By Amy Renner Apr. 21, 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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Jurassic World Untitled
The movie will center around a new Jurassic era.
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
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.
I Am Pilgrim
“Pilgrim” is the codename for a man who doesn’t exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Now in anonymous retirement, he is called upon to lend his expertise to an unusual investigation but ultimately becomes caught in a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion.
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.
Shrek 5
The further adventures of the giant green ogre, Shrek, living in the land of Far, Far Away.
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
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.
Wolf Creek 3
Two children are hunted by Australia’s most infamous killer.
Born a Crime
The true story of Trevor Noah's childhood growing up in South Africa.
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 Lunar Chronicles
Four young women launch a rebellion against the tyrannical Queen of the moon and soar through the stars while fighting to take charge of their own destinies.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Two Muslim women, married to the same man, foster a friendship that lasts more than 10 years against the backdrop of war in Afghanistan.
Black Bag
Like most Steven Soderbergh projects not much known. It's reportedly set in the UK.
Location: UK - Unknown
Damien Chazelle 2025 Pa...
No plot details have been announced.
The Husband's Secret
Three different women's lives are plunged into crises after one of the women opens a Pandora’s Box that ties all three women together in ways no one could have suspected.
Small Great Things
Centers on a labor/delivery nurse who takes care of newborns at a Connecticut hospital who’s ordered not touch the baby of a white supremacist couple. When the baby dies in her care, she’s then taken to court by the couple.
Combat Control
Air Force Combat Control Technician (CCT) John Chapman dies in battle on March 4, 2002 in Afghanistan. Following his death, no one imagined it would take over a decade for the truth of what really happened on that snowy mountainside to emerge.
PAW Patrol 3
A third film in the PAW Patrol franchise. No plot details have been announced yet.
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