The Longest Birthday
A mother and her son, who is dying from terminal cancer, travel from Israel to Los Angeles to make his last birthday the best, as well as the longest due to their traveling across time zones.
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Humbug
A contemporary retelling of the Charles Dickens’ tale A Christmas Carol. In the modern version, Ice Cube will play a wealthy real estate mogul shown a path to redemption by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
Todd Jones, Earl Ritchey Jones
Sarah
A “grounded” Science Fiction thriller which is a character-driven property in the vein of Luc Besson’s box office smash Lucy.
John Gary
The Libertine
French economist Dominique Strauss-Kahn becomes the managing director of the International Monetary Fund in 2007 with the backing of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. He resigns four years late following allegations that he had sexually assaulted a hotel employee. The case against Strauss-Khan is not pursued due to credibility problems with the employee. A subsequent civil suit against him is settled out of court.
Ben Kopit
Crash Site
N/A
Chuck Pfarrer
Bed Rest
A Hitchcockian thriller in the vein of Rear Window and What Lies Beneath, centering on a pregnant woman who is isolated and confined to bed rest.
Lori Evans Taylor
The Edge of Normal
Tells the story of a woman who escaped captivity from a sadistic sexual predator when she was a teenager. Ten years later, she remains haunted by her memories as she struggles to pull her life together. She finds ultimately herself drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a clever psychopath who seems to know her every move.
Max Vennes
The Fixer
Set in the gritty intersection of the Los Angeles nightlife and organized crime, the plot follows a mob fixer who retires to repair his broken personal life but, finding his son distant and uninterested in a relationship, once again is drawn into the criminal underworld and finds a willing protégé in a young drug dealer.
Bill Kennedy
Prince Charming
Will not follow the titular character, but rather his brother who has struggled to compete thanks to a lack of charm.
Matthew Fogel
Move That Body
Female-driven comedy described as The Hangover meets Weekend At Bernie’s.
Lucia Aniello, Paul W Downs
Free Fall
When a man joins his estranged daughter on a mountain climb in an attempt to repair their relationship, a tragic accident leaves them stranded hundreds of feet in the air. As a storm sets in, the two must fight against the elements and terrifying heights in order to survive.
Gregg Maxwell Parker, Sean Finegan
The Water Man
A precocious young boy Gunner who, in order to save his ill mother, runs away from home to find a mythic/legendary character called The Water Man, who has been rumored to be able to cheat death. While extremely close to his mother, he and his father Amos have an adversarial relationship and are forced to learn about each other as Amos goes on the search for his son.
Emma Needell
Collateral Beauty
A New York advertising executive experiences a deep personal tragedy. When his colleagues devise an unconventional plan to break him out of his depression, the plan works, but not in a way that anyone imagined.
Allan Loeb
Parents Weekend
A couple take advantage of their freshman son’s parents’ weekend to have the college experience they never had while visiting him.
Peter Scott
Command & Control
An NSA employee takes over the most secure room in the nation — U.S. Cyber Command — using its advanced spyware technology to unravel a deadly conspiracy. In an effort to redeem himself and save millions of innocent lives, he gains the trust of a young female hacker to stop a false-flag operation being run by members of the government.
Byron Willinger, Phil De Blasi
Pale Blue Dot
A successful female astronaut, after coming back home from a mission in space, starts to unravel when confronted by her seemingly perfect American dream life.
Brian C Brown, Elliott DiGuiseppi
The Infinite Horizon
Takes its cues from Homer’s The Odyssey to tell a military story set in the near future about a soldier who leads a group of abandoned soldiers on a 10-year journey back home. Along the way, he faces shipwrecks, an opponent wearing Cyclops-like battle tech armor and the call of sirens.
Ryan Condal
A Meyers Thanksgiving
The pic is a holiday themed comedy about an estranged family facing their first Thanksgiving together since the death of the family matriarch.
David E. Talbert
Eye in the Sky
An LAPD helicopter squad tries to nab a Mexican drug lord who has come to Los Angeles to celebrate his niece’s quinceanera. A cat-and-mouse pursuit ensues from the sky as law enforcement tries to capture him.
Robert D’Ovidio
Septillion to One
An over-zealous former FBI agent who has been relegated to the fraud unit of the Texas State Lottery begins investigating a beautiful and shrewd woman who had inexplicably defied all odds and hit the lottery jackpot three times. He realizes the odds are over one in a billion for this to happen, creating a game of cat and mouse with the suspect whom he ultimately falls head over heels in love.
Adam R. Perlman, Graham Sack
Mulan
A young woman disguises herself as a man so she can take her father's place in the army and go to war.
Elizabeth Martin, Lauren Hynek
American Drifter
A man loses his father, a guy who has taught him to use his mind to do the impossible. Feeling guilty about his death and watching the love of his life go blind in an accident, the man travels the world through the fall of the Berlin Wall, Desert Storm, the LA riots and 9/11. Ultimately, he is reunited with his love.
Eric Bress
Temple
A team of highly trained operatives get trapped inside an isolated military compound after its artificial intelligence is shut down. The team begins to experience strange and horrific phenomena as they try to determine who or what killed the team previously stationed there.
Michael Savelloni
The Leviathan
Set in the 22nd century, mankind has colonized many worlds and traveling faster than the speed of light has been made possible by the harvesting of exotic matter from the eggs of the largest species mankind has ever seen.
Jim Uhls
Realm
A young woman possesses the power to enter the soul of the possessed to wage physical battle against their inner demons.
Rebecca Sonnenshein
Proxima
The Science Fiction drama is about a married couple on a centuries-long mission across the universe.
Chris Hager
Verona
The script is said to reimagine the classic love story through a lens of an epic, 300-style world.
Neil Widener, Gavin James
American Hostage
A home-invasion crew terrorizes houses in a neighborhood, until they choose the wrong residence. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
Eric Bress
Undone
A popular podcast brings a strange, decades-old murder case into the spotlight and leads to a re-investigating of the thirty-five year old murder case, One of the nation’s top litigators fights to free the man the entire country believes was wrongly convicted, until she begins to suspect her own past might be the key to the murder itself.
Melissa London Hilfers
Descendant
A couple are overjoyed by the birth of their son. But as he grows older he begins to show signs of genius-level intelligence, which change him in chilling ways, leaving his parents and doctors wondering if his talents are natural or if there is some other force influencing him.
Jeff Buhler
A Shot in the Eye
The spec is a Science Fiction action movie in a dystopian setting, but they’re keeping the exact logline under wraps.
Dan Futterman
The House
A guy, who, with his wife, blows their daughter’s college fund. Desperate for cash, they team with some neighbors to open an illegal casino in the suburbs
Brendan O’Brien and Andrew J. Cohen
Smoke
It’s set in the Miami Vice 1980s era in South Beach. Spec tells the true story of Joey Ippolito, who was one of the world’s top speedboat racers. No one in the South Beach socialite crowd knew, however, that he was also running one of the biggest cocaine smuggling operations out of the U.S.
Max Yaney, Luke Goltz
Hunt, Capture, Kill
A full out action film about the first female president, who is shot down in Air Force One in the jungles of South America. One military man in charge of her rescue is her only hope for survival.
Gregory Allen Howard
The Burning Woman
In a small, blue-collar town in Pennsylvania, a 32-year-old woman’s teen daughter goes missing and she is left to raise her infant grandson alone. The story is told over the course of 11 years, from the time her daughter vanishes, through the the trials-and-tribulations of subsequent years looking for closure, leading up the long-awaited discovery of the truth.
Brad Ingelsby
Bounty
The story centers on a convicted murderer who busts out of prison to clear his name, however the widow of one of his victims goes on national television and offers a $10 million reward to anyone who delivers the felon. Dead or alive.
Sascha Penn