By Amy Renner May. 7, 2023
What does Development mean?
Producers select story and/or acquire rights to underlying intellectual property (e.g. adaptation, remake, video game, etc.) and work with screenwriter(s) to craft a story outline into a workable script in an effort to garner a “greenlight” for the film from the financing studio and/or production company. An agreement for a major star or director to join the film can boost a project's prospects of securing financing, but those arrangements can reverse if scheduling and other details do not work. Films in this stage can languish for months, years, or fall apart completely. <br/><br/> Known as "development hell"-industry jargon for a film, screenplay, idea, etc. that remains in development for years, often bouncing between different studios and cycling through different scripts, writers, and directors, without actually 2 making it to production.
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The Machine
A seventh-year senior at Florida State University is accidentally majoring in Russian. He becomes well known among Russian Mafia members while studying abroad and earns the nickname "the Machine" because of his incredible drinking prowess. Ultimately, his connections catch up with him on a class trip where he is forced to become an accomplice in a train robbery.
Project Hail Mary
A solitary tale of an astronaut on a space ship who is tasked with saving the planet.
Fast & Furious 11
The final installment of the Fast and the Furious series (excluding anticipated spin-offs).
TBA February, 2024 Nationwide
The Karate Kid Sequel
Described as “the return to the original Karate Kid franchise.”
Eleanor Oliphant Is Com...
An out-of-the-ordinary heroine goes from living a lonely life to realizing the only way to survive is to open your heart.
The Rosie Project
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics who may suffer from Aspergers, has never been on a second date until he embarks upon The Wife Project, designing a questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner: a punctual, non-drinking, non-smoking female who will fit in with his regimented lifestyle. When the unorthodox and free-spirited Rosie appears on the scene, it is clear that she fits none of his selection criteria, but she still may just be the perfect match to help turn his life around.
To Be Announced (TBA) Nationwide
Dirty Dancing
A musical reimagining inspired by the popular 1987 box office hit starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze.
February 9, 2024 Nationwide
What Alice Forgot
A woman wakes up after a head injury with no memory of the last 15 years. She discovers her once-happy life is gone – she's now a divorced single mother who must decide whether to start over or fix her relationships.
The Fall Guy
Colt Seavers is a Hollywood stuntman by day but works as bounty hunter by night. He incorporates his stunts into his bounty-hunting, flying vehicles over large objects, jumping from impossibly high angles, etc. to nab the people he and his team are chasing.
Wolf Creek 3
Two children are hunted by Australia’s most infamous killer.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
No plot details have been announced. Likely to pick up after the end credits of the second film.
December 20, 2024 Nationwide
Born a Crime
The true story of Trevor Noah's childhood growing up in South Africa.
The Land of Stories
After the loss of their father, twins Alex and Conner Bailey are transported into a magic book in which the classic fairy tales have come to life. Thrust into a world where they come face-to-face with the characters they’ve only read about in stories, the kids must fight dark forces in order to return home.
Impossible Odds
American humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan travels to Somalia to help children only to be kidnapped by militants and held for ransom for 93 days. Her captors are killed by Navy SEALs in a dramatic rescue mission in January 2012.
Air
Set in an underground cryogenic facility after a nuclear fallout renders the atmosphere unbreathable, two custodial workers take care of the cryogenically sleeping personnel that are to re-establish society, but they struggle to preserve their own sanity and lives while maintaining the extremely fragile environment of the last livable place on earth.
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