Movies in Development (Page #49)

Trisha McFarland, a 9-year-old girl, goes on a hike up the Appalachian Trail with her brother and their recently divorced mother, only to veer off the path and get lost. She winds up stumbling through the woods for nine days, wandering farther and farther from civilization as she tries to make her way back home. As she walks, hunger, dehydration and exhaustion cause her to hallucinate, and she begins to believe that she's being stalked by a supernatural beast known as The God of the Lost.

A suburban family moves into its new home only to find a curmudgeonly goblin who doesn't want them there.

The film revolves around a retired hitman who returns to Chicago on Christmas Eve to avenge the death of his friend. During his mission, he must fight his way past three unlikely adversaries from his past, present, and future. In the process, he finds out who he really is.

Opening in modern day, teenage Alice lives a life on the road with her mother, incessantly pursued by bad luck. Her mother has always forbidden her from having any contact with her grandmother — even banning Alice from reading her grandmother's mysterious classic book of pitch black fairy tales, "Tales from the Hinterland." But when Alice's mother is kidnapped, Alice discovers that the Hinterland is not just a story, and that its strange supernatural forces lie behind her mother's disappearance. To save her mother, Alice must journey into the Hinterland where she discovers how her own story went so wrong.

Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage isn’t as perfect as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. What she doesn’t realize is that there’s more to the story than meets the eye—and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.

A non-action-hero and a woman who hates him find on an instruction manual for saving the world left behind by a secret group that protects the Earth from alien invaders but who were wiped out.

The last of a race of vampires have lived thousands of years feeding off the blood of victims. A bloodsucker has told her lovers she will give them immortality by injecting them with her extraordinary blood.

A highly skilled musician and talented "idolmaker" navigate the challenges of the music industry and everyday life.

A soldier with the Polish Army in World War II, Witold Pilecki volunteers for a Polish resistance operation that involves infiltrating (and later escaping from) the Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1941, he writes the first comprehensive intelligence report on Auschwitz and the Holocaust, only to see it ignored by the Allied powers. After the war, he continues to battle authoritarianism, supporting the London-based Polish government-in-exile against Warsaw's Soviet-backed communist regime. Arrested by the secret police, he is executed, after a show trial, in 1948.

While a hit man avenges his father’s death, a Department of Justice official wants to dismantle the mafia. The two become involved in a cat-and- mouse game when they realize they’re after the same people.

Mothers become grandmothers and their daughters become mothers in their own right, as a new generation explores their own relationships with culture, heritage, love, womanhood and identity.

Two estranged American cousins reunite to set up an alternative resort, stirring childhood traumas and phobias in a haunted castle.

Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine guards the life of President John F. Kennedy and is with him on November 22, 1963 when he is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

A single man in his late 30s drops everything to seek out his soulmate. When he finally meets "the one," he finds himself behaving as if he had a ticking biological clock.

Centers on a young man who must fight to convince the love of his life that they are soul mates when he, as the result of an accident in India, ends up in a parallel universe where she has no idea who he is.

The story centers on a heartbroken teen who comes to the conclusion that most high school boys are total jerks and declares herself founding member of said club, refusing to date again until graduation. Other girls quickly join, taking the same oath and forming a movement that throws the high school into an uproar.

Teens inadvertently acquire a cache of high-tech weapons the likes of which have never been seen.

Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller's Marlboro-smoking face is captured by a photograph and graces the covers of more than 150 newspapers worldwide. The photographer is nominated for a Pulitzer and wins the Sidney Hillman Foundation Journalism Award. The soldier becomes a reluctant icon overnight, but he begins to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder and becomes disabled upon returning to his Kentucky hometown. He and his childhood sweetheart struggle to connect.

Two brothers take their hustling schemes from the PGA to the Masters of Mini Golf.