'Exempt' spec hits right note for Overture

June 26, 2007 Overture Films has acquired "Exempt," a spec script by Ian Shorr, that Benderspink will produce. The action thriller follows a fast-talking high schooler who, after getting kicked out of school and sent to a tony boarding school for problem teens, finds himself in bad trouble when he falls in with a group of "diplobrats," foreign teenagers with diplomatic immunity from the law. Benderspink has been on a tear in recent weeks, setting up a slew of projects, including "The $40,000 Man" and "Party Up" at New Line Cinema, "Fiasco Heights" at Universal Pictures, "Odds" at Warners Bros.

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