Film News

Monthly wrap up reports on the spec market.

Logline: The story follows Matt Blurdy during the worst day of his life, after his girlfriend leaves him and he is fired from his job. On his way home he decides on a detour that leads him to a yard sale, where he discovers an ancient-like helmet for sale. After putting on the helm, he is turned into a superhero, only to have the ancient artifact change its mind and decided he is not the chosen one. Blurdy is defiant and will not take no for an answer.

Logline: In a future where the wealthy elite live on a ring-shaped space platform in the skies above Los Angeles, a slum-dwelling guy struggles to find his way there, first to save his own life but later to bring hope to all of humanity.

Logline: After a casino heist goes awry, two desperate sibling fugitives make a run for the Canadien border, bringing local enforcements and innocent lives into the mix.

Logline: The story follows a former Navy SEAL who is blackmailed into robbing Fort Knox, but sets out to clear his name when he escapes alive.

Logline: Almost a year after rejecting Amory “Amo” Percy’s deeply personal screenplay, assistant film executive Camilla Reilly finds herself without a job, a boyfriend, or a place to live. By chance, she meets up again with Amo at a downtown party and spends a life-changing 24 hours in his company. From underworld haunts to the upscale reaches of uptown Manhattan, theirs is an odyssey through a restless city in retrograde — an ageless, timeless, polymorphous landfill of drugs, poseurs, and perceptions, where everyone’s got their own hustle. Slowly but surely falling in love, Amo’s past and Camilla’s destiny intersect in a fateful romance cut short by sudden, lyrically foretold tragedy.

Logline: Centers on two artists who were hot in the California scene that committed suicide, one after the other, following fits of paranoia the two suffered, fearing the government and religious organizations were conspiring against them. Theresa Duncan, a video game designer for girls, killed herself in her bedroom. Jeremy Blake, a popular “digital painter,” found her there and ended his life by walking into the ocean a week later.

Logline: A small group of correctional officers and inmates who must band together to fend off a mysterious attack when their prison bus is sabotaged on a remote stretch of highway.

Logline: Attempting to cope with his wife’s illness, a local shoe shiner unexpectedly meets and befriends an immigrant child from Africa, who gives him a new perspective on life.

Logline: A mute bartender searches for his missing love in the shady underworld of a near future Berlin.

Logline: Centers on William Gravel, a British soldier with a surly demeanor and no ambition beyond closing time at the pub, who uses his powers in dark magic to battle zombies, beasts, and other supernatural beings for clients in order to make some extra cash.

Logline: Follows the story of a man who postpones his dreams of building a casino to coach the inept and local Native American high school lacrosse squad.Todd “Figg” Baird