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Mark Vahradian
Charles Band’s classic horror franchise The Puppet Master is posed to get a modern makeover courtesy of Transformers producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian.
A reboot of the 1989 franchise, the story follows a man who attempts to sell a Puppet Master doll at a convention only to have it and other puppets at the convention come to life and go on a killing spree.
Darren Lemke’s spec for the sci-fi action thriller Arcadia has been picked up by Transformers producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura.
Paramount and Di Bonaventura nabbed the Swedish horror director to take on the forces of hell for them.
A convicted criminal named James Griffin-Mars is identified as one of a select group ideally suited for time-travel missions that could delay humanity’s demise.
A convicted criminal named James Griffin-Mars is identified as one of a select group ideally suited for time-travel missions that could delay humanity’s demise.
Logline: Based on the true events on the evening of 9/11 when terrorists overran an American embassy outpost in Benghazi, Libya during an under-the-radar visit from US Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Recounts the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during a legendary flood.
Logline: Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the story follows a squad of soldiers as they search for a fabled city of gold while on a tour of duty in Mexico liberating it from an alien race known as Orcs.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps but said to be in the vein of “Salt.”
Logline: A recent college graduate is manipulated into joining a prestigious law firm where he is given sensitive information about a massive lawsuit.
Logline: On a wing and a prayer, two air repo pilots can only save their asses by stealing a military jet filled with cash bound for Afghanistan.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of MIB. Story follows on a handful of misfits assigned to guard a storage dump known as Area 52 where the government stores otherworldly discoveries.
Logline: An aging band of outlaws makes one last score and heads to Mexico with a band of bounty hunters on their heels, and leave a trail of bloody mayhem and violence along the way.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Pitched as “Oceans 11″ meets “Mr. and Mrs. Smith†— 11 female agents join forces to sting the world’s foremost spy, the man who betrayed each of them, and hung them out to dry, or even worse… left for dead. An upside down spin on the “James Bond†story.
Logline: Centers on Evelyn A. Salt, a CIA officer who is accused of being a Russian sleeper spy.
Logline: Story centers on the courage of the men who worked on the “Deepwater Horizon” oil rig and the final minutes they fought to save the rig, and stop the explosion that would take eleven men’s lives, and cause the largest oil spill in the world.
Logline: A group of retired intelligence officers must break a man out of an insane asylum so he can stop a weapon of mass destruction from going off.
Logline: An ex-cop turned con uses a suicide attempt on a Manhattan hotel rooftop as cover for a diamond heist.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but said to be a modern twist on “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
Logline: The futuristic, cyberpunk tale of ace computer hacker Case, whose brain is disabled by the authorities so he can no longer hack. While living in Japan, he is approached by a stranger to go on a mission to the space station Freeside to regain his hacking powers.
Logline: A family discovers that their home is next to an ancient Indian cemetary that can bring the dead back to life.