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Desmond Doss Project
Genre: Biography
Writer: Terry Benedict
Buyer: Pandemonium
Producer: Bill Mechanic, David Permut
Logline: Story of Desmond T. Doss, who was a Congressional Medal of Honor winner despite refusing to bear arms on religious grounds. Doss got drafted and though ostracized and ridiculed by rifle-carrying cohorts, was sent to the South Pacific. There, hew was credited with saving 75 men during the battle of Okinawa, without firing a shot.
Side Note: Script will be written by Terry Benedict, who secured the rights to the story with David Permut. David Permut will produce. Steve Longi will co-produce. Joel Kramer and Gregory Crosby to associate produce.
Jumanji 2
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Buyer: Columbia Pics.
Producer: Erica Huggins, Scott Kroopf, Bill Teitler, Chris Van Allsburg
Side Note: Sequel to the hit film from 1995. Dennis Dugan might direct a film based on his outline. Peter Ackerman may write the script. Radar Pics. will produce for Columbia.
Zathura (Possibly Jumanji 3)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Writer: Eric Fogel
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
Buyer: Columbia Pics.
Logline: Story involves an intergalactic board game tied into the Jumanji game.
Side Note: Screenplay will be based on an upcoming picture book by "Jumanji" author Chris Van Allsburg. Project could hit the screen as "Jumanji 3." Radar Pics. will produce.
The Bombshell Manual Of Style
Genre: Romantic comedy
Writer: Alexandra Wentworth
Author: Laren Stover
Buyer: Paramount/Robert Evans Co.
Purchase Price: Low-six figures
Producer: Robert Evans, Christine Peters
Logline: After a working girl is taken under a bombshell's wing, she discovers that the perfect lipstick color is just as important as her Harvard degree. The book is all about what it takes to be a bombshell.
Side Note: To be based on the novel by Laren Stover. Robert Evans and Christine Peters will produce.
Hellboy
Genre: Action
Writer: Guillermo del Toro
Author: Mike Mignola
Buyer: Revolution Studios
Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Mike Richardson
Logline: Centers on Hellboy, a hellacious weapon that was originally made by Nazis who planned to use it on their enemies. But the Nazis are upset when their weapon actually becomes a force for good as an investigator for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development, and finds himself fighting werewolves, vampires and other terrible foes.
Side Note: Based on the Dark Horse comic book. Budget will be about $60 mil. Guillermo del Toro ("Blade 2") will adapt and direct, making this his next project. This project was originally set up at Universal with a draft by Peter Briggs.
Saddam's Bombmaker
Genre: True Story
Author: Khadir Hamza
Buyer: BBC Films
Producer: Peter Kalmbach, David Koplan
Logline: Autobiography of Khidhir Hamza, the former head of Iraq's nuclear weapons program. While attending M.I.T, he was forced to return to Iraq to head its nuclear weapons program. While working there he had to avoid the political firing squad, European assassins and Saddam Hussein's rigorous deadlines. He eventually led Iraq's nuclear bomb-making efforts before fleeing the country with the aid of the CIA in 1995.
Side Note: To be based on Hamza's autobiography. Peter Kalmbach and David Koplan will produce. First sale made by the new BBC Films office in Los-Angeles.
Untitled Pop Warner Project
Genre: True Story
Writer: Bob Jury, Craig Sherman
Buyer: Twentieth Century Fox 2000
Producer: Lauren Lloyd
Agency: Gersh Agency/Paradigm
Logline: Centers on the legendary football coach Glenn S. "Pop" Warner and his first season at the Carlisle Indian School.
Side Note: Lloyd Ent will produce for Fox 2000.
American Pie 3
Genre: Teen comedy
Writer: Adam Herz
Buyer: Warner Bros.
Side Note: Third installment to "American Pie." Adam Herz who wrote the first "American Pie" on spec will write the sequel.
Chet Gecko
Genre: Children
Writer: Jordan Katz
Author: Bruce Hale
Buyer: Vanguard Animation
Purchase Price: Mid-six figures/high-six
Producer: John Williams
Logline: Centers on a reptilian fourth grader who is a gumshoe detective.
Side Note: To be based the children's book series written by Bruce Hale. "Shrek" producer, John Williams, hopes to develop this book series into a CGI franchise.
Faith Of My Fathers
Genre: Biography
Author: John McCain, Mark Salter
Buyer: Robert Geisler, John Roberdeau
Producer: Robert Geisler, John Roberdeau
Logline: Memoir of John McCain, a 2000 presidential candidate and Arizona Republican senator. As a naval aviator in 1967, he was shot down over North Vietnam and spent several years in POW camps, where he was beaten, tortured, and nearly allowed to die.
Side Note: To be based on the best-selling memoir of Sen. John McCain.
Hawaii Five-O
Genre: Drama/Action
Writer: Roger Towne
Buyer: DreamWorks
Purchase Price: Seven-figures
Producer: George Litto
Logline: Based on the TV show about Hawaii Five-O, a specialty unit of the Hawaii State Police that answered only to the governor and specialized in organized crime.
Side Note: To be based on the classic CBS series into a feature film. Studio beat out many others in part of a bidding war. George Litto will produce.
Oceans 12
Genre: Drama
Writer: Ted Griffin
Buyer: Warner Bros./Village Roadshow
Logline: Sequel to "Ocean's Eleven"
Side Note: No signs at this stage of whether Soderbergh would return as director, or which stars might come back.
The Punisher
Genre: Drama/Action
Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh
Buyer: Artisan Ent./Marvel Enterprises
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Logline: A man is obsessed with avenging the murder of his family.
Side Note: Jonathan Hensleigh will script and direct this project which is based on a Marvel Comic book.
Seven Sequel
Genre: Thriller
Writer: Ted Griffin, Sean Bailey
Buyer: New Line
Additional Information: New Line is thinking of taking a spec script that it purchased earlier called "Solace" and restructuring it to make it work as a "Seven" sequel. "Solace" is about a psychic cop who is tracking serial killer who is also a psychic.
Thomas Crown Affair Sequel
Genre: Drama/Action
Writer: Leslie Dixon
Buyer: MGM
Logline: Follows Pierce Brosnan, the dashing tycoon who steals for excitement.
Blade 3
Genre: Action
Writer: David Goyer
Buyer: New Line
Log Line: The third installment in the Blade series.
16 Blocks
Genre: Drama
Writer: Richard Wenk
Buyer: Winchester Films
Purchase Price: High-six figures
Producer: Lauren Shuler Donner
Logline: In New York, a cop, a dark guy and a heart attack waiting to happen, must take a witness, a 14-time loser with a sunny outlook, sixteen blocks from the Sixth Precinct to 100 Centre Street but no one wants him to get there.
Side Note: Richard Donner will direct. Lauren Shuler Donner to produce.
Accidentally Yours
Genre: Romantic comedy
Writer: Leslie Dixon
Buyer: Miramax
Purchase Price: $500k/$1 mil.
Logline: The clumsiest man alive learns to dance in order to woo the women of his dreams who works in a shop that sells expensive China.
Side Note: Five bids came in for this project even though Dixon used a pen name.
Matt Helm Book Series
Genre: Action
Writer: Blake Masters
Author: Donald Hamilton
Buyer: DreamWorks
Purchase Price: Near seven figures
Producer: Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd
Logline: Centers on the life and spy missions of Helm, a former Army lieutenant recruited to ditch his "ordinary life" and become a secret agent for a U.S. intelligence unit.
Side Note: All 27 novels in the series have been optioned. DreamWorks is hoping this will be a franchise. Robert Luketic ("Legally Blonde") will direct. The film will be based on the series of Matt Helm action novels, written by Donald Hamilton, that the studio optioned in January.
Naughty Or Nice
Genre: Comedy/Family
Writer: Kevin Kopelow, Heath Siefert
Buyer: Warner Bros./Firm Films
Producer: Beau Flynn
Logline: Two brothers hack in Santa's website and change the names of his list of naughty and nice kids with chaotic results.
Side Note: To be produced by Firm Films' Beau Flynn. Tripp Vinson to Executive Produce.
Untitled Davis Projects
Genre: Comedy
Writer: Jonathan Davis
Buyer: Warner Bros.
Side Note: Two pic blind script deal for the starving screenwriter. He got the assignments based on a spec that WB read called "To Lie and Drive In L.A," a comedy about what the beautiful people in L.A. do all day.
Jake and Monica's Panic Attack
Genre: Romantic comedy
Writer: Gary Goldstein
Buyer: Fast Carrier Pictures
Producer: Steven Jay Rubin
Logline: Two neurotic, mismatched therapy patients who spend a chaotic day in Manhattan searching for their missing therapist.
Side Note: Steven Jay Rubin to produce via his Fast Carrier Pictures.
Max Payne
Type of Material: Screenplay Assignment
Genre: Action
Writer: Shawn Ryan
Buyer: Dimension Films/Abandon Entertainment
Producer: Scott Faye, Paul Rosenberg
Logline: Payne is an undercover DEA agent who has been framed for the murder of a fellow agent and seeks to avenge the murder of his wife and child.
Side Note: To be adapted from the video game "Max Payne." To be produced by Collision Entertainment's Scott Faye.
The Night I Followed The Dog
Genre: Children
Writer: Jessie Nelson
Author: Nina Laden
Buyer: Columbia Pics.
Producer: Jessie Nelson
Logline: About a boy who follows his dog one night and the adventures they share together.
Side Note: Jessie Nelson ("I Am Sam") will adapt the book from Nina Laden's children's tale. Nelson will write, direct and produce this film.
Diary Of A Manhattan Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel
Genre: Comedy
Writer: Darren Starr
Author: Tracy Quan
Buyer: Revolution Studios/Shoelace Prods.
Producer: Deborah Schindler
Logline: Centers on Nancy Chan, an Upper East Side Manhattan call girl.
Side Note: Darren Star (Sex and the City) will adapt from Tracy Quan's book "Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel." Julia Roberts and Deb Schindler's Shoelace Productions will produce. Book is based on Quan's Salon.com column.
Laupot Untitled Project
Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Writer: Katherine Laupot
Buyer: Walt Disney Pics./Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Purchase Price: Low-six figures/mid-six
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Logline: Storyline being kept under wraps, but said to be a "supernatural femme thriller."
Side Note: Preemptive purchase. Bruckheimer to produce.
Riding The Laddie
Genre: Supernatural thriller
Buyer: Robin Hardy, Peter Snell
Producer: Peter Snell
Logline: Two American evangelists get into trouble when they travel to Glasgow to preach door-to-door.
Side Note: Robin Hardy, the director of "The Wicker Man" and Peter Snell, its producer, have teamed up to develop "Riding The Laddie," with Christopher Lee. Vanessa Redgrave and Sean Astin will star. Robin Hardy will direct and Peter Snell will produce.
Ron Shelton Untitled Project
Genre: Drama/Action
Writer: Ron Shelton, Robert Sousa
Buyer: Revolution Studios
Producer: Lou Pitt, Ron Shelton
Logline: Story is about two cops. Both moonlight in other jobs and get themselves involved in a crime within the music business.
Side Note: Harrison Ford and Josh Harnett are in talks to star. Ron Shelton will write, direct and produce this project with Lou Pitt. Co-writer Souza is a former cop. Shooting will begin this fall.
Scorched Earth
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Author: David L. Robbins
Buyer: Warner Bros.
Producer: Will Smith, James Lassiter, Jorge Saralegui
Logline: Interracial couple give birth to a child who dies soon thereafter. The child is then buried in an all-white churchyard cemetery and then the casket is disinterred and buried behind a black Baptist church. That night, the white church is burned to the ground and when the dead child's black father is seen at the fire site, he is blamed as the arsonist.
Side Note: Will Smith and James Lassiter's Overbrook Entertainment will produce along with Jorge Saralegui's Material banner.
Analyze That
Genre: Comedy
Writer: Harold Ramis
Buyer: Warner Bros.
Logline: Sequel to "Analyze This."
Side Note: Ramis is developing the project, which previously starred Billy Crystal and Robert DeNiro. They will reprise their roles in the sequel along with Lisa Kudrow.
Bittersweet 16
Genre: Comedy/Teenage
Writer: Jill Kargman, Caroline Doyle-Karasyov
Buyer: Paramount
Purchase Price: Low-six figures/mid-six
Producer: Donald De Line
Logline: Brutal competition of the absurdly lavish Manhattan private-school Sweet 16 party circuit.
Side Note: Donald De Line to produce.
Every Girl Should Be Married
Genre: Romantic comedy
Writer: Jill Kargman, Caroline Doyle-Karasyov
Buyer: Paramount
Logline: A woman hopes to trap a popular bachelor pediatrician into marriage.
Side Note: Remake of the RKO film from 1948 which starred Cary Grant and Franchot Tone.
Let's Make Friends
Genre: Comedy
Writer: Larry Levin
Buyer: Paramount
Producer: Donald De Line
Logline: Story is about a guy in his 30's whose quest for a best friend leads him to a water delivery guy who turns his entire life upside down.
Side Note: Harold Ramis is negotiating to direct. De Line Pics. will produce for Paramount.
Midnight Sun
Genre: Thriller/Action
Writer: Richard Jeffries
Buyer: Walt Disney Pics.
Purchase Price: Mid-six figures/High-six figures
Logline: Story is about a remote fishing camp operator in Alaska who discovers one of his guests is an international fugitive. The locals nab the criminal only to learn that the guy's private army is coming to extract their boss.
Side Note: Jeffries will exec produce.
The Perfect Score
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Writer: Mark Schwann
Buyer: Paramount
Producer: Brian Robbins, Mike Tollin, Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman
Logline: Six high school students heist copies of the SAT's.
Side Note: Based on a pitch by Marc Hyman which was picked up approximately four years ago. Brian Robbins to direct. Robbins and Mike Tollin will produce via their Tollin/Robbins Productions banner. Roger Birnbaum and Jonathan Glickman will also produce. Erika Christensen and Scarlett Johansson to star in.
Sticks and Stones
Genre: Drama
Writer: Sam Schreiber
Buyer: Chickflicks
Producer: Sara Risher, Chris Emerson
Logline: A former pool prodigy gets back into the game after discovering that her father, who had abandoned her years ago, has risen to the top of the professional pool world on the coattails of another prodigal talent.
Side Note: Sara Risher will produce with Chris Emerson.
The Carrier
Genre: Action/Adventure
Writer: John David McCarthy, John Rogers
Buyer: Paramount
Producer: Dean Devlin
Logline: Thieves steal $30 mil. from a nuclear powered sub and have to get it ashore. Flick also involves a love triangle.
Side Note: This is part of a five year producing deal Dean Devlin's company Electric Entertainment signed with Paramount. The picture will be released summer 2003.
The Firework Maker's Daughter
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
Author: Phillip Pullman
Buyer: Miramax
Logline: Asian girl wants to make fireworks just like her widower dad.
Side Note: Author Pullman also wrote "Golden Compass." No screenwriter is attached.
Ride Or Die
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Writer: Duane Martin, Jay Wolcott
Buyer: Private Equity Funding
Producer: Duane Martin, D'angela Steed, Nia Hill
Logline: Private detective looks for answers behind the death of his best friend.
Side Note: Duane Martin will make his feature writing and producing debut. He will also co-star opposite Vivica Fox. Craig Ross Jr. will direct. Duane Martin will produce with D'Angela Steed and Nia Hill of Strange Fruit Films.
Frankenteacher
Genre: Comedy
Writer: Chad Beguelin
Buyer: Gramnet Prods.
Purchase Price: Low-six figures
Logline: While trying to revive their dead science teacher, two teens inadvertently activate a ton of undead.
Side Note: Writer is managed by Mason/Burgess/Lifschultz. Gramnet Prods. is owned by Kelsey Grammer.
The Killer Inside Me
Genre: Action
Writer: Andrew Domenik, Robert Weinbach
Author: Jim Thompson
Buyer: Muse Prods./BAC
Producer: Robert Weinbach, Bradford Schlei, Fernando Sulichin
Logline: Story concerns a West Texas deputy from a small town who conceals a psychopathic streak.
Side Note: Domeic Sena will direct. The French company BAC will finance. Rights were purchased from Robert Weinbach who will serve as one of the producers. Endeavor reps Andrew Domenik. Jean Labadie will Executive Produce
When The Ride Is Ruff
Genre: Action/Thriller
Writer: Thomas Webber
Buyer: Creative Union Entertainment
Producer: Wesley Snipes, Victor McGauley, Leslie Saban
Logline: Wesley Snipes will play a biker framed for the murder of the head of a biker council. He and the rest of his motorcycle club must travel from South Carolina to New York while eluding every rival gang along the East coast.
Side Note: Kirk Wong has been signed to direct this flick which will star Wesley Snipes and begin shooting in June in Del. and NY. Snipes' Amen Ra Films and Ruff Ryders' Films will produce.
The House Of Sand And Fog
Genre: Drama
Writer: Vadim Perelman
Author: Andre Dubus III
Buyer: Dreamworks/Signpost
Logline: A former colonel in the Iranian military wins an auction for a foreclosed house. Unfortunately, the self-destructive alcoholic (Jennifer Connelly) who previously owned it, and let it get away, becomes determined to get the house back at any cost.
Side Note: Jennifer Connelly has signed on to star with Ben Kingsley. Russian immigrant director Vadim Perelman found the book at an airport bookstore and optioned it with his own money. He then wrote a spec script which attracted talent. Production will have a $15 mil. budget.
Untitled Kosar Project
Genre: Supernatural thriller
Writer: Scott Kosar
Buyer: Columbia Pics./Laurence Mark Prods.
Purchase Price: Mid-six figures
Producer: Laurence Mark
Logline: Story concerns a doctor and his daughter in a small New England town.
Side Note: Idea for the script came from producer Larry Mark, his executive Jonathan King, screenwriter Simon Kinberg and Kosar himself.
Il Mare
Genre: Romantic drama
Buyer: Warner Bros./Vertigo Ent.
Producer: Doug Davison, Roy Lee
Logline: A woman moves out of her house and leaves a forwarding address. But when a man tries to correspond with her, it soon becomes clear that she lives in the year 2000, while he lives in 1998, and their correspondence might cause his demise.
Side Note: Remake of the Korean film that will be produced by Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee and Doug Davison.
Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?
Genre: Comedy
Writer: Phillip Stark
Buyer: Twentieth Century Fox
Producer: Gil Netter, Wayne Rice
Logline: Continuing exploits of two underachieving slackers who get wasted on Marijuana and can't find their car.
Side Note: Sequel to "Dude, Where's My Car?" which made $73 million worldwide and cost only $14 million. Gil Netter and Wayne Rice will produce. Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott set to reprise their roles.
Alfie
Genre: Romantic comedy
Writer: Chuck Shyer, Elaine Pope
Buyer: Paramount Pictures
Producer: Chuck Shyer, Elaine Pope
Logline: A womanizer rethinks his empty, superficial life after having a near death experience.
Side Note: Remake of the 1966 film which starred Michael Caine. Chuck Shyer will co-write and direct and produce along with Elaine Pope.
Appointment In Samarra
Genre: Drama
Writer: Robert Benton
Author: John O'Hara
Buyer: Universal
Logline: Story is set in the 1930s, and centers on the world of liquor bootlegging, wealth and self-destruction.
Side Note: Robert Benton will adapt and direct the movie based on this 1934 John O'Hara novel.
Skinner's Eddy
Genre: Romance/Fantasy
Writer: Douglas Carter Beane
Buyer: Walt Disney Pics.
Purchase Price: Seven-figures
Producer: Ashok Armitraj, David Hoberman
Logline: A girl returns to her small town home after her uncle dies to care for his estate. While home, she meets a man who seems too good to be true.
Side Note: Adam Shankman will direct. Ashok Amritraj and David Hoberman to produce.
Black Autumn
Genre: Psychological horror
Writer: Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan
Buyer: Phoenix Pics
Price: Low-six figures
Producer: Nicholas Osborne
Logline: A young girl attends a prestigious all girls' boarding school, only to discover it's run by a coven of witches.
Side Note: On the fast track for Phoenix-based O/Z films to produce. Trevor Engelson is co-producing.
The Crossing
Genre: Action
Writer: Phillip de Blasi, Bryon Wilinger
Buyer: New Line
Purchase Price: Mid-six figures/low-seven
Producer: Max Wong, Karen Firestone
Logline: A female-driven action story in the vein of "Breakdown."
Side Note: Max Wong and Karen Firestone at Pink Slip Pictures to produce.
A Life In Ragtime
Genre: True Story
Author: Reid Badger
Buyer: Mace Neufeld Prods.
Producer: Mace Neufeld
Logline: Story of Lt. James Reese Europe, a musician and WWI soldier who helped spread jazz in its early stages throughout Europe and the U.S. At 39, he was murdered by a drummer.
Side Note: To be adapted from Badger's nonfiction book. Mace Neufeld to produce. Brad Neufeld and Ben Hill will co-produce.
Miss Congeniality 2
Genre: Action/Comedy
Writer: Marc Lawrence
Buyer: Castle Rock
Logline: Centers on a female undercover FBI agent and her adventures.
Side Note: Sequel to the hit which stared Sandra Bullock. Castle Rock has her set to reprise her role. Bullock's Fortis Films and Village Roadshow will produce for Castle Rock. No director is attached as yet.
No Place Like Home
Genre: Comedy
Writer: Margaret Heidenry
Buyer: New Line
Producer: Neal Edelstein, Mike Macari
Logline: A young, arrogant, New Yorker who doesn't get along with his parents, must move into their Long Island home and deal with their rules, after his life falls apart and he breaks up with his girlfriend.
Side Note: Neal Edelstein and Mike Macari to produce.
Air Battle Force
Genre: Action/Drama
Author: Dale Brown
Buyer: New Millenium Entertainment
Producer: Dale Brown, Michael Viner
Logline: Story is about a former Air Force Major General Patrick McClanahan, who takes command of a military unit of high-tech aircraft.
Side Note: A screenwriter is being sought. This novel is the first in a series of new six book deal author signed with HarperCollins. Michael Viner will co-produce this novel along with author Brown.
Batavia's Graveyard
Genre: Historical drama
Writer: Gerard Soeteman
Author: Mike Dash
Buyer: FilmFour
Logline: Centers on the murderous aftermath of the 17th century shipwreck of the Dutch East India Co.'s flagship vessel, the Batavia, near islands off Western Australia.
Side Note: To be based on Mike Nash's historical novel, "Batavia's Graveyard." Paul Verhoeven to direct.
Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen
Genre: Teen Drama
Author: Dyan Sheldon
Writer: Gail Parent
Buyer: New Line Cinema
Logline: A teenage girl moves from Greenwich Village to a suburban high school and upsets the established order there.
Side Note: Hilary Duff will star. This project is on the fast track. To be adapted from Dyan Sheldon's novel.
The Deceiver
Genre: Supernatural thriller
Writer: Keith Davidson
Buyer: Universal/Montecito Pics.
Purchase Price: ?/mid-six figures
Producer: Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock, Katherine Knowlton
Logline: A team of archeologists unwittingly unleash a pair of monstrous creatures that ultimately threaten the future of
mankind.
Side Note: Rob Cohen is set to direct and do a rewrite of the script with his partner, Gemil Everett. The idea originally came out of ancient documents Davidson discovered while researching his current spec thriller Blood Red, about the investigation of a Swiss Guard's murder inside the Vatican. Budget on the flick will be upwards of $70 mil.
As You Wish
Genre: Romantic comedy
Writer: Robert Kuhn, Mary Ann Barnes, Sheila Barnes
Buyer: Pandemonium
Purchase Price: Mid-six figures/seven figures.
Producer: Bill Mechanic
Logline: Couple in the midst of a messy divorce, come together after a series of comedic incidents, and find their love again.
Side Note: To be written by Robert Kuhn, his wife and his wife's sister, based on an idea by the two sisters.
John Carter Of Mars Book Series
Genre: Sci-fi/Adventure
Writer: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Buyer: Paramount/Alphaville
Purchase Price: $300k/$2mil.
Producer: Sean Daniel, Jim Jacks
Logline: "Princess Of Mars," the first book in the series is about a Civil War vet who is transported to Mars where he is held captive and eventually rises to become a great warrior. Along the way he marries a beautiful princess, raises a family and sets out on numerous adventures.
Side Note: To be adapted from Burroughs' 11-volume literary series. Jim Jacks and Sean Daniels' Alphaville Prods will produce. Studio hopes to turn this into a franchise.
The Lost Army of Cambyses
Genre: Adventure
Author: Paul Sussman
Buyer: Stone Village Prods.
Producer: Scott Steindorff
Logline: Centers on a series of brutal murders that take place in Egypt but are somehow linked to the death of an eminent British archaeologist. The archeologist's daughter along with an unlikely sleuth, are thrown together in a desperate race for survival. Their journey takes them to the Western desert where they find the answer to one of the ancient world's greatest mysteries.
Side Note: This was a preemptive purchase. Luis Mandoki to direct. Scott Steindorff's Stone Village to produce along with Danny Davids and Mandoki. No screenwriter is yet on board to adapt.
The 11th Hour
Genre: True Story
Writer: Adam Mazer, Bill Rotko
Buyer: Intermedia Films/Outlaw Prods.
Price: Mid-six figures
Producer: Robert Newmyer, Jeffrey Silver, Scott Strauss
Logline: The FBI was able to catch Russian spy Robert Hanssen, a 25 year old FBI counterintelligence agent, with the help of Eric O'Neill, a 27 year old
surveillance operative. Over the course of three months, O'Neill gained Hanssen's trust and was privy to the information that ultimately enabled him to gather evidence which the FBI used to bring Hanssen down.
Side Note: Based on true story.
All American Girl
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Writer: Jenny Bicks
Author: Meg Cabot
Buyer: Walt Disney Pics.
Purchase Price: Seven figures
Producer: Debra Martin Chase
Logline: 15 year old Washington D.C. girl saves the President's life and has to deal with her new found fame.
Side Note: To be adapted from the latest novel by Meg Cabot ("Princess Diaries"). Debra Martin Chase will produce
Alone
Genre: Horror
Writer: Kevin Taft
Buyer: New Line/Phantom Four Films
Purchase Price: Mid-six figures/seven
Producer: Pascale Faubert
Logline: A "ghost story" about a high school student who learns her home is haunted and must either overcome her fear or die. Side Note: This was a preemptive purchase. Phantom Four Films' Pascale Faubert will produce along with David S. Goyer.
The Ant Bully
Genre: Animation/Adventure
Writer: John Davis
Author: John Nickle
Buyer: Universal/Playtone Co.
Producer: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman
Logline: After soaking an ant farm with a water gun, a little boy is shrunken to the size of an ant and must do hard labor in the ant colony. There he learns the benefits of teamwork as he tries to return to normal size.
Side Note: Picture book published in 1999 by Scholastic. Tom Hanks' company Playtone will produce this CGI animated feature for Universal. John Davis has been hired to adapt the book into a movie. David directed and co-wrote "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius."
Brothel
Genre: True Story
Writer: Anne Cherkis
Author: Alexa Albert
Buyer: Camelot Pics.
Producer: Dan Halsted, Gary Gilbert
Logline: True story of a medical student who did a public health study at a brothel in Reno, Nevada and ended up living there on and off over a period of six years. The film centers on the world of legalized prostitution in Nevada.
Side Note: To be adapted from Alexa Albert's nonfiction book titled, "Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women." Dan Halsted and Gary Gilbert will produce via their Camelot Pictures.
Heart Of Summer
Genre: Drama
Writer:Sam Shriver
Buyer: New Line/Chickflicks
Producer: Sara Risher
Logline: Set in New York and centers on a talented teenage girl who spends a summer at a music school. There she learns to believe in herself and her dreams.
Side Note: This is based on an idea by Mitch Rotter. Jim Fall will direct the pic this summer.
Daddy Day Care
Genre: Comedy
Writer: Geoff Rodkey
Buyer: Revolution Studios
Purchase Price: Mid-six figures/high-six
Producer: John Davis, Wyck Godfrey, Matt Berenson
Logline: A father looses his job and decides to open a day care center with some of his friends.
Side Note: Revolution picked up script in turnaround from 20th Century Fox. Eddie Murphy will star. John Davis will produce with Davis Entertainment's president Wyck Godfrey and Matt Berenson.
Enemy Women
Genre: Historical drama/Romance
Author: Paulette Jiles
Buyer: Fox 2000
Producer: Ed Saxon, Peter Saraf
Logline: Missouri woman escapes from a Federal jail during the Civil War, and journeys across the war torn land to find her family.
Side Note: To be based on Jiles' novel. Ed Saxon and Peter Saraf will produce.
Love Me Weird
Genre: Comedy
Writer: David Fickas
Buyer: Matador Pics./Magic Hour Pics.
Producer: Liam Badger
Logline: Set in New York, story is about a group of actors who base a bizarre stage show on the real-life exploits of an incarcerated serial killer but end up encountering disastrous results.
Side Note: David Fickas will write and direct. Film is based on an original screenplay by Andy Smith.
The Secret Life Of Daltry Calhoun
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Writer: Katrina Holden Bronson
Buyer: Catch 23 Ent.
Producer: David Flynn, Keith Redmon
Logline: Story about the relationship between a delinquent dad and his adolescent southern daughter. She watches her father try to make things right in his life.
Side Note: Sean Penn is attached to star. Bronson will direct. Catch 23 managers Keith Redmon and David Flynn will produce the project.
Deadly Deception
Genre: Thriller
Author: Jack Engelhard
Buyer: Fast Carrier Pictures
Producer: Steven Jay Rubin
Logline: Set in the world of high stakes casino crapshooters, an Atlantic City high roller runs into an unscrupulous casino pit boss during a weekend of gambling.
Side Note: Fast Carrier Pics. (owned by Steven Jay Rubin) has a first-look deal with Showtime.
Hi Dharma
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Writer: Will Geiger
Buyer: MGM
Producer: Mike Macari
Logline: Five gangsters hide out in a Buddhist monastery.
Side Note: Remake of a Korean gangster film.
Untitled McGowan Project
Genre: Comedy/Family
Writer: Heather McGowan
Buyer: Walt Disney Pics.
Logline: Sophisticated family comedy set in New York.
Side Note: Gary Winick is attached to direct.
Rads
Writer: John Lee Hancock
Author: Tom Bates
Buyer: John Lee Hancock, Mark Johnson
Producer: Mark Johnson
Logline: While at the University of Wisconsin in the 1960's, an unlucky domestic terrorist Carl Armstrong ends up on the FBI's Most Wanted List after he and a few of his fellow students blow up a campus army building killing a young researcher.
Side Note: To be adapted from Tom Bates book. Hancock to direct. Mark Johnson to produce. Hancock and Johnson optioned the book and hope to get it set up at a studio quickly.
Razors
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
Writer: Robert Franke
Buyer: Universal
Purchase Price: Low-six figures/high-six
Producer: Stephen Sommers, Bob Ducsay
Logline: The script was pitched as the "DIRTY DOZEN in outer space." Set in the far off future, it follows man's expansion as an empire builder.
Side Note: Stephen Sommers and Bob Ducsay will produce.
The Warriors
Genre: Action
Writer: John Glenn, Travis Wright
Buyer: Paramount/MTV Films
Logline: Small group of gang members are falsely accused of murdering a peace seeking gang leader. They are chased through NY streets by revenge seeking rival gangs.
Side Note: Story is a remake. MTV Films to produce.
Untitled Frazier Novel
Genre: Drama/True
Author: Charles Frazier
Buyer: Paramount/Scott Rudin Prods.
Purchase Price: $3 mil.
Producer: Scott Rudin
Logline: A one hundred year old Will Thomas, who spoke only in Cherokee, was discovered in an insane asylum at the turn of the century. In 1818, when Thomas was 13, he was sent out West to live with distant relatives, and was adopted by a Cherokee chief. He later became a frontier lawyer for Cherokee interests and, upon the chief's death, became the only white Cherokee chief.
Side Note: Book was sold on the basis of a one page proposal. Random House paid more than $8 mil. for the publishing rights.
How To Lose Friends And Alienate People
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Writer: Toby Young
Author: Toby Young
Buyer: FilmFour
Logline: Film will be based on the author's humorous experience as a Vanity Fair contributing editor in 1995. He was fired after two years after a series of office hijinks such as hiring a stripper to come to the magazine's office on "Bring Your
Daughter To Work Day."
Side Note: Young to adapt from his own novel. To be released in the US in early July 2002.
Richman Untitled Project
Genre: Action/Comedy
Writer: Jason Richman
Buyer: Walt Disney Pics./Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Logline: Story will focus on a secret service agent.
The Wraith
Genre: Psychological suspense
Writer: Graham Joyce
Author: Graham Joyce
Buyer: Radar Pictures
Producer: Tom Engelman, Scott Kroopf
Logline: A boy, who has just lost his first tooth, discovers that the tooth fairy isn't as sweet as he had heard. His tooth fairy turns out to be a horrible creature who torments him as he battles his way through a supernaturally charged youth.
Side Note: Joyce to adapt his own novel "The Tooth Fairy."
Basket Case
Genre: Crime/Thriller
Writer: Michael Tolkin
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Buyer: Fox 2000
Purchase Price: Seven-figures
Producer: Laurence Mark
Logline: Investigative reporter demoted to the obituary column at a Florida newspaper, uncovers a suspicious death of a rock star.
Side Note: Laurence Mark will produce this adaptation of Carl Hiaasen's latest novel.
Girls Just Want To Be Mean
Genre: Comedy
Author: Margaret Talbot
Writer: Tina Fey
Buyer: Paramount
Purchase Price: Six-figures
Producer: Lorne Michaels
Logline: Centers on the phenomenon of girl-to-girl cruelty in the forms of malicious gossip and horrible e-mails.
Side Note: Fey will adapt from Margaret Talbot's Feb. 24 New York Times Magazine article, "Girls Just Want to Be Mean." Lorne Michaels to produce via his Paramount Pictures-based SNL Studios.
Paparazzi
Genre: Thriller/Action
Writer: Forest Smith
Buyer: Twentieth Century Fox
Producer: Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey
Logline: Movie star seeks his revenge on a reckless celebrity photographer who nearly got him killed.
Side Note: Icon Prods' Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey will produce. Shooting will begin in May. Kurt Russell is in negotiations to star. TV director Paul Abascal will direct.
Spiderman 2
Genre: Action/Adventure
Writer: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Buyer: Columbia Pics.
Producer: Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, Ian Bryce
Logline: Sequel to this summer's release of "Spiderman."
Side Note: Tobey Maguire and Kirstin Dunst to star in. Sam Raimi to direct. Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad and Ian Bryce to produce.
Alms To Men
Genre: Thriller
Writer: Richard Price
Author: Richard Price
Buyer: Paramount
Purchase Price: $2 million
Producer: Scott Rudin
Logline: A successful TV writer returns to his hometown and decides to spread his wealth to some of the people that he grew up with, but he creates more chaos than kindness.
Side Note: Scott Rudin will produce this adaptation of Price's upcoming novel.
The Discreet Charm Of Charlie Monk
Genre: Thriller
Writer: Peter Buchman
Author: David Ambrose
Buyer: DreamWorks/APG
Logline: Government spy becomes an unwitting subject of a virtual reality experiment that begins to reveal the truth about his own identity.
Side Note: Based on the book by best-selling author David Ambrose. No screenwriter is attached. Peter Buchman has come aboard to write the screenplay. APG will produce for DreamWorks.
The Guys
Genre: Drama
Writer: Anne Nelson
Buyer: ContentFilm
Producer: Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente
Logline: Story is about a fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and the editor who helps him put together the eulogies he must deliver.
Side Note: Based on the one-act play by Anne Nelson that was commissioned and mounted by lower Manhattan's Flea Theater as a response to the Sept. 11 attacks. Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia will star. Flea Theater artistic director Jim Simpson will direct. Open City Films' Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente will produce. Edward R. Pressman and John Schmidt will Executive Produce.
Stander
Genre: True Story
Writer: Ken Friedman, Bima Staggs
Buyer: Seven Arts Films
Producer: Peter Hoffman
Logline: Set in the early 1980's, a white police officer (Andres Stander) in
Johannesburg suffers a crisis of conscience due to his involvement in apartheid and
becomes a notorious bank robber on the run. Then from 1983 to 1984, the "Stander gang"
(Stander, Alan Heyl & Patrick McCall) rob as many as four banks a day. Stander and
McCall are eventually shot dead and Heyl is arrested and sent to prison until the mid 90's.
Side Note: Thomas Jane will star. Bronwen Highes will direct. Shooting will begin in late June in South Africa.
Untitled Tony Gilroy Project
Genre: Drama
Writer: Tony Gilroy
Buyer: Universal
Price: Seven-figures
Producer: Laura Bickford
Logline: A drama set against the world of corporate espionage.
Side Note: Tony Gilroy will write this project for Stephen Soderbergh to direct. Laura Bickford to produce.
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