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Newcomers Score Writing Assignment
Newcomers Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman, whose spec Of Every Wickedness scored significant industry buzz, have won an assignment to write a remake of Brian DePalma's 1978 supernatural thriller The Fury. The project, about a young man with heightened kinetic powers who is abducted by the government, was based originally on a novel by John Farris. McGeevy and Shipman are repped by Paradigm and manager Michael Connolly. For more information about this sale and dozens of others by first-time writers, subscribe to MovieBytes' Who's Buying What.
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When a California mudslide unearths a mass grave of headless, spineless corpses, an FBI psychologist becomes obsessed with finding a logical explanation. But as she risks everything to uncover the bizarre, sanity-shattering secret behind the crime, she must confront her greatest fear that some truths may be beyond her understanding. (Posted: 05/07/2008)
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A newly released ex-con is blackmailed and ambushed into the San Francisco drug world to save his old girlfriend and newfound daughter from a psycho meth dealer strung out on his own product. Love, murder, sacrifice... Who said chivalry is dead?
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Noah tags along with a group of small time criminals on their way to knock off an antique store. But Noah doesn't want the money - He wants his '59 Mantle back. (Posted: 01/31/2008)
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The cutting-edge project of a brilliant scientific team creates a harrowing future dominated by a Frankenstein's monster of sentient technology.
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A little boy loses his faith in humanity when he witnesses the beheading of innocents. Now, as a young man, this womanizing pacifist finds love and a fight for civil liberty that alters the fate of a nation. Based on a true story. http://rebirthonline.net (http://www.tllewis.rynoceris.com/) (Posted: 01/08/2008)
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When an American military hero suspects the President of conspiring with enemies of the United States, he decides the only patriotic solution is to commit treason himself -- unaware that his efforts to save his country may instead lead to its destruction.
When a California mudslide unearths a mass grave of headless, spineless corpses, an FBI psychologist becomes obsessed with finding a logical explanation. But as she risks everything to uncover the bizarre, sanity-shattering secret behind the crime, she must confront her greatest fear that some truths may be beyond her understanding.
Bloodthirsty, saber-fanged beasts randomly hunt Native Americans at night on the Southwestern desert. Semi-finalist in the 2007 Screenplay Festival competition. Based on award winning novel.
Six hikers on a remote desert trail pray for rain when an old 1849 curse enables the sun breathe life into sinister beings, giving new meaning to the saying 'Everyone has an evil twin'. Be afraid of your own shadow!
Welcome to the year 2929 where killing a dog can land you on death row, but humane treatment of humans has many gray areas. An arrogant director bored with the usual reality show drivel pushes the boundary past filmmaker madness with his own brand of 'realism'. An edgy sci-fi/horror with a dose of dark humor.
Two Inuit teens are hunted by a legendary beast as they journey across the Canadian wilderness in search of a Nattilik witch who put a curse on their village. An ancient predator thought to be a myth has returned to the barrens to spill innocent blood!
Supernatural Thriller. When Satan tries to rewrite The End Of Days scenario, who would have thought that an atheist Jew from the Midwest would be the one chosen to stop him?
High Noon at the White House.
When an extraterrestrial gets drawn into the Machiavelian machinations of politics and war, mystery, murder and mayhem ensue.
A white man's marriage to the love of his life is put to the test when his wife's one night of weakness produces a Black baby that changes his entire existence.
Senator's Aid risks life and political aspirations to save our now ethanol dependent country from an infestation of corn destroying worms.
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