Rosa Entertainment is out with FRIGHTFUL PALACE by Joel Thomas. Described as GOONIES meets GHOSTBUSTERS.
Story details are being kept under wraps but described as a four-quadrant family adventure in the vein of JUMANJI, using the vintage Atari 2600 to set off an alien invasion.
Logline: When a magic umbrella lands two tween outcasts and a bumbling dad on a wacko island in the sky, the trio must learn to bond in order to unite the island’s two warring sides and save the universe – the only act that will allow them to return home.
Story about a workaholic high-level business executive with a ‘Type A’ personality who has neglected his wife and kids. When he gets downsized in a corporate merger, he tries to apply his business skills to running his alienated family and meets with disastrous results.
When Satan’s favorite hell hound, Bub, is booted out of hell by a jealous rival, he is mistakenly adopted by a single dad and his two kids. Despite his bad ways, Bub soon begins to embrace his goodness and falls in love with the family. When Satan wants his dog back and Bub refuses, he must protect his new family from the fury of hell.
Noel Green, head of Santa’s Secret Service, is a man on a mission: to protect Santa and the North Pole. But when a vengeful elf from the South Pole threatens to take Santa down just before Christmas, everything starts to snowball out of control.
An Amblin style horror film about a young woman trying to connect with her boyfriend’s children while struggling to deal with a monster from under their bed.
A dentist is given a pair of magic figs as a form of payment by a patient. The fruit, he’s told, has the power to make dreams come true. When his first wish comes true, he makes plans to use the second fig to become the richest man in the land. But when his dog eats the fig, man and dog switch places.
Kept under wraps, a family adventure that centers on a distracted father and his children’s toys.
Project details are being kept under wraps, but it’s being pitched as a high concept animated project.
When his childhood drawings inexplicably come to life, a dad and his daughter must stop the havoc his beastly creations wreak upon their community. Being pitched as a four-quadrant franchise starter in the zone of Jumanji and Night at the Museum.
Following the disappearance of the book fair money he was entrusted to protect, a lactose intolerant middle school student with an addiction to dairy items must hone his detective skills to investigate the “seedy” underbelly of his school. It’s a fun spin on classic detective tales like Maltese Falcon, but with the built in franchise potential of a series akin to Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
A group of rugged firefighters meets their match after rescuing a trio of rambunctious children.
When nearly 11-year-old Fidge falls into Wimbley Land, she and her cousin Graham must solve the Wimbley Woos’ riddles to defeat a dictator and find their way home again.
A single father and his three dysfunctional kids are one of five families chosen to live in an isolated, fully-automated test community where every human need/want is catered to by robots… but when the AI supercomputer that controls the town malfunctions and becomes convinced it’s a human-hunting avatar in a popular video game, the families must learn to work together in order to escape alive.
The four Fitzgerald-Trout siblings live together on a lush tropical island, sleeping in their car, bathing in the ocean, and driving anywhere they need to go. If they put their minds to it, they can do anything. Even, they hope, find a real home and possibly save the world.
Logline: After a young girl is transported to a magical world within her grandfather’s maps, she must combine two halves of a torn map in order to reunite her grandparents and save this new land from falling apart.
The storyline is under wraps but is being described as a hybrid Christmas family comedy.
A young man recieves life advice from his father thanks to a series of DVD videos his father recorded before his death.
A young girl must partner up with an elf, a Russian explorer, and a reindeer to rescue Santa Claus from a band of evil elves and save the North Pole.
Logline: A teenage girl must use her fashion savvy and secret ninja identity to battle ancient Asian mythological monsters that land in her suburban community.
Based on Saunder’s short story about a veteran and his troubled family after he returns home from war.
Eleven-year-old Stella shows up at NASA to ask that her recording be included in Carl Sagan’s Golden Record and gains a lonely black hole for a friend.
For Aster, boys are shapeshifters and girls are witches, no exceptions, but when danger threatens his home, will Aster use his witch magic to save the day?
This true story starts in Ecuador, where Mikael and his racing team cross paths with a remarkable stray dog named Arthur, who follows them through the jungle of the unforgiving course. Mikael and Arthur formed a special bond, and after the race, Mikael and others worked tirelessly to get Arthur out of the country and back to his home in Sweden.
The story of two friends who are ripped apart when one loses his imagination.
Leek, an espcially luky rabbit, finds himself in Hat, a magical land ruled by a black cat intent on spreading bad luck.
Eleven-year-old Timmy and his polar bear sidekick Failure run their detective agency to make enough money so that Timmy’s mom won’t have to worry about paying the bills.
Logline: In a world where a Christmas tree’s star is actually a secret transmitter used by Santa Claus to identify all of the active Christmas homes throughout the world, a toy soldier must lead a group of ornaments in a desperate race against time to find their missing star so Santa doesn’t skip their house.