Lost & Found

In September 2007, Abishag Productions purchased the film rights to "Lost & Found", the best selling dramatic novel by Jacqueline Sheehan.

"Lost & Found" tells the story of psychologist Rocky Pelligrino, who heads to a quiet island off the coast of Maine to work as an Animal Control Warden after her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. Quitting her job, she leaves Massachusetts - reinventing her past and heads to Peak's Island a million miles away from everything she's lost.

Rocky, a quirky and fallible character, discovers the healing process to be agonizingly slow until she meets Lloyd, a large black Labrador retriever with a primtive arrow sticking out of his shoulder. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded woman and a wounded, loveable animal.

"Lost & Found" illustrates the profound bond that exists between humands and animals and is a sensitive and honest portrayal of loss and the journey toward healing and starting over.

Escape

Based on the best selling memoir by Carolyn Jessop, "Escape" is the harrowing true story of Carolyn Jessop, whose testimony helped convict polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.

Jessop was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints sect and at 18 she was forced into a polygamous marriage with a man 32 years her senior. At 35, she fled the sect with her eight children and exposed the group to the authorities.

"Escape" recounts the horrfic events that led Jessop to break free from the oppressive world she knew and how she has managed to survive since escaping, despite threats and legal battles with her husband and the Church.

Relevant Entertainment and Como Court Productions acquired the book which has been adapted into a screenplay by Emmy Award winner Kirk Ellis.

The project is being independently financed by Catherine Williams and her Como Court Productions company. Williams will also act as a producer alongside Relevant's Michael Menchel and Abishag Productions. Katherine will star in the production.

The Knitting Circle

"The Knitting Circle" is a production project under development with HBO Films.

The movie adaptation of the best selling semi-autobiographical novel by Ann Hood will see Katherine take the role of central character Mary Baxter.

Mourning the death of her young daughter and struggling to overcome the grief that jeopardizes every aspect of her life - including her marriage, the story examines how the character begins to find her way back into the world through a knitting circle and the experiences its members share.

The film, which will be scripted by Dirty Sexy Money creator and award-winning playright Craig Wright, marks the first collaboration for Abishag with HBO. It will also mark Wright's return to the station where he started his TV writing career on Six Feet Under, earning both Emmy and WGA nominations for his work.

Pine Street Pictures will also produce the television film in conjunction with Katherine and Nancy Heigl.

Trending

Inspired by the Cynthia Langston novel Bi-Coastal Babe, "Trending" is about 26 year old Lissa Bennett, whose job is to search for the newest and hottest emerging trends in order to keep her corporate clients ahead of the curve... if only she could predict the trends in her love life as well.

Abishag has partnered partnered with Daniel Rosenberg, Lakeshore Entertainment and CBS TV Studios to create and develop "Trending" as a new series for The CW Network. Screenwriter Gren Wells, who wrote the romantic comedy A Little Bit of Heaven, starring Kate Hudson and Gael Garcia Bernal, for The Film Department, will pen the pilot.

Katherine, who will not have starring role in the show, fell in love with the story having read the novel. She will executive produce the show with Abishag partner Nancy Heigl.

Gren Wells, Daniel Rosenberg and Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi will also serve as producers.

Kill Switch

Kill Switch is the debut novel by the award winning producers of "Law & Order: SVU" and "A Gifted Man," Neal Baer and Jonathan Greene. In early development as a major motion picture, Katherine is attached to star in the film, which will be produced by Kevin McCormick and Abishag Productions.

She is set to play the character of Dr. Claire Waters, a brilliant, young forensic psychiatrist. With her unnervingly personal insights into the criminal mind, Claire is drawn to the rare "untreatable" patients who seem to have no conscience or fear. She believes that by understanding what motivates violent criminals, she can help prevent them from committing further crimes. But one shocking case could make or break her career - and it's waiting for her in the psychiatric wing of New York City's Rikers Island.

His name is Quimby. A deranged inmate whose boyish good looks hide a sordid history of dysfunction and abuse, Quimby triggers something in Claire she'd rather not face. As she tries to unlock Quimby's past, she unwittingly reveals her own painful secrets - leaving herself dangerously vulnerable. For Claire, the patient's obsessions are just the beginning. When the case propels her into the mind of another killer - a homicidal maniac who's watching her every move - it could only end in madness, or murder, or both...