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June 2015 Script Sales

By July 2, 2015September 8th, 2020No Comments

Sony picked up Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs’ comedy Move That Body, described as The Hangover meets (Script Pipeline favoriteWeekend at Bernie’s with female leads in a bidding war. Blumhouse and Madhouse have teamed to produce Free Fall. The thriller, written by Sean Finegan and Gregg Maxwell Parker, follows an estranged father and daughter clinging to a mountainside after an accident, making it a literal cliffhanger. 21‘s Allan Loeb sold Collateral Beauty, a drama about a depressed ad exec, with Rooney Mara and Hugh Jackman attached to star. Finally, Peter Scott’s college comedy Parents Weekend is moving forward at Lotus Entertainment.

Other script sales:

– In the worst case of development hell ever. . . . Stanley Kubrik’s Civil War drama The Downslope (originally written in 1956) is finally moving forward with Marc Forster attached to direct.

– Disney brought back Linda Woolverton to pen Maleficent 2.

– Marco Ramirez (DaredevilDa Vinci’s Demons) will adapt Akira for Warner Bros.

– Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady) will adapt the nonfiction book Ashley’s War for Reese Witherspoon and Fox 2000.

– Anya Kochoff-Romano and Lily Hollander will write the Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve sequel, Mother’s Day. Garry Marshall to direct. Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, and Julia Roberts to star.

– Fox picked up Jason Micallef’s (Butter) pitch for Shadows, a cryptozoological sci-fi/horror franchise.

– Syriana writer/director Stephen Gaghan to write and direct a Charles Darwin biopic for Disney.