Participant Media

Lawrence Grey, DeVon Franklin, Bill Gerber & Matt Tolmach amongst the producers taking this one into every studio!

When his plane is shot down over Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, Lieutenant Commander John McCain fights to survive as a POW at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” prison.

the extraordinary true story of Bob Ebeling and Roger Boisjoly, the aerospace engineers who discovered the “o-ring anomaly” that led to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Following a recent bidding war, Participant Media has acquired the spec The Price of Liberty from writer Michael Gunn. They will produce alongside Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro of Tribeca Films and Cary Granat of Reel FX.

Inspired by true events at the end of the Cold War, a young American diplomat and two senators, one Democrat and one Republican, implement a plan to secure the dangerous, unprotected nuclear material of the fallen Soviet Union before it can fall into the wrong hands.

Bleecker Street and Participant Media have jointly acquired North American rights to Breathe, a drama directed by Andy Serkis and starring Andrew Garfield as Robin Cavendish, who became one of the longest-living polio survivors in Great Britain after being struck with the disease at the age of 28.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Hyatt has found a home for his new film Captive State with Participant Media. The company won the worldwide rights in a bidding war. Wyatt will direct the film, based on a script he wrote with Erica Beeney.

Logline kept under wraps.

Based on true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant, and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

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.

Lauren Graham and Rob Riggle are heading back to school in Middle School from CBS Films. The project is based on the best-selling series from James Patterson.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but set during Hurricane Katrina.

Participant is joining DreamWorks in producing Steven Spielberg’s currently untitled Cold War thriller.

Logline: Follows an ornithology PhD student who is kidnapped in Colombia by guerillas who think he’s more important than he really is.

They’re joined by Michael Keaton, Aaron Eckhart, Liev Schreiber and Stanley Tucci.

Logline: Story of eight unlikely activists who break into an FBI office and find evidence confirming that J. Edgar Hoover was leading his own shadow bureau of investigation, in violation of the Constitution.

Logline: A young boy loses himself in an imaginative world he creates full of monsters and fairies to deal with bullies at school and his mother’s illness.

Logline: A tragic accident sets a chain of violence in motion in a coastal English town, leading a malevolent stranger to seek revenge on the perpetrators and the detective who covered it up.

Logline: Will chronicle the story of James Donovan, a prominent American attorney who was unexpectedly thrust into the center of the Cold War after being tasked by the CIA to slip past the Berlin Wall on his own and negotiate the release of the downed U-2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers.

Logline: The true story of a woman who is sued by the most notorious Holocaust denier, which puts the onus on her to prove the Holocaust actually happened.

Logline: Story follows two Secret Service agents in pursuit of a private mercenary’s powerful and sophisticated counterfeiting operation.

Logline: A young woman enters the world of competitive fundraising in New York City.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but will focus on a man-made disease.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: A family moves into a house in Colombia and quickly learns it is haunted by ghosts who were killed in an industrial accident.

Logline: Story follows a salesman who’s life is called into question when he arrives to a small town.

Logline: The story of a woman desperately balancing her relationship with her newly incarcerated husband and her own shifting identity.

Logline: Story centers on the courage of the men who worked on the “Deepwater Horizon” oil rig and the final minutes they fought to save the rig, and stop the explosion that would take eleven men’s lives, and cause the largest oil spill in the world.

Logline: Centers on the true story of the investigations, cover-ups, and journalism it took to uncover the Catholic molestation scandal that rocked the world.