Alex Gibney is taking a break from documentaries to direct his first narrative feature, The Action, a political thriller set in the 1970s.
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Alex Gibney is taking a break from documentaries to direct his first narrative feature, The Action, a political thriller set in the 1970s.
Eight anti-war activists in the ’70s steal classified FBI documents and later make them public, revealing that J. Edgar Hoover created a campaign to spy and blackmail troublemakers.
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Logline: Story centers on a young girl named Wylie who has the ability to harness her “intuition” and turn it into a powerful psychological weapon – something her former former group “The Outliers” want to use for their own nefarious means.
Logline: Set just after WWII, story centers on Louise Smith, who led barnstormers and bootleggers on a cross-country tour to promote a professional racing league that would become NASCAR.
Logline: Story follows a soldier returning from war to discover his brother, a famous DJ, has been murdered and that the only way to discover who killed him is to go deep undercover into the world’s largest electronic dance music circuit.
Logline: Story revolves around the general manager of the Cleveland Browns as he spends the day of the National Football League draft frantically trying to get the number one pick for his struggling team.
Logline: A boy with facial deformities encounters bullying when he goes to public school for the first time in fifth grade.
Logline: A teenage girl goes back in time to 1985 to a world where people break out into song, and she must become best friends with her misfit mom.
Logline: A middle-aged “loser” searches for treasure underneath New York City tunnels.
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Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of MIB. Story follows on a handful of misfits assigned to guard a storage dump known as Area 52 where the government stores otherworldly discoveries.
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Logline: A leprechaun ends up joining a group of Chicago firefighters after losing his memory. His new happiness is threatened when his wish granting brothers discover his new life.
Logline: A flash mob dancer must save his community from demolition while falling for a girl whose father is in charge of the destruction.
Logline: Story centers on a recently divorced father who joins a “youthful cover band†to fund a custody battle against his ex-wife.
Logline: Story centers on a man, who on the eve of an annual weekend getaway with friends, is told that his friends are not who they seem. And after people start turning up dead, he finds himself trapped in a downward spiral of doubt, paranoia and ultimately, a desperate fight to stay alive long enough to figure out who he can trust and who may be out to kill him.
Logline: Story will revolve around a couple’s relationship and the ups and downs they encounter while trying to understand each other.
Logline: The history of Vlad the Impaler, the 14th century warrior and prince behind the Dracula myth.
Logline: A reporter at a zoo realizes that the tactics used by zookeepers can be applied to the people around her to take control.
Logline: Story revolves around a New York doctor who travels to Bombay, India, for a friend’s funeral and meets an Indian fortune-teller who identifies him as the man who will bring about the apocalypse.
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