Elevate Entertainment is out with FUSE by Marek Polgar & Martyn Pedler. A government assassin suffering from trauma with two personalities battles as the first persona attempts to complete his mission, while the second tries to stop him. Think MEMENTO meets BOURNE IDENTITY meets TAKEN.
Pantheon has optioned COCAINE by Andi Albin. An overzealous police detective gets involved with a crime family that is heavily connected to the local political scene. With the 1980s cocaine wars as a backdrop, this film is immersed in the history of South Florida’s drug trade, paired with a tumultuous, violent love story.
Paramount made a preemptive deal on MURDER IN THE WHITE HOUSE by Jonathan W. Stokes. The president is murdered in the White House, and a Secret Service agent has one night to find the killer.
Zero Gravity Management is out with POLICE STATION by Kurt McLeod. An organized crime target running for his life intentionally gets arrested and thrown in jail at a police station where he thinks he’ll be safe for the night, but when the hitman pursuing him does the same, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
Escape Artists out with WE ARE THE PEOPLE by Aaron Nee & Adam Nee. A Pasadena family’s Fourth of July is disrupted by a cloud of ash that drives neighbors and relatives into a ranting, violent rage. Separated, struggling to survive, the family members ultimately reunite and manage to uncover the solution that restores everyone to sanity.
Set up with Cold Iron Pictures & The Film Arcade with Julian Higgins directing. GOD’S COUNTRY follows a college professor living at the edge of a national forest who confronts two hunters trespassing, triggering a battle of wills with dangerous ramifications.
In order to help pay off a friend’s debt, a daredevil free solo rock climber agrees to participate in a heist that requires him to embark on the most dangerous climb of his life.
A group of black teenagers find themselves lured into a church where a white police officer accused of a racially motivated murder has been taken hostage.
A deep-cover KGB agent sent to the US just before the collapse of the Soviet Union and left stranded for decades is reactivated and ordered to carry out a high-profile assassination that will destroy his American family.
New spec ESCAPADE by Briggs Watkins & Wes Watkins is out from Schemers Entertainment.
Logline: A business professional’s rare night on the town turns into a deadly fight for survival when she’s abducted by a man posing as a rideshare driver, taking her for a wild ride through a crime-filled scape of silent, rusting factories, and broken dreams.
Logline: During a romantic anniversary getaway with her husband, a woman discovers someone is trying to kill her, but she isn’t sure if it’s the suspicious stranger who showed up on their doorstep, or her husband.
Logline: Nick drives his grumpy grandfather to the dark winter forests of Canada believing he wants to bid farewell to his best friend, who is terminally ill… But in reality, grandpa Melvin is on a personal journey to finally capture the notorious serial killer he hunted for years when he was an active hard-boiled police detective. PRISONERS meets DON’T BREATHE
Story details are currently being kept under wraps.
Logline: A powerful executive wakes bound and gagged in the trunk of a limo, her actions are being live-streamed to the dark web as she learns she has seventy miles to go before she’s murdered.
Logline: The story follows a girl on the run after escaping a mysterious captivity, leaving us questioning anyone she comes in contact with.
After accidentally killing a five-year-old girl and losing his closest friend in the aftermath, a teenage boy sets out to help the girl’s father build his home without revealing who he is.
When a talented hacker is recruited by the mysterious Cicada 3301, she gets wrapped up in a plot that threatens to destroy the entire world. Based on the real organization.
A young woman, propelled by an unstoppable rage called “the swell”, begins inviting her victims to a summer lake house as revenge for past wrongs. But one of her guests has been wronged as well. (Think THOROUGHBREDS meets AMERICAN PSYCHO)
Trapped at a three day personal development retreat, a woman fights to save her husband and herself from being brainwashed by a charismatic self-help guru.
Logline: A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge. Think TRAINING DAY meets EXORCIST.
Logline: Plot details are being kept under wraps.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps but described as a female-driven thriller in the vein of PRISONERS.
In the near future where air-supply is scarce, a mother and daughter fight for survival when two strangers arrive desperate for an oxygenized safe haven.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps but described as Ready Player One if it were a lower budget horror film.
Logline: A group of American Instagram influencers go on a ‘gram safari to Africa to photograph themselves with elephants, feed giraffes, hug malnutritioned babies, and hype their brand; but they end up finding the ‘Heart of Darkness’: predators, death, suffering, and the violence within. Think ‘Sex in the City’ meets ‘Deliverance’, or ‘Assassination Nation’ meets ‘The Grey’; a dark, satirical thriller set in the age of social media.
Logline: A gambler tries to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy.
Logline: On a river run, two kayakers discover a soaked journal and in it, clues to a kidnap victim’s location, so they hatch a plan to rescue her.