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[Pattergen]

Keep in mind, not all of these projects will make it to the screen, but most of them have talent attached so there is a good chance. I tried to pick some of the more interesting ones. The Chris Carter one looks interesting. Check out the link for the rest of this month's sales. Source: http://www.scriptsales.com/DDScriptSales.htm

Title: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel
Log Line: Centers on a chainsaw-wielding killer and his cannibalistic family.
Writer: Sheldon Turner
Agent: Endeavor, mngmnt. firm Benderspink, and atty. David Fox
Buyer: New Line Cinema
Price: n/a
Genre: Horror
Logged: 7/21/04
More: Prequel. Mike Fleiss and Platinum Dunes' Michael Bay, Andrew Form & Brad Fuller will produce.

Title: Borders
Log line: A Mexican-American Border Patrol rookie must work his way out of a morass of corruption, greed and human suffering along the Arizona border.
Writer: Andrea Berloff
Agent: Geoff Morley of UTA, mngr. Chris Bender of Benderspink and atty. Rob Goldman of Colden, McKuin and Frankel
Buyer: Scott Free Productions
Price: n/a
Genre: Drama
Logged: 7/21/04
More: Rewrite. Based on a script by Rich D'Ovidio. Scott Free Productions will produce.

Title: How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
Log line: A New Jersey teenager raises money to attend Juilliard in the most unscrupulous of ways.
Writer: Tim Rasmussen and Vince Di Meglio
Agent: Geoff Morley of UTA and mngmnt. firm Mosaic Media
Buyer: Columbia Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Comedy
Logged: 7/21/04
More: Based on the book by Marc Acito that is due later this year. Laura Ziskin will produce.

Title: Untitled Usher Project
Log line: Storyline is being kept under wraps.
Writer: n/a
Agent: n/a
Buyer: MTV Films
Price: n/a
Genre: n/a
Logged: 7/21/04
More: Will Packer will produce. Usher, Jonnetta Patton, Usher's mother and manager, and Rob Hardy will executive produce. Allison Brecker-Shearmur will executive produce. Usher will star.

Title: One Nation
Log Line: An impeached president refuses to leave the White House all the while an FBI rushes to discover the truth behind a top-level conspiracy that threatens to undermine the Constitution.
Writer: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Agent: Gersh Agency and atty. Frederic N. Gaines
Buyer: Columbia Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Political Thriller
Logged: 7/20/04
More: Centropolis Entertainment's Roland Emmerich and Electric Entertainment's Dean Devlin will produce. Roland Emmerich to direct. Last set up in April 2004 as "Anthem."

Title: Monster House
Log line: Three kids discover that a neighbor's house is a living, breathing monster. They try to stop the house's evil plans, though adults don't believe their claims.
Writer: Gil Kenan
Agent: Kevin Iwashina of CAA
Buyer: Sony
Price: n/a
Genre: Fantasy
Logged: 7/20/04
More: Pitch. This will be an animated project. It was picked up in turnaround from DreamWorks. Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers will produce. Steven Spielberg will executive produce. Gil Kenan will also direct. The film will use the new performance capture technology. First set up in August 2003.

Title: Beowulf
Log line: Beowulf of the Geats is called to slay Grendel, a monster that is attacking a Danish kingdom. After defeating Grendel, Beowulf slays Grendel's mother and then clashes with a dragon.
Writer: Matthew Sand
Agent: UTA, mngr. David Alpert at Circle of Confusion and atty. Robert Szymanski of Eclipse
Buyer: Warner Bros. Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Horror
Logged: 7/16/04
More: To be based on the famous eighth century poem. Ed McDonnell's Maple Shade Films will produce.

Title: The Partridge Family
Log line: Adventures of a family of musicians.
Writer: Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen
Agent: Tony Etz of CAA (Sokolow) and Dianne Fraser of ICM (Cohen)
Buyer: Paramount Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Comedy
Logged: 7/15/04
More: Based on the popular 70’s television series. Billy Gerber will produce. Bernard Slade, the original series creator, will executive produce.

Title: A Philosophical Investigation
Log line: Set in a future world where genetic testing is mandatory to identify individuals predisposed to violence, a female Scotland Yard inspector is drawn into a cat-and-mouse game when a sociopathic computer expert finds himself on the list and decides to kill others on it.
Writer: Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Agent: Elliot Webb of BWCS & atty. Lawrence Rose of Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown (Carter) and Paul Haas of Endeavor & atty. Ken Richman of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Sloane & Richman, LLP (Spotnitz)
Buyer: Paramount Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Thriller
Logged: 7/13/03
More: Based on the Philip Kerr novel. Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, and Mace Neufeld Productions' Mace Neufeld will produce. Chris Carter will direct.

Title: Heathcliff
Log Line: An orange cat always gets into trouble in one way or another.
Writer: Gabriel Grunfeld
Agent: n/a
Buyer: Laureate Films
Price: n/a
Genre: Comedy
Logged: 7/6/04
More: Adaptation of the comicstrip. Barney & Ivan Cohen and Laureate Films' Gabriel Grunfeld will produce. This will be an animated film.

 

[Wolfy]

DON"T MESS UP BEOWULF OH FUCK YOU YOU HOLLYWOOD SHITBAGS!
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God damnit!!!

 

[Fresh Prince]

Title: Untitled Usher Project
Log line: Storyline is being kept under wraps.
Writer: n/a
Agent: n/a
Buyer: MTV Films
Price: n/a
Genre: n/a
Logged: 7/21/04
More: Will Packer will produce. Usher, Jonnetta Patton, Usher's mother and manager, and Rob Hardy will executive produce. Allison Brecker-Shearmur will executive produce. Usher will star.

Yay, Glitter with a Himbo!

 

[Litigation Manuel]

That Heathcliff movie has the child in me who used to watch the show saying "yes!", and the older child who doesn't like being called a little kid and thereby stops liking all the things he liked in his childhood saying "no!". I'm so confused!

Although I'd be surpised if it made it to theatres after Garfield bombing.

 

[DrForester]

Title: Beowulf
Log line: Beowulf of the Geats is called to slay Grendel, a monster that is attacking a Danish kingdom. After defeating Grendel, Beowulf slays Grendel's mother and then clashes with a dragon.
Writer: Matthew Sand
Agent: UTA, mngr. David Alpert at Circle of Confusion and atty. Robert Szymanski of Eclipse
Buyer: Warner Bros. Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Horror
Logged: 7/16/04
More: To be based on the famous eighth century poem. Ed McDonnell's Maple Shade Films will produce.

PLEASE DON'T SUCK!

 

[Escape Goat]

Finally, someone with the foresight to make a Patridge Family movie.

 

[Flynn]

Title: Aleister Arcane
Log line: A TV horror host Aleister Arcane is forced off the air due to the wishes of parents in an Oklahoma community. In the wake of Arcane's unplanned retirement, unexplained terror and horror beset the town.
Writer: Dan Milano and Matthew Huffman
Agent: Brian Stern of William Morris Agency and atty. David Colden of Colden, Mckuin & Frankel
Buyer: Paramount Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Horror
Logged: 7/1/04
More: To be adapted from Steve Niles' comicbook. Penn Station’s Michael Aguilar and Dean Georgaris will produce. Steven Niles and IDW Publishing's Ted Adams will executive produce.

For some reason this one reminds me of Trick or Treat.

 

[yoshifumi]

Title: Beowulf
Log line: Beowulf of the Geats is called to slay Grendel, a monster that is attacking a Danish kingdom. After defeating Grendel, Beowulf slays Grendel's mother and then clashes with a dragon.
Writer: Matthew Sand
Agent: UTA, mngr. David Alpert at Circle of Confusion and atty. Robert Szymanski of Eclipse
Buyer: Warner Bros. Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Horror
Logged: 7/16/04
More: To be based on the famous eighth century poem. Ed McDonnell's Maple Shade Films will produce.

oh jeez

 

[Joe]

heathcliff? HEATHCLIFF????!!!

 

[explodet]

... Devlin and Emmerich are going to produce a political thriller?

That's like Milos Forman directing "King Kong".

 

[Pattergen]

heathcliff? HEATHCLIFF????!!!

At least they had the sense to animate it.

... I still cry...

 

[FightyF]

"What Hollywood is buying"

It begs the question (as I'm totally uninformed on this stuff) how much are they paying for these scripts?

 

[Firest0rm]

Is there enough of Beowulf to make amovie?

 

[Pattergen]

"What Hollywood is buying"

It begs the question (as I'm totally uninformed on this stuff) how much are they paying for these scripts?

Usually it will be reported as low/mid/high six figures or something like that. Rarely, it get's up into the millions. But for high profile script sales like this, six figure range... which is huge but the financial part of it isn't reported in detail.