By Amy Renner May. 13, 2024
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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Poppy Playtime
A live-action horror film based on the video game.
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 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.
Shrek 5
The further adventures of the giant green ogre, Shrek, living in the land of Far, Far Away.
To Be Announced (TBA) Nationwide
Wolf Creek 3
Two children are hunted by Australia’s most infamous killer.
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
The Grace Year
Examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in between.
The Thief of Always
A 10-year-old boy is bored with his ordinary life and ventures into a supernatural house in which all four seasons pass in one day.
Major League 4
20 years after the events of the first Major League, the pitcher, Wild Thing, comes out of retirement to mentor a young new player.
Mean Moms
A happily married mother of two moves from small town America to the high class suburbs and is faced with confronting the cut throat world of competitive parenting.
To Be Announced (TBA) Nationwide
Star Wars Untitled - Re...
Following the events of Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, the story will focus on Rey (Daisy Ridley) as she builds a new Jedi Order.
December 18, 2026 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.
Escape From New York
Set in the future, Manhattan had been turned into an island-sized maximum security prison. When the president of the United States crashes into the decaying city, Snake Plissken, an outlaw, is coerced into traveling inside to rescue him. Plissken is given 22 hours to liberate the president. If he fails, he’s wired to explode.
Jitters
A creepy family film in the early-'80s Amblin mold of movies like Gremlins.
Matched
A society that dictates what individuals read, watch and believe, and who they partner with at a Matching Ceremony that takes place on their 18th birthday.
Super Mario World Movie 2
A new Super Mario animated film. Described as expanding Mario's world further with a bright and fun story.
Born a Crime
The true story of Trevor Noah's childhood growing up in South Africa.
San Andreas 2
The sequel takes on a global perspective with the Ring of Fire. The ring circles the Pacific Ocean with fault lines and volcanoes and is home to about 90 percent of the worlds' earthquakes.
Black Bag
Like most Steven Soderbergh projects not much known. It's reportedly set in the UK.
Location: UK - Unknown
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