As we first reported last week, a new family-oriented sci-fi book Rex hit the market with some real heat behind it. Now, the YA adventure has made its way into some of the town’s biggest animation studios.
Kathy Muraviov
As summer starts to wind down, the film rights market is heating back up with a new family-oriented sci-fi book, Rex. The YA adventure, co-written by authors Cody B. Stewart, Adam Rocke, and Mark Rogers, is stomping its way onto the film rights market with Kathy Muraviov and Darryl Taja leading the charge.
When an eleven year-old boy and his friend find a mysterious egg in the Florida Everglades, creepy men begin to stalk his house and military helicopters start buzzing their neighborhood. But when the egg hatches, the boys realize life as they know it will never be the same!
Logline: When three women in their mid-30s swear off men, get artificially inseminated and move in together, can their friendship survive the stress of pregnancy, hormone-fueled horniness, out-of-control bodily functions and the secret desire to still find a man to love?
Logline: Two Pebble Beach security guards – a gritty former SFPD Major Case Detective crippled in the line of work, and a nebbishy wanna-be cop – get in over their heads when they take on a murderous theft ring.
Logline: This comedic retelling depicts the “true history” of next year’s #1 box-office hit.
Logline: The true story of famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti’s lifelong quest to earn the love and respect of the one person in the opera world he could not receive it from – his own father.
After devoting his life to his career and playboy ways, a venerable CIA agent takes on his final mission, only to learn the assignment may not be what it seems. When he discovers the family he never knew he had, the retiring spy must choose between pride and honor, mission and family.
Michaelbrent Collings’ spec Strangers, based on his own bestselling novel, is burning up the market today. It’s already into multiple territories, with some big name buyers eyeing the twisted take on the contained thriller.
A family wakes up to discover they have been sealed inside their home. The man who did it is inside, too, and intent on teaching them a lesson… even if he has to kill them to do it.
When an American Jew falls for a Spanish girl, will their Madrid wedding survive the arrival and intervention of his very Jewish relatives? Based on a true story.
What do you call a BFF who’s dead and wants revenge?
A small-time crook is cursed to die a thousand times, but when he turns to his beautiful “world-saver” parole officer for help, he finally discovers something worth dying for, again, and again…
Penned by up-and-coming scribe Mark Simborg, the pic follows the titular Ray and Molly as they’re thrown together in a post-apocalyptic world, forced to try and put aside their differences and challenge the rules of love.
An ex-cop must navigate a deadly turf war, and his father, in order to save his lover from execution at dawn.
The TB Recommends writer is the 64th Launch Pad Alum to be signed.
Logline: When a work-obsessed young woman with a sketchy past, accidentally kills her date, she enlists the help of her slacker neighbor to cover up the murder — but the plan gets complicated when the date’s scorned wife shows up.
Logline: A lackluster medical copywriter has seven days to spread his buddy’s ashes in the most curious of places or risk relinquishing treasured possessions to his friend’s cold-hearted widow.
Logline: After capturing a serial killer, three petty crooks deliver a chilling ransom demand: “Give us five million dollars or we let him go.”
“Counterpoint” scribe adds two powerhouse reps!
Logline: Andy McKnight wakes up from a car accident to discover that his past, and the world he knows, have changed. Now he has to find out when, and why…and how to switch back to the time he thinks is real.
Logline: A superstar wide receiver gets suspended from the NFL and subsequently adopts a kid to get back into the league in time for the playoffs.
Logline: When their grandmother dies, two sisters must overcome their differences and work together to complete an intensive bucket list before they scan collect her secret fortune.
Logline: Pitched as a taut action/thriller set at a weather station in Greenland during WWII. On his new assignment, a battle-haunted Army Captain commands a group of scientists. Cut off from help and supplies due to ice and weather, he must overcome his past and shape his men into soldiers after the crew from a disabled German submarine take over the base.
Logline: A sports agent fears his protégé turned nemesis could ruin him by stealing his last few clients, so when the biggest name he reps — a Lakers superstar — asks for his help in getting rid of a young woman’s corpse, he reluctantly gets his hands dirty only to later watch his entire life unravel.
Logline: Troubled FBI Agent Laura Early’s plans to transition from field work to a desk job are thwarted when a well-known Washington DC reporter with powerful connections is brutally murdered. As she reluctantly pursues the case, she discovers, in Washington, everybody has something to hide.
Logline: A mother risks life and limb in a cross-country journey across a hostile post-apocalyptic America to find her daughter.
Logline: An ex-con gone straight is forced to filch the world’s most valuable diamond as ransom for his kidnapped son — but finds himself trapped inside a locked-down mall full of cops as the storm of the century rages outside.
Logline: When his long-lost identical twin brother shows up, an unhappily married father of two seizes the occasion to swap himself out of his own life.
Logline: Pitched in the vein of “Die Hard”, a NYC cop on vacation in sunny Los Angeles unwittingly stops a terrorist attack on Hollywood Boulevard and pits himself against a gang of bad-asses searching for a dirty bomb in a mile-long traffic accident on the 101.
