Courtenay Valenti

Valenti has been a key creative force behind the Warner Animation Group, shepherding such titles as The LEGO Batman Movie from director Chris McKay, and The LEGO Movie from directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Kristin Burr is departing from her position as EVP of live-action production at Disney to start her own banner on the lot and Joel Stillerman has been hired as the CCO of Hulu.

Story details are being kept under wraps, but expected to focus on the early adventures of the Willy Wonka character.

Neighbors director Nicholas Stoller is producing a new animated family feature for Warner Bros. Fowl Road. The project is part of Warner’s continued push to expand their slate of animated features.

A ridiculous twist on overblown action movies, with a story centered on a chicken and a hen who must cross a super highway to save their daughter from a fried chicken company.

After directing this year’s Oscar-buzzing Black Mass, Scott Cooper is now looking to make his next project White Knight from Warner Bros. Cooper is in talks to rewrite and direct the project.

Rosario Dawson will be donning the modular plastic cowl and cape for the spinoff of the Lego Movie with returning Batman voice, Will Arnett.

A terminally-ill teenager searching for answers surrounding his missing father discovers a strange key that opens a portal to an alternate fully-animated dimension, releasing a new friend who helps him repair his broken family.

Rising helmer Paul King, who recently made waves directing the hit Paddington adaptation, is now in talks to tackle Warner Bros.’ animated musical Meet The Beatles, a film that will utilize songs from The Beatles’ entire discography.

A biographical drama that explores the life of renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan.

Warner Brothers is developing a biographical drama based on the life of iconic astrophysicist Carl Sagan. His widow, Ann Druyan, will serve as a producer on the film.

Centers on a former secret service agent as he takes a job protecting the head of one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels. As he gets to know his criminal client, he becomes close with his family, which only makes his situation harder as he must protect these people against other cartels, the Mexican government, and the American government he once served.

A former secret service agent protects the head of one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels.

Details the FBI’s first assault on white collar crime and its use of agents as long-term, undercover operatives, following two young FBI agents as they infiltrate the world of Phil Kitzer, a charismatic mastermind behind dozens of multi-million dollar schemes.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Kept under wraps but set during the Sinai Campaign of World War I.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: A group of American diplomats and soldiers rebel against their government to help evacuate over 100,000 South Vietnamese from Saigon in the final days of the Vietnam War.

Logline: While confronting coming-of-age issues, a pair of inseparable teenage twins are pulled apart by tragedy.

Logline: Based on the real life and music career of rock and roll icon Elvis Presley, “The King.”

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Follows the story of the apostle Paul and his conversion.

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” story of an analyst for the Department of Defense who returns to his family farm to investigate a rash of alien encounters occurring there.

Logline: Based on the true story of Jacob who, after being diagnosed with Autism and told by doctors that he would never read, went on to disprove Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and become a quantum physicist, all before the age of 13.

Logline: Depicts the wrath of ancient and vengeful deities as they turn up in modern times. Some have come back to destroy humanity and reclaim the world for themselves; others have to come back to stop them.

Logline: Set in 1938, a Jewish movie producer tries to push the studio to make a movie about the wicked rise of Hitler, but a group of LA based Germans threatens to kill his family in Warsaw concentration camps if he makes it.

Logline: A boy loses his mother in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He survives the explosion and absconds with Fabritius’ painting, “The Goldfinch.” A rich, Upper East Side family takes him in and he later reunites with his father – an alcoholic gambling addict who takes him to Las Vegas.

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Logline: Story of young Jonny Shelton who teams up with a government agent and an Indian girl to stop an evil terrorist from unleashing the powers of an ancient Hindu god.

Logline: Three wealthy pedigreed Chinese families whose predilection for gossip, backbiting and scheming reaches a fever pitch when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his American-born Chinese girlfriend to the wedding of the season.