A group of high school kids discover the ability to travel in time. That's the simple logline of Welcome to Yesterday, formerly called Almanac, which just released its first trailer. Starring a slew of young newcomers, the found footage sci-fi film was written by Jason Pagan and Andrew Stark and is directed by Dean Israelite.…
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2013 marks the first year without a Paranormal Activity movie since the original hit theaters in 2009, but Paramount plans to make up for that gap by releasing two separate franchise installments next year. Now the ball is rolling on one of them, Paranormal Activity 5. The studio has just tapped Jason Pagan and Andrew…
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Filmmakers regularly say it's impossible to get a medium sized movie made in Hollywood. They believe studios would much rather make a $250 million movie than five $50 million movies and that might be the case. Paramount, however, is having a blast making much cheaper movies. In addition to the Paranormal Activity franchise, they're currently…
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Just as we're enjoying the last of 2012's cinematic offerings, the latest edition of the Black List has hit the web. The annual survey highlights the hottest unproduced screenplays of the year, as based on the votes of hundreds of executives. The term "unproduced" is used rather vaguely here. Some of these scripts (like Ivan…
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A teenager discovers the ability to time travel and uses a book of sports results to his benefit. This, is not, the logline for the second act of Back to the Future Part II. It's the reported plot of Almanac, a mystery project from Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes which was announced last month. At the time,…
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As if Michael Bay didn't have enough to do, prepping one film and finishing another, he and his Platinum Dunes partners just sold a top secret found footage film to Paramount. It's called Almanac and was written on spec by Andrew Stark and Jason Pagan, with Dean Israelite attached to direct. They're all newcomers (though…
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