Logline: Story follows the crime-solving adventures of Miss Jane Marple, a spinster with a sharp logical mind who acts as an amateur detective.
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Logline: Story follows the crime-solving adventures of Miss Jane Marple, a spinster with a sharp logical mind who acts as an amateur detective.
Logline: A satire about money making in the television industry under the guise of a self-help book.
Logline: A satire about how to get rich in England under the guise of a survival kit for Americans living in Britain.
Logline: The true story of two men who were contracted by the Pentagon to arm America’s allies in Afghanistan.
Logline: Set in 19th century England, the story follows Mary Anning who learns of her unique gift of spotting fossils no one else can see; her discoveries put her religious community on edge.
Logline: LAPD detective Harry Bosch investigates the murder of a prominent narcotics officer, a close friend of his, and uncovers a web of intrigue that leads to the Mexican drug world and “black ice,” a new drug on the streets of L.A.
Logline: Set against the backdrop of political upheaval in 19th-century France, the story follows Jean Valjean, an ex-convict who becomes a force for good in the world, but cannot escape his dark past.
Logline: At the death of the hippie dream, in the aftermath of Charles Manson’s dune buggie hit squads and Altemont, a diverse group of freaks and hustlers congregate around Los Angeles in a strange danse macabre of music, film, sex and drugs, looking for some meaning in their pathetic lives.
Logline: Story follows a teen that gets kidnapped and narrowly escapes, only to find himself drawn into a murderous and desolate alternate universe that bears a strange, inexplicable relation to his world.
Logline: Story centers on a young woman who awakens to find herself trapped in an afterlife known as Level 2. Unable to recall how she died, or how she ended up here, she is introduced to a networking system known as the “Hive” which allows her small glimpses into her past life, and to the two men who were prominent in her life before… one of whom she believes intends her harm, even in the afterlife.
Logline: With the emergence of Electro, Spider-Man must confront a foe far more powerful than he. And as his old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, Peter comes to realize that all of his enemies have one thing in common: OsCorp.
Logline: When Paul and Carol’s son disappears during his morning paper route, they hire Private Investigator Frank Behr, an ex-cop with a checkered past, who soon discovers a larger conspiracy related to the kidnapping.
Logline: The story chronicles the beginning of Narnia, where we learn how Aslan created the world and how evil first entered it.
Logline: Based on the true story of a man who moves from suburban New Jersey with his family to Beijing, and along the way rediscovers his fondness for the guitar, forms a blues band called the “Woodie Alan,” and surprisingly becomes a hit sensation, touring all of Asia to sell out crowds.
Logline: Story centers on a poor, pious baker whose gentle and profound wisdom brings inspiration, hope and comfort to the world around him.
Logline: When a music therapist’s latest pregnancy ends in a stillbirth, her husband decides he can’t handle any more heartbreak and leaves her. As she picks up the pieces of her life, she is surprised to find herself falling for a school counselor who happens to be a woman.
Logline: Story tells the tale of a journalist’s journey from New Yorker magazine editor to amateur line cook and culinary apprentice, and eventually to to become a famed chef’s “Kitchen bitch”.
Logline: Story centers on a grieving teen who discovers a parallel world in which his girlfriend is still alive, and sets out to find a way to be with her again.
Logline: Story follows the tale of a small girl, a house filled with otherworldly creatures, and a clock that strikes the exceedingly eerie number 13.
Logline: Set in a dystopian world, the story centers on a 17-year-old girl imprisoned for possessing a fatal touch. As she watches everything crumble around her, she must choose between relinquishing her power or using it to save the world.
Logline: Desperate for her hand in marriage, a man begins his own investigation into the murder of his fiance’s grandfather after she tells him that she can’t marry him until the killer is apprehended.
Logline: Follows the true story of Charlie Siringo, a cowboy turned successful businessman turned Pinkerton detective, who traveled to the Yukon territory in 1897 during the Klondike Gold Rush to solve a robbery of heavy gold bars.
Logline: Pitched as a modern twist on “Lord of the Flies,” the story follows a school full of students who contract a virus and have to be cordoned off from the outside world.
Logline: Will Gallows, a young elfling sky cowboy, rides out on a perilous quest to bring the evil snake-bellied troll bandit who murdered his father, Noose Wormworx, to justice.
Logline: Story follows the last mountain poacher and his personal battle against the only beast that’s eluded him for many years.
Logline: Follows the true story of Jan Baalsrud, the only survivor of a Norwegian commando team ambushed by the Nazis during World War II.
Logline: Story follows a famous criminologist as he attempts to solve a seemingly perfect crime conceived by a young and arrogant lawyer.
Logline: Story centers on the real-life experience of a science journalist sent to cover the U.S. Memory Championship Game, who after watching, and becoming intrigued by the competitors abilities, decided to see if he could train for the next year, and become a competitor in the next Memory Championship event.
Logline: The story, set in Sleepy Hollow, New York, centers around a graduate school dropout who is forced to move back in with his dysfunctional family after his father develops cancer.
Logline: Story follows a team of six archaeologists from the United States, England, and Scotland as they assemble at the beginning of the Arctic summer to unearth traces of the lost Viking settlements in Greenland.
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