Announcing the Top Features of 2015 – The Launch Pad
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Announcing the Top Features of 2015 – The Launch Pad
A comprehensive list of the 2015 Launch Pad’s Top 5% of all submissions!
(All categories are listed alphabetically by script title).
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| Logline: | An aging spy must overcome the one thing to ever beat him… erectile dysfunction. |
| Pitched as: | RED meets GRUMPY OLD MEN |
| Writer: | Delon Sandhu |
| Genre: | Action | Comedy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | 69 |
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ADVENTURE HAS A NAME
| Logline: | A group of friends attempt a road trip with the sole purpose of getting their childhood hero the Academy Award they know he deserves. |
| Pitched as: | FANBOYS meets ROMANCING THE STONE |
| Writer: | Justin Piasecki |
| Genre: | Action | Comedy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | ADVENTURE HAS A NAME |
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AUGUSTA
| Logline: | After a meteoric rise from actress to empress, a young woman attempts to overcome the resistance of the political elite and revolutionize the role of women in the Roman Empire. |
| Pitched as: | ELIZABETH meets GLADIATOR |
| Writer: | Ben Fickes |
| Genre: | Drama | Historical | Epic |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 10 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | AUGUSTA |
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AUGUSTUS
| Logline: | Upon the assassination of his uncle, Julius Caesar, a young Octavius must avenge his death while everyone makes their play to control Rome |
| Pitched as: | GLADIATOR meets ROME |
| Writer: | Ahmadu Garba |
| Genre: | Drama | Epic | Historical | War |
| Representation: | Signed with Epicenter – Allard Cantor, Jarrod Murray |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | AUGUSTUS |
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BAD EDUCATION
| Logline: | A high-school honor student falls for her biology teacher, who has a penchant for manipulating bullied students into violence. |
| Pitched as: | GONE GIRL meets HEATHERS |
| Writer: | Wei Ling Chang |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 10 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | BAD EDUCATION |
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BENJAMIN THE GREAT
| Logline: | In the aftermath of a natural disaster a young wannabe magician works with the ghost of Houdini to prove that magic really does exist, even in the darkest of times. |
| Pitched as: | MATILDA meets THE WAY, WAY BACK |
| Writer: | Scott Ruane |
| Genre: | Comedy | Family | Fantasy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | BENJAMIN THE GREAT |
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BETTER MAN
| Logline: | A lonely man becomes infatuated with a successful architect, mimicking his idol’s life until he violently takes it over. |
| Pitched as: | THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY meets ONE HOUR PHOTO |
| Writer: | Jay Cipriani |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | BETTER MAN |
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BIG SISTER
| Logline: | A young Pakistani woman puts herself and her family in danger when she challenges age-old traditions by fighting for women’s rights. |
| Pitched as: | ERIN BROCKOVICH meets HE NAMED ME MALALA |
| Writer: | Mikko Tormala |
| Genre: | Biopic | Drama | True |
| Representation: | Signed with Paradigm – Adrian Garcia, David Boxerbaum | Energy Entertainment – Brooklyn Weaver |
| Availability: | Project is available with attachments |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | BIG SISTER |
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BUCK OFF
| Logline: | A disgraced FBI agent is forced to reunite with his estranged father to take down a drug cartel in the rodeo circuit. |
| Pitched as: | THE OTHER GUYS meets 8 SECONDS |
| Writer: | Jared Ferrie & Peter Klausner |
| Genre: | Action | Comedy | Drama |
| Representation: | Signed with Paradigm – Adrian Garcia, Valarie Phillips | Black Box Media – Lowell Shapiro, Mike Dill |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | BUCK OFF |
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CHASING UNICORNS
| Logline: | After the death of their brother, two siblings and a rag tag crew of townies journey into the woods to hunt the culprit… a unicorn. |
| Pitched as: | TROLL HUNTER meets HOT FUZZ |
| Writer: | Benjamin Sweet |
| Genre: | Comedy | Supernatural |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 10 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | CHASING UNICORNS |
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COME ON DOWN
| Logline: | A professional game show contestant opens a school to teach the secrets of winning big on TV. |
| Pitched as: | QUIZ SHOW meets ACCEPTED |
| Writer: | Jameel Khan |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | COME ON DOWN |
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CONTROL
| Logline: | An air traffic controller, whose job has been rendered useless by automated technology, must outwit a cyber-terrorist who threatens to kill his wife and son when he refuses to hand over control of the skies. |
| Pitched as: | PHONE BOOTH meets FLIGHT |
| Writer: | Steve Lewis |
| Genre: | Action | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | CONTROL |
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DEPTHS, THE
| Logline: | While exploring an old flooded mine, a diver and her friends discover that the miners who died there are intent on keeping them underwater forever. |
| Pitched as: | THE CAVE meets THE FOG |
| Writer: | Justin Boyd |
| Genre: | Horror | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | DEPTHS,THE |
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DEVILS AND DUST
| Logline: | When a contract killer is forced to kill her high school friend, she must return to her hometown to find the people responsible. |
| Pitched as: | LA FEMME NIKITA meets UNFORGIVEN |
| Writer: | Dagmar Blommaert |
| Genre: | Action | Drama | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | DEVILS AND DUST |
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DON’T. CROSS. FRANK.
| Logline: | An assassin turns against his employers when he falls for the woman he’s been sent to kill— the widow of a former target. |
| Pitched as: | HITMAN meets GOODFELLAS |
| Writer: | Byron Burton |
| Genre: | Action | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | DON’T. CROSS. FRANK. |
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E-DEN
| Logline: | A young woman must travel to virtual heaven in order to help a rebellion that could save her father. |
| Pitched as: | WHAT DREAMS MAY COME meets THE MATRIX |
| Writer: | Mark Robertson |
| Genre: | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
| Representation: | Signed with Micheline Steinberg Associates (UK) – Micheline Steinberg |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | E-DEN |
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EGBOK
| Logline: | An aspiring novelist on the verge of her first book deal must face the toughest editor in the business — her estranged father. |
| Pitched as: | THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA meets THE INTERN |
| Writer: | Jennifer Goldson |
| Genre: | Comedy | Drama | Romantic Comedy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | EGBOK |
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END OF LINE
| Logline: | A socially awkward, movie-loving teenager navigates his coming-of-age in a factory town where the workers have gone on strike. |
| Pitched as: | SUBMARINE meets ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL |
| Writer: | Paul Hunt |
| Genre: | Coming-of-Age | Drama |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available with attachments |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | END OF LINE |
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EXPAT
| Logline: | When a young boy steals an ancient relic from a Mayan burial site, his mother and a man haunted by his past must battle angry spirits and work with an indigenous shaman to save him. |
| Pitched as: | THE RUINS meets INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM |
| Writer: | Paul Marchant |
| Genre: | Adventure | Horror | Supernatural |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | EXPAT |
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FELIX BEFORE VACATION
| Logline: | In a future where resources are thin, a corporation takes the elderly on lavish vacations before euthanizing them. |
| Pitched as: | THE BUCKET LIST meets NEVER LET ME GO |
| Writer: | Byron Burton |
| Genre: | Drama | Sci-Fi |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | FELIX BEFORE VACATION |
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THE FIFTH STAGE
| Logline: | A woman is kidnapped and tortured in an attempt to have her confess to the killing of a young woman, even though she may not have committed the crime. |
| Pitched as: | PRISONERS meets FUNNY GAMES |
| Writer: | Aaron Sala |
| Genre: | Horror | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE FIFTH STAGE |
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FIRST LADY
| Logline: | A successful female journalist takes on the interview of a lifetime—president elect FDR’s wife Eleanor—and falls in love with her subject in the process. |
| Pitched as: | HYDE PARK ON HUDSON meets CAROL |
| Writer: | Eleonore Gachet |
| Genre: | Biopic | Drama | True |
| Representation: | Signed with Paradigm – Adrian Garcia, David Boxerbaum |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 10 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | FIRST LADY |
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THE FOX TALE
| Logline: | A legendary fox shape-shifter, who seduces and then consumes men, struggles to keep her identity secret as the FBI investigates her recent kills. |
| Pitched as: | FATAL ATTRACTION meets GINGER SNAPS |
| Writer: | Jeff Rowe & Soo Kim |
| Genre: | Horror | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE FOX TALE |
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FREEDOM FORT
| Logline: | Two runaway slaves team up to reach a British fort where freed-slaves live a good life, but soon after they arrive they must defend the fort and their newfound freedom. |
| Pitched as: | DJANGO UNCHAINED meets GLORY |
| Writer: | Clint Williams |
| Genre: | Action | Drama | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | FREEDOM FORT |
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THE GREAT PRETENDER
| Logline: | After a botched suicide attempt, a football wunderkind teams up with the spirited girl-next-door to finally live life for himself. |
| Pitched as: | FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS meets SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK |
| Writer: | Brianne Jaskulski & Cassandra Jaskulski |
| Genre: | Comedy | Coming-of-Age | Drama |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE GREAT PRETENDER |
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GROWN ADULT
| Logline: | After quitting her job, a floundering young woman must figure out what she wants to do with her life amidst advice from her free-spirited roommate and well-meaning mother. |
| Pitched as: | BRIDESMAIDS meets LIFE PARTNERS |
| Writer: | Maureen Brown |
| Genre: | Comedy | Dramedy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | GROWN ADULT |
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HAIRYMAN
| Logline: | A documentary crew following an awkward young man on the hunt for a Bigfoot-like creature in London expects a hoax, but is shocked when his claims begin to be proven. |
| Pitched as: | BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON meets FINDING BIGFOOT |
| Writer: | Steve Pang |
| Genre: | Comedy | Mockumentary |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 10 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | HAIRYMAN |
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HEMOPHILIA
| Logline: | A man’s world is upended when he discovers new evidence which points to his daughter, who went missing years earlier, still being alive and well. |
| Pitched as: | GONE GIRL meets THE LOVELY BONES |
| Writer: | Guy Francisco Polin |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently no agent Markerstone | Mark Lawyer |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | HEMOPHILIA |
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HOW TO CATCH A TIME TRAVELER
| Logline: | A scientist looking into the possibilities of time travel has his work and life turned upside down when he locates a woman who appears to be from the future, only to discover that she is his granddaughter. |
| Pitched as: | LOOPER meets EX MACHINA |
| Writer: | Graham Parke |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | HOW TO CATCH A TIME TRAVELER |
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HOW TO LOSE YOUR DREAM JOB
| Logline: | Two members of a demanding US Senator’s committee are in the running for the highly coveted chief of staff position. The only problem: neither wants it. |
| Pitched as: | THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA meets IN THE LOOP |
| Writer: | Noushin Jahanian |
| Genre: | Comedy | Political Satire |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | HOW TO LOSE YOUR DREAM JOB |
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ICHOR
| Logline: | A man with nothing left to lose helps a woman, whose unusual genetic makeup could revolutionize medicine, as she and her son run from the cartel. |
| Pitched as: | SICARIO meets MAN ON FIRE |
| Writer: | Prashanth Venkataramanujam |
| Genre: | Action | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently no agent Aligned Entertainment | Mohammed Ali |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | ICHOR |
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THE INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE STORY OF MS. HELEN BALLARD AND THE FALL CREEK TEN
| Logline: | In 1880s Colorado, a rough and tumble group tracks down fearsome monsters that have been slaughtering anyone on their land. |
| Pitched as: | THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN meets RESIDENT EVIL |
| Writer: | Mark Anthony Galluzzo & Steve Chatterton |
| Genre: | Horror | Western |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE STORY OF MS. HELEN BALLARD AND THE FALL CREEK TEN |
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THE INTERVIEW
| Logline: | On the night of a state execution, a conservative governor’s live interview is hijacked when an anonymous caller kidnaps his daughter and threatens to kill her unless the governor follows his every command. |
| Pitched as: | TAKEN meets SAW |
| Writer: | Julie Pedersen |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE INTERVIEW |
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THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS
| Logline: | After their plans to kill each other go awry, two highway serial killers become determined to destroy each other’s lives. |
| Pitched as: | THE HITCHER meets YOU’RE NEXT |
| Writer: | Ian Busch |
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | Horror | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS |
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LAST REFUGE
| Logline: | Alaskan oil pipeline workers are terrorized by an invisible monster, hell-bent on destroying everything in its path. |
| Pitched as: | THE THING meets PREDATOR |
| Writer: | Don Grail |
| Genre: | Horror | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently no agent Zero Gravity Management | Eric Williams |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | LAST REFUGE |
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LIBERTY HEIST
| Logline: | Four bank robbers negotiate the release of a master thief who puts his not-quite-retired cop handler through the gauntlet in order to save the innocent hostages. |
| Pitched as: | INSIDE MAN meets HEAT |
| Writer: | Robert M. Cosci |
| Genre: | Action | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | LIBERTY HEIST |
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THE LOST KINGDOM
| Logline: | After receiving a mysterious summons from her estranged father, a sheltered museum finds herself in the middle of both danger and adventure in the Congo jungle. |
| Pitched as: | INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE meets LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER |
| Writer: | Jon Bachmann & Katherine Griffin |
| Genre: | Action | Adventure |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE LOST KINGDOM |
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LOVE’S REMAINS
| Logline: | A recently dumped and hopelessly stoned 20-something goes on a blind date that could turn into the best night of his life — until his new crush is kidnapped by a serial killer. |
| Pitched as: | SUPERBAD meets TAKEN |
| Writer: | Matthew O’Connell |
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | Horror | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | LOVE’S REMAINS |
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THE MADRID
| Logline: | When shipwreck salvagers locate the spot of a historic wreck rumored to contain Spanish treasure, they must contend with the attacks of modern-day pirates before reaping the rewards of their find. |
| Pitched as: | CAPTAIN PHILLIPS meets NATIONAL TREASURE |
| Writer: | Rand Soares |
| Genre: | Action | Adventure |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE MADRID |
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MANSHOWER
| Logline: | When a group of friends throw a Man-Shower for an anxious dad-to-be, a mix-up with a BDSM biker gang called MANSHOWER throws them in the middle of a deadly turf war between two rival drug lords. |
| Pitched as: | THE HANGOVER meets 21 JUMP STREET |
| Writer: | John Wikstrom |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | MANSHOWER |
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MARGOT
| Logline: | A high school girl stumbles upon the diary of a woman from the 1800s and becomes possessed by its author, causing her to commit a series of murders. |
| Pitched as: | THE BABADOOK meets JENNIFER’S BODY |
| Writer: | Tom Mann |
| Genre: | Horror | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | MARGOT |
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THE MARSH WOLF
| Logline: | When a young boy and his friend visit the home of their favorite YA author, they accidentally get sucked into the magical dark world that inspires his writings. |
| Pitched as: | GOOSEBUMPS meets THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA |
| Writer: | Daniel S. Duvall |
| Genre: | Family | Fantasy | Supernatural |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE MARSH WOLF |
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MOA
| Logline: | A young researcher brings an extinct bird back to life, but when evil scientists want to perform tests on it, she must choose between her new dream job and her new friend. |
| Pitched as: | LILO AND STITCH meets CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS |
| Writer: | Chase Caldwell & Simone Nathan |
| Genre: | Animated | Comedy | Family |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | MOA |
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NEW YORK TIMES
| Logline: | A young scientist accidentally causes a rift in time that leaves New York split between modern day and 19th century Manhattan, and the only person who can help her return the city to normal is Nikola Tesla. |
| Pitched as: | BACK TO THE FUTURE meets THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN |
| Writer: | Robert Simon |
| Genre: | Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | NEW YORK TIMES |
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NO MAN’S LAND
| Logline: | In a future where males are nearly extinct because they mature into lethal monsters, a teenage outcast forges a secret relationship with the one person who understands her: a boy on the brink of his transformation. |
| Pitched as: | THE VILLAGE meets TWILIGHT |
| Writer: | Jeffrey R. Field & Michelle Davidson |
| Genre: | Coming-of-Age | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 10 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | NO MAN’S LAND |
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OIL AND WATER
| Logline: | A battle of will and morals erupts when a young housewife sets out to stop the world’s richest man from building an oil refinery on New Hampshire’s pristine seacoast in 1973. |
| Pitched as: | ERIN BROCKOVICH meets ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN |
| Writer: | Alfred Thomas Catalfo & Morgan Webster Dudley |
| Genre: | Biopic | Drama | True |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | OIL AND WATER |
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ONE NATION UNDER GOD
| Logline: | A die-hard Tea Party supporter, whose elderly father shoots and kills an unarmed black teenager, struggles with his conscience as he works to keep his dad out of prison. |
| Pitched as: | CRASH meets A TIME TO KILL |
| Writer: | Geoff Bakken |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | ONE NATION UNDER GOD |
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OVERNIGHT VISIT
| Logline: | While on an overnight visit to his dream college, a timid high schooler’s crucial letter of recommendation goes missing and he must join the wildest student on campus on a quest to recover it. |
| Pitched as: | 21 AND OVER meets PCU |
| Writer: | S. Michael Mier |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available with attachments |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | OVERNIGHT VISIT |
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PERSEPHONE
| Logline: | When an asteroid mining expedition discovers a strange new alloy that has healing properties, they soon realize that there are dangerous side effects that endanger the entire crew. |
| Pitched as: | THE CRAZIES meets PROMETHEUS |
| Writer: | Ian Hayden |
| Genre: | Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | PERSEPHONE |
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PERSONAL IDENTITY
| Logline: | In the year 2075, an advocate for a growingly prevalent teleportation system comes back from rehab to discover that his original self never left, forcing him to fight for his life. |
| Pitched as: | GATTACA meets FACE/OFF |
| Writer: | Kirk Donoho |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | PERSONAL IDENTITY |
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PETER THE BEAST
| Logline: | In WW1-era London, a young girl and a band of orphans must travel to the depths of the underground in order to save her kidnapped brother from Peter, an immortal vampire looking to create more beasts like himself. |
| Pitched as: | PETER PAN meets THE LOST BOYS |
| Writer: | Michael Ouellette |
| Genre: | Action | Adventure | Supernatural |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | PETER THE BEAST |
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PLAY THE DEVIL
| Logline: | A group of con artists who specialize in fake house hauntings find themselves in danger when they target a house that may actually be haunted. |
| Pitched as: | HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL meets THE STING |
| Writer: | Sebastian Davis |
| Genre: | Comedy | Horror | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | PLAY THE DEVIL |
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RECOVERY
| Logline: | A commercial space flight turns dangerous when a collision releases a deadly infection on board. |
| Pitched as: | APOLLO 13 meets CONTAGION |
| Writer: | Robert M. Cosci |
| Genre: | Contained | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | RECOVERY |
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RED PASS
| Logline: | After being stranded in a winter storm, a mother and child must fight for survival against a pack of wolves. |
| Pitched as: | THE GREY meets PANIC ROOM |
| Writer: | Collin Watts & Leon Langford |
| Genre: | Survival | Thriller |
| Representation: | Leon only signed with UTA — Charles Ferraro, Geoff Morley | Energy Entertainment — Brooklyn Weaver |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 10 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | RED PASS |
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RESIDUAL
| Logline: | When a pioneering mind transfer procedure goes horribly wrong, three different consciousnesses find themselves trapped within one body, all fighting for control. |
| Pitched as: | THE BOURNE IDENTITY meets TOTAL RECALL |
| Writer: | David Lynch & Keith Lynch |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
| Representation: | Independent Talent Group – Jack Thomas (UK) |
| Availability: | Project is available with attachments. |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | RESIDUAL |
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ROOK
| Logline: | While on vacation in Europe, a prominent biochemist is kidnapped and forced to produce a dangerous virus, leaving his screw-up brother as the only one who can save him. |
| Pitched as: | TAKEN meets ENEMY OF THE STATE |
| Writer: | David Case |
| Genre: | Action | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently no agent Heroes and Villains Entertainment | Markus Goerg, Mikhail Nayfield |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | ROOK |
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RUNS IN THE BLOOD
| Logline: | The only witness who can put Charles Manson away must fight for her life when she’s hunted by Manson Family member hell-bent on keeping her silent. |
| Pitched as: | THE MASTER meets ZODIAC |
| Writer: | Matthew Aaron Nelson |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | RUNS IN THE BLOOD |
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SARAH CLAUS
| Logline: | Santa Claus’ daughter has spent most of her life rebelling against Christmas, but that all changes when she’s the only who can save it. |
| Pitched as: | ARTHUR CHRISTMAS meets MY SO-CALLED LIFE |
| Writer: | Matt Kelley |
| Genre: | Comedy | Family | Holiday |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | SARAH CLAUS |
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SEIRIOS
| Logline: | The military’s most dangerous weapon, an experimental robot dog, escapes the laboratory and befriends a young boy. |
| Pitched as: | MAX meets IRON GIANT |
| Writer: | Angela Schultz |
| Genre: | Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | SEIRIOS |
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SEXTON
| Logline: | The true story of how the secrets and sins of a seemingly normal housewife helped her become a Pulitzer-winning 1960s icon before ultimately destroying her. |
| Pitched as: | GIRL, INTERRUPTED meets THE HOURS |
| Writer: | Elizabeth Oyebode |
| Genre: | Biopic | Drama | True |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | SEXTON |
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THE SHADOW OF GOD
| Logline: | A Jewish-American CIA operative, who is also a mole for the Israeli Mossad, reluctantly teams up with a legendary Arab spy to fight a terror organization armed with a bioweapon. |
| Pitched as: | ZERO DARK THIRTY meets MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE |
| Writer: | Alain Soussokho |
| Genre: | Action | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently no agent Energy Entertainment | Brooklyn Weaver |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE SHADOW OF GOD |
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SINBAD & THE FINAL WISH
| Logline: | A former prince, sold into slavery, quests to find a legendary genie being sought by the villainous man who killed his father. |
| Pitched as: | PRINCE OF PERSIA meets PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN |
| Writer: | Hank Woon |
| Genre: | Action | Adventure | Fantasy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | SINBAD & THE FINAL WISH |
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SNEAK AND DESTROY
| Logline: | A sneaker fanatic undergoes a series of increasingly wild trials in pursuit of getting a pair of one-of-a-kind Jordans. |
| Pitched as: | JINGLE ALL THE WAY meets MEET THE PARENTS |
| Writer: | Jase Shepherd |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | SNEAK AND DESTROY |
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SOLUS
| Logline: | When a listless author learns of the death of an old muse and lover, he realizes that the mystery behind her alleged suicide is intended to provide the ending to his incomplete novel. |
| Pitched as: | IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS meets GONE GIRL |
| Writer: | Charles Hopkins |
| Genre: | Psychological Thriller | Surrealist |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | SOLUS |
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SPORT
| Logline: | A hunting trip turns fatal for a group of childhood friends when a gunman stalks them from afar. |
| Pitched as: | YOU’RE NEXT meets THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME |
| Writer: | David K. Wazsko |
| Genre: | Horror | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently no agent Jon Kanak Management – Jon Kanak |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 10 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | SPORT |
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THE SPY
| Logline: | Roald Dahl takes a diplomatic posting during WWII, but when he is thrown into the field as an intelligence operative, he is forced to confront ruthless politicians and Nazi spies, all in an effort to get the US to enter the war. |
| Pitched as: | THE IMITATION GAME meets SAVING MR. BANKS |
| Writer: | Andrew Slattery |
| Genre: | Biopic | Drama | Spy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE SPY |
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THE STONE
| Logline: | Two slackers must evade a bookie’s thugs and deal with a ruthless Mexican gangster after one accidentally swallows an ancient stone that causes him to shit gold. |
| Pitched as: | THE HANGOVER meets THE INTERVIEW |
| Writer: | Russ Riggins |
| Genre: | Action | Comedy | Supernatural |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 10 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THE STONE |
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SWEET SOULS ATROCIOUS
| Logline: | When a journalist discovers that his neighbor is not a holocaust survivor, but in fact a former member of the Nazi party, he must uncover the whole truth in order to determine whether the old man should pay for his crimes. |
| Pitched as: | CAPOTE meets ATONEMENT |
| Writer: | Tracey Bradley |
| Genre: | Drama | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | SWEET SOULS ATROCIOUS |
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TETON RECKONING
| Logline: | Determined to head West, an orphan connives to wed a wealthy Idaho land baron who may not be all he appears. |
| Pitched as: | COLD MOUNTAIN meets FISTFUL OF DOLLARS |
| Writer: | Debi Yazbeck |
| Genre: | Drama | Western |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | TETON RECKONING |
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THROUGH THE MIST OF MEMORY
| Logline: | When a soldier returns home to find his family missing, his sanity is called into question as he struggles to uncover the truth. |
| Pitched as: | THE BOURNE IDENTITY meets JACOB’S LADDER |
| Writer: | Victor Fitzpatrick |
| Genre: | Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | THROUGH THE MIST OF MEMORY |
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UNTITLED NYC HIP-HOP DANCE PROJECT
| Logline: | Two brothers and a dynamic crew of orphans battle for supremacy in NYC’s hottest dance competition while a murderous incident from their past could bring everything crashing down. |
| Pitched as: | STEP UP meets DO THE RIGHT THING |
| Writer: | Todd Serlin |
| Genre: | Dance | Drama |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | UNTITLED NYC HIP-HOP DANCE PROJECT |
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WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU
| Logline: | An insurance agent is tasked with tracking down a man who, after being misdiagnosed as terminally ill, mistakenly receives 25 million dollars and is having the time of his life. |
| Pitched as: | LAST HOLIDAY meets THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY |
| Writer: | David Keith Miller |
| Genre: | Comedy | Romantic Comedy |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 50 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU |
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WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CHATEAU CHEVEUX
| Logline: | A puppet inherits a formerly glamorous hotel from a distant relative, but accidentally summons demonic monsters that are intent on eating his famous and fashionable guests. |
| Pitched as: | THE EVIL DEAD meets THE MUPPETS |
| Writer: | Michael B. Snow |
| Genre: | Comedy | Horror |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 25 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CHATEAU CHEVEUX |
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WHEN FLESH BURNS
| Logline: | Fire investigators try to solve a string of calculated arsons, only to uncover that the culprit might actually be among their ranks. |
| Pitched as: | BACKDRAFT meets INSIDE MAN |
| Writer: | Ron Peer |
| Genre: | Drama | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently unrepresented |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 75 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | WHEN FLESH BURNS |
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WHEN THE DEVIL’S LOOSE
| Logline: | In the summer of 1988, four young friends set out to discover the truth behind a series of mysterious break-ins menacing their town, all while an ever-spreading wildfire threatens to wipe out their community entirely. |
| Pitched as: | STAND BY ME meets KINGS OF SUMMER |
| Writer: | Ben Watts |
| Genre: | Coming-of-Age | Drama | Thriller |
| Representation: | Currently no agent Markerstone – Mark Lawyer |
| Availability: | Project is available |
| Details: | Top 10 – 2015 Launch Pad Feature Competition |
| Direct Link: | WHEN THE DEVIL’S LOOSE |
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