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The Other Woman
Start: 4/29/2013
Logline: A woman learns that she’s part of a love triangle, so she teams up with the spurned wife in order to exact revenge on the cheating husband.
Studio/Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Company: LBI Entertainment
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Producer: Julie Yorn
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kate Upton, Taylor Kinney, Nicki Minaj
Screenwriter: Melissa Stack
SSN Insight: Screenwriter Melissa Stack was on the 2007 Black List with her script, I Want to F**k Your Sister. She is currently doing a rewrite on King of Kong, which Seth Gordon is attached to direct.
The Reckoning
Start: 4/29/2013
Logline: A detective on the trail of a killer must find two missing teenagers whose video footage contains the identity of the murderer.
Distibution Sales: Lightning Entertainment (Foreign)
Production Company: Filmscope Entertainment
Director: John V Soto
Producer: Deidre Kitcher
Cast: Luke Hemsworth, Jonathan LaPaglia
Screenwriter: John V Soto
SSN Insight: Luke Hemsworth, the older brother of Chris and Liam, landed one of the lead roles in his first feature film.
Transcendence
Start: 4/29/2013
Logline: A scientist has his brain uploaded into a computer in a cutting edge experiment.
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Company: Alcon Entertainment, Straight Up Films, Inc., Syncopy Films
Director: Wally Pfister
Producer: Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Annie Marter, Marisa Polvino, Kate Cohen, David Valdes
Cast: Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Clifton Collins Jr., Cole Hauser
Screenwriter: Noah Oppenheim (current draft), Jordan Goldberg (previous draft), Alex Paraskevas (previous draft), Jack Paglen (original draft)
SSN Insight: Wally Pfister, the Academy Award winning cinematographer and long-time Christopher Nolan collaborator, makes his directorial debut.
Brick Mansions
Start: 4/30/2013
Logline: An undercover cop and a former criminal attempt to infiltrate a gang, armed with a weapon of mass destruction, in the ghetto known as “Brick Mansions.”
Distributor: Relativity Media
Production Company: EuropaCorp
Director: Camille Delamarre
Producer: Luc Besson, Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley, Christophe Lambert
Cast: Paul Walker
Screenwriter: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Details: The remake of District B13 (France/2004) directed by Pierre Morel and written by Luc Besson.
SSN Insight: A protégé of Luc Besson, Camille Delamarre has edited several of his movies, but this will mark her feature directorial debut.
Search Party
Start: 5/1/2013
Logline: Two guys head to Mexico to rescue their friend and reunite him with his fiancé.
Studio/Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Company: Original Film, American Work, Gold Circle Entertainment
Director: Scot Armstrong
Producer: Scot Armstrong, Neal H. Moritz, Ravi Nandan, Paul Brooks
Cast: TJ Miller, Adam Pally, Shannon Marie Woodward, Alison Brie
Screenwriter: Scot Armstrong (current draft), Andrew Waller (spec), Mike Gagerman (spec)
SSN Insight: A frequent collaborator with Todd Phillips, this will be Scot Armstrong’s feature directorial debut. The script was on the 2010 Black List and previously set up at Columbia Pictures where it was titled, Road to Nardo.
Ninja Turtles
Start: 5/2/2013
Logline: From their home in the storm sewers of Manhattan, four Ninjitsu-trained turtles, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello and their sensei, Master Splinter, battle evil.
Studio/Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Company: Lightbox, Mirage Studios, TMNT Productions, Platinum Dunes
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Producer: Scott Mednick, Galen Walker, Jason Reed, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form
Cast: Megan Fox, Alan Ritchson, Pete Ploszek, Jeremy Howard, Noel Fisher, Will Arnett, Danny Woodburn
Screenwriter: Evan Daugherty (current draft), Josh Appelbaum (3rd draft), André Nemec (3rd draft), Art Marcum (2nd draft), Matt Holloway (2nd draft), John Fusco (original screenplay)
Details: Based on the comic book series “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” created by Peter A. Laird and Kevin B. Eastman and originally published by Mirage Studios in May 1984.
SSN Insight: Mirage Studios sold the global rights for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property to Viacom in 2009 for $60 million.
Wrap
Son of a Gun
Wrap: 5/1/2013
Logline: Australia’s most wanted criminal takes in a protégé under his wing, but when a robbery goes wrong, they discover they were set up.
Production Company: Southern Light Films
Director: Julius Avery
Producer: Tim White
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander, Brenton Thwaites
Screenwriter: Julius Avery
SSN Insight: After receiving critical acclaim for several of her short films, this will be Julius Avery’s full-length feature debut.
True Story
Wrap: 5/2/2013
Logline: A disgraced reporter is fired from the New York Times and forms a bond with a murder suspect who had stolen the reporter’s identity and was hiding under a similar name in Mexico.
Studio: Regency Enterprises
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Company: Plan B Entertainment, New Regency Productions
Director: Rupert Goold
Producer: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt, Guy Stodel
Cast: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones
Screenwriter: Dave Kajganich (current draft), Jeffrey Hatcher (adaptation)
Details: Based on the book “True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa” written by Michael Finkel published by HarperCollins on May 24, 2005.
SSN Insight: True Story is the directorial feature debut for English theatre director, Rupert Goold, who most recently directed the Broadway production of Enron.
Words and Pictures
Wrap: 5/5/2013
Logline: A charismatic poet and an enigmatic, well-respected painter meet each other as teachers at a New England prep school and get one last chance to redeem their derailed lives.
Distribution Sales: Voltage Pictures (foreign)
Production Company: Latitude Productions, Lascaux Films
Director: Fred Schepisi
Producer: Curtis Burch, Gerald DiPego
Cast: Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche
Screenwriter: Gerald DiPego
SSN Insight: Fred Schepisi, who directed Steve Martin in Roxanne, the film in which Martin starred and wrote, is also attached to direct the film adaptation of Steve Martin’s play, “Picasso At the Lapin Agile,” which is in development.