Movies with the "Development" Production Status
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.
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 making it to production.
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The movie follows a famous London artist who inexplicably shoots her fashion-photographer husband five times, then falls mute.
Molly the maid gets involved in the murderous underbelly of her gilded workplace.
A plot said to involve the Russian mob.
Follows 44-year-old hitman (Billy Summers) who is considering retirement when he accepts one last job from a regular client.
Expected to be a prison-set drama.
The true story about eight women who were prisoners at the Texas' Goree Prison in the 1940s. They formed an all-female country and western act and ended up building a fanbase of millions. The women were eventually pardoned.
In the early 1980s, layoffs of Boston police and firefighters lead nine men, including officers and a firefighter, to set 200 fires, prompting a multi-year ATF investigation led by Wayne Miller.
A young criminal, who doesn’t say much, can open anything with a lock on it. Trained by an eccentric genius and owned by a Detroit mobster, he is rented out as a lock picker for hire to a daring and outlandish gang of youth thieves pulling jobs in Los Angeles. His challenge is to get out before they get caught, and get back to the woman he loves.
With crime rampant in 1940s, Boston mayor gave the nod to the creation of a task force known as "The Shadows," the first police force to work with criminal informants, wear plain clothes and go undercover.
Spiro T. Agnew, Nixon's vice president, runs a bribery and extortion ring in office for years. At the height of Watergate, three young federal prosecutors discover his crimes and launch a mission to take him down.
A Manhattan emergency room doctor whose life becomes complicated when a mobster recognizes the doctor from his former life as a hitman who went into the witness protection program.
A young woman is accused of murder in Iceland in 1829 and faces becoming the last woman to be publicly executed in the country. The film will tell the story of a tragic romance set against the odds during an endless Icelandic summer.
A disillusioned lawyer steals $90 million from his law firm, stages his own death and successfully disappears for several years. What at first seems to be a brilliant white-collar crime is further complicated by a murder charge.
A group of young people commit crimes to survive in a near-future hit by financial crisis.
Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are expected to return as mismatched colleagues, a veteran cop and his partner, an Orc, respectively.
A murder mystery told in reverse.
The story of Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill who delivered the shot that killed Osama bin Laden during a 2011 raid.
Set in Los Angeles, the story will connect two events from May of 1974 - the unsolved murder of an LAPD cop and a shoot-out in South Central LA between the LAPD and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
A story showcasing the lifestyle of the notorious motorcycle club, The Hell's Angels. Revolves around a friendship that develops between gang leader Sonny Barger and a young drifter mechanic with a gift for fixing motorcycles.
Professional writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher uses her intellect, charm, and persistence to get to the bottom of every crime she's faced with.
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