DJ2 Entertainment & Escape Artists picked up STREETS OF RAGE by Derek Kolstad.
Debbie Deuble-Hill
A young woman wants a break from fighting supernatural forces to experience normal life.
Story details are being kept under wraps but it’s described as a John Wick-esque hard boiled action film with an African American male lead.
Matt hasn’t eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, but Matt won’t give in. Because Matt has discovered something: the hungrier he gets, the more he seems to have . . . powers. The ability to see & hear things he shouldn’t be able to. Maybe even the authority to bend time and space. But Matt doesn’t realize there are many kinds of hunger…and he isn’t in control of all of them.
When the teenage son of a Native American hunter is murdered by a group of backwoods drug dealers, the mourning father decides to exact revenge on those responsible for his death and the corruption in their small town.
When Aidan Edmond is forced into rehab by his loved ones, he finds that wrestling his demons is more frightening than he could ever imagine.
A college-bound senior falls for a local mechanic, but soon the details surrounding his tragic and violent past catch up with them.
Follows a rookie African American female cop whose body cam records her fellow Detroit police officers murdering several drug dealers. Her colleagues hunt her down in order to destroy the incriminating footage, while the dealers’ game comes after her too, demanding answers.
A fifteenth High School reunion booze cruise gets hit by a tidal wave, and the surviving partygoers get stranded on an island and revert to their High School selves. Pitched as Lord of the Flies meets Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion.
TB has confirmed that screenwriter Derek Kolstad is teaming up with Alan and Peter Riche to hit the town the week after Thanksgiving with a hot new feature pitch based on Tim Lebbon’s novel Endure, and we’ve got the list of the first buyers lining up to hear it inside.
In the vein of Deliverance and The Most Dangerous Game. Follows heroine Rose is trying to get revenge on The Trail, a secret organization that organizes a human trophy hunt for rich clients.
Two people in Los Angeles go on a Tinder date that turns into a night of disasters.
Goldy Moldavsky’s debut novel Kill the Boy Band was released a little over a month ago, but it is already heating up the film rights market.
Four fangirls get a room in the same hotel where their favorite Brit boy band is staying. They end up kidnapping one of the members, which leads to a night of unexpected twists and turns.
Logline: An autistic inventor falls in love with one of his robotic creations unknowingly sent from the future to warn him of a grave mistake. Her meets Splash.
The Alienist author Caleb Carr has hit the film rights market with his latest titillating thriller, Surrender, New York. The novel is due to hit bookshelves in August, but some around town are already eyeing the buzzy new title from one of America’s most respected crime fiction writers.
Set in rural, impoverished Burgoyne County, New York, where a pattern of strange deaths begins to emerge: adolescent boys and girls are found murdered, their corpses left hanging in gruesome, ritualistic fashion.
A man who has been methodically preparing for the end of the world for 20 years after having a cataclysmic vision decides to break his rules to save a troubled young girl, risking the lives of everyone who has taken refuge in his impenetrable FORTRESS.
A teenage boy, raised in total seclusion and indoctrinated by his enigmatic father, is sent to live with a foster family enrolled in a public high school when his father is incarcerated, causing the boy to question everything he’s learned and threatening his relationship with his unpredictable father.
Logline: A grown-up survivor of a sexual predator is pulled into a game of cat-and-mouse when she is assigned to mentor another young survivor.
When Claire, a sixteen year old misfit, finds a magic box that promises a chance at the life she has always wanted, she never could have guessed that each wish would demand a deadly payment.
Logline: A woman wakes up on New Year’s morning and realizes that she is reliving the previous year (the worst of her life) all over again.
Logline: An expert tracker battles his demons while on a journey to rescue his estranged older brother who has vanished in the uncharted wilderness of the Northwest.
Logline: In a world with a diminishing female population, a young girl disguises herself as a boy to avoid being hauled away for breeding. However, when her best friend is captured and her father’s life is in jeopardy, she sets out to rescue them both and avenge the tragic death of her mother.
Logline: A dying gangster grudgingly teams up with his aimless, emasculated, estranged grandson for a one-way road trip that will have romance brewing, the law pursuing and $100,000 of Frank Sinatra’s money at stake.
Logline: Pitched as “Misery†in a skyscraper, a woman is kidnapped and kept hostage in a multi-million dollar penthouse by an obsessively enamored man after they have a one-night stand.
Logline: Interconnected love stories told through a connection of homes and love letters in each one.
Logline: Two fathers, an American tourist and a Russian crime lord, war with each other to save the lives of their sons…. but only one can succeed.
Logline: A 16 year old girl begins to record her life for her high school media class just as a terrifying virus begins to spread.
Logline: A bride’s wedding day is ruined by gun-slinging gangsters from her past who crash the party and kidnap her groom, looking for their share of the prize that she stole from under them.
