| Title: |
Damn Yankees |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of Joe Boyd, a happily married middle-aged man whose devotion to a hapless pro baseball team prompts him to make a Faustian bargain with the devil to help the team. He's transformed into slugger Joe Hardy, in exchange for Boyd's soul. Boyd can break the deal, but the deadline occurs during the World Series. For good measure, the devil engages Lola, a gorgeous lost soul, to seduce the slugger and seal his fate. |
| Writer: |
Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Comedy
, Musical
|
| Saletype: |
Play
, Adaptation
|
| Studio: |
New Line Cinema |
| Executive Overseeing: |
Toby Emmerich (New Line) |
| Producer: |
Craig Zadan, Neil Meron |
| Details: |
Jim Carrey, Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star. Ganz and Mandel to adapt the classical musical. |
| Title: |
The B Team |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Project is described as a buddy action comedy involving two cops. |
| Writer: |
Chris Henchy, Adam McKay |
| Genre: |
Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Pitch
|
| Studio: |
Columbia Pictures |
| Executive Overseeing: |
Matt Tolmach (Columbia) |
| Production Company: |
Gary Sanchez Productions, Mosaic Media |
| Agent: |
Endeavor, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) |
| Details: |
Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg attached to star. Adam McKay attached to direct. |
| Title: |
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of the fantasy world of Narnia. |
| Writer: |
C.S. Lewis, Richard LaGravanese, Michael Petroni |
| Genre: |
Action
, Adventure
, Fantasy
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Rewrite
, Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Studio: |
Fox 2000 |
| Production Company: |
Walden Media |
| Producer: |
Mark Johnson |
| Details: |
Petroni to rewrite LaGravanese's adaptation of Lewis' novel. |
| Title: |
Cool School |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story about a group of ad execs who are mentored by high schoolers so the execs can be on the pulse of youth culture. |
| Genre: |
Comedy
, Teen
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
Dos Tontos |
| Producer: |
Kent Alterman, Michael Aguilar |
| Title: |
Dandy in the Underworld |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Life story of Sebastian Horsley, which includes his extravagant use of drugs and prostitutes. |
| Writer: |
Sebastian Horsley |
| Genre: |
Drama
, Biography
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
|
| Production Company: |
Sprout Films |
| Producer: |
Stephen Fry, Gina Carter |
| Title: |
Regnskap |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story about a man recently released from a 12-year jail term for killing his wife, who must decide whether to try to reconcile with his family or take revenge on those who turned him in.
|
| Writer: |
Kim Fupz Aakeson |
| Genre: |
Dark Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
Paradox |
| Producer: |
Finn Gjerdrum, Stein B. Kvae |
| Details: |
Hans Petter Moland attached to direct. Stellan Skarsgard attached to star. |
| Title: |
Banker to the Poor |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of Nobel prize-winner Muhammad Yunus who devised the system of microcredit loans for the poor. |
| Writer: |
Muhammad Yunus, Marco Amenta, Sergio Donati |
| Genre: |
Biography
|
| Saletype: |
Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Production Company: |
Eurofilm, Pandora Film |
| Producer: |
Marco Amenta, Muhammad Yunus |
| Details: |
Marco Amenta attached to direct. Amenta and Donati to adapt Yunus' novel. |
| Title: |
Aphrodite IX |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of a cyborg assassin who achieves self-awareness and begins searching for her origins. |
| Genre: |
Sci-Fi
, Drama
|
| Saletype: |
Comic
|
| Production Company: |
Threshold Entertainment, Platinum Studios, Top Cow Productions, Greenberg Group |
| Producer: |
Larry Kasanoff, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Marc Silvestri, Randy Greenberg, Matt Hawkins, Rich Marincic |
| Title: |
Mars Needs Moms |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of a boy named Milo who stows away aboard a spaceship to rescue his mom after she was kidnapped by aliens. |
| Writer: |
Berkeley Breathed, Simon Wells, Wendy Wells |
| Genre: |
Family
, Sci-Fi
, Animation
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Novel
, Adaptation
|
| Studio: |
Walt Disney Pictures |
| Producer: |
Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Steven J. Boyd |
| Details: |
Seth Green, Mindy Sterling, Dan Fogler and Joan Cusak attached to star. Wells and Wells adapted Breathed's novel. Simon Wells attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story about undefeated boxing champion Rocky Marciano. |
| Writer: |
Teri Apple |
| Genre: |
Biography
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
M.E.G.A. Films |
| Producer: |
Morris S. Levy |
| Details: |
Mikael Salomon attached to direct. |
| Title: |
The Perfect Moment |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of iconic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. |
| Writer: |
Ondi Timoner |
| Genre: |
Documentary
|
| Saletype: |
Script
|
| Production Company: |
Interloper Films, Boston Diva Productions |
| Producer: |
Eliza Dushku |
| Details: |
Ondi Timoner attached to direct. |
| Title: |
Nottingham |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story about Robin of Loxley in an original story that hews close to historical facts of the period. Abandoned as a child, he finds community with the common people of Nottingham. Robin's abandonment and trust issues hamper his ability to fall in love. He meets his match in Marian, a strong, independent woman. |
| Writer: |
Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris, Brian Helgeland |
| Genre: |
Adventure
, Romance
, Period
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Rewrite
|
| Production Company: |
Imagine Entertainment, Scott Free Productions |
| Producer: |
Brian Grazer, Ridley Scott |
| Details: |
Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe attached to star. Ridley Scott attached to direct. Helgeland rewrote Reiff and Voris' draft. |
| Title: |
Arthur |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of a boozy playboy whose plan to marry into a moneyed family goes awry when he falls in love with a working class gal.
|
| Writer: |
Peter Baynham |
| Genre: |
Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Remake
|
| Studio: |
Warner Bros. |
| Production Company: |
BenderSpink |
| Producer: |
Larry Brezner, Chris Bender, JC Spink |
| Agent: |
United Talent Agency (UTA) |
| Details: |
Project is a remake of the 1981 comedy. Russell Brand attached to star. |
| Title: |
Untitled Civil War Project |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of a civil war re-enacter, someone who is obsessive about historical precision . stitch count in a coat, buttons from the period, proper speech, etc. He and three other guys (two fellow re-enacters and an African-American professor of history who is protesting the event) are accidentally transported back in time and awaken in the actual civil war. Once there, they have find there way home without altering history or permanently breaking America in half. |
| Writer: |
Ed Helm, Jake Fleisher |
| Genre: |
Action
, Adventure
, Sci-Fi
, Comedy
|
| Saletype: |
Pitch
|
| Studio: |
Warner Bros. |
| Production Company: |
Carousel |
| Producer: |
Ed Helms, Steve Carell, Vance Degeneres, Charles Hartsock |
| Agent: |
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) |
| Manager: |
Principato Young |
| Details: |
Ed Helms attached to star. |
| Title: |
Dead of Night |
| Date: |
February 27, 2009 |
| Logline: |
Story of a private investigator who stumbles onto the world of the undead. |
| Writer: |
Joshua Oppenheimer, Thomas Dean Donnelly |
| Genre: |
Horror
|
| Saletype: |
Script
, Comic
, Adaptation
|
| Production Company: |
Hyde Park Group, Platinum Studios |
| Producer: |
Gilbert Adler, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Ashok Amritraj |
| Details: |
Brandon Routh attached to star. Project is an adaptation of the comic book series "Dylan Dog." Kevin Munroe attached to direct. |
