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The chocolate factory is opening its gates once again, as Warner Bros. has secured the rights to the Willy Wonka IP. Harry Potter producer David Heyman, who is also helping spur the studio’s now five-film spin-off franchise Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, will produce the reboot of the beloved character.

Based on the real life kidnapping of Buchanan by Somalian pirates and the 93 day near death hostage negotiations, which lead to her dramatic rescue in the middle of the night by SEAL Team Six.

The hot spec Hummingbird from writer John McClain is hitting the market with production company Broken Road leading the way. The project already has Marcus Kryler and Frederick Akerstrom attached to direct and actor Shailene Woodley interested in starring.

Under wraps, but said to be an elevated action/sci-fi in the vein of Lucy.

Story chronicles the Joestar family who use their special powers to battles supernatural foes.

In the near future where global video surveillance has rendered the witness protection program obsolete, time travel is used to hide high profile witnesses.

Updated 09.02.16: Mark Townend’s high-concept sci-fi action thriller, pitched as Looper meets Safe House, continues to burn up the market ahead of the holiday weekend, with Screen Gems, Legendary Pictures, and AG Capital being the latest to take a closer look at what has become one of the summer’s hottest specs.

Logline: In the near future where global video surveillance has rendered the witness protection program obsolete, time travel is used to hide high profile witnesses.

A collection of stories about what happens when you realize that some things are more important than crafting the perfect tweet.

A riff on the historical tale of the Donner Party with a Walking Dead style twist.

Logline kept under wraps, but will be a sequel to 2013’s Man of Steel and likely the other DCEU films and focus on Superman.

A precocious 11 year-old girl travels to a strange, magical world via a homemade flying bike, where she gets wrongfully imprisoned and escapes to go on a mission to help a knight rescue a pr

Sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which moves deeper into an increasingly dark time for the wizarding world, where Newt and our other heroes have to decide on their allegiances.

So you’ve inadvertently trapped an ancient trans-dimensional god in your backyard shed – what do you do? That’s what Venus McKenzy and her friends would like to know.

The red hot sci-fi thriller RIFT from Larry Lasky continues to set the town on fire as it makes its way into every major studios and over a dozen top production companies. We’re also hearing that an A-list director is circling, cranking up the heat around what could be the summer’s next big spec sale.

The spec market is heating up once again as the red hot sci-fi thriller RIFT from Larry Lasky makes its way around town. Circle of Confusion’s Zach Cox is leading the charge on this one, which already has Rock Shaink attached to produce under his Romark Entertainment banner.

Follows the lives of young dancers beginning their training and their competitive, bickering mothers.

Warner Bros. has picked up Worst Tinder Date Ever after making a preemptive bid on the pitch from Friends With Benefits scribes David Newman and Keith Merryman for what was reportedly a high six figure sum.

Two people in Los Angeles go on a Tinder date that turns into a night of disasters.

A collection of stories about what happens when you realize that some things are more important than crafting the perfect tweet.

Story is based on embattled medical company Theranos and its 32 year-old founder Elizabeth Holmes.

Warner Bros. bought the action thriller pitch from Matias Caruso with Guy Ritchie attached to produce. Caruso, who landed on the 2013 Hit List for his script Offerings, is the writer of the upcoming horror comedy Mayhem.

Details being kept under wraps, but described as an action thriller about the end of days.

Suicide Squad doesn’t hit theaters until August, but Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment already have their eyes set on a Harley Quinn spin-off movie.

Logline kept under wraps, but will feature female characters from the DC comic book universe.

Johnny Depp will step into the lead role of the Brett Ratner-directed The Libertine — not to be confused with the 2004 drama of the same name which also starred Depp.

Justin Lin is eyeing the director’s chair for Space Jam 2, the Warner Bros. follow-up to the classic 1996 live-action/animated hybrid which will star LeBron James.

The Flash movie has a hit a speed bump. Director Seth Grahame-Smith has pulled out of the Warner Bros. adaptation of the comic character starring Ezra Miller due to “creative differences”.

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.

Sherlock Holmes 3 has brought in James Coyne for rewrites. The sequel reteams Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and director Guy Ritchie.