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Good Fear Content is out with BLACKBALLER by Reid Antin. A working-class girl in a rich town tries to blackmail her spoiled high school classmates for the money.

Good Fear Content is out with LAVENDER COUNTRY by Rob Connolly. The first openly gay country singer is the first to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Lionsgate has picked up THE CULLING by Stephen Herman. A troubled priest confines himself in an isolated cabin to confront a demon.

On a Chinese holiday that celebrates those who are not in relationships by encouraging pampering, shopping and partying, lives intersect across Shanghai. From Americans on a journey of self-discovery to old flames reconnecting, to an elderly woman reminiscing on the good old days, seemingly disconnected people will come together in moving, funny and surprising ways.

An African-American LAPD officer must put aside his differences with the area’s street gangs when he discovers a local police task force is harboring a horrific secret that endangers the residents of the housing projects he grew up in.

Based on the true story of Susan Fowler, the Uber engineer whose blog post about sexual harassment within the ride-hailing service exposed a toxic culture of sexism and sexual harassment that led to the firing of the company’s CEO.

Marooned on his ship billions of miles from earth, a lonely astronaut on the verge of starvation reprograms the computer AI system to digitally look & sound like a beautiful call girl. With death around the corner she is his only companion – until a rescue team shows up with questionable intentions.

Nico van den Brink’s short follows a woman who learns that her neighbors — a mother and her two kids — have been killed. That would be enough to freak out anyone, but when she continues to hear the children running around and laughing, she really starts to get the creeps.

Original Wonder Woman director Michelle MacLaren and her eventual replacement, Patty Jenkins, were both reportedly considered for the gig, but Caro is the more thoughtful choice.

A 12 year-old girl and Bigfoot who are outcasts in their own worlds struggle to keep the secret Bigfoot world safe.

A 12 year-old girl and Bigfoot who are outcasts in their own worlds struggle to keep the secret Bigfoot world safe.

Torn apart by tragedy, two estranged sisters are forced to reunite and confront their differences after one sister must be transported to an Alzheimer’s facility.

Dakota Johnson is set to join Andrew Garfield in the Los Angeles set noir crime thriller, Under the Silver Lake directed and written by David Robert Mitchell.

Under The Silver Lake has set up its domestic rights with A24. Just last week it was announced that Andrew Garfield was attached to star in the David Robert Mitchell pic.

Andrew Garfield has signed on for the lead role in Under The Silver Lake. He and Claire Foy are also in talks to star in the Andy Serkis-directed Breathe.

Modern noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles.

Melton and Dunstan have been tapped to rewrite Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow’s sci-fi action spec Metronome, formerly known as World War X.

Noah Hawley will be making his feature directorial debut with Man Alive. The spec from first-time scribe Joe Greenberg was acquired by 20th Century Fox in a six-figure deal.

Some sort of deadly virus destroys many people, while a Man and some other survivors try to remain alive.

Logline: After an alien consciousness takes over the minds of every human but one, the lone outsider must navigate a shaky truce with the alien hive mind, soon learning that there may be another person out there like him – someone with bad intentions.

Lars Klevberg’s new horror short, Polaroid, gets picked up for a feature adaptation after winning best short at the LA Horror Competition. Klevberg is attached to direct the adaptation.

Two instagram-obsessed girls unlock a deadly spirit when they try to take a selfie with an old Polaroid camera.

Logline: Feeling guilty about his father’s death and watching the love of his life go blind in an accident, a man travels the world through the fall of the Berlin Wall, Desert Storm, the LA riots and 9/11.

Based on the Chinese legend, a princess disguises herself as a man so she can take her father’s place in the army, becoming a Warrior.

Logline: Pitched as a “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” meets “Snow White And The Huntsman” take on the tale of princess-turned-warrior Mulan.

Logline: Follows students, with high-ranking government official parents, that attend at Langley High — the school that’s located less than a mile away from the CIA. After one parent goes missing and a teacher turns out to be more than he seems, one student becomes caught in the middle of a conspiracy much bigger than anything he could have imagined.

Logline: Pitched as “Moby Dick” meets “The Hunger Games,” follows a group of middle aged men who go away to summer camp that is rumored to be inhabited by a monster.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but involves Greek Gods living on Earth in the modern day.

A recap of the week’s TV News!

Logline: Kept under wraps.