By Amy Renner May. 20, 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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Barbarella
Barbarella centers on a female mercenary who roams the universe of a distant future, undertaking missions that require fearlessness, ingenuity and sensuality.
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.
I Know What You Did Las...
Friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small town.
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.
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
92 Minutes
A man who, upon learning he is about to die in 92 minutes, must decide whether to spend his limited time rushing to get things done or slow down and enjoy his final moments.
Last Vegas 2
A quartet of older friends returns to their old stomping grounds in Brooklyn where they discover that the borough has changed more than a little since the four grew up there.
Shrek 5
The further adventures of the giant green ogre, Shrek, living in the land of Far, Far Away.
To Be Announced (TBA) Nationwide
Uptown Saturday Night
Two estranged friends have their wallets stolen at a nightclub. The next morning, they learn that one of their wallets contained a winning lottery ticket, and together, they set out to find it.
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.
Keeper of the Lost Cities
Sophie, a telepathic girl, races against dark forces to unlock her role as the key to a parallel world, endangering both realms if she fails to succeed before they do.
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.
Marching Powder
A British drug trafficker is arrested in Bolivia and jailed in La Paz's San Pedro prison. During his six-year stretch, the man serves as a tour guide in a prison that thrives under a capitalist system made possible by bribery of officials.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Tu...
cowabunga! The Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers.
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.
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.
How Starbucks Saved My ...
A former J. Walter Thompson executive finds himself down and out when he is downsized out of a job. In his 60s and in a personal dilema because of an affair that ended his marriage, he sees his luck change when he enters a Starbucks and walks out with a job offer from the store's manager, giving his life new purpose.
Insidious 6
No plot details have been announced yet.
Super Mario World Movie 2
A new Super Mario animated film. Described as expanding Mario's world further with a bright and fun story.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch ...
The classic fairytale characters are bounty hunters who specialize in hunting witches.
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