Genre:

Psychological Drama

Suspense

Blurb/Logline  An aging insurance salesman prepares to scam his own company out of a million dollars by faking his death and buying a one-way ticket to Argentina.  When he sells a second million-dollar policy to a waitress who has the very same idea in mind--except that she won't be taking any extended trips because she'll be dead--he realizes that he has to do something to save her life.  But if he does, he'll be condemning her terminally ill daughter to death.  Won't he?

Budget: Low

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The Magic Man

Genre:
Psychological Drama

Blurb/Logline  A Magician makes a woman vanish on stage; less than an hour later the woman’s body is discovered in his hotel suite and he is arrested.  An open-and-shut case except that all the evidence (and the laws of physics) say that there is no way the woman’s body could be in the room in which it was discovered.

Genre:
Horror

Blurb/Logline  History professor James Prescott assembles a young, mismatched group of college students to chronicle the lives of five vicious serial killers, known as The Demons 5, but they get more than they bargained for when the murderers are found to be alive and well, possessing supernatural powers granted to them by an angel of death and seeking a bloody vengeance that will give them immortality.

Attachments: A-list actors and director, plus secured location and distributor.

Budget:  Low-to-Medium.

*Under Review

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Mortuary of Madness
Finalist, Best Screenplay, TSA 2003 Competition
Finalist, Best Screenplay, Fade-In Screenplay Contest
Finalist, Best Screenplay, Writer's Network Screenplay Contest

Genre:
Horror

Comparison: Tales from the Crypt

Blurb/Logline  A controversial young mortician’s dreams of health, happiness, and a family life are suddenly shattered when his childhood sweetheart is driven to suicide by her money-hungry parents, sending him on a vicious killing spree.

Attachments: A-list actors and director, plus secured location and distributor.

Budget: Medium.

*Under Review

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Bloodline: The Legacy of Paine
3rd Place, Best Screenplay, TSA 2003 Competition
Finalist, Best Screenplay, Fade-In Screenplay Contest
Finalist, Best Screenplay, Writer's Network Screenplay Contest

Genre:
Horror

Blurb/Logline  When Alex Hays encounters a brutal and vampiric Union General, dark secrets from his family history are revealed, forcing Alex and his son into a battle for survival against an army of the undead.

Attachments: A-list actors and director, plus secured location and distributor.

Budget: Low-to-Medium.

*Under Review

Big Breasted Vampire Death

Genre:
Horror/Comedy

Blurb/Logline  When three "good ol' boys" decide to take a simple cross-country road trip, it turns out to be anything but!  They cross paths with four beautiful, well-built, sophisticated, and vicious truck driving vampires.  Who could ask for more?  Based on the hit horror comic book from Pickle Press.

Budget: Medium

Historical

Psychological Drama

Tragedy

Comparisons: Shakespeare in Love

Blurb/Logline  In 1912 Sigmund Freud invites Lou Andreas-Salome to be the first woman to join the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.  This leads to a romantic triangle, a schism, a tragedy and a scandal.

Budget:  Low-to-Medium

Genre:
Action/Adventure

Love Story

Psychological Drama

Blurb/Logline  Adam has the perfect wife and the perfect life, until both are blown up on Septermber 11.  His mission of revenge takes him to Saudi Arabia, where he lands a date with a terrorist’s wife and destiny.

Historical

Musical

Blurb/Logline  When Lelawala, daughter of the Chief of the Seneca Indians, is picked to be the yearly sacrificial virgin, French explorer LaSalle and Catholic missionary Father Hennipen try talking the Chief out of the sacrifice.  But the Chief argues that the Christian son of God, Jesus, also sacrificed himself.  Lelawala has a final romance with Running Bear before the fateful sacrificial scene.

* Optioned to Producer Bill Cowell

1. Reality Bites - Nationwide competition for unknown screenwriters to pitch their idea to the big wigs in Hollywood and New York for a movie—the winners get the opportunity to make the movie of their dreams. Similar format to American Idol.

2. The Mustang Ranch - reality series about a massage parlor in Nevada tracing the lives of the ladies that work there, the clientele, the work, the idea of legalized prostitution in America, pros and cons, religious leaders, feminists, Nevada legislature. Since Nevada is the only state where prostitution is legal, what are the effects, pros and cons of the world’s second oldest profession on us?

3. Death Row – A documentary-reality series about one man on death row in America—example-Stanley Tookie Williams-in California, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, story and interviews told from the standpoint of the prisoner, the victim’s family, the guards and prison official, those in favor or opposed to capital punishment. Reality series follows the death row inmate all the way up to and including the execution of the prisoner himself. Also, there is a national movement afoot that if nitrogen is used to execute a prisoner, his vital organs can be harvested to help folks who might be dying of some disease or accident, therefore, the killer might gain more redemption for his execution.

4. So You Want To Be a Cheerleader - This idea I got from my daughter. There is tremendous interest on the part of American girls from grade school through college to become a cheerleader. Form public and private schools to gymnastics this is not your momma’s pom pom. The 21st century cheerleader is a combination of traditional chants to modern dance and highly difficult gymnastic choreography, these young ladies are buff. A six month reality TV series about the ups and downs of competition locally, regionally and being in the national spot light.

5. Dying in America - From poets to sociologist, is death still hidden in this country-
a look at the life and dying of a hospice patient. Flashbacks of a healthy life, the diagnosis of the threatening disease and the inevitability of what lies ahead for the
show’s protagonist with the long term implication for the next of kin. Issues such as pain management, quality of life, and even assisted suicide should be discussed here. Even preparation for funeral and discussions with clergy are also key. Also, question about heaven and hell, salvation and forgiveness, communicating with the dead, ghosts, might be included.

6. American Soldier Coming Home - The Hidden Cost of War - A look at the rehab of our warriors from easy to hard, from psychological to amputation. How did they get wounded, the medical care, the rehab, the reaction from their family and country, and most importantly to show the audience the greatest battle that lie ahead are those without bullets.

7. Shrink in Training for the Criminally Insane - Charles Manson, the BTK killer, and certain American traitors, serial rapists—each week bring a different case to the show. WHY DO THESE MEN KILL AND CAN ANYTHING BE DONE TO PREVENT FUTURE ACTS OF UNSPEAKBLE CRIMES? (Nature or nurture?)

8. Teenagers in Time - Here’s the plot formation. A disenchanted American teenager with very few friends and less self confidence becomes an unlikely hero via the concepts of Einstein’s physics and time travel. Plus, Logan needs to get out of his suburban New Jersey house for his stepfather is cold and demanding, and his mother cannot stand up for herself. Logan suffers from asthma, but with the helps of spirits from a parallel universe of compassion and second chances, Logan sets out each week to save the world from itself! A typical episode involves Pearl Harbor, and December 4, 1941, when Logan is sent to help the United States, he is thrown in a Honolulu jail with a bunch of great looking call girls who try and help Logan out!

Genre:
Suspense
Drama

Comparison: American Beauty - fun for the whole dysfunctional family.

Blurb/Logline  A disenfranchised screenwriter writes about the murder of his wife.  But did
he really kill her?  Truth and fiction collide in this dark family drama.
 

Budget: Medium.

*Under Review

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Temple U

Genre:

Comedy
 

Comparison: The Ten Commandments meets Desperate Housewives
 

Blurb/Logline  Adam and Eve and Steve, oh my!  Sex, politics, religion, Michael Jackson--is anything off limits?  Not when the professor is Marilyn Manson!  Higher education gets turned on its gothic head in a comedy that asks you to pay attention, raise your hand before speaking and, most importantly, think for yourself.  You are the student.  The school is Temple U.

Budget: Low.

A. R. Yngve
The Father Machine

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Action-Adventure

Comparison: The Terminator, RoboCop

Blurb/Logline  He is "E", an experimental killer cyborg on the run - emotionless, unstoppable, inscrutable.  She is Rika, an abandoned orphan child.  "E" becomes the girl's protector and parent in a dangerous world ... and learns to be human again.

Budget: Low.