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Robert Capa was one of the most famous war photographers of the 20th century. "Capa", a biopic starring Adrien Brody, will tell the story of his relationship with fellow photographer Gerda Taro (Natalie Portman) during the Spanish civil war.

Ian Curtis has aspirations beyond the trappings of small town life in 1970's England. Wanting to emulate his musical heroes, such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop, he joins a band, and his musical ambition begins to thrive. Soon though, the everyday fears and emotions, that fuel his music, slowly begin to eat away at him. Married young, with a daughter, he is distracted from his family commitments by a new love and the growing expectations of his band, Joy Division. The strain manifests itself in his health. With epilepsy adding to his guilt and depression, desperation takes hold. Surrendering to the weight on his shoulders, Ian's tortured soul consumes him.

A cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. Out of his element, he finds his lifestyle and notions being picked apart by everyone who crosses his path.

In the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, record producer James William Guercio runs recording studio Caribou Records. From around 1971 to 1985, Caribou is the site of recordings by, among others, Chicago, Amy Grant, Joe Walsh, Paul McCartney and Elton John. John even titled one album after the studio. The facilities are destroyed by a fire in 1985.

Dartanyon Crockett, legally blind yet the best wrestler on a high school team, carries Leroy Sutton, who had lost both his legs in a train accident when he was 11, to practices and meets. Sutton graduated from college and Crockett won a bronze medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games.

Steve Banerjee goes from pumping gas in Culver City to running a high-end nightclub that evolves into Chippendales. After hiring a New York choreographer to polish the all-male dance troupe, Banerjee becomes wildly rich, as well as unreasonably competitive and paranoid. Banerjee hires a hitman to murder the choreographer when negotiations go sour. After being arrested, Banerjee dies in jail awaiting his trial.

A biopic (in the vein of The Social Network) on Martin Cooper, referred to as “the father of the cell phone,” who is credited with inventing the first handheld cellular device at Motorola.

Story of world champion boxer Christy Martin who had to fight through a man’s world to gain success and later personally found herself fighting for her life.

Mike May, a man who was blinded at age 3 and regains his vision at age 46 after an experimental surgery involving stem cells.

For over a decade, through the cyclist's recovery from deadly cancer to his capturing seven Tour de France titles, Lance Armstrong vehemently denies the allegations of doping. But he eventually falls on his sword and confesses in a January 2012 interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Sue Mengers crashes the boys club that is Hollywood agenting, brandishing an outsized personality to go with her famous client list.

Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel (McCarthy) who made her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant).

A cartoonist falls in love with a celebrity restaurateur and as she is planning their wedding she suddenly is diagnosed with breast cancer and also realizes that she has let her health insurance lapse. Her friends -- stylists, gossip columnists, and designers -- rally around her and strive to get her married on time.

Carrie Hamilton is the daughter of Carol Burnett, one of the most beloved figures on television and in film. Carrie journeys from teenage drug addiction to her sober adult life where she finds happiness and success as an actress and a writer before her untimely passing from cancer at age 38.

At age 17, Casey Connor, a promising singer-dancer, put her career aspirations aside to raise her 12-year-old sister following the death of their parents. She winds up accelerating her high school courses to graduate early and runs their mother's daycare center out of their Brooklyn home to pay down the family's debts. Her career dreams take off after a chance encounter with a talent manager lands her spinning gigs at New York City nightclubs and Los Angeles events.

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow deals with drugs, depression, promiscuous sex, jail, and suicidal depression along with his success as a four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and winning the 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. His nickname comes from his affinity for razzing other players during poker games.

Set against the backdrop of the making of Star Wars, Peter Mayhew tries to balance a career as a hospital worker while chasing Hollywood dreams by playing furry suited alien Chewbacca, who goes on to become one of the most iconic screen sidekicks in modern times.

Based on true events, Christine is about an ambitious 29-year-old news reporter (Rebecca Hall), in Sarasota, FL, circa 1974. Relentlessly motivated to succeed, she knows she has talent, but being a driven career woman in the 1970s comes with its own challenges, especially when competition for a promotion, unrequited love for a coworker (Michael C. Hall) and a tumultuous home life lead to a dissolution of self. With ratings in the cellar, the station manager issues a mandate to deliver juicier and more exploitative stories, a story firmly at odds with Christine’s serious brand of issue-based journalism. To accomplish her goals, she must overcome her self-doubt and give the people what they want.