a boy who searches for a way to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. He comes across the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
Writer: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Genre: Family , Animation , Fantasy
Saletype: Script
Studio: Universal Studios
Production Company: Illumination Entertainment
Producer: Chris Meledandri, Janet Healey, Audrey Geisel
More: Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Rob Riggle, Taylor Swift and Betty White attached to do voice work. Chris Renaud attached to direct.
Title: Revenge of the Jocks
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011
Logline: Three men, once popular high school jocks with their glory days behind them, find themselves forced to adapt to a world run by the geek and nerd crowd, some of whom are only too eager to unleash their own tormenting on the new underdog class.
Writer: Rami and Etan Cohen, Jeff Baena
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Rewrite
Studio: Warner Bros.
Executive Overseeing: Sarah Schechter
Production Company: Tapestry, Dickhouse Entertainment
Producer: Peter Abrams, Robert L. Levy, Michael Schreiber, Andrew Panay
Agent: WME (Baena)
More: Jeff Baena will rewrite Rami and Etan Cohen's script. Jeff Tremaine will make his narrative feature debut.
Title: The Divide
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011
Logline: The story of what happens after eight people take refuge in the underground bunker a 9/11 survivor has built beneath their apartment building after a cataclysmic bomb wrecks New York.
Writer: Karl Mueller, Eron Sheean
Genre: Thriller , Drama
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Anchor Bay, Preferred Content
Producer: Ross Dinerstein, Darryn Welch, Kevin Iwashina
Price: low seven figures
More: Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren German, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Eklund and Courtney B. Vance star in film. Xavier Gens directed film.
Title: Untitled Comedy
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011
Logline: TBA
Writer: Judd Apatow
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Pitch , Sequel
Studio: Universal Studios
Executive Overseeing: Erik Baiers
Producer: Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, Clayton Townsend
More: Megan Fox, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann attached to star. Judd Apatow attached to direct.
Title: Drift
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Logline: Set in 1972, the story is about the Fisher brothers as they start a new life in a remote Australian coastal town where they come up against suspicious locals, killer waves and ruthless bikers as they struggle to kick-start a new business based on surfing, their greatest passion.
Writer: Morgan O Neill
Genre: Drama , Period
Saletype: Script
Production Company: World Wide Mind Films, Screen Australia, Western Australian government
Producer: Tim Duffy, Myles Pollard, Michele Bennett, Joan Peters
More: Sam Worthington attached to star. Morgan O'Neill and Ben Nott attached to direct.
Title: American Reunion
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Logline: Story about a group of old high school friends' reunion.
Writer: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Script , Sequel
Studio: Universal Studios
Producer: Chris Moore, Craig Perry, Adam Herz, Paul and Chris Weitz
More: Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Chris Klein, Mena Suvari, Jennifer Coolidge and Eugene Levy attached to star. Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg attached to direct.
Title: Untitled Drama
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Logline: The true-life account about the international incident of an American ship captured by Somali pirates.
Writer: Billy Ray, Richard Phillips
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation
Studio: Sony Studios
Producer: Scott Rudin, Michael DeLuca, Kevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti
More: Tom Hanks attached to star. Billy Ray adapted Richard Phillips' novel.
Title: Moonwalking With Einstein
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Logline: The real-life story about Joshua Foer's experience as a science journalist covering the U.S. Memory Championship, which he entered as a participant.
Writer: Joshua Foer
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Studio: Sony Studios
Executive Overseeing: Hannah Minghella, Rachel O'Connor
Producer: Matt Tolmach
Agent: UTA & Elyse Cheney (Foer)
Title: Kill List
Date: Monday, March 14, 2011
Logline: The story is about a group of demobbed soldiers turned contract killers who run up against a devil-worshipping coven.
Writer: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump
Genre: Horror
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Warp X
More: David Bowen, MyAnna Buring and Ben Crompton star in film. Ben Wheatley directed film.
Title: Source Code
Date: Monday, March 14, 2011
Logline: A soldier continually wakes up in the bodies of different train commuters in the last eight minutes before each dies in a bombing. Eventually, it becomes clear that he is on a mission to discover who set the explosive so he can prevent a second, larger detonation.
Writer: Ben Ripley
Genre: Thriller , Action , Sci-Fi
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Summit Entertainment
Producer: Mark Gordon
More: Jake Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Monaghan and Jeffrey Wright star in film. Duncan Jones directed film.
Title: Attack the Block
Date: Monday, March 14, 2011
Logline: Story centers on a band of 15-year old hoodies who do small crimes and have to straighten up to save Earth from an alien invasion.
Writer: Joe Cornish
Genre: Sci-Fi
Saletype: Script
More: Joe Cornish directed film. John Boyega, Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker and Luke Treadaway star in film.
Title: Gambit
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011
Logline: Story about a London art curator who enlists a Texas Rodeo Queen in a scheme to con the richest man in England.
Writer: Joel and Ethan Coen
Genre: Thriller , Action , Comedy
Saletype: Remake
Studio: CBS Films
Production Company: FilmNation Entertainment, Crime Scene Pictures
Producer: Mike Lobell, Adam Ripp, Rizal Risjad, Rob Paris
More: Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz attached to star. Michael Hoffman attached to direct.
Title: Barricade
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011
Logline: Story centers on a psychiatrist, seeking to find normalcy after the sudden passing of his wife, who takes his two kids to a remote cabin for healing and bonding. Their joy soon turns to despair when the family is terrorized by unknown forces and the father will stop at nothing to save them from peril.
Writer: Michaelbrent Collings
Genre: Thriller , Supernatural
Saletype: Script
Production Company: WWE Studios
Producer: Michael Pavone, David Calloway, Lori Lewis
More: Eric McCormack attached to star. Andrew Currie attached to direct.
Title: Crosshair
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011
Logline: about a retired CIA assassin/agent who is competing against time to save himself before he becomes a mindless killing weapon, triggered by a program in his brain
Writer: Marc Silvestri, Jeff Katz, Morgan Foehl
Genre: Action , Sci-Fi , Fantasy
Saletype: Comic , Adaptation
Production Company: Top Cow Prods, Mandeville
Producer: David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Marc Silvestri, Matt Hawkins, David Manpearl, Jeff Katz
More: Morgan Foehl will adapt Marc Silvestri's and Jeff Katz's comic.
Title: Home in the Morning
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011
Logline: The story of a white Jewish lawyer living in the South over several decades of the civil rights era.
Writer: Mary Glickman
Genre: Drama , Period
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Production Company: Open Road Integrated Media
Producer: Jeffrey Sharp, Luke Parker Bowles, Peter Riva, Jim Kohlberg
More: Jim Kohlberg attached to direct.
Title: Pacific Rim
Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Logline: Story about powerful extraterrestrials who threaten the Earth's existence, with humans uniting to fight them off.
Writer: Travis Beacham
Genre: Sci-Fi
Saletype: Script
Studio: Warner Bros.
Production Company: Legendary Pictures
Producer: Guillermo del Toro, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni
More: Guillermo del Toro attached to direct.
Title: Pan
Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Logline: The fantasy story about the origin of Peter Pan.
Writer: Billy Ray
Genre: Fantasy
Saletype: Pitch
Production Company: Roth Films'
Producer: Joe Roth, Reid Carolin, Eric Bromberg, Channing Tatum, Palak Patel
Agent: CAA and Management 360 (Ray)
More: Channing Tatum attached to star.
Title: Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Logline: TBA
Genre: Family , Fantasy
Saletype: Pitch
Production Company: IAM Entertainment
Producer: Scott Glassgold, Raymond Brothers
Title: Elysium
Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Logline: Aliens come to earth to do battle with mankind so they find peace on earth and live like human beings.
Writer: Neill Blomkamp
Genre: Sci-Fi
Saletype: Script
Studio: Sony Studios
Production Company: MRC
More: Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley, Wagner Moura and Jodie Foster attached to star. Neill Blomkamp attached to direct.
Title: The Stand
Date: Monday, February 28, 2011
Logline: A story about good vs. evil after a virus wipes out most of the American population.
Writer: Stephen King
Genre: Thriller , Action , Sci-Fi , Fantasy
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Studio: Warner Bros., CBS Films
Production Company: Mosaic
Producer: Roy Lee
Title: Line of Sight
Date: Monday, February 28, 2011
Logline: TBA
Writer: F. Scott Frazier
Genre: Thriller , Action
Saletype: Pitch
Studio: Warner Bros.
Production Company: Silver Pictures
Producer: Joel Silver, Andrew Rona, Alex Heineman
Agent: WME and H2F (Frazier)
Title: The Chaperone
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011
Logline: The story about an ex-con who can not seem to get any job opportunities, so he decides to chaperone his daughter's field trip.
Writer: S. J. Roth
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Script
Studio: WWE Studios
Producer: Mike Pavone, David Calloway
More: Paul Triple H Levesque, Annabeth Gish, Ariel Winter, Kevin Corrigan, Jose Yuniga, Yeardley Smith, Kevin Rankin and Enrico Colantoni star in film. Stephen Herek directed film.
Title: My Best Enemy
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011
Logline: A silly tale of switched identities between a Nazi and a Jew during WWII.
Writer: Paul Henge
Genre: Period , Dark Comedy , War
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Samsafilm
Producer: Josef Aichholzer, Jani Thiltges
More: Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich, Ursula Strauss, Marthe Keller and Udo Samel star in film. Wolfgang Murnberger directed film.
Title: Hunter Killer
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011
Logline: The story of an untested American submarine captain who teams with Navy Seals to rescue the kidnapped Russian president.
Writer: George Wallace, Don Keith
Genre: Thriller , Action
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
Production Company: Relativity Media
Producer: Neal Moritz, Toby Jaffe, Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley
More: Phillip Noyce attached to direct.
Title: Griff the Invisible
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Logline: A timid office worker is bullied or ignored by day but transforms into a crime-fighting superhero after dark.
Writer: Leon Ford
Genre: Drama , Crime , Comedy , Fantasy
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Green Park Pictures
Producer: Nicole O Donohue, Jan Chapman, Scott Meek
More: Leon Ford directed film. Ryan Kwanten, Maeve Dermody and Patrick Brammall star in film.
Title: Destroy
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Logline: Vampires don't exist, but that doesn't stop a well-intentioned would-be vampire hunter from leaving a trail of blood-splattered wooden stakes across Bavaria. But while he thinks he's saving the world, he is mistakenly murdering sweet, innocent old men.
Writer: Zack Carlson, Michael Stephenson
Genre: Dark Comedy
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Magic Stone Productions
Producer: Michael and Lindsay Stephenson, Jennifer Roth
More: Michael Stephenson attached to direct.
Title: Our Grand Despair
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Logline: The story about two brothers who take some time to adapt to having their bachelor existence compromised by a female presence.
Writer: Baris Bicakci, Seyfi Teoma
Genre: Drama , Comedy
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation
Production Company: Bulut Film, Unafilm, Circe Films
Producer: Yamac Okur, Nadir Operli
More: Ilker Aksum, Fatih Al, Gunes Sayin, Taner Birsel, Baki Davralk and Mehmet Ali Nuroglu star in film. Seyfi Teoman directed film and adapted Baris Bicakci's novel.
Title: Battle Royale (2000)
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Logline: While on a school trip, a 7th grade class find themselves kidnapped, dumped on an evacuated island and try not to get murdered.
Writer: Koushun Takami, Kenta Fukasaku
Genre: Horror
Saletype: Script , Remake , Novel , Adaptation
Production Company: Battle Royale Production Committee
Producer: Kinji Fukasaku, Kenta Fukasaku
More: Takeshi Kitano,Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Kou Shibasaki, Sosuke Takaoka and Chieaki Kuriyama star in film. Kinji Fukasaku directed film. Kenta Fukasaku adapted Koushun Takami's novel.
Title: The Education
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Logline: A cautionary tale about a young man who gets his first hard knocks in the workplace.
Writer: Dirk Lutter
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Unafilm
Producer: Titus Kreyenberg
More: Joseph K. Bundschuh, Anke Retziaff, Stefan Rudolf, Dagmar Sachse, Anja Beatrice Kaul and Frank Voss star in film. Dirk Lutter directed film.
Title: Invisible
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Logline: Two women linked only by being victims of rape by the same man 20 years ago meet by chance and reveal how the trauma continues to affect their lives.
Writer: Tal Omer
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
Production Company: Plan B Productions
Producer: Ronen Ben-Tal
More: Ronit Elkabetz and Evgenia Dodina star in film. Michal Aviad directed film.
