Yuba
Yuba is a gritty Western with two main characters, set in the Gold Rush era. At that time, the Yuba river valley often was cited as the most lawless lands of the Old West.
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The Post
Script deals with the Washington Post’s role in exposing the Pentagon Papers in 1971, and how the Post’s editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham challenged the federal government over their right to publish them.
Liz Hannah
Hummingbird
A female black-ops assassin discovers she’s more than just a hired gun but an entirely new breed of weapon.
John McClain
Fairy Godmother
A comic revisionist look at the classic Fairy Godmother tale.
Chiara Atik
Northeast Kingdom
When a vigilant and determined young woman witnesses the betrayal and murder of her father during a smuggler’s drop, she calls in the help of a mysterious female assassin to seek revenge against all those responsible.
Alex R. Johnson
The Price of Liberty
An American diplomat in Kazakhstan after the fall of the Soviet Union discovers a massive stock of enriched uranium, and it’s a race against time to get it out of the country before potential terrorists get to it first.
Michael Russell Gunn
Silent Night
It’s 1941 in Berlin — the heart of the escalating Nazi empire — as a brutal serial killer roams the blacked-out streets, targeting young women. Determined to keep the nation focused on the war effort, Nazi leadership tasks homicide detective Alex Lang with tracking down the murderer.
James Luckard
The Miserable Adventures of Burt Squire Aboard the Horn High Yo
A family man in the midst of a midlife crisis embarks on what he hopes will be a dream sailing vacation. He ends up shipwrecked in the Atlantic Ocean with a charming but unhinged sea captain who is off his meds.
Ben Bolea
Federal Offense
Three best friends lose a drug kingpin’s stash before finding themselves on the lam from gangsters, bounty hunters and the law after breaking their foul-mouthed grandfather out of his nursing home.
Connor Martin
Operation Prince of Freedom
A group of ragtag Marines are attacked by a Taliban insurgency while escorting a politically incorrect C&W star across Afghanistan. Things take an unexpected turn when the Marines and Taliban alike are forced to unite against an invasion of alien bugs.
Michael Kvamme, Jordan Dunn
The Silver Arrow
An international heist thriller about a group of thieves in the search of the Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow, a legendary pre-World War II racing car.
Nika Agiashvili
Untitled Mindy Kaling Talk Show Project
A late-night talk show host who’s at risk of losing her long-running show hires her first female writer.
Mindy Kaling
American Rebel
Based on the true story of Deborah Sampson, who risked her life during the Revolutionary War by disguising herself as a man and joining the Continental Army.
Christopher Cosmos
Inner City
Described as Michael Clayton meets The Verdict, Gilroy’s new flick follows Roman J. Israel (Denzel Washington), a liberal lawyer in Los Angeles. For years people have taken credit for his hard work, but when the partner at his firm has a heart attack, he becomes the new front man. This leads him to discover less-than-moral actions the firm has taken over the years and what to do going forward.
Dan Gilroy
Civil War
The true story of the bitter battle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in 1973, which became a hotbed of dispute for both sides of the gender equality movement that continues to this day.
David Kukoff
Captive State
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Rupert Wyatt, Erica Beeney
The Ark
An engineer who, after the death of his wife, has a vision to construct a ship capable of sustaining life in space. When the build happens to coincide with the coming end of the world, the engineer realizes there may be a larger story at play.
Daniel Kunka
Life Itself
A multi-generational love story that weaves together a number of characters whose lives intersect over the course of decades from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside and back.
Dan Fogelman
Ida Tarbell
The script follows Tarbell as she digs into the Rockefeller oil empire through public documents to unearth the truth behind Standard Oil. Rockefeller would find himself against a formidable foe, the 45-year-old teacher and journalist Tarbell, who later also would pen a profile of the businessman. Tarbell’s exposé ended up not only changing the way others thought about journalism but also put a microscope on Rockefeller’s vast empire.
Mark McDevitt
The Ridge
The Battle of Takur Ghar and the daring rescue of a fallen Navy Seal behind enemy lines
Joel Carpenter
Genesis
Story details are being kept under wraps, but the script is being described as a Science Fiction thriller with action elements
Andrew Baldwin
Red Widow
The story follows superspy Sara Drake, who traded in her legendary career for a normal life eight years earlier and went completely off the grid. Forced back into action after a rogue special ops team murders her husband, Drake embarks on a bloody quest for vengeance that leads to the highest rungs of government, uncovering a secret that could shake the foundations of American democracy.
Matt Altman
The Wedding Year
A female millennial who isn’t sure she is the marrying type has her relationship and commitment issues put to the test when she is invited to 15 weddings in the same goddamn year.
Donald Diego
Besties
A woman finds a long-lost love note then sets off on a road trip with her three best friends to break up the wedding of her childhood crush.
Cassie Daniels, Mark Bartosic
The Fall
In the midst of an alien invasion, a freshly divorced couple must survive a dangerous real-time journey on foot from downtown Atlanta to the suburbs, where their young children are home alone.
Pete Bridges
Porter Rockwell
The story is set in the Utah territory during the mid-1800s gold rush. Rockwell, who became a U.S. Deputy Marshal, reluctantly leads a family of prospectors into the mountains, where they are ambushed and he is left for dead. Fueled by vengeance, Rockwell treks through rugged and snowy terrain to hunt down the gang that kidnapped a rebellious young girl.
Antonio Macia
Mary
A struggling family buys an old ship at auction with high hopes of starting a charter business, only to discover her horrifying secrets on the isolated open waters.
Anthony Jaswinski
Trigger Warning
The script is described as a female First Blood with John Wick thrown in for good measure, where the reluctant heroine reveals herself in a small town.
John Brancato, Josh Olson
Moonfall
An unlikely band of misfits must unite to save humanity when the moon falls out of orbit and hurtles towards earth.
Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser, Spenser Cohen
Do No Harm
An ambitious surgeon’s life takes a dangerous turn when she indulges in an on-air with a doctor whose god complex challenges her own.
Julia Cox
Reason of State
A taut political thriller unfolding over 24 hours inside one of the world’s most famous addresses: 10 Downing Street.
Matthew Orton
Backward Falling
A man and a woman who fall in love as they literally fall backward through time, sometimes landing in the same time period and sometimes losing one another for years. They struggle to stay together while trying to understand what is happening to them and why.
Byron Willinger, Phillip De Blasi
Burn Run
When an intelligence leak dangerously exposes a covert mission in Afghanistan, a grieving CIA operative and his translator must find their way out of the desert, outgunned and hunted by elite special forces.
Mitchell LaFortune
17 Bridges
The thriller follows a disgraced detective in the NYPD who is given a shot at redemption. Thrust into a citywide manhunt for a cop killer, he begins to undercover a massive conspiracy that links his fellow cops to a criminal empire and must decide who he is hunting and who is actually hunting him. During the manhunt, Manhattan is completely locked down for the first time in its history – no exit or entry to the island including all 17 bridges.
Adam Mervis
The Gun Show
An action comedy in the vein of Ride Along meets Demolition Man, the spec focuses on a famous top cop who wakes up 20 years after a shootout and gets reinstated to solve the case that killed his old partner. He’s a bull in a china shop, as 2016 is a very different time than the 1990s world he was used to. To teach him the ropes, he’s paired with his old partner’s son, who is a risk averse traffic cop.
Lucas Carter
The Last Days of Night
The miracle of electric light is in its infancy. Thomas Edison has won the race to the patent office and is suing his only remaining rival, George Westinghouse, for the unheard-of sum of one billion dollars. To defend himself, Westinghouse makes a surprising choice in his attorney: He hires an untested twenty-six-year-old fresh out of Columbia Law School named Paul Cravath. The task facing Cravath is beyond daunting. Edison proves to be a formidable, wily, and dangerous opponent. Yet this young, unknown attorney shares with his famous opponent a compulsion to win at all costs. How will he do it? As he takes greater and greater risks, he’ll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem.
Graham Moore