Working Title: | All Boxed In |
Description: | The
provocative, compelling story of a young gay veteran of
the war in Afghanistan. He returns to his home in Orange
County, California, a national hero with a dream for his
future but quickly finds himself "all boxed in with no
where to escape" (Bob Dylan) by the expectations of his
wealthy family and its powerful, conservative circle
of friends. A twist at the end gives this compelling story
an ultimately inspiring ending that will have the audience
talking - and thinking - long after it has left the
theater. |
Budget: | $1 - $2
million |
Looking For: | Producers,
Investors |
Working Title: | The Strongest
Love |
Description: | A
provocative, compelling, erotic thriller about a Catholic
priest who becomes obsessed with an aging and dying (she
has ALS, an always fatal autoimmune disease)
African-American porn actress and prostitute raising a
teenage son. In spite of her dangerous, desperate
circumstances the tragic - oddly heroic - prostitute will
not settle for the priest's love, hoping in vain for a
miracle that will heal her body and erase her past. |
Budget: | $1 - $2
million |
Looking For: | Producers,
Investors |
Working Title: | Food Chain |
Description: | A meek young
man infected with the “Vampire Virus” obtains blood by
becoming a hearse driver. He is infatuated with a woman
with HIV but everything changes when she contracts AIDS.
He reluctantly gives her the Vampire Virus to save her
life. During a sexual assault she slays a young man and
discovers that nothing tastes better than fresh human
blood and that homicide is a stone cold rush, causing her
to slay for food and sport. This revelation also turns her
from a sick young lady into a confident, able woman who
happens to be an incredibly efficient predator. |
Budget: | $1.5 million |
Looking For: | Investors |
Working Title: | Dead Mall |
Description: | A middle-aged
software developer returns to his home town to attend the
funeral of an old friend. There he becomes involved with a
young woman in "Goth" attire who works at a rundown
shopping mall. She jokes that she is a vampire. Later,
he learns that her estranged father is running a
satanic cult whose real purpose turns out to be procuring
virgins to be raped and murdered. He soon finds himself in
a race to rescue their next intended victim: the daughter
of his deceased friend. |
Budget: | Low- to
mid-budget |
Looking For: | Producers,
Investors |
Working Title: | System-X |
Description: | A young
American spy sent to Russia on a mission to get the latest
secret weapon. He does not expect that everything will
change on its head. The scientist-developer of the
mysterious weapon is his father, and he will have a tough
choice between the Motherland and his call of duty as an
intelligence officer. |
Budget: | $2 million |
Looking For: | Investors |
Working Title: | Ninety Five |
Description: | Set against
the background of 1995, a time when Ireland was coming of
age, with its respective iconography of rising racial and
political tensions in a divided country, Ninety Five tells
the story of Aidan, a rebellious young man from a
dysfunctional family who tries to discover a purpose for
his life and reconnect with his childhood love, Holly,
before abandoning his working-class rural establishment
for a better life in Dublin as a student at Trinity
College. Ninety Five already has an expression of interest from a major US distributor. |
Budget: | $170,000 |
Looking For: | Investors |
Working Title: | Local Sugar |
Description: | Mouse Mary
Lou has just been elected mayor of the little farming town
of Sugarville, and is set to be married to her long-time
sweetheart Sly Snake, the town mechanic. The night before
their wedding a suspicious fire burns the sugar mill to
the ground, putting most of the town out of work. The
slimy local land baron, a frog named Rowley, says he'll
finish off the town - unless Mary Lou agrees to marry him.
Sly Snake leaps in to defend Mary Lou's honor but is
beaten badly and worse: he's accused of setting the fire.
Sly has to get the goods on Rowley, clear his own name,
and stop the wedding - before Rowley goes back on his
(good for nothing) word and wipes Sugarville off the map. |
Budget: | $10 million |
Looking For: |
Producers,
Investors, Director |
Working Title: | Shift |
Description: | Boomer
Honeycutt is a drag racer. His lone quest is to escape his
father's shadow and become the next Classic Gear Jammers
Champion. After separating from his fiancée Tina, Boomer
takes refuge sleeping in his van. He awakes after a rough
night out to find an eleven-year-old boy on the doorstep
and a note from his high school sweetheart welcoming him
to fatherhood. Set against the backdrop of stick-shift
drag racing in the heart of the South, this is a story
about fathers and sons, teaching each other what it takes
to be a man. Talent attached includes: Hilarie
Burton, Christian Camargo, Eion Bailey and Natasha Lyonne. |
Budget: | $2 million |
Looking For: | Investors |
Working Title: | Time Slips |
Description: | Anna is a
bright, thirty-something physicist with a wicked sense of
humor, studying quantum mechanics at a nuclear research
facility. Driven by the uncertainties of life in a post
9/11 world and her mysterious attraction to an older man
who claims they were lovers in 1967, she travels back in
time to meet him in his youth. Does she stay in the past
with him, eventually co-existing with a younger version of
herself, or return to the present, abandoning the man who
will love her for the rest of his life? |
Budget: | $ Low |
Looking For: | Producers,
Investors |
Working Title: | The Grass
Widow |
Description: | The ghost of
an eccentric, wealthy socialite returns to save her
peaceful lakeside estate in Canada's Muskoka from a
developer, the son of a lover blinded by the desire not to
repeat his father’s financial and personal failures.
Through Bunny Bevington-Smythe, Ted witnesses the truth
about his dad Henry and learns that forgiveness and
understanding, not fear, can nurture personal success. |
Budget: | $10-15
Million |
Looking For: | Producers,
Investors |
Working Title: | Haddie |
Description: | Debbie and
Stephen, a bickering couple whose marriage is collapsing,
drive out into the woods to care for Debbie's sick aunt
Haddie. It is then that Haddie tells them that years ago
she bartered with the devil, trading Debbie's soul for her
own life. They assume she's losing her mind from the
disease that seems to be killing her, when suddenly a loud
commotion outside draws their attention. But it quickly
becomes clear that there is even more danger inside, as
something stalks them. They have come face to face with
terror. On the night of the Blood Moon, there may be hell
to pay. |
Budget: | $850,000 |
Looking For: | Investors |
Working Title: | A Hero Of Our
Time |
Description: | 1837-1841 –
Pechorin, hero: beaten, tortured and exiled from Saint
Petersburg by the Tsar for taking the life in a duel of an
officer who slandered his beloved Vera. Sent to the front
lines of the great battle for the Caucuses, Pechorin
encounters death at every turn and becomes a powerful and
feared warrior. However, the fight for his life starts
when he encounters five beautiful young women, each his
passion. Two want his life, two his love, and the fifth
his heart. Hero is a visually stunning, heart wrenching
epic of love, war, destiny and death. A visceral
experience! |
Budget: | $20-25
Million |
Looking For: | Producers,
Investors |
Working Title: | Summertime On
Gull Lake |
Description: |
The true story of a young
brutalized Jewish girl who escapes to America from Nazi
Germany, leaving behind five murdered family members. As a
US Army nurse assigned to an American doctor in Tunisia
she is shot by a German sniper, nearly raped by a drunken
soldier and helps save many lives. After this ordeal, she
helps care for ailing Zulus, builds a hospital and fights
off Afrikaner aggression in South Africa, where she comes
face to face with the Nazi who murdered her family and
brutalized her. In that moment is able to avenge her
childhood nightmare. |
Budget: |
$20-25 Million |
Looking For: |
Producers, Investors |
Working Title: | Johannes |
Description: |
1938-1976 -
Aix-en-Provence, Paris, Florence, New York City. This is a
story of one of the world’s great bon vivants; artist by
trade, lover of women by nature. Johannes, Alsatian,
always dressed in a dark pin striped suit, rose in his
lapel, mustache and goatee, and a devilish sparkle in his
eyes. Married fourteen times. |
Budget: |
$20-25 Million |
Looking For: |
Producers, Investors |
Working Title: | Brothers |
Description: |
It’s about drugs, violence
and death, a story about revenge, deceit and betrayal.
Four Brothers meets Rollin’ With The Nines. Telling the
story of two brothers growing up in the backdrop of a
suburban town where the only way they found survival was
dealing drugs and protecting their turf. The only problem
is somebody else had the same idea. Their past finally
creeps up on them when their parents are murdered, they
must retrace their steps to bring to justice their
parents’ killers by any means necessary. Even if it means
delving deep into their corrupted past. |
Budget: |
$70,000 |
Looking For: |
Investors |
Working Title: | Vida Nocturna |
Description: |
The Black Legend is Spain's darkest secret, dating back to the Spanish Inquisition. For centuries these two men have haunted the shadows. Modern day: American student Nicky Rogers is tricked back to the Spanish shores, somewhere he's not been since a horrible accident 5 years ago. He's now in the firing line of the Black Legend as they close in on him. The adventure spawns across land and sea with a spectacular car chase closing a harrowing night which ends in an almighty showdown with two of history's biggest, baddest, cursed legends. Dean Cundey to Direct. |
Budget: |
$6 million |
Looking For: |
Investors |
Working Title: | Friendly Sky |
Description: |
Birds of prey are the cure
to a rat-infested city until a cherished parakeet escapes
and joins the pesky alien parakeets of Brooklyn. This
animated story follows the lost parakeet's owner as he
helps other activists struggling to save the birds from
extermination by the electric company. |
Budget: |
$40 million |
Looking For: |
Executive Producers,
Investors, Director |
Working Title: | A Thousand
Shall Fall |
Description: |
This true story uniquely
focuses on a German family grappling with the life or
death issues of coping during Hitler’s reign of terror.
Franz, drafted into the German army, must face not only
external enemies, but interior conflicts about patriotism,
duty and loyalty. His wife, Helene, is lured to join
her Nazi neighbors by the deepest appeal to a mother's
heart – "life will be so much better for your
children." This family risks all to live by their
conscience, and save Jews and other “undesirables” from
extermination. |
Budget: |
$10-15 million |
Looking For: |
Studio contacts |
Working Title: | The Tunnel |
Description: |
Two young couples take a
dream holiday to Rio to take in a new culture and enjoy
their freedom. That is until they stumble across a maze of
old abandoned war tunnels under the statue of Christ.
Deciding to go explore, they soon become trapped inside,
before realizing they are not alone... |
Budget: |
$1.8 million |
Looking For: |
Investors, need $1.8
million |
Working Title: | Kill Me,
Deadly |
Description: |
A film noir comedy in
luscious black and white, reminiscent of the classic
Hollywood noirs such as Double Indemnity, Out of the Past,
The Maltese Falcon, and The Killers. When Charlie Nickels’
client, millionaire widow Lady Clairmont, is murdered, her
most prized possession - the red 300 karat Bengal Diamond
- goes missing. Charlie’s search for the killer and the
stolen diamond takes him on a tour of a 1940’s Hollywood
underworld complete with a beautiful heiress, brutal
hoodlums, a corrupt police force and the most dangerous woman he’s ever loved: Mona Livingston. |
Budget: |
$1.6 million |
Looking For: |
Investors - need $950k |
Working Title: | Meeting Made In Bali |
Description: |
A young Balinese taxi
driver, estranged from his rice-farming family, must take
an evasive American with a mysterious letter to the
destination he fears most: his own village. |
Budget: |
$40,000 |
Looking For: |
Investors, Exec Producer -
Need $20,000 |
Working Title: | The Last
American Werewolf |
Description: |
A small group of hikers
attempt to cross the Lost Coast and one by one are killed
by a pack of bloodthirsty wolves... or so they think. |
Budget: |
$5 million |
Looking For: |
Investors |
Working Title: | Rich &
Twisted |
Description: |
A zany comedy about twelve
spoiled trust fund kids who stand to inherit a fortune as
their father lies on his deathbed, and quickly resolve to
kill one another before he dies in an attempt to have it
all to themselves. |
Budget: |
$7 Million |
Looking For: |
Investors |
Working Title: | Texas Magic |
Description: |
A Christian film about an
All-American Quarterback who wakes up in a coma twenty
years after his last high school game and powerfully
chooses to renew his goal to make it as an NFL
quarterback. |
Budget: |
$9 Million |
Looking For: |
Investors |
Working Title: | The Great
Hunter |
Description: |
When the stronger hunters of the clan are exterminated by an earthquake, Anek, a weaker man overlooked by many, suddenly faces the responsibility to save the clan from starving by hunting. With the help of an old shaman, the mighty Onakan, he tracks one of the last mammoths. In this dangerous journey, Anek will discover an incredible world and will find his place on it. At the same time we follow the live of a modern man, James, in his search of a mysterious object that can provide the solution for an anthropological mystery. |
Budget: |
$1 Million |
Looking For: |
Investors, Co-Producers |
Working Title: | Vigilante |
Description: |
Vigilante is a tale about a
couple who lose their young son through a tragic car
crash. After a year of grieving, the husband is presented
with the opportunity of seeking retribution. An action
thriller that seeks to emotionally wrench the audience, as
well as catalyse their adrenal state, Vigilante is very
much a British original. A prequel of sorts can be found
at: http://www.robho.co.uk/#/vigilante-prequel/4548779081.
In 2011, the writer was Fight Coordinator on BAFTA-winner
Martin Gooch's Death, as well as being a Special Action
Performer on Universal's 47 Ronin. The writer has a
25-year martial arts history: Vigilante therefore promises
to deliver fight-wise. |
Budget: |
$200,000 |
Looking For: |
Investors |
Working Title: | Wake Of '69 |
Description: |
A heartwarming
coming-of-age tale of a boy growing up at the end of the
1960’s, featuring a nostalgic soundtrack of original pop
hits of the day. A tiny atoll in the Pacific, Wake Island
was a refueling stop en route to Vietnam. By 1969 a
tight-knit community had developed as a remote outpost of
small-town America. Wake Island families lived sheltered
from the politics and counter-cultural uphevals sweeping
mainland USA. A 12 year old boy on the brink of
adolescence arrives into this world where kids were free
to discover love, sex, death and everything else that the
island allowed them. |
Budget: |
$3 million |
Looking For: |
Producer |
Working Title: | Seductively
French |
Description: |
Romanticizing the
lifestyles of the rich & famous in Europe, going
behind the scenes and discovering the passion behind the
artists, entertainers, fashion designers, business moguls,
celebrity chefs and iconic properties. Here is the 5
minute showreel
http://vimeo.com/seductivelyfrench/sizzlereel |
Budget: |
$1.2 million |
Looking For: |
Executive Producers,
Investors, Sponsors |
Working Title: | Skookum |
Description: |
When the long-dormant Bigfoot monster begins a brutal reign of terror in northern Louisiana Dr. Anna Rock, a glamorous television celebrity, must leave her position to search for her younger sister Megan, a Bigfoot researcher, in the swampy wilderness. Reluctantly she enlists her former boyfriend and his father, two of the world’s most respected Bigfoot research scientists, and Gator, a Native American shaman and swamp guide. Separated from the others during the intensive search for Megan, Anna ends up alone in the swamp to confront her own worst nightmare to find her sister and provide the key to ending the massive carnage, and face down the most dangerous creature known to man. |
Budget: |
$500,000 |
Looking For: |
Investors |
Working Title: | The Count Of
Storybook Gardens |
Description: |
A man who works in a parking lot for 19 years holds a secret worth millions, based on true events. Upon leaving an orphanage at 14, Lucky takes a construction job and befriends a mafioso boss. 20 years later he finds the love of his life but as his past catches up with him he is swept up in a series of events that push his own sanity to the brink. The story of one man's struggle to rise from the depths of banality. An epic crime-drama in the vein of films like "A Bronx Tale" and "The Shawshank Redemption". www.wearethealchemists.com |
Budget: |
$3-5 million |
Looking For: |
Executive Producers and Investors. Director |
Working Title: | Affidavit |
Description: |
Based on the sworn
affidavits of two US Army Colonels, "Affidavit" is a
courtroom drama in the tradition of "A Few Good Men" and
"Erin Brockovich." A true story of black market arms sales
spirals to government involvement in the cover-up of two
Iran-Contra era Special Ops initiated at the highest
levels of government -- with one unlucky soldier, unjustly
accused of murder, threatening to bring down the whole,
complex, house of cards. Currently approaching
actors including Wm. H. Macy and Tom Wilkinson. |
Budget: |
$3-5 million |
Looking For: |
Equity Investors &
Participants |
Working Title: | Under Her
Skin |
Description: |
Under Her Skin is a
psychological drama set against the backdrop of New York
City. Kate and Lana have both recently experienced serious
traumas that have left them shaken and disillusioned. The
girls, formerly strangers, meet, become roommates, and
eventually, dear friends. However, as events unfold, we
realize that Lana may not be the girl she appears to be.
Will Kate discover the truth about Lana’s past, or will
this friendship shatter both their worlds forever? A
teaser trailer for the movie can be found on our website
at www.UnderHerSkin.com. |
Budget: |
$44,000 |
Looking For: |
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Effa, (Penny Marshall
project) |
Descriotion: |
Effa is a true story about
a white woman in the 1930's that pretended to be black to
play in the negro league. She was also the first woman to
own a professional baseball team. Maggie Gyllenhaal is
attached and will star as Effa. You can go to IMDB and see
both Penny Marshall and Maggie Gyllenhaal page and see
that indeed they are attached. |
Budget: |
$15 million |
Looking For: |
$4 million in equity
funding |
Working Title: | Crazed |
Description: |
"Crazed" is suspenseful
thriller about a sweet high school girl, Kayla, from a
trailer park, who throws a party with her boyfriend Austin
and friends while her parents are away for the weekend.
Austin's wealthy family will not accept their
relationship. Despite their strong resistance, he goes to
the party with his two friends. Three neighbors (a
pedophile, a meth dealer, and a schizophrenic) make the
rich boys feel uneasy when they arrive. A jealous
ex-girlfriend of Austin shows up at the party with her two
snooty friends. Things quickly spiral out of control. |
Budget: |
$250,000 |
:Looking For: |
Investors, Executive
Producers, Co-Producers |
Working Title: | By The Soles
Of Our Feet |
Description: | PEPE, our hero, has settled on suicide after failing to fulfill his destiny of avenging his father’s murder when his ever-loyal sidekick, BUCCO, convinces him to go on a search for another reason to live, even if it kills them. Visit www.bythesoles.com. |
Budget: | $200,000 |
Looking for: | Investors. |
Working Title: | Castle Creepers |
Description: | Film students get the chance to shoot their horror film in a real Transylvanian castle and have to face their own worst nightmares. While theyexperience hell, they become part of an ancient ritual that if successful brings the end to the world as we know it. |
Budget: | $5 million |
Looking for: | Production
partner. |
Working Title: | Lake God |
Description: | Inspired by real events, 25 years after a lake mysteriously explodes deep inside Africa killing more than 3,000 people, an American investigative journalist seeking answers finds himself inextricably and mystically linked to the causes of the catastrophe |
.udget: | $400,000 |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Lonely Boy |
Description: | A coming-of-age dramedy about the romantic misadventures of a schizophrenic bachelor (FRANKY) living in NYC. When he loses his dead-end job because of extreme paranoia, Franky, a functioning schizophrenic, decides to liberate himself of his medication. Despite desperate pleadings from his family and his psychiatrist, Franky's life spirals out of control into a maddened display of self-sabotage, which comedically plays out over a few brief romantic disasters, culminating in two life altering events: 1) a chance meeting with a fast-talking, younger girl named ALEX, and 2) the excavation of a piece of his family's history that had been kept hidden from him since he was 12 years old. |
Budget: | $625k |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Bike Cop |
Description: | Bike Cop must save the damsel in distress from a gang of wannabe thugs in this action/martial arts parody. He defeats the underlings one by one and then hurls his nightstick at the getaway car with the Boss inside, exploding the car and saving the day. |
Budget: | $10k |
Looking for: | Producers,
Investors |
Working Title: | Homies |
Description: | Homecare of
the elderly and infirm exposed. Sometimes satirial,
sometimes funny, sometimes very frightening. Think Coccoon
meets Twin Peaks. Written as TV Series with eight
episodes. Lends well to re-write to feature film. |
Budget: | $300k Euros |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | The Lisu
Projekt |
Description: | A small group
of documentary film-makers travel to northern Thailand in
the Golden Triangle to film a local mountain tribe called
Lisu. These mountain people practice an Animistic religion
but some have been converted to Christianity. The film
group become embroiled in paranormal activity, conflicts
of the locals between a Christian missionary, Drug traders
and Burma Rebels. |
Budget: | $450k Euros |
Looking for: | nvestors |
Working Title: | Singer |
Description: | Trying to pursue his music talent, a man living his past, present and future simultaneously is held back by crime and murder while dealing with his traumatic history. Watch promo at www.greylightpictures.com |
Budget: |
$2.5 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Answers |
Description: | A young woman returns from a near-death experience with the secrets to actual world peace. |
Budget: | $150,000 |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | The Fall
Castle |
Description: | A tale of a Fortress whose greatness has no equal, the prince of this castle and his beloved, with a loving and kind heart. But she also harbors greed in her heart and betrayal in her soul . . . She, who is considered as holy in life and whose image is of legends, came to us as the image of a whore. It begins on the night of the capture of the fortress. The Shah celebrates his victory, but he slowly realizes the facts that have been alarming him. He begins his own investigation and realises that the treachery of the Princess is in revenge for the death of her beloved husband. |
Budget: | $3 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Whole Lotta
Love |
Description: | A mind-changing view of love and relationships – an insecure man falls in love with a lesbian and is determined to change her sexuality. After Romy falls in love with Beth, a lesbian, he becomes determined to win her love. But Beth soon finds out that there is more to Romy’s intentions than love and Romy learns the real reason for Beth’s apparent homosexuality. |
Budget: | $6 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
15% of budget already raised. |
Working Title: | Power Play |
Description: | Luke O'Neal's living the good life in LA as a star high school hockey player when he tragically loses his father. Forced to move back to Detroit with his mother he soon finds out what real hockey is. When the rich team stands to take everything from him Luke finds a washed up NHL star to mentor him to lead his team to victory. |
Budget: | $4.9 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Less Than A
Whisper |
Description: | Married African-American couple Robert and Taylor Usher move into an old house in the countryside that holds many dark secrets, secrets which literally come back to haunt them and their own children. Including ghosts which are rapidly gaining control of their lives and their town until one day The Ushers are visited by a young woman named Gloria who was murdered in their town 20 years ago. This is the story of one man‘s love for his wife, and that love and longing can hold two people together even after their bodies have long passed away. |
Budget: |
$8
million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Maria's Love |
Description: | The film tells the contemporary love story between John, a young executive, and Maria, a young and beautiful women. Maria is also the head of a small gang of criminals at the whim of fate. Their paths accidentally cross when John is kidnapped by Maria’s gang. They then have to help the gang to recover the loot stolen from a dangerous criminal. Mary and John live various adventures persecuting the gang across a tourist coast. They fall in a first sight and passionate love. Eventually they succeed recovering the stolen loot and return together to their happy normal life. |
Budget: | $12 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | The Koi
Keeper |
Description: | In Bangkok, Thailand, Toshiro, who traffics in drugs and females, is jilted by his Western lover, the opium-addicted wife of an American diplomat. Seeking revenge, Toshiro kidnaps their seven-year-old daughter, Sybil, and condemns her to a brothel. Ten years later, he plucks her from the brothel and plants her in his mansion in northern Thailand, where she rises to the coveted position of koi keeper. Convinced that her parents have abandoned her, and charmed by this mysterious man, Sybil marries Toshiro. When she discovers that Toshiro was her kidnapper, obsessed with punishing her mother, Sybil takes matters into her own hands and exacts her own exotic revenge. |
Budget: | $5 million |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Stand The
Gaff |
Description: | After her husband is killed in Iraq, a very pregnant Alice Bell is mistakenly denied insurance benefits from the Army. Alone and penniless with their new mortgage and no job, Alice feels helpless as the life she knew crumbles to the ground. Upon a chance encounter with an eccentric cowboy named Jesse, Alice’s life begins to turn around. With his humor and exuberance for life, Jesse's old style charm and rustic "lifisms" prove invaluable in helping her get back on her feet. But everything with Jesse is not as it would seem. When the truth is revealed, Alice is left with a profound and potentially life altering decision. |
Budget: |
$1
million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers, Country Artists for Soundtrack |
Working Title: | Robeson |
Description: | Before Martin, Malcolm and Barack, there was the great Paul Robeson -- graduate of Rutgers and Columbia, professional football player, lawyer, actor, singer, orator, political and civil rights activist, international star, and tireless campaigner for human rights. This is story of his many accomplishments, controversies, trials and tribulations, his outspoken opposition to racism and fascism, his role in the integration of MLB, his extensive surveillance and harassment at the hands of the CIA and Hoover's FBI, his triumphant confrontation with HUAC during the McCarthy era, and the women in his life, including his wife and manager, Essie, and lovers, English actress Peggy Ashcroft (later Dame Ashcroft), and American actress Ute Hagen. |
Budget: |
$14.4 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | The Viral
Movie |
Description: | A unique blend of internet video and the silver screen, The Viral Movie is about the quest of a man who wants one thing: to make a viral internet video. Starring actual YouTube celebrities, this feature film will utilize the millions of followers these stars have, along with the billions of YouTube users, to create something never seen before. The Viral Movie will literally go viral, with trailers and teasers reaching the far regions of the globe through the medium of a viral video. We will hire professionals to ensure our trailers go viral, and attract an audience that has been waiting for year for something of this nature. For more information, visit: www.theviralmovie.com |
Budget: |
$250,000 |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Grape
Expectations |
Description: | A wine critic
tries to bring a vineyard to New Jersey, but must overcome
obstacles from the state and ones that hit much closer to
home. In the midst of a successful career as a wine critic in California, Bob Beaunier moves back to New Jersey to help his ailing father-in-law. Family and business pressures impact his gifted sense of smell, forcing him to overcome his compromised talent while carrying out his daily responsibilities. It all comes to a head at the New Jersey Wine Maker¹s Gala. |
Budget: |
$2.5 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Over My Dead
Body |
Description: | Brent Pensacola is living the American dream. He has a wife and three children and owns a house and a small store in the small Montana town of Valley Ford. Then the housing bust begins and his store is foreclosed on, with his home in danger of following suit. His desperate wife Jessica goes to see Bertie Ross, President of Valley Ford Bank. He is adamant he will do nothing to help. Angered by the response, Brent goes to see him. But Bertie, whose family has owned everything for generations, remains unmoved. Brent throws down the gauntlet: Bertie can have his home over his dead body. |
Budget: |
$20 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Co-Producers |
Working Title: | East New York |
Description: | Out on a gun-buy bust with career-criminal Devon Pettitte, Craig Marples becomes involves in a gunfight with the object of the bust, Peter Maximus. They both get shot. NYPD Sergeant Sylvan and ATF agent Benjamin give chase. Maximus crashes his stolen BMW. He escaped with injuries but his co-conspirator, Ramon Alcazar, burns to death. Sgt. Sylvan arrives, shoots Maximas, sees Jasper Doolittle-- an Iraqi War Vet down on his luck who had barely escaped the crash -- and decides to frame him. This has far-flung consequences that questions his Immigration status. |
Budget: |
$35 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Co-Producers |
Working Title: | Haters |
Description: | An up and coming British actor with matinee idol good looks moves to L.A. dead set on becoming an A list star. He meets his girlfriend, a wannabe starlet whose penchant for alcohol is outdone by her fashion disasters. His fan site is run by an obsessive, manic house wife. As the fan base grows, so does her desire to control his meager career. When their lives collide in person and on the internet what you see is not always what you get. HATERS is the story of unwarranted adulation, ungrateful idols and the high price of celebrity. |
Budget: |
$500,000 |
Looking for: | Producer |
Working Title: | Jah Fakin' |
Description: | "Office Space" meets " Cool Running." On the eve of his big promotion, Phil is suddenly fired from his job with the NYC Sanitation Department. An avid reggae fan and single dad struggling to make ends meet, Phil takes a job in the copy center of an elite law firm. When a massive blizzard cripples the city, Phil learns of the plot that cost him his job and sets out to expose the truth. |
Budget: |
$1 million |
Looking for: | Producer |
Working Title: | Back Up |
Description: | An action fantasy packed with magic and bullets. Rookie police officer Jennifer Mann and her “Back Up”, Sgt. Jerome Bentley, are teleported back to the 16th century and into an epic battle against an evil warlock. They must save not only a kingdom but the history of the past and the present as we know it. |
Budget: |
$1 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Marshal |
Description: | The first action packed western in years that will bring tears to your eyes. Retired Union Colonel Emerson Johns has just been given the job of mayor of Enterprise, Kansas. Colonel Johns brings to town his own marshal James Earl Bryant, the first black marshal in Kansas. When Marshal Bryant is murdered, Colonel Johns sends to New York for his son Earl James Bryant to be Enterprise’s new marshal. Lacking the gun speed of his father, Earl teams up with Theodore Greene, the town’s drunk. Earl and Theodore take on the ruthless land baron and his sons. The very land baron who murdered Earl’s father! |
Budget: |
$2 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Brothers By
Blood |
Description: | An epic drama
in the tradition of “Gone with the Wind”, “Glory”,
“Gettysburg”, and “Shenandoah”. This stems from
Florida’s motion to secede from the Union - the third
state to do so , after South Carolina in 1861.
Brothers By Blood shines light on an important
chapter of American history, which for the most part was
left out of civil history. Can the Hawkins family
keep their plantation and family intact when two brothers
are fighting on different sides of the war; and hold on to
a plantation with no one to protect it, as the Union army
closes in? |
Budget: |
$1 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Remembering
Crystal, Final Justice |
Description: | The 1982
brutal murder of a 19 year-old black girl in a small rural
Georgia town goes unsolved for 12 years. When the case is
reopened three white men are charged but not convicted,
causing racial division and leaving the family with no
answers, and no justice. The victim's younger sister,
Tracey Laster, writes a book about her experiences and how
her family's lives were affected by the devastating crime.
Tracey finds religion as her only escape and offers
forgiveness to her sister's accused killers. Based on a true story and a book written by Tracey Laster. |
Budget: |
$100,000 |
Looking for: | Funding,
Producers |
Working Title: | Snow Leopard |
Description: | While searching for a job in China, former capoeira instructor Darren Jacobsen (a.k.a. Snow Leopard) must return to his abandoned passion in order to conquer a ruthless counterfeiter seeking his blood, as well as the chronic illness that once robbed him of his dream. |
Budget: |
$100,000 |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Being |
Description: | An odd eighteen-year-old college student, Sasha, and a thirty-year-old maintenance worker, Eben, develop an uncommon relationship that is tragically put on the line when Sasha begins to go through terrifying phases of inner body transformations. "Being" could be considered as The Fly meets Alien meets Splice. |
Budget: |
$5.5 million |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Remember The
Future |
Description: | When a traveling watch salesman suffering from amnesia wanders into a futuristic city where time travels backwards and people don't use sex to procreate, he begins to fall in love with a local waitress who helps him discover he may be sent to forever change the course of the world by having unknowingly harnessed the power of the Sacred Tree |
Budget: |
$1 million |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Shift |
Description: | Boomer Honeycutt is a drag racer. His lone quest is to escape his father's shadow and become the next Classic Gear Jammers Champion.After separating from his fiancée Tina, Boomer takes refuge sleeping in his van. He awakes after a rough night out to find an eleven-year-old boy on the doorstep and a note from his high school sweetheart welcoming him to fatherhood. Set against the backdrop of stick-shift drag racing in the heart of the South, this is a story about fathers and sons, teaching each other what it takes to be a man. |
Budget: | $1M - $2.5M Teaser trailer available @ www.shiftfilm.com |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Cool Planet |
Description: | When Lily Catherwood suffers a painful breakup she decides to drop everything and move across country for a new job and a fresh perspective. However this clean slate comes at a cost: dealing on a daily basis with the paranormal. Unbeknownst to Lily, the global consulting firm her aunt owns consults major companies around the world with their pesky paranormal problems. |
Budget: | $100,000 |
Looking for: | Funding,
Producers, Management |
Working Title: | Number 943 |
Description: | Close up
observations of a man being abducted by aliens. He wakes
up in strange places only to be returned home every time.
The experiences get worse as they continue, until the
final abduction takes place. This short film has a feature film script follow up and will be combined to pitch for securing budget for the feature film (akin to how District 9 was made as a feature film following the success of its short film version). Filming in Spain (where I am currently located). Looking to work with experienced Spanish prosthetics/sfx company. |
Budget: | $40,000 |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Mugworth |
Description: | An anthology horror Christmas movie. A man who hates Christmas receives the visit of some spirits that will tell him to learn the true meaning of the holiday. Charles Dickens classic revisited, with some great actors and different stories |
Budget: | $25,000 |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Bloody
Christmas |
Description: | A young woman returns to her home town after a traumatic experience in her childhood. But the ghost of her past has returned to terrorize her once more. |
Budget: | $800,000 |
Looking for: | Investors, Producer, Distribution |
Working Title: | TV Man: The
Search for the Last Independent Dealer |
Description: | The meteoric rise and fall of the American television set industry as seen through the eyes of four surviving independent dealers whose stores have been open for over 50 years. They revisit the good times — and bad — selling television sets. Dealers and former manufacturers recount bountiful years of never-ending sales and lean ones with the invasion and dumping of Asian imports, and the industry’s attempts to stop them. TV Man will be an inspiring story of universal triumph over insurmountable odds and a moral lesson for what happens when a country does not protect its citizens’ livelihoods. |
Budget: | $436,000. Demo reel available at http://www.TVMan.tv |
Looking for: | Executive
Producer, Investors |
Working Title: | The Eighth
Round |
Description: | A Mexican boxing champion goes into a title fight against a formidable opponent. The fight does not go as he would have hoped, but his bravery keeps him on his feet as he takes a brutal beating, eventually losing his life following the fight. Years later, his son takes up boxing much to his mother’s dismay. He quickly progresses through the ranks and secures a title fight against the most feared fighter of his generation, a knockout artist whom no one would fight. |
Budget: | $250,000 to
follow up on festival short. Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrcer9GXs9o |
Looking for: | Executive
Producer, Investors |
Working Title: | The Best
Worst Plan Ever |
Description: | A buddy comedy about a group of guys who get in over their heads when their pro-active plan to help one of their best friends try to locate the lost girl of his heart is accidentally put into motion. In the process a well-intended, yet bold, fake death strategy has the guys scrambling to deal with the "best worst plan ever". |
Budget: | $100,000 |
Looking for: | Executive
Producer, Investors |
Working Title: | Who Is
Stevie? |
Description: | With the accidental death of their well-to-do grandfather, Wesley Knuckle and his family soon find out his last will and testament contains one small catch: he's left everything to a stranger named "Stevie." Thinking there must be some sort of mistake, the family sets out to find out the true identity of this mysterious beneficiary. Traveling cross country from Maryland to California, they must come to terms with each others temperaments, personality quirks, and general dysfunction - while fending off loan sharks, gangsters, and a has-been recording artist with plans of her own. |
Budget: | $2 million |
Looking for: | Executive
Producer, Investors, Partners |
Working Title: | Los Wildcats
del Norte |
Description: | A coming of age Hispanic story set in New Mexico. Written and Directed by veteran award-winning director Thom Eberhardt (Captain Ron, Night of the Comet, Naked Fear). They call themselves Los Wildcats del Norte and they set out hoping for nothing more than to play the bars of northern New Mexico. But the simple Norteno music with which they began starts to grow in depth and complexity. Through a series of shared events, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, they come to expect more from the music, more from life and more from each other. |
Budget: | $750,000 |
Looking for: | Equity
partner |
Working Title: | Hotel
California: Diaries, Secrets and Scandals |
Description: | A historical true story .A Russian-Jewish family comes to America as immigrants from Russia during the Bolsevik Revolution to find the American Dream. They lived in celebrity status at the Miramar Hotel in Montecito, California, but financial greed, suicide and legal foul play changed the family and the legacy of the Miramar forever. |
Budget: | $39 million |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Waterfront
Nightmare |
Description: | Waterfront Nightmare is a psychological thriller. Seven college friends spend their spring break in a remote waterfront cottage only to discover that their lives are in jeopardy. The partying stops when they each start disappearing one by one. Little do they know that it is a friend amongst them who is the killer. You may visit the film's official website at http://www.waterfrontnightmare.com. |
Budget: | $100,000 |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | Croc Roc: The
Life, The Legend, The Rock 'n' Roll |
Description: | Croc Roc is a legend making a comeback into the music industry with the help of Bubba, the manager of the Croc Roc Cafe on the beach, and four kids - Whitney, Mikie, JoJo and Molly, and Surf the dog – who have become a very important part of his life in Tunesville. The adventures they encounter along the way are mixed with music, comical antics and various entreprenueral pursuits that they aspire to. Of course Croc Roc’s friends from the music industry - Eric, Buddy and Bonnie among others - are always there to gig, which gives the small resort town along the beach a new breath of life. |
Budget: | $15 million |
Looking for: | Investors,
Partners |
Working Title: | Serial
Blondes |
Description: | A feature-length erotic thriller that unfolds amid very real, yet very disturbing, circumstances. Two beautiful blondes are crippled by numerous counts of betrayal that ignite a hunger for revenge, which in turn indicts their betrayal on each other. The film combines the elements of an erotic thriller with an intensified friendship, whose strength is tested through a series of lovers and side-ways circumstances. Serial Blondes is sexy, provocative, and crosses every boundary in film. www.wix.com/larahouston/serial-blondes |
Budget: | $400,000 |
Looking for: | Investors,
Executive Producers |
Working Title: | The Hero's
Will |
Description: | In a dystopian society a band of rebels campaign to restore peace and order to a world full of destruction. An evil dictator is determined to continue his rule for as long as possible, but to do so he must seek a mystical sword. Four heroes must fight back before it is too late. The film is an action/adventure and is being shot as 45-minute pilot. |
Budget: | $50,000 |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | To Be A Hero |
Description: | After Callum finds a mysterious letter that had been lost for many years his grandfather begins to tell the story behind it. In 1943 in the English fishing town of Whitby, Tony Gleeson receives his conscription papers. He has no choice but to go to war to fight, leaving his family and sweetheart, Alice, behind. During the war he meets two friends who, after their squadron is wiped out, band together on a perilous journey to try and make it to safety, all the while never knowing if they will see home again. |
Budget: | $2.5 million |
Looking for: | Funding,
Producer |
Working Title: | A Southern
Tragedy (short) |
Description: | Set in the late 1960’s at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement in the deep south: A Southern Tragedy addresses the issues of the war between tradition and the need for change by weaving together one day in the life of 5 people interconnected not only by personal relationships, but also as physical manifestations of each side of the spectrum during a time of turmoil and progress ending tragically to show that no matter the color of our skin, the money we have, or the effort we put in we are all human and nothing can change that. |
Budget: | $25,000 |
Looking for: | Producer,
Investors |
Working Title: | The Black
Knight's God |
Description: | The Black Knight's God is the first story in the published work The Black Knight's God: Horror Anthology. The title refers to the sports teams that represent the US Military Academy at West Point, nobody else has this title. The protagonist is a hockey sensation, West Point valedictorian, Rhodes Scholar and self taught attorney who finds an insurmountable obstacle. The Black Knight's God is a combination of King's redemption theme in Shawshank and Grisham's moral theme in The Chamber. |
Budget: | $1.5 million |
Looking for: | Producer,
Investors |
Working Title: | Chicken Fat |
Description: | A feature length documentary on the life and career of cartoonist Will Elder. While Bill Gaines, publisher of MAD; or Harvey Kurtzman, MAD’s first editor are often credited with the birth of MAD it is Will Elder’s life that gave MAD its visual style. He was the artist who started jamming as many gags into a panel as possible. Elder said, “MAD was me.” Elder referred to these extra gags as “Chicken Fat”; the part of the soup that is bad for you but tastes so good. www.ChickenFat.tv |
Budget: | $200,000 to
complete |
Looking for: | Finishing
funds |
Working Title: | Mongoose8 |
Description: | Mongoose8 is
a supernatural love story. Heather “Heath” Pillow is a 29
year-old photographer. She is the last person to see local
drag king celebrity, Sasha Lambert, alive. Struggling with
the childhood death of her mother, Heath becomes obsessed
with knowing more about Sasha’s life and death.
Miraculously, Sasha’s ghost returns, and they quickly fall
in love. But keeping Sasha “alive” takes energy from
Heath’s life source. There are two bodies, but energy for
only one life. After a fate check bounces, Heath discovers
that all of her dreams can come true, but at what price? |
Budget: | $2.5 million |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Requiem For A
Poor Monk |
Description: | A
thought-provoking and compelling documentary presenting an
intimate look inside an orthodox Christian monastery, and
the relationship between the monks and nuns and their
enigmatic spiritual father. Unprecedented access was
granted to the brothers, documenting their daily rituals
and capturing revealing details of their chosen path.
Interviews with former monks, former nuns, religious
professionals, and family members examine a complex
reality that challenged the monastery’s very existence.
Filmed over 15 years, the film challenges many of our
perceptions about religion and faith. It examines the
human need to belong, the complexity of love, and the
struggle to forgive. |
Budget: | $225,000 to
complete |
Looking for: | Investors
& Executive Producer |
Working Title: | Lake Cop 2:
Ripple Effect |
Description: | Set on the
Canada/US Border, a radical environmentalist law enforcer
brings his absurd brand of vigilante justice on
self-propelled water-skis and stirs up the waters in the
rural community of Rainy Lake. Drawn out of hiding, the
Lake Cop returns to restore order to the lake and stop
drug smugglers from taking over.Video link:
http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/4n9z |
Budget: | $200,000 |
Looking for: | Investors
and/or Producer to oversee production, festival rollout
and distribution. |
Working Title: | Masquerade |
Description: | Liberty, a
young woman in her later 20’s, has the perfect life - or
so it seems. Little do we know she is hiding a secret as a
result of her upbringing. Her father was emotionally
unavailable to her and her mother only cared about what
the neighbors thought. As a result, Liberty has the
perfect life on the outside but is a total mess on the
inside. A great female driven story in need of the right
investor, someone who is smart and has a vision. |
Budget: | $500,000 |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Genocide: The
Cleansing Of Humanity |
Description: | Based on real
life events during the Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia in the
1970’s, this is a brutal tale of what actually happened
inside the most notorious prison in Phnom Penh. Never
before has a movie shown what really happened during the
Killing Fields inside the prison where is all started.
Toul Sleng Prison is a monument to the horrors that
occurred under Pol Pot and his reign of terror. |
Budget: | $1 million |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | The
Ambassador's Daughter |
Description: | Two
disgruntled workers fired from the US Embassy in Sierra
Leone plot to kidnap the flamboyant American Ambassador’s
daughter for a $5 million ransom. However with the help of
US and Sierra Leonean Government forces, they are
apprehended and the lead conspirator deported to a
Nigerian jail. While in prison he befriends two bank
robbers who are planning a daring escape from Nigeria’s
toughest maximum security prison. The suspense and action
comes with the plotting and execution of the kidnapping,
the final apprehension of the lead kidnapper that pursue
and the planning of the prison break. |
Budget: | $700,000 |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Runyon Canyon |
Description: | Mystery/thriller set in Hollywood in 1952. An LAPD homicide detective who never gets the good cases is assigned one that the department believes will never be solved; 28 people shotgunned to death in a flop-house over a drug-related incident. The detective would rather investigate a crime that the department has all-but swept under the carpet and he inadvertently helped cover-up; the rape and murder of a ten year old Mexican girl. As he looks into the latter case he discovers a grisly connection to the former, falls in love with the Mexican girl's aunt and tries to avoid the more corrupt elements of his own station as the entire city plunges headlong into a race riot. |
Budget: | $20 million |
Looking for: | Funding |
Working Title: | Crew Slut |
Description: | Exploitation/Comedy/Horror
about
a
young
mid-western
girl
who
gets
trapped
into
the
life
of
a
backstage
groupie
for
a
rock
band.
When
she wakes up one day and realizes she's half way around
the world, her only friend on the tour organizes an effort
to raise money to get her back home. But first they must
find a certain crew member with a strange anatomical
anomaly |
Budget: | $1 million |
Looking for: | Funding |
Working Title: | Dancin' Bare |
Description: | Boogie Nights
set in the strip club industry. An exotic dancer
juggles school and work while hiding her profession from
her new boyfriend. The club DJ tries to find love in a
toxic environment. A dancer abused by her boyfriend takes
desperate measures to escape his grasp. Meanwhile, the
club owner, a former biker, tries to run a legitimate,
respectable business at the same time a dancer goes
missing and turns up dead. Sex, drugs, beat downs and
murder...and these were the best of times. Based on a true
story. |
Budget: | $5 million |
Looking for: | Funding |
Working Title: | The Most
Dangerous Man Alive |
Description: | A comedy
about a world famous Hollywood stuntman who is sick and
tired of risking life and limb for pretty-boy
actors. He sees only one way of getting out of his
contract - he fakes his own death. After being found
living incognito in the jungles of Mexico, he is lured
back to help his former mechanic and gag-designer get
released from prison and regain his former glory. |
Budget: | $50 million |
Looking for: | Producer with
solid contacts to studios and prodcos to help get the
project shown. |
Working Title: | Pain And
Poetry |
Description: | Olivia lives
on the limit of her sanity after being accused of killing
her husband and child. Drummond, an ex-alcoholic painter,
eshibits his paintings in public places and carries a
tragedy in his past. On the other side of the town a group
of thieves escapes from prison. One of them finds himself
at Drummond’s home, leading the story to moments of a real
thriller. A gay man, a rigorous landlady, a robber, a
handicapped man obsessed for blind dates and a poet who
hides a very strange profession complete the roll of
characters and bring a mix of humor and sensitiveness to
the story. |
Budget: | $1 million |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Suburbicide |
Description: | After the
Great Depression, the federal government secretly mandated
that all towns put a drug in their water that prevents
people from being completely content so that they'll work
hard and keep the economy afloat. Two teenagers stumble
upon this conspiracy and put a stop to it in their small
town for the month surrounding the mayoral election. This
drama/comedy shows the effect the ability to gain
happiness has on the townspeople. This script has been
compared favorably to Election and Little Miss Sunshine. |
Budget: | $10 million |
Looking for: | Funding. |
Working Title: | Punk Is Dead |
Description: | ‘A group of
high school punk rockers explore life and rebellion in
modern day suburban America in this coming-of-age tale. |
Budget: | $250,000 |
Looking for: | Funding. |
Working Title: | 69 |
Description: | When college
freshmen Tony and Murphy discover they're both still
virgins they make a bet: - a hundred bucks to the first to
sleep with 69 women. As the race continues will it stay
appealing to our heroes, or will emotions get in the way
of victory? And what hilarious snags will they encounter?
This script has been compared favorably to Judd Apatow's
oeuvre. |
Budget: | $500,000 |
Looking for: | Funding. |
Working Title: | Love Of A
Lifetime |
Description: | True love
never sleeps with the fishes. What if you combined It's A
Wonderful Life with Topper and The Sopranos? An angel
wannabe is sent on his final mission, which he believes is
to help two neighboring couples of different generations
fix their marital problems, only to find he is his own
mission. This warm and sentimental romantic comedy is set
in bucolic Florida, and contains more than 75 hidden film
references. |
Budget: | $3.5 - 6 million |
Looking for: | Funding. |
Working Title: | Mega Balls |
Description: | Ya never know
when your number's up. What are the odds that a losing
lottery ticket would make the loser a winner? This
character-driven comedy is about an insurance actuary who,
in his determined effort to mathematically predict winning
lotto combinations, inadvertently believes he's gotten
mixed up with the Mob. In learning the truth he learns
much about himself. |
Budget: | $500,000 |
Looking for: | Funding. |
Working Title: | The Infernal |
Description: | ‘Home is where the hate is.’ When a young female estate agent buys and moves into a house she couldn’t sell, the malevolent spirit that resides there soon shows her the terrifying reason why. The Infernal is a micro budget British horror that deals with the protagonist’s journey from excited new home owner to a petrified wreck fighting for her life and the possession of her soul. |
Budget: | $110,000 |
Looking for: | Investors and
Executive Produces for full financing. |
Working Title: | Somewhere To Run |
Description: | Band on the road playing empty dives because their manager hasn't got them the promised recording deal. Complications arise when they find out he is in hock to a connected 'businessman'. Complications double when the bad guy wants his money back, with interest - and his interest includes the band! Original songs ready to rock! A thriller, fiction, musical, love story. |
Budget: | $4 million |
Looking for: | Producer and funding. |
Working Title: | Love Is All You Need |
Description: | Ireland 1975. Chart topping Miami Showband attacked by terrorists. 3 dead. Bass player Steve Travers critically wounded. British and Irish governments historically united to issue condemnation. Young bride Anne's fight for Steve's survival shines as a great compelling love story set against this tragic backdrop, a political plot, and resolves to exemplify how peace and reconciliation could be universally achieved. |
Budget: | $8 million |
Looking for: | Producer and funding. |
Working Title: | Soul Taker |
Description: | A Native American tale of anancient creature that feeds on souls. The Soul Taker has been entombed for hundreds of years until it is summoned by the taking of a pure virgin. On an archealogical dig in New Mexico with a seasoned tomb digger a group of adoelescents uncover some things that should have remained buried. A rapid killing spree begins among the site workers and they turn into mindless zombies following the Soul Taker's every command. |
Budget: | $2 million |
Looking for: | Executive producers and investors. |
Working Title: | The Island Of Life |
Description: | An undiscovered island has been dormant for hundreds of years. A CIA team investigates why the island hasn't eroded in thousands of years. Shawn, a crack college student, is recruited to lead a team of scientist-assited military op's on a mission of discovery to this uncharted island. They quickly find out that it had been discovered along with its watery treasure, the fountain of youth. A curse more than a blessing. The island's earliers discoverers, Spanish conquistadors, drank from the fountain and have remained dormant until now. Mistakenly awoken from their ancient slumber they begin killing the operative team. |
Budget: | $4 million |
Looking for: | Executive producers and investors. |
Working Title: | El Brazo vs. The Living Dead |
Description: | Two Mexican mutant bikers are only out for one thing, a decent meal to continue on their journey across America. But that is quickly interrupted when an all-out zombie invasion occurs. Easy Rider meets Zombieland. El Brazo and his trusty sidekick Chango get wrapped up in a military experiment gone awry. They are charged with the task of rescuing the general's daughter who is trapped inside the zombie-infested city. El Brazo and Chango muscle up and venture into the city battleing flesh-hungry zombies all the way. |
Budget: | $8 million |
Looking for: | Executive producers and investors. |
Working Title: | Three Nights Of Halloween |
Description: | A modern day horror film with an old European character: a witch. A very lucrative franchise that spans generations. A witch hunter has been hunting the witch for years and finally discovers its whereabouts in a small eastern town. Teaming up with the film's hero, Matt Reeves, the witch hunter has only three nights to prevent a dark ritual from occuring before the witch can sacrifice the town's children. |
Budget: | $8 million |
Looking for: | Executive producers and investors. |
Working Title: | So We Were |
Description: | James "Jamey" Sena is at a crossroads in her life. She's 24 and in between jobs, in between boyfriends and has a nasty habit of not being very nice to...well, anyone. Jamey is a misanthropic-cynic, who purposely sabotages her relationships with men. Only now, Jamey is irrationally infatuated with hipster-scene-king Crawford. She goes out of her way to charm him with her feminine wiles, despite her "infamous" reputation for being a maneater. There's just one hitch: Robert, Jamey's best friend, is now dating Crawford's gorgeous-affluent-socialite ex-girlfriend Nina and now, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. |
Budget: | $50,000 |
Looking for: | Investors and executive producers for majority financing. |
Working Title: | Criminal Conversations |
Description: | A film anyone over 50 and divorced can relate to. What emotions, conflicts, and denials are triggered when two long-divorced people come together under stressful circumstances? Older, wiser, more understanding of each other's weaknesses, can they put the past to rest, resolve their personal lives, and have a future? |
Budget: | $50,000 |
Looking for: | Investors: Business Plan & ROI available on request. We have distribution. |
Working Title: | 33 |
Description: | Christian feature dealing with the essential events surrounding the immediate aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus. The story will be told on location in Israel through the actions and dialogue of Jesus' followers and enemies. It will provide a new and very personal glimpse into the pivotal events which led to the foundation of Christianity. |
Budget: | $25 million |
Looking for: | Investors. Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) is involved in this project. |
Working Title: | Face Value |
Description: | Based on a true story: A story of a man who in his childhood was invaded by a demon from a family lineage.The story begins in ancestral times when children were killed for their deformities... Things started going wrong when he was 18 years old, conflicts and paranormal activities. Things got worse when he resisted the spirits' control. There was only one solution...The encounter. |
Budget: | $100,000 |
Looking for: | Investors to finance half the budget. |
Working Title: | My Story |
Description: | When a promising young boxer trained by his father signs with a slick promoter, an old grudge surfaces between the two men. Distracted by money problems and the prejudices of his girlfriend's family. |
Budget: | $400,000 |
Looking for: | Executive Producer and investors. |
Working Title: | Personal Property |
Description: | A fledgling Realtor obtains the listing for a vintage Palm Springs property owned by a Hollywood producer desperate to cover up its unspeakable history... |
Budget: | $1 million |
Looking for: | Investors and executive producers for majority financing. |
Working Title: | Puzzle Vision |
Description: | Thriller – Kyle Post lives and views his life through jig-saw puzzles, ultimately creating a picture of his own demise. |
Budget: | $5 million |
Looking for: | Complete Investment with 50% shared ownership with the Company, in perpetuity. |
Working Title: | Killing Harry |
Description: | 'Clue' meets 'Fargo' - For a corrupt man to enter heaven, Harry must be sent back from the dead to confront his murderer. The only problem is - who is it? Killing Harry is a supernatural murder mystery with roots in film noir. Centered around greed, passion, trust and desire, it tells the story of a man who will do whatever it takes to succeed, and the people around him who will do anything to get their lives back. |
Budget: | $500,000 |
Looking for: | Investors and executive producers for full financing. |
Working Title: | Behind Eyes |
Description: | 'One Tortured Soul. One Ring of Evil. One Eruption'. When an ex-solider tries to rebuild his life after serving in Iraq, the abduction and abuse of his little boy sparks a retributive eruption like no other. Centred around the tortured soul of a man constantly in battle with his past; Behind Eyes is a psychological thriller encompassing human breakdown that's concealed by visual persona and public assumption. |
Budget: | $500,000 |
Looking for: | Investors and executive producers for full financing. |
Working Title: | The Finger |
Description: | When a seasoned New York hit man, Vincent Sclafani, loses the "proof of completion" of his latest assignment - the index finger of his victim - he becomes a target for several overly ambitious contract killers hoping to take credit for his work. |
Budget: | $5 million |
Looking for: | Initial phase $500,000 as we have an investor who will match this with $1,500,000 to green-light the film. Second phase $3 million to complete the project. |
Working Title: | The Wonder Dean |
Description: | Dean Hogan is a junior high student who wants to fit in. Unfortunately, he's presented with having to do something he knows is wrong in order to fit in and meet the girl of his dreams, which changes his life forever. Instead of becoming famous, he becomes infamous and has to learn to live with the decision he makes on that fateful day in junior high. Great 120 page screenplay presented like a feature length episode of THE WONDER YEARS, only far more interesting than anything that ever happened in Kevin Arnold's life. |
Budget: | $1 million |
Looking for: | Producers and investors. Not looking for a huge payday for my script, but rather the money to attract the likes of Fred Savage, Danica McKellar, Dan Lauria, Olivia D'Abo, and Daniel Stern to play new roles in the film. Great script, low budget with the original WONDER YEARS cast in mind. |
Working Title: | The Roaming |
Description: | "Twelve Monkeys" meets "Frequency". A broken man roams through alternate realities to find a daughter who had gone missing six years ago. |
Budget: | $1-2 million |
Looking for: | Investor and Distributor or production company to develop the project together. |
Working Title: | The Work Of Fiction |
Description: | "Wonder Boys" meets "Lost in Translation." After publishing the novel of his dead neighbor as his own, a professor is blackmailed into helping an eccentric burn victim track down a mysterious healer. An offbeat, character driven story about about one man's blinding desire for success and the subtle and extreme circumstances it takes to open his eyes. |
Budget: | $2 million |
Looking for: | Investor and Distributor or production company to develop the project together. |
Working Title: | Vessel |
Description: | Prey for Justice! After witnessing the brutal slaying of his nephew, the death of his sister, and the wanton mutilation and slaughter of numerous others, a man of gentle disposition is forced to take on the role of protector and vigilante. "Death Wish" meets "Dexter." |
Budget: | $1-2 million |
Looking for: | Investor, Distributor, Director or production company to develop the project together. |
Working Title: | Death By 12 |
Description: | They gave him 12 hours to live... they gave him too much! Not fulfilling his last assignment, a legendary assassin infected with a deadly virus leaving him with only 12 hours to live, takes on the entire criminal underworld in search of the mastermind responsible. "Hitman meets "Taken." |
Budget: | $4-5 million |
Looking for: | Investor, Distributor, Director or production company to develop the project together. |
Working Title: | The Sound Of Perfection |
Description: | Based on the third most reprinted article in Reader's Digest's 90 year history, this inspiring true story centers on a retired Army sergeant who took a group of dirt-poor kids who could barely read music and turned them into the number one marching/symphonic band in the U.S.within a few years. This is HOOSIERS with musical instruments! A-list cast and iconic music artists featured in cameos. Huge built-in audience: 110 million people took part in school bands since 1940 with over 3 million students currently enrolled. |
Budget: | $14.5 million |
Looking for: | Producer, director. |
Working Title: | Remnants |
Description: | A rare astrological event causes a permanent worldwide black out, forcing residents of a middle-class suburb to get by with no modern conveniences. The community pulls together and adapts to a simpler way of life, but their success draws the attention of the less resourceful residents in the area and soon results in a war between subdivisions. This is their story. |
Budget: | $200,000 |
Looking for: | Funding |
Working Title: | Betrayal |
Description: | Married with two children, and living strong in his Catholic faith, Luke has everything he could want in life. His life shatters, however, when he uncovers memories of sexual abuse as a child by a family priest. As memories resurface, Luke is plagued by psychological anguish. His life spirals downward into drugs, divorce, and crime as he loses his wife, his children and ultimately, his freedom. Years later, Luke attempts to build a new life, but cannot escape the damage Father John inflicted. The story comes to a climax when he finally confronts his tormentor. |
Budget: | $4 million |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | I Kissed A Girl |
Description: | Young college hero Evan, like so many of his peers, is unsure of his sexuality. To complicate matters, he has mixed feelings for his best friend, Valerie. The plot thickens when his meddlesome gay friend, Marcus, convinces him to borrow money for tuition from Marcus' gay gangster uncle, Sherman. And if all of this isn't enough for our hero to deal with, three female coeds calling themselves the Sisterhood of Gay Converters, have targeted Evan as their next convert... |
Budget: | $14 million |
Looking for: | Investors, distribution, director, talent. |
Working Title: | Tyrrany Of Evil Men |
Description: | Kill Bill meets El Topo. A pacifist/activist seeks revenge on four of his fellow activists. Instead of killing them he decides to go after the people that his friends love instead. Along the way he takes up with his eagerly psychotic cousin, culminating in a bloody standoff that drives their city into chaos at the hands of the people the activists organized. |
Budget: | $10 million |
Looking for: | Investors and crew. |
Working Title: | You Light Up My Life |
Description: | Ultra-nationalist Russian leaders plot a coup to install a new government committed to restoring the old Soviet Empire. To finance this coup they steal some of Russia's nuclear missiles to sell to rogue states or terrorists. A joint British/US/Russian Secret Service operation is launched to track down three stolen missiles. The British agent and a beautiful female CIA agent race to locate missiles sold to North Korea and Middle Eastern terrorists, which must be deactivated before planned attacks on the US and Israel. Will they make it in time? |
Budget: | $18 - $33 million |
Looking for: | Investors |
Working Title: | Faith |
Description: | Linda Harrison's sons are killed in a tragic car accident in London. Grieving deeply for her loss and her failed marriage, Linda goes to Kenya to work as a doctor where she meets Matu, a young African boy whose parents were murdered. She accompanies Matu on a safari where, on an impulse, she grabs his hand to run out of the truck to get closer to the lion, Matu's favourite animal. Suddenly a snake bites Matu and Linda has to rush him to the hospital. Linda feels responsible for a young boy's life hanging in the balance, will she be able to save him in time? |
Budget: | $4 million |
Looking for: | Investors & Producer. Has crew attached. |
Working Title: | The Body Snatcher |
Description: | The Hangover meets Freaky Friday! Through a lab accident, an overweight and insecure biochemist develops a freaky ability to jump into other people's bodies; only to realize that as a Body Snatcher, and with her best friend at her side, she now has to solve other people's problems, find her true self worth and reclaim her real body before it expires in 12 hours. A high concept fantasy female-buddy comedy about body acceptance. |
Budget: | $15 million |
Looking for: | Investors. Director, Producer, and DOP are attached. A-list cast and Worldwide Distribution to be selected and confirmed. Ready to start filming in Oct/Nov 2010. |
Working Title: | Sonic The Hedgehog |
Description: | A 2D animated fantasy action/adventure. Sonic the Hedgehog, beloved icon to all, races to the big screen in his feature length debut! When Dr. Robotnik uncovers seven mysterious emeralds, chaos ensues as he attempts to seize the planet by exploiting their incredible power. It's up to Sonic and his band of Freedom Fighters to restore peace to their endangered world. |
Budget: | Up to $40 million |
Looking for: | Production and funding partners. Original voice actors from the 90s cartoon, creditable directors, domestic and worldwide distribution LOI's, interest from several big-name pre-sales companies. 2D Animation studios. Reputable people to help acquire the filming rights/shopping agreement from SEGA. |
Working Title: | The Last Great Era Of Rock |
Description: | From 1987 to 1994 several of the most iconic rock bands of all time released their best albums, and rolled out some of the biggest concert tours ever. Artists like U2, Guns N 'Roses, Metallica, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Green Day, Pearl Jam and Nirvana had profound moments of inspiration that revolutionized music. These bands, along with MTV, came together to create "The Last Great Era Of Rock." A documentary film co-production with MTV, featuring interviews with the artists, to be released on August 1, 2011, the 30th anniversary of MTV. |
Budget: | $2 million |
Looking for: | Finance |
Working Title: | The Human Factor |
Description: | An action thriller. Homeless people are "disappearing" at an unprecedented rate from the streets of New York City. A determined reporter and a renegade cop must uncover this mysterious and baffling situation without risking losing their lives. |
Budget: | $10.5 million |
Looking for: | Production and funding partners. A-list actors and director attached, domestic and worldwide distribution LOI's, interest from several big-name pre-sales companies. |
Working Title: | The Science
Of Cool |
Description: | Neil and his best friend Gilbert are the biggest geeks in their school who love science class, get good grades, are socially inept and just can't seem to get a break from anyone they meet in their lives, until they stumble upon a formula which can tranfrorm nerds into studs. In this teen comedy fantasy life changes instantly before their eyes, or does it? |
Budget: | $5.9 million |
Looking for: | Production and funding partners. A-list actors and director attached, domestic and worldwide distribution LOI's, interest from several big-name pre-sales companies. |
Working Title: | Zero Day Countdown |
Description: | Europe's top intelligent agent, JJ, is assigned to investigate multiple murders. He discovers a group of terrorists on a mission to bomb Germany, Israel and Iran and trigger a nuclear war. Enter the world of lies, betrayals, intrigue, back-stabbing, double agents and international cover-ups. An action-packed spy thriller with intriguing twists and unpredictable turns, and a touch of reality, ZDC contains gripping car chases and crashes, ambushes, abductions, police cars, helicopters. |
Budget: | $30 million |
Looking for: | Finance |
Working Title: | Four Brick Bounce |
Description: | What happens
when a crew of criminals rob a jewelry store, an armored
truck, and then find four gold bricks? Chaos, Greed, and
Deception! A beautifully written action/heist movie with characters that jump off the page in the style of Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. A completely original script with a plot that keeps the audience guessing, and wanting more. With characters throughout finding themselves in posession of the four bricks they are constantly trying to get away, and survive. Two criminal masterminds at war with each other, a daughter who has estranged herself with one of them, Detectives with a vengence, a conflicted henchman, and a killer soundtrack. |
Budget: | $1 - 10 million |
Looking for: | Production partner/producer, partial or full funding. |
Working Title: | Burning Hollow |
Description: | Time travel is a great source of income but when a fantastic scientist seeks an ultimate energy source, real life becomes a virtual game. |
Budget: | $20 million |
Looking for: | Production partner and funding. |
Working Title: | Urban Musketeers |
Description: | High speed diamond heist that chases through Europe. A group of young adults - the Urban Musketeers, formerly petty criminals - use their skills to find their mentor who was kidnapped. The kidnapper, one of his former partners in crime, wants the hidden diamonds securely stashed away in an Austrian bank account. The mentor has coached the kids as acrobats for an entertainment show. Now they make use of their old and new abilities to free their mentor and get the diamonds.The chase is on by hired guns, the police and the kids. High speed, parkour style action in a clever heist situation. |
Budget: | $35 million |
Looking for: | Producer and funding |
Working Title: | Bayou Voudoun |
Description: | When the music of Louisiana challenges you, beware of the Voodoo that hides in its shadow. By visiting his father's home city New Orleans, a typical NYC guy discovers his ancestral culture of music and Voodoo. He explores his father's past by restoring his theater and finds the ancient family ties connected to Africa. He has to face the challenge of his life time. Voodoo rituals and African music in a modern New Orleans prevail, where Bump meets Jazz, and magic still works in business. His destiny becomes to save the city. |
Budget: | $20 million |
Looking for: | Production partner and A list actor who is connected to New Orleans. |
Working Title: | Dirty Money |
Description: | In this
sardonic and gritty crime thriller, a series of corrupt
cops, thuggish Mafiosos and innocent civilians vie for
possession of a suitcase of drug money. We follow men on
both side of the law trying to track down a fortune in
drug money. How will the lives of those involved get
changed by the lure of this fortune of dirty money? Producer and up-and-coming director attached and a couple of known actors already interested. |
Budget: | $500k - $2 million |
Looking for: | Partial or full investors. |
Working Title: | Subprime Losers |
Description: | Who really
created the rules for the worldwide economic crash? How
did four subsance-abused real estate agents get away with
selling houses to anyone with a heartbeat? A true-to-life comedy... and it still continues... even today. |
Budget: | $450,000 |
Looking for: | $300,000 for 50% ownership of all sales and distribution. |
Working Title: | Since I Don't Have You |
Description: | The son of the beloved femail vocalist in the popular doo-wop group, The Skyliners, confronts his estranged father for the truth about her suicide. |
Budget: | $550,000 |
Looking for: | $250,000. DVD Distribution LOI's in place. Music rights secured. Cast is set. Looking to begin shooting in November 2010 in Pittsburgh. |
Working Title: | Lily |
Description: | Lily, a Spaniard living in New York City, experiences a culture clash when she returns home to Marbella on her father's death. What had influenced her, and all she forgot about 'life' and her own culture, is brought back to her in a short period of time. Her eccentric family and bizarre situations force her to analyze how she's been leading her life. |
Budget: | $3 - $5 million |
Looking for: | Producers and Investors. We do have in mind some of the actors to be used. The script is currently in consideration for three film festivals and one writing contest. |
Working Title: | Half Dead |
Description: | A zombified world of Oz - kinf of. Half Dead is a comedic fight, or rather run, to survive through the cornfields of Kansas. Our protagonist returns to the family farm to find that his father has rented it to a movie crew remaking "The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz". An accident on set transforms the majority of the cast and crew into zombies. Nor our protagonist, his family and scattered survivors must battle to stay alive from an army of zombie Munchkins! Half Dead is a lighthearted comedy with elements of action, suspense and horror which reaches several demographics while being unique due to the clever interweaving of Baum's literary classic. |
Budget: | $3 million |
Looking for: | Financing to begin pre-production with an option to invest in full production. We have agreements from experienced and talented key crew and department heads ready and excited to move on this film. |
Working Title: | Pressure |
Description: | Examines the pressures on a young man in today's world and how he handles them. He has a young family and loses his job, time passes with no hope on a new job while his family life is getting rough fighting with his wife about bills. As forclosure on his house is coming near he cracks and starts making bad desicions. From robbing a local bank where everything goes wrong to shooting and killing a hostage to ultimatly his own suicide. |
Budget: | $50,000 - $100,000 |
Looking for: | Full or partial investor. Film will be made on either DV or Film format depending on budget. |