CLIFFHANGER RESISTANCE SCHUMACHER END OF SENTENCE GOODRICH THE BEACH BUM FRENCH EXIT DESTROYER QUEENPINS AT ETERNITY’S GATE TURN OF MIND THE OLD MAN & THE GUN FLAG DAY JULIET, NAKED THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 ON CHESIL BEACH THE QUEEN MARY THE GENTLEMEN BLOOD MOON BUBBLES Established in London, 2016, ROCKET SCIENCE has quickly attained global recognition as one of the preeminent international filmed entertainment companies. Since its inception, it has financed, produced, packaged and sold over two dozen critically acclaimed and commercially successful films. ROCKET SCIENCE leverages a deep talent and producer pool, propelling it to thrive as one of the few Europe-based entertainment companies that consistently bring top-tier talent packages to the marketplace. With proven taste and an objective- driven approach, ROCKET SCIENCE continues to create a diverse range of compelling content with strong global appeal for modern film and television audiences. ROCKET SCIENCE’s multi-disciplinary practice includes development, financing, marketing and sales, and distribution, across all media platforms. 2019 is proving to be yet another strong growth year for ROCKET SCIENCE as it embarks upon significant territorial expansion into regional markets worldwide and undertakes substantial expansion into developing, packaging CANNES 2019 and producing more top tier projects. CLIFFHANGER SYNOPSIS DIRECTOR Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, The female-led reboot of the 1993 classic set on the The Bad Batch, The Twilight Zone, Castle Rock, Legion) steepest cliffs of the Alps. WRITER Sascha Penn (Power, Survivor’s Remorse) PRODUCERS Neil Moritz (the billion-dollar The Fast and the Furious franchise) Toby Jaffe (Total Recall, Prom Night) PRE-PRODUCTION SCHUMACHER SYNOPSIS DIRECTORS Fully supported by Schumacher’s family, the Michael Wech (Resistance Fighters) and Hanns-Bruno documentary will feature rare interviews and never- Kammertöns (Boris Becker: The Player) before-seen archival footage in a behind the scenes look at the man widely regarded as one of the greatest PRODUCERS Formula One drivers of all time. Schumacher is the Benjamin Seikel and Vanessa Nöcker (Boris Becker: The only driver in history to win seven Formula One World Player, Peter Lindbergh - Women’s Stories) Championships, five of which he won consecutively. Marc Schmidheiny and Christoph Daniel (Peter Lindbergh - Framed by Michael’s 50th birthday and the 25th Women’s Stories, A Ciambra, Mediterranea) anniversary of his first World Championship victory, the film will feature interviews with Michael’s family, FEATURING his closest racing companions and competitors. Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, Mika Häkkinen, Damon Hill, David Coulthard, Niki Lauda, Ross Brawn, Bernie Ecclestone, Luca di Montezemolo, Piero Ferrari and many more POST-PRODUCTION GOODRICH SYNOPSIS WRITER & DIRECTOR Andy Goodrich is a happy man. He has a beautiful Hallie Meyers-Shyer (Home Again) wife, is a celebrated LA art dealer and has 9-year- old twins. At age 60 he’s also about to become a PRODUCERS grandfather: his eldest daughter Grace, from his Amy Pascal (upcoming Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, first marriage, is expecting a baby. To Andy, his life upcoming Spiderman: Far From Home, Venom, The Post) is picture perfect, or so he thinks until his wife Naomi informs him via a phone call, that she has checked CAST into rehab and she will be absent for 90 days. And Michael Keaton (Birdman, Spotlight, Dumbo) by the way, their marriage is over. No one is remotely surprised, apart from Andy... PRE-PRODUCTION Suddenly their domestic life becomes his responsibility and he is shaken to find it’s not that easy! Turning to Grace as a shoulder to cry on and some desperately- needed practical help, he is bewildered by her mixed messages. Grace may be all grown up, but Andy was never this great a Dad to her and it’s hard not to feel hurt about his many absences in her childhood. Forced to team up, they share the logistics of her pregnancy and his work challenges, her hormones and his mid-life crisis and Andy eventually realises there is a lot for him to mend. With Grace by his side, it will be a journey of laughter and tears and at the end of it, Andy will be a better man. FRENCH EXIT SYNOPSIS DIRECTOR “My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says Azazel Jacobs (The Lovers, Terri) 60-year-old Frances Price (Michelle Pfeiffer), whose beauty and eccentricity have enthralled Manhattan for WRITER decades. But things don’t go as planned for Frances. Patrick DeWitt (New York Times Bestselling Author of Her husband Franklin has been dead for 20 years The Sisters Brothers) and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her PRODUCERS twilight days anonymously in a modest apartment in Elevation Pictures, Rocket Science, Wild Bunch Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm (Lucas Hedges) and ‘Small Frank’ the family cat. But CAST far from getting away from it all, people just can’t Michelle Pfeiffer Academy Award Nominee and Golden seem to leave Frances alone. The apartment becomes Globe Winner (Murder on the Orient Express, Wizard filled with people from her old life and added to, by of Lies, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Dangerous Liaisons) those from her new one. As ever, Frances hosts an Lucas Hedges Academy Award Nominee (Manchester imperfect situation with style, as she has always done by the Sea, Ben is Back, Boy Erased, Three Billboards in her role as a devoted wife and mother. Malcolm will Outside Ebbing Missouri) never have a job, and Franklin appears somehow to Tracy Letts (upcoming Ford vs Ferrari, The Lovers, Lady have morphed into Small Frank (Tracy Letts) and as a Bird, The Post) cat he is a lot easier to deal with. PRE-PRODUCTION QUEENPINS SYNOPSIS WRITERS & DIRECTORS Everybody loves a bargain and everyone wants to feel Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly (Beneath The Harvest Sky) special! What gets Connie and her best friend JoJo up in the morning is their love of a good deal. They’ve PRODUCERS mastered the art of collecting coupons and most Linda McDonough (Ender’s Game, Drive - exec producer, shops in suburban Phoenix, Arizona are in dread of Rabbit Hole) their compulsive coupon sprees. JoJo’s door-to-door make-up line is struggling, whilst Connie couldn’t CAST be less interested in being the dream housewife her Kristen Bell (The Good Place, Bad Moms, Forgetting husband wants her to be. So in search of self-worth, Sarah Marshall) the ladies decide it’s time for achievement! They’ll Leslie Jones (Ghostbusters, Masterminds, Saturday Night Live) turn their coupon obsession into a business - who cares if it’s not entirely legal? No one, if you don’t PRE-PRODUCTION count on being successful… The problem is they have created a goldmine: the harmless duo hit on a scam that rocks American retail. As the millions pour in they need to go corporate, inadvertently becoming the most wanted housewives in the country… TURN OF MIND SYNOPSIS DIRECTOR Based on Alice LaPlante’s New York Times bestseller, Gideon Raff (Homeland, Tyrant, Dig, upcoming The Red Turn of Mind is an edge of your seat emotional Sea Diving Resort and The Spy) thriller centred around a retired Orthopedic surgeon suffering from Alzheimer’s who is trying to figure out WRITER - in her moments of clarity - if she killed the person Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife, Quills) the police claim she had, or if she’s being deceived. PRODUCERS Gael Berman (The Addams Family) Rory Koslow (Ashby) Gideon Raff (Homeland, Tyrant, Dig, upcoming The Red Sea Diving Resort and The Spy) CAST Annette Bening Academy Award® Nominee (The Kids Are All Right, American Beauty, Captain Marvel) Michelle Pfeiffer Academy Award® Nominee (Murder on the Orient Express, Ant-Man and the Wasp, upcoming Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) PRE-PRODUCTION FLAG DAY SYNOPSIS DIRECTOR John Vogel is a maverick. An exciting, extraordinary Sean Penn Double Academy Award® winner (Into the Wild) father with big plans and a fearless attitude, who teaches his daughter Jennifer to live a life of risk WRITER and adventure. It’s exhilarating - for a child. But as Jez Butterworth (Edge of Tomorrow, Black Mass) Jennifer grows up, reality begins to eat away at this picture of her hero. His far-fetched stories no longer PRODUCERS add up, but the reckless consequences do. Breaking Jon Kilik (The Hunger Games, Foxcatcher, The Diving Bell free, Jennifer builds a life of her own, far away from and the Butterfly) her unstable childhood. But as John’s wild plans William Horberg (The Kite Runner, The Talented Mr Ripley, continue to escalate, Jennifer cannot help but be Cold Mountain) drawn back to her father - and his most devastating adventure yet. CAST Sean Penn Double Academy Award® winner (Milk, Mystic River) Dylan Penn (Condemned, Elvis & Nixon) PRODUCTION STARTS SUMMER 2019 THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 SYNOPSIS WRITER / DIRECTOR The Trial of the Chicago 7 is one of the most infamous Aaron Sorkin (Molly’s Game, Moneyball - writer, trials in modern American history. The story of men The Social Network - writer) who were ready to risk everything for their beliefs. PRODUCERS A motley crew of seven male protestors, who have Marc Platt (Mary Poppins Returns, La La Land, The little more in common than their vigorous opposition Girl On The Train) to the Vietnam War, are blamed for the chaos that Matt Jackson (Molly’s Game, Snitch, End Of Watch) erupts outside the Democratic National Convention Amblin Partners in Chicago 1968. The authorities are convinced the seven are part of a conspiracy and the Judiciary is out CAST for blood... Eddie Redmayne Academy Award® Winner (Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, The Danish Girl, The Theory Of Everything) Sacha Baron Cohen (Les Miserables, Bruno, Borat) Michael Keaton (Birdman, Spotlight) Seth Rogen (Neighbors, Steve Jobs) Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Don Jon, Lincoln, Looper) PRE-PRODUCTION THE QUEEN MARY SYNOPSIS DIRECTOR A luxury ocean-liner graced by generations of the rich Gary Shore (Dracula Untold) and famous, HMS Queen Mary is now celebrated - and feared - as “One of the World’s Most Haunted PRODUCERS Places” (Time Magazine).