Movies in Development (Page #157)

A famous female illusionist named Ada is suspected of killing her husband after the dead body of a man is found inside of one of her stage props. A young police officer, Virgil Fecht, manages to track down the female magician and take her into his custody. Over the course of one night, Ada must recount her life story in order to prove her innocence.

A handsome Julliard graduate puts his aspirations for a music career on the backburner after he becomes a male prostitute and makes a fortune as the hired companion of married women.

A wannabe illusionist travels cross country with his young son to compete against his archnemesis in a Vegas magic show.

T La Rock rises as a pioneer and ground-breaker in rap music until a nearly deadly beating that leaves him in a coma at the peak of his career.

Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system.

Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller's Marlboro-smoking face is captured by a photograph and graces the covers of more than 150 newspapers worldwide. The photographer is nominated for a Pulitzer and wins the Sidney Hillman Foundation Journalism Award. The soldier becomes a reluctant icon overnight, but he begins to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder and becomes disabled upon returning to his Kentucky hometown. He and his childhood sweetheart struggle to connect.

Set in the near future where androids live and work among humans, a lonely android technician falls in love with the female android masseuse he's been tasked to fix. All the while, the technician must navigate being radicalized by his abusive father into an anti-android terrorist hate group.

Young Jiro, an apprentice to Yosida, the harsh and ill- tempered master of feudal Japan's most famous puppet theater, is determined to find out, even at risk to his own life to find out who the man Sabura, the mysterious bandit who robs the rich and helps the poor, is.

A masked hero protects the Jungle Queen in the Outback, a realm that resembles primordial Australia, but he also exists in our world as a homeless man whose masked face and fantastical mutterings are dismissed as mental illness. A social worker named Julie Winters frequently works to help the man.

A 16-year-old girl is discovered buried in a garden, several years after her disappearance. A childhood friend undergoes counseling to unlock traumatic memories.

The boyhood years of Merlin the Magician are followed from when he is washed up on the shores of Wales to his hunt to find his real home and identity, his friendship with King Arthur and his travels in enchanted lands.

Follows a 28-year-old junior curator at Gotham's Metropolitan Museum of Art whose boss breaks up with her, prompting her to begin a collection of "break-up items" and to start a blog, which quickly goes viral.

A runaway woman, trying to escape her past, pretends to be a girl abducted from a small town 10 years before. The girl's family takes her in until she slowly starts to uncover the mysterious circumstances and family secrets that actually lead to their daughter’s disappearance.

Reporter Carl Kolchak investigates mysterious crimes with a supernatural or sci-fi bent.