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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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.
Jurassic World Untitled
The movie will center around a new Jurassic era.
Fast X: Part II
The final installment of the Fast and the Furious series (excluding anticipated spin-offs).
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
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.
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.
Shrek 5
The further adventures of the giant green ogre, Shrek, living in the land of Far, Far Away.
To Be Announced (TBA) 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.
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.
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.
Ranger's Apprentice
The story follows an orphan who becomes the apprentice of a man as they battle to keep the fantastical kingdom of Araluen safe from a multitude of threats.
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.
Damien Chazelle 2025 Pa...
No plot details have been announced.
Super Mario World Movie 2
A new Super Mario animated film. Described as expanding Mario's world further with a bright and fun story.
Freaky
Follows a teenager (Newton) who, after swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer (Vaughn), discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent.
November 13, 2020 Nationwide
Popeye
The logline is being kept under wraps, but Popeye's love interest Olive Oyl, nemesis Bluto and adopted child Swee'Pea will be part of the adventure. Producer Avi Arad says the new version will cover the themes of friendship, love, greed and life and focus on human strengths and human frailties.
To Be Announced (TBA) Nationwide
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.
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
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.
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