The Escape Artist
Reclusive bond-like commando is hired by a stranger to get a mysterious woman freed from a top-secret facility.
Broderick Miller
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The Travel Agent
Set in the year 2010, the U.S. has figured out how to travel in time six months into the future and sends experts in such fields as commerce and the military to give the country a competitive edge. When a group of these time travelers doesn’t come back from a trip, and another envoy comes back dead, an economist, who has served as a travel agent is sent to find out what the problem is. He finds out that the government has been overthrown and that his future self has been the cause of the revolt.
Gregory Hansen
She’s All That
Teen stud bets his pal that he can turn the high school’s geekiest female into the prom queen, then ends up falling in love with her.
Lee Flemming
One Track Mind
Movie exec takes credit for a great script after writer dies. But to get away with the ruse, the exec must kill the other execs who read the script.
Ben Queen
Jenny Hanniver
Two scientists, who identify and track down new kinds of life, go hunting for monsters. In the Everglades, they meet a young girl who has a strange symbiotic relationship with a creature.
Dennis Bartok
Providence
Two high school seniors fall in love but tragically realize as they are graduating that they are going to part when they leave for different colleges.
Josh Schwartz
The Official Scorer
A female sportscaster and a major league baseball player, whose career is impacted because of a scorekeeper’s error.
Jordan Moffet
The Tenth Planet
NASA unmanned space probe launched to investigate a newly discovered tenth planet in the solar system. A group of military conspirators within the space agency secretly turn the scientific probe into a deadly weapon of mass destruction. When the spacecraft goes out of control and crashes back to Earth, a team of scientists must find it before it wreaks havoc.
John Cox
Rodolfo
Illegal immigrant in the United States tries to get deported when his sister dies back home. Finding the task difficult, he steals a Mercedes and takes off on a road trip. Along the way, he’s mistaken for a prominent businessman.
Jeff Nathanson
Diamond Head
Set in Hawaii, this is a farce about a police detective whose career comes to a head on his wedding day.
David Fuller
Thumb
Six-inch-tall boy outwits small-time hood in New York City, as he looks for the man responsible for closing the only factory in his small town.
Will Chandler
Hell Bent
Loathsome tobacco executive, who markets cigarettes to children, amongst other things, is pushed out of a window. He continues falling through the pavement and ends up in hell. There, he’s praised as an overachiever, someone who could become CEO for Satan. But first, he has to pass a test; return to life and corrupt an innocent soul within seven days. This innocent soul turns out to be a woman in his employ, and he begins having second thoughts about what he’s about to do.
Ben Schwartz
Teething
Couple adopts a baby who turns out to be a vampire.
Andrew Kurtzman, Elliot Wald
The Palace of Versailles
Abusive father causes mother to be sent to a mental institution. Eleven-year-old boy is caught in the middle of the problem.
Scott Ferraiolo
The Wood
Three kids growing up in Inglewood, California during the 1960s.
Rick Famuyiwa
Bad Dog
Psychologist’s patient has dark delusions, which turn out to be real, about a werewolf running amuck.
Dale Launer
Something Old, Something New
Two sets of newlyweds find themselves second guessing their matrimonial decisions.
Elizabeth Dorosin, David Shaw
Horsemen
Fighter pilots for hire battle in the sky over warring African nations. During the fighting, a squadron commander suffers a crisis of conscience and comes to discover a sense of his own humanity before realizing that he’s fighting for more than money.
Todd Slawsby
Black Ice
A Vatican priest and a group of scientists find a man preserved in the ice in Antarctica. After they bring his body back to Europe, they discover that the entombed man is Satan.
Joe Gangemi
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Feminist meets sexist at a wedding and despite their better judgment are attracted to each other.
Shannon Bradley
Mercury Effect
FBI investigation into a group of strangely intelligent animals. Odd occurrences stem from a monkey sent into space in the Mercury 6 program 25 years ago.
Alexander Torres
Flawless
Character-driven drama with two strong male leads.
Joel Schumacher
Natural Men
Five black men are told by their significant others to stay home while the women go off to a strip club. When the men find out where the ladies have gone, they go out as well but have far less fun.
Ben Ramsey, Michael McCant
Ten Things I Hate About You
Updated version of “The Taming of the Shrew.”
Karen Lutz, Kirsten Smith
The Last Day
Orphaned teenagers are sent by the government to the jungle to become trained assassins. After they get back to the United States, they are tracked down and killed by the government which wants to keep the program under wraps.
Chris Thornton
Mindhunters
Ten little Indians set in the FBI Academy’s profiler or mind hunter division. A mindhunter who is what he hunts: a serial killer who is murdering his colleagues.
Wayne Kramer
World War III
Young U.S. government official and a Chinese general team up to save the world from a nuclear disaster.
Jason Hightman
I Died a Thousand Deaths
A former Pinkerton detective is resurrected as a Sifter, a bounty hunter tasked with going after people who have skipped out on destined meetings in Hades.
Aaron Drane
Pluck
Unmarried woman tries to bag a wealthy husband. Posing as a European countess, she finds the man and follows him onto a cruise ship. To get on the boat, though, she has to chaperone a couple from the “Dating Game.” Problems ensue when the man on the date turns out to be her ex-boyfriend.
T.C. Smith, Peter Spears
North of Cheyenne
Love story about a woman who inherits a ranch and the three men who court her.
Les Bohem
Keeping the Faith
The relationship between a Catholic priest and a rabbi, friends since childhood, becomes strained when both men fall in love with the same woman, an old friend of both men.
Stuart Blomberg
Enchanted
Fairy tale princess enters the real world and falls in love with a betrothed man.
Billy Kelly
Culture Clash
In the vein of “The Mask” or “The Nutty Professor,” but heavy on special effects.
Lee Stein
Space Cowboys
Older Air Force pilots are recruited to fly the space shuttle.
Ken Kaufman, Howard Klausner
Baillie Project
Purchase of three screenplays from this British screenwriter.
Darren Baillie
So Shoot Me
Two losers who like to club hop get new lives by solving the mysterious serial killings of supermodels in Manhattan.
Alexandra Valenti, Ceridwen Morris