Spec Tracker

Logline: When Art’s horrific mother dies he and his new friend Camilla must trick everyone into believing she is still alive for three months so Art can take over her massive rent controlled apartment in New York City.

Logline: This atmospheric thriller is in the vein of THE ORPHANAGE for a TWILIGHT audience. It tells the story of Ellen – an orphaned, brilliant girl – trying to fit into a new elite boarding school where secret traditions – and possibly a disturbed ghost – dominate under the school’s prestigious surface.

Logline: Two misfit contestants on an ESPN reality show featuring Madden video game players who travel the country competing for $250,000, must band together to solve the disappearance of one of their own.

Logline: Pitched as being “Hitchcockian” in tone. A photojournalist finds himself on the run in a foreign country where he is framed for a murder he didn’t commit.

Logline: A young single mother who has reluctantly left her daughter at home with the babysitter the night of a “devastating” earthquake, must now must find her way across the ruins of Los Angeles to get back to her.

Logline: Based on a true story- In 1991 as world leaders watched meekly from the sidelines, thousands of bloodthirsty rebels cut a brutal swathe through the peaceful civilian population of Sierra Leone killing and destroying everything in their paths. No sense of conscience would slow them, no UN policies deter them, and no army would stand in their way. No one that is until a small group of former South African mercenaries working for a company called Executive Outcomes accepted a contract to stabilize the country.

150 men from Executive Outcomes fought 15000 rebels, beating both intimidating odds and a turning tide of political opinion, which often seems to greet tyrants with peace agreements rather than the sound of guns. They came for the money, but left preventing genocide.

Logline: Comedic tale of a failing used car salesman from Detroit who hits the jackpot when he learns he’s the new King of Tonga, thanks to his mothers illicit affair years earlier with the previous King.

Logline: A taut thriller in the tradition of “Fatal Attraction” and “Unfaithful.”

Logline: In the vein of a “GROSSE POINTE BLANK in high school,” a 17-year-old international assassin yearning for a “normal” adolescence, fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. But when her old employers come calling, it’s more extracurriculars than any teenager can handle.

Logline: Centers on five jobless misfits who create a fake company, so that they can fire each other and collect unemployment. But, when an unemployment officer starts to suspect their scheme, the only way out of it is to make the company real.

Logline: A thirty-something, divorced, young-adult novelist returns to her small hometown to chase the ex-boyfriend that got away. Only problem is, he’s now married and has a kid.

Logline: Pitched as being in the spirit of “SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE” meets “THE WARRIORS” A hip-hop dance drama set in NYC that flashes between the “Boogie Down Bronx” 80’s and the present, it follows the journey of Tre Livingston, cutting between a childhood immersed in music, murder and hardship and his present day mission to win the “Represent” dance competition at Madison Square Garden.

Logline: For years, three lifelong friends have used an imaginary character named Ricky Stanicky to get them out of sticky situa¬tions. However, when their wives demand a meeting with Ricky, the friends are forced to hire an actor to portray him… with unfortunate results.

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of SHERLOCK HOLMES. A fun, action/adventure script about Leonardo da Vinci, who investigates a friend’s murder and finds himself fighting against a plot to start a crusade.

Logline: After witnessing the murder of a government agent, a young valet finds himself entangled in a government
conspiracy.

Logline: A contemporary take on the fairy tale. In the vein of DISTRUBIA. In order to save the love of his life and confront his own past, Peter, with the help of two very unlikely allies, sets out to trap a cunning serial killer who has returned to the college town he once terrorized.

Logline: An action-adventure in the vein of ROMANCING THE STONE where a professional World of Warcraft player is forced out of the safety of his apartment to go and rescue his sister in China and he reluctantly must team up with a sexy black marketeer who may have an agenda of her own.

Logline: A ticking clock thriller involving a female lead who volunteers for a psychological experiment that’s actually a trap set by a rogue neuroscientist who kidnaps the participants and uses them to explore the cognitive effects of terror. Think 3D and franchisible. FINAL DESTINATION meets SAW.

Logline: A young teen girl joins her mother’s bank robbing ring only to discover that she is the target of a kill order.

Logline: Being pitched as “Disturbia” in a college setting.

Logline: Pitched as a dramedy with elements of “Tron” and “Saving Private Ryan”.

Logline: In a world overrun by vampires, Gary & Suede run “Gary’s Vampire Proofing & Corpse Disposal” – the city’s last hope for both survival and entertainment.

Logline: Tentpole superhero family adventure in the vein of “The Incredibles.”

Logline: A former NASA astronaut must make it to the International Space Station to rescue his wife, who’s being held hostage (along with North America) by a Russian mad-man with his finger on the trigger of ten space-based nuclear missiles. In the vein of Die Hard.

Logline: A teen comedy about a girl, who despite her best efforts, gets dragged along on her class’s senior retreat, only to inadvertently become everyone’s hero when she proves to be the one person brave enough to stand up to the psychotic student body president. It’s a loving look at everything that was awesome and awful about 1990.

Logline: Inspired by recorded events… For over a century men have searched the Superstition Mountains for a legendary lost gold mine believed to be protected by preternatural forces. Many of these men suffered horrifying and inexplicable deaths. Others vanished from existence. None discovered the gold. None defied the evil guarding it. Until now…

Logline: When a disgruntled war veteran takes a marketing firm in Midtown Manhattan hostage, he’s pitted against an out-of-practice negotiator who quickly learns the target isn’t the bank beneath them, but something that will have far greater impact and affect a country thousands of miles away.

Logline: When the boogeyman comes a-creeping for them, two sixth graders enlist the help of their social studies teacher to put an end to his reign of fright. Night of the Hee-Hee 3D is a fresh take on the classic horror genre spun for a 4Q audience. It hopes to launch a new movie monster franchise ala Freddy Krueger, but for a PG crowd.

Logline: Pitched as a raunchy R-rated comedy throwback to the 80’s.

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “Gremlins”. A most unusual animal, which looks slightly like a dog, turns out to be a most amazing and unique pet.