Lisa Sheridan

What Love Could Do: The Mary Esther Wells Story Budget: $10M - $30M | Biopic / True Story 17-year-old Mary Wells writes a song for her idol Jackie Wilson, but Motown producer Berry Gordy instead signs her to the label, where she becomes a trailblazing pop star who shatters stereotypes for black women when her #1 smash hit, My Guy results in her opening for the Beatles on their 1964 UK tour.

Todd Biopic / True Story From childhood poverty to Broadway acclaim, then winning Best Picture Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days, this is the improbable Horatio Alger story of the man Elizabeth Taylor called "the love of my life."

Sam Cooke: The Truth Budget: $30M+ | Biopic / True Story ⋄ Music True story of Soul Music pioneer, Sam Cooke, the first black artist to own his own copyrights, publishing, two labels and distribution rights, who was murdered just as he was reaching the pinnacle of his career and love life. (Based on my book by the same title and predicated on 18 years of research with family friends and colleagues).

Moondust Melodies: The King Records Story Budget: $10M - $30M | Biopic / True Story ⋄ Music In a mid-century America divided by race, gender and genre, Cincinnati's King Records defiantly pressed them all, making history in the process.

The '57 Bushville Champs Budget: $10M - $30M | Biopic / True Story ⋄ Sports Drama True story of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves epic World Series victory over the venerable New York Yankees, featuring Henry Aaron, Warren Spahn, Mickey Mantle, and the Yanks' cantankerous manager Casey Stengel, whose labeling of Milwaukee as "Bushville" ignited a tempestuous war of words in the media.