Bad-Sounding Movie Ideas

[JCVaughn]

Title:         The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-Up
Log Line:   A man has an awkward transition from his 20s to his 30s, marked by such milestones as employing his first cleaning lady, becoming abnormally attached to his dog and committing flagrant acts of home improvement.
Writer:       Dan Zevin (author)
Agent:       n/a
Buyer:       Paramount Pictures
Price:        n/a
Genre:       Comedy Drama
Logged:     5/3/05
More:        Novel.  Misher Films' Kevin Misher will produce.

[JCVaughn]

Title:         Bonesaw
Log Line:   A horror-fantasy writer discovers her novels are about to release the hellish creatures she's been writing about into the real world.
Writer:      Alan McElroy
Agent:      Hohman Maybank Lieb
Buyer:      Platinum Studios and the Shop Productions
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Horror
Logged:    5/2/05
More:       To be based on Rob Moran's upcoming graphic novel.  Platinum's Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and Shop's Pearson and Aaron L. Gilbert will produce.  Platinum's Aaron Severson and Jay Burns will co-produce.  Relativity Management will co-finance the picture.  This will be a CG film.

[JCVaughn]

In this day and age, a movie will never come out with the word "Bum" in the title... the PC "homeless advocates" will have a field day...

Title:         5th Avenue Bum
Log Line:   A sexy executive runs a baby food company but hates babies and chews up men as fast as her employees. When her father threatens to hand the reins to another executive unless his daughter can find balance in her life, the woman bribes a wisecracking bum to pretend he's in love with her.
Writer:       Carrie Gerlach Cecil (author)
Agent:       n/a
Buyer:       Lawrence Bender Productions
Price:        n/a
Genre:       Romantic Comedy
Logged:     5/2/05
More:        Novel.  Option.  Lawrence Bender, Melina Kevorkian and Janet Jeffries will produce.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        The Night Watchman
Log Line:  A disgraced police officer sets out to rid the police force of corruption.
Writer:      John Ridley
Agent:      ICM
Buyer:      Millenium Films
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Cop Drama
Logged:    4/28/05
More:       Adaptation of James Ellroy's script. Alexandra Milchan, Lucas Foster and Erwin Stoff will produce.  Oliver Stone to possibly direct. Keanu Reeves to possibly star in.

[JCVaughn]

Title:         No Pain No Gain
Log Line:   A SWAT team's top cop, who is incapable of feeling emotional or physical pain and is thereby revered for his fearlessness,  undergoes surgery that will allow him to feel everything he's missed in life.
Writer:      Steve Pepoon
Agent:      n/a
Buyer:      Warner Bros. Pictures
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Comedy
Logged:    4/28/05
More:       Spec script.  Smart Entertainment's John Jacobs will produce.   Smart Entertainment's Bard Dorros will associate produce.  Pepoon has written for such shows as for "The Simpsons" and "Roseanne."

[JCVaughn]

Title:         Push
Log Line:   A group of young American expats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities hide from a U.S. government agency in Beijing. They must use their different talents and band together for a final job enabling them to escape the agency forever.
Writer:      David Bourla
Agent:      n/a
Buyer:      Infinity Media
Price:       High-six figures
Genre:      Sci-fi Thriller
Logged:    4/27/05
More:       Gretchen Somerfeld will produce.   David Bourla will executive produce.  Infinity's Kyle Mann will co-produce.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Ink
Log Line:  An East L.A. graffiti artist gets a job as an illustrator for Hustler magazine and also as a designer of low-rider cars. He eventually stretches his talents to tattooing and etches his artwork into the skin of such hip-hop stars as Eminem, Red Man, 50 Cent50 Cent, Dr. DreDr. Dre, Method Man and Xzibit. He also has does cartoon cover art for numerous album covers.
Writer:      n/a
Agent:      Paradigm
Buyer:      Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Drama
Logged:    4/27/05
More:       To be based on the life of an iconic hip-hop tattoo artist called Mister Cartoon.  Imagine's Brian Grazer will produce.  Soul Assassin Studios' Estevan Oriol and Mister Cartoon will executive produce.  Estevan Oriol will direct.  No screenwriter is attached yet.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        The Birds
Log Line:  Increasingly vicious birds terrorize a small town.
Writer:      n/a
Agent:      n/a
Buyer:      Universal Pictures
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Horror
Logged:    4/26/05
More:       Remake to be based on the short story by Daphne Du Maurier.  Platinum Dunes and Mandalay Pictures' Peter Guber will produce.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Prey
Log Line:  A man sets out on a solo hunting expedition in the middle of winter and severely injures his leg. He is rescued by a mysterious trapper whose intentions are more sinister than he leads the hunter to believe.
Writer:     Jerrold E. Brown
Agent:     Mngr. Dave Brown
Buyer:     Sobini Films
Price:      n/a
Genre:     Psychological Thriller
Logged:   4/26/05
More:      Spec script.  Sobini Films' Mark Amin will produce. Dave Brown, David Levine and Gina Marcheschi will executive produce.

[JCVaughn]

Title:         Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Log Line:   An acting troupe goes to graveyard on remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.
Writer:      Bob Clark
Agent:      n/a
Buyer:      Film Classic Productions and Victor Solnicki Productions
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Horror
Logged:    4/26/05
More:       Remake of Clark's 1973 film.  Bob Clark and Victor Solnicki will produce.  Optic Film's Hamish Gibson will co-produce.  The film is budgeted at $12 million.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Log Line:  A toy store seems to come alive when infused by the spirit of its eccentric owner. When his health begins to fail, he wants to turn the store over to his manager, but the woman's depression has turned the once vibrant store to a gray pallor.
Writer:      Zach Helm
Agent:      Michael Peretzian  at CAA
Buyer:      Mandate Pictures
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Fantasy
Logged:    4/22/05
More:       Richard Gladstein and Jim Garavante will produce. Zach Helm will direct.  Natalie Portman will star.

[JCVaughn]

kill kill kill kill kill kill...

Title:         Land of the Lost
Log Line:   A forest ranger is caught in a time vortex while rafting on the Colorado River and transported to a mysterious world populated by dinosaurs.
Writer:       Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas
Agent:       n/a
Buyer:       Universal Pictures
Price:        n/a
Genre:       Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Logged:     4/25/05
More:        To be based on based on the 1974-77 television series. Sid & Marty Krofft and Mosaic Media Group's Jimmy Miller & Julie Wixson-Darmody will produce. Adam McKay will direct. Will Ferrell will star.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        The Serpent and the Eagle
Log Line:  Story of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1520, and how Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez plundered the Aztec nation aided by an Aztec princess-turned-slave.
Writer:      Brian Helgeland
Agent:      Robert Newman of ICM, mngr. Missy Malkin of Malkin Management, and atty. Alan Wertheimer of Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum & Morris,
Buyer:      Paramount Pictures
Price:       $2 million
Genre:      Epic Drama
Logged:    3/23/05
More:       Rewrite deal.  Original script was written by Hans Beimler and Robert Wolfe.  Imagine’s Brian Grazer will produce.  Ron Howard will direct.  First set up in September 2002.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Saw 2
Log Line:  The serial killer "Jigsaw" strikes again.
Writer:      Darren Lynn Bousman
Agent:      Craig Wyckoff of Epstein Wycoff Corfsa Ross & Assoc.
Buyer:      Twisted Pictures and Lions Gate Films
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Horror
Logged:    3/23/05
More:       Sequel.  Leigh Whannel and James Wan helped develop the script.  Twisted Pictures’ Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules and Mark Burg will produce.  Leigh Whannel, James Wan, Stacey Testro, and Lions Gate's Peter Block & Jason Constantine will executive produce.  Darren Lynn Bousman will also direct.  Principal photography is set to begin May 2 in Toronto for a Halloween release.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Blue Mountain
Log Line:  A stolen gun is discovered in a small Southern town that may have been linked to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Writer:      Darby Connor
Agent:      n/a
Buyer:      Carson Signature Films and Chapman Ventures
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Thriller
Logged:    3/23/05
More:       Beaux Carson, Heidi Levitt and Donald Zuckerman will produce.  George Hickenlooper will direct.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Does Anybody Here Remember When Hanz Gubenstein Invented
Time Travel?
Log Line: Two Eccentrics invent a device that sends messages back in time. They battle themselves, government agents, the complexities of Space-Time Theory, and the question of "How many lotteries can two people win before someone gets wise?"
Writer:      Rick Carr
Agent:      n/a
Buyer:      Ben Affleck and Neo Art & Logic
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Science Fiction-Comedy
Logged:    3/23/05
More:       Script was one of three final scripts under consideration to be produced for the third season of "Project Greenlight."  Ben Affleck, Matt Damon & Neo's Joel Soisson & Mike Leahy will produce.

Sounded absolutely brilliant until I read the words "Project Greenlight." Ugh!

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Dead I Well May Be
Log Line:  A street-savvy illegal immigrant from Ireland lands a job as an Irish mob enforcer in New York in the early 1990s.
Writer:      John Lee Hancock
Agent:      Richard Lovett of CAA
Buyer:      Universal Pictures
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Drama-Action
Logged:    3/23/05
More:       To be adapted from Adrian McKinty's book.  Anonymous Content's Steve Golin and David Kanter will produce.  John Lee Hancock will also direct.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Rockwell
Log Line:  A troubled teen believes the only cure for his suburban angst is the acquisition of a car.  Misunderstood by his dysfunctional parents, he concocts a masterful plan to secure his dream. Chaos ensues as the pieces of his puzzle begin to unravel and his parents become unknowing accomplices in his scheme.
Writer:     Thomas Thonson
Agent:     Mngmnt. firm Circle of Confusion
Buyer:     Atlantic Streamline
Price:      n/a
Genre:     Dark Comedy
Logged:   3/23/05
More:      Cedering Fox, Patrick Cassavetti, and Atlantic Streamlines' Marco Weber will produce. Vanessa Coifman will executive produce.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Death Race 3000
Log Line:  Centers on an ultra violent, no-holds-barred race with heavily armed Escalades, Ferraris and Aston Martins.
Writer:      Paul W.S. Anderson
Agent:      UTA, mngr. Ken Kamins of Key Creatives
Buyer:      Paramount Pictures
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Action
Logged:    3/22/05
More:       Remake of Roger Corman's "Death Race 2000."  Roger Corman, Impact Picture's Paul W.S. Anderson & Jeremy Bolt and C/W's Tom Cruise & Paula Wagner will produce.  Anderson will also direct.  First set up in July 1999.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Opposite Day
Log Line:  A man learns to appreciate his life when everything in it is suddenly the opposite of what it normally is.
Writer:      Nicholas Stoller
Agent:      Julien Thuan of UTA
Buyer:      DreamWorks
Price:       Seven figures
Genre:      Comedy
Logged:    3/22/05
More:       Pitch.  Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald will produce.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Breakfast With Tiffany
Log Line:  Author's journey from single, middle-aged gay New Yorker to overnight parent as the guardian of his troubled 13-year-old niece, Tiffany.
Writer:      Edwin John Wintle (author)
Agent:      Amy Schiffman at The Gersh Agency
Buyer:      Hart Sharp Entertainment
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Drama
Logged:    3/22/05
More:       Memoir.  Wintle will executive produce.  Miramax Books will publish the book in June 2005.

Brilliant title... description sounds preachy as all get out.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        The Heartbreak Kid
Log Line:  A young man falls head over heels in love and gets married quickly, only to fall in love with another woman on the honeymoon.
Writer:      Scot Armstrong and Leslie Dixon
Agent:      Gregroy McKnight of CAA (Armstrong) and Todd Feldman of CAA & atty. Barry Hirsch of Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof & Fishman (Dixon)
Buyer:      DreamWorks
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Comedy
Logged:    3/22/05
More:       Based loosely on Neil Simons 1972 film.  Radar's Ted Field and Davis Entertainment's John Davis will produce.  James Bobin will direct.  Jason Bateman will star.



Sounds great until "Jason Bateman will star."

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Gone, Baby, Gone
Log Line:  A pair of private detectives, in a working-class Boston neighborhood, are hired to search for a kidnapped 4-year-old girl.
Writer:      Ben Affleck
Agent:      Patrick Whitesell of Endeavor and atty. Sam Fischer of Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman & Cook
Buyer:      Touchstone Pictures
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Drama
Logged:    3/22/05
More:       Adapted from Dennis Lehane’s novel.  Dan Rissner, The Ladd Co.’s Alan Ladd Jr. and Live Planet’s Sean Bailey will produce.  Ben Affleck will also make his directorial debut.  Rights to book acquired in March 2002.  Project was set up at Paramount Pictures in July 2002.  Dennis Lehane is repped by Amy Schiffman of The Gersh Agency.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        The Butterfly Effect 2
Log Line:  A man finds he can travel through time. As he changes past events, though, they have unexpected consequences in the present.
Writer:      Michael Weiss
Agent:      Mngr. Jonathan Hung of Hung Entertainment and law firm of Colden, McKuin & Frankel
Buyer:      FilmEngine and New Line
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Psychological Thriller
Logged:    3/21/05
More:       To be based on the pitch by Weiss. The original film's creators, Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, will receive story credit on the film.  FilmEngine's A.J. Dix & Anthony Rhulen and Benderspink's Chris Chris Bender & J.C. Spink will produce.  William Shively will executive produce.  John Leonetti will direct.

[JCVaughn]

Title:        Johnny Blaze
Log Line:  An old-school rapper retires and becomes a private eye who solves crimes within the hip-hop world.
Writer:      Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg
Agent:      William Morris Agency, mngmnt. firm Principato-Young Management and atty. Adam Kaller
Buyer:      DreamWorks and Imagine Entertainment
Price:       n/a
Genre:      Action comedy
Logged:    3/21/05
More:       Based on a concept by Brian Grazer and Eddie Murphy.  Imagine's Brian Grazer will produce.  Eddie Murphy will star.

Think the title we stay if Ghost Rider gets made first?