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FOUR (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on August 19, 2010

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MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (SALES) ***Updated w/ Old Spice***

Posted by admin in (Updated), Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Sequel/Prequel, Theater on August 11, 2010

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THE F-WORD (SALES) ***Updated w/ an Affleck***

Posted by admin in (Updated), Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on July 23, 2010

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SOUTH PACIFIC (SALES)

Posted by admin in Based on..., Sales, Theater on July 8, 2010

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ME. (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on July 6, 2010

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360 (SALES)

Posted by admin in Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on June 23, 2010

Logline: Story examines sexual morals within and between social classes, using various pairs of characters who have sexual encounters in and outside of their social classes.

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REVOLUTIONS (SALES)

Posted by admin in Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on June 9, 2010

Logline: Three old college friends meet for a reunion celebration.

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THREE SIXTY (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Based on..., Sales, Theater on May 17, 2010

Logline: Pitched as a multi-stranded tale of love and obsession.

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CERTAINTY (SALES)

Posted by admin in Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on May 17, 2010

Logline: Story follows a young couple’s experiences in the counseling course required before getting married in a Catholic church.

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THE F-WORD (SALES) ***Updated w/ a new director***

Posted by admin in (Updated), Adaptation, Attachments, Awards, Based on..., Sales, Theater on May 4, 2010

Logline: Wallace and Chantry meet at a party and find that they have great chemistry…. as friends. However, as they spend more time together and experience romantic feelings, they’ll find out if men and women can control their desires to simply enjoy the benefits of a platonic relationship.

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MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Sequel/Prequel, Theater on April 28, 2010

Logline: Madea gathers everyone together for a family reunion they’ll never forget.

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CHEESECAKE CASSEROLE (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on April 26, 2010

Logline: Four college women discuss and experience love, sex, post-college worry, how to be a woman, and how to not be afraid to call a spade a spade on their final, bittersweet weekend before graduation.

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A DANGEROUS METHOD (aka: The Talking Cure) (SALES) ***Updated w/ a name change***

Posted by admin in (Updated), Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on April 13, 2010

Logline: Follows the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and their complicated relationships with a brilliant and beautiful patient, Sabina Spielrein.

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IN THE HEIGHTS (SALES) ***Updated w/ a new writer***

Posted by admin in (Updated), Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on April 12, 2010

Logline: SThe story focuses on three days in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, where a bodega owner who inherited his grandmother’s lottery windfall plots his retirement to a Dominican Republic beach. As he bids farewell to his customers on the block, he becomes conflicted about leaving behind a group that has become family.

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BURNING BLUE (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on April 2, 2010

Logline: An outstanding Navy pilot becomes the target of a witch hunt when evidence surfaces that romantically links him with one of his fellow aviators who was tragically killed during a non-combat mission.

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BECKET (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Based on..., Sales, Theater on April 1, 2010

Logline: In 1162, Thomas Becket is appointed by his friend Henry II as Archbishop of Canterbury then ultimately sides with the church against the crown.

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CLEAN (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on March 25, 2010

Logline: A rape survivor returns to the scene of the crime three years later with further violent consequences.

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FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF (SALES) ***Updated w/ new casting details***

Posted by admin in (Updated), Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on March 25, 2010

Logline: A perspective on what it is to be female and black in the modern United States.

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AMERICAN IDIOT (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Based on..., Sales, Theater on March 22, 2010

Logline: Centers on three small-town guys, one who joins the army, another who moves to the city and gets addicted to drugs, and a third who stays home and gets his girlfriend pregnant, all set to the songs of punk band Green Day.

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KING LEAR (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Novel, Sales, Theater on March 13, 2010

Name: KING LEAR Logline: A modern-day adaptation of the Shakespearian tragedy set in Egypt. Writer: Khaled Al Khamissi Prod Co: Amana Creative Misr International Films Egypt National Broadcast Corporation Producer: Frederic Sichler Gabriel Khoury Cast: Omar Sharif Genre: Drama Info: Based on the tragedy “King Lear” by William Shakespeare.

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CONAN Launches “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour”

Posted by admin in Entertainment News, Theater, We Love It on March 11, 2010

Want to see Conan and his schtick before he lands back on network TV? I know we do. Check out the details of his nationwide tour HERE.

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THE TALKING CURE (SALES) ***Updated w/ Waltz out and Mortensen in***

Posted by admin in (Updated), Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on March 9, 2010

Name: THE TALKING CURE Logline: Follows the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and their complicated relationships with a brilliant and beautiful patient, Sabina Spielrein. Writer: Christopher Hampton Agency: CAA Director: David Cronenberg Prod Co: Recorded Picture Company Hanway Films Producer: Jeremy Thomas David Cronenberg Cast: Viggo Mortensen Keira Knightley Vincent Cassel [...]

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THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Based on..., Film, Remake/Reboot, Sales, Theater on February 11, 2010

Name: THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS Logline: A town’s sheriff and madame team up to stop a crusading television personality from shutting down the local whorehouse. Writer: Karen McCullah Lutz Kirsten Smith Agency: Paradigm Mngmnt: Jaret Ent. Prod Co: Temple Hill Entertainment Studio: Universal Producer: Marty Bowen Wyck Godfrey Roy Houlette (exec) Genre: Comedy [...]

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DAMN YANKEES (SALES) ***Updated w/ new director***

Posted by admin in (Updated), Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Film, Novel, Sales, Theater on February 5, 2010

Name: DAMN YANKEES Logline: A frustrated baseball fan sells his soul to the devil so that his favorite team will have a winning season and a chance at beating those hated Yankees. The fan can break the deal, but the deadline occurs during the World Series. For good measure, the devil engages a gorgeous lost [...]

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IN THE HEIGHTS (SALES) ***Updated w/ director***

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on December 14, 2009

Name:            IN THE HEIGHTS Logline:         The story focuses on three days in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, where a bodega owner who inherited his grandmother’s lottery windfall plots his retirement to a Dominican Republic beach. As he bids farewell to his customers on the [...]

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CORIOLANUS (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on November 4, 2009

Name: CORIOLANUS Logline: A contemporary version of Shakespeare’s Rome-set political and family drama. Writer: John Logan Agency: CAA Director: Ralph Fiennes Prod Co: Magnolia Mae Productions Artemis Films Icon Entertainment International Producer: Gabrielle Tana Julia Taylor-Stanley Genre: Drama Info: Based on the play “Coriolanus” by William Shakespeare. Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Fiennes, William Hurt [...]

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MY FAIR LADY Remake (SALES) ***Updated — adds a director — loses same director***

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on October 25, 2009

Name: MY FAIR LADY (Remake) Logline: A simple Cockney flower girl named Eliza Doolittle is transformed into a refined lady by Henry Higgins. Writer: Emma Thompson Agency: WME Prod Co: CBS Films Toledo Pictures Studio: Sony Producer: Duncan Kenworthy Cameron Mackintosh Genre: Drama Romance Info: Keira Knightley will star. Based on the musical, and play [...]

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MISS SAIGON (SALES)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on October 20, 2009

Name: MISS SAIGON Logline: Centers on the tragic love story of a Vietnamese bar girl and an American soldier before the fall of Saigon in 1975. Writer: Claude-Michel Schonberg (play) Alain Boublil (play) Director: Lee Daniels Prod Co: Chestnut Ridge Prods Producer: Paula Wagner Cameron Mackintosh Genre: Drama Info: Producers are out to writers to [...]

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THE BUTCHERHOUSE CHRONICLES (Sales)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on October 6, 2009

Name: THE BUTCHERHOUSE CHRONICLES Logline: Four high school students set out to discover the truth behind a mysterious old property known as The Butcherhouse. Writer: Stephen Susco Agency: CAA Mngmnt: Evolution Ent. Prod Co: Platinum Dunes Studio: Paramount Pictures Producer: Michael Bay Brad Fuller Andrew Form Genre: Horror Comedy Info: To be based on Michael [...]

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Disney puts Mamet in turnaround

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Film, Novel, Theater, Turnaround on September 26, 2009

Remember a month or two ago when it was reported that David Mamet was writing a new version of Anne Frank for Disney? And it didn’t quite make sense then… Well, Disney is only now realizing it doesn’t quite make sense either, having read the script and decided to part ways with the project, putting [...]

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ENRON (Sales)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Based on..., Sales, Theater on September 22, 2009

Name: ENRON Logline: Follows one of hte most famous and most scandalous stories of the rise and fall of the Texas energy company. Writer: Lucy Prebble Agency: CAA Prod Co: Laura Ziskin Prods. Studio: Columbia Pictures Producer: Laura Ziskin Genre: Drama Info: To be based on Prebble’s upcoming broadway play.

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AUTOBAHN (Sales)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on September 15, 2009

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CORIOLANUS (Sales)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on September 10, 2009

Name: CORIOLANUS Logline: Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, is manipulated and out-maneuvered by politicians and even his own mother Volumnia, resulting in his banishment. He subsequently offers himself to his sworn enemy, and together they march on Rome intending to destroy the city. Writer: John Logan Agency: CAA Director: Ralph Fiennes Prod Co: Artemis Films [...]

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COPLEY offered A-Team role

Posted by admin in Attachments, Film, Rumor Mill, Theater, Upcoming on September 10, 2009

Sharlto Copley, the non-alien lead from Distric 9 has been offered the role of Capt. H.M. Murdock in the upcoming A-Team film. Opposite him would be – Liam Neeson as Col. John ‘Hannibal’ Smith, Bradley Cooper as Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck and Rampage Jackson as B.A. Baracus. For a guy who’s never acted in a [...]

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PUZZLE FOR A BLIND MAN (Sales)

Posted by admin in Adaptation, Attachments, Based on..., Sales, Theater on September 9, 2009

Name: PUZZLE FOR A BLIND MAN Logline: An affluent banker fed up with his humdrum marriage embarks on a torrid affair with a sultry young artist, while a best-selling author whose books examine true love defies the odds and reconnects with the enduring love of his life, a girl he only saw in passing over [...]

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