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A newly single man who trips over his own feet stumbles through one mishap after another in both his work and social life, but in trying to impress his mocking buddies and Latino lady friend, he accidentally trips headfirst into finding his real love.

Paine Island

When secret coordinates aboard disgraced billionaire Gregory Paine’s abandoned yacht lead ambitious Artie Callis and his friends to an uncharted island, they discover the source of Paine’s fortune: an ancient entity offering limitless wealth to anyone willing to keep it fed.

Nostalgia Kills

A washed-up paranormal TV crew heads to an abandoned mall to exploit a legendary massacre for ratings, only to find themselves trapped inside a bloody slasher sequel where someone is determined to finish the story that started twenty-five years ago.

Ralph Unleashes Hell

A burned-out occult exterminator is dragged back to the haunted town he abandoned when ancient creatures begin resurfacing — forcing him to confront the prophecy that claims he isn’t its savior… but its destroyer.

Cooper

Fifty-five years after D.B. Cooper vanished, he reappears without having aged and tells FBI agent Calista Myles that he was taken off-world—and has returned to stop a trafficking network selling human beings beyond Earth.

The Wylde Card

When a gang of armed thieves steals the trading-card packs he promised his seven-year-old son, a seemingly ordinary family man tracks them to their hideout—where they discover they’ve robbed the wrong dad.

The Wylde Side

After his brother is presumed killed investigating Isla de Cinque, a criminal island-state beyond government control, retired black-ops legend Joe Wylde returns to the world he abandoned to stop a masked tech mogul from using a devastating cyber weapon to hold the world to ransom.

F.M.L

Five years after beating cancer and a decade after being blackballed from the film industry, a sharp-tongued former screenwriter launches a war against his son’s tyrannical PTA president just as an old filmmaking friend offers him an unexpected route back into the career he never stopped wanting.

Disconnected

When a self-aware AI shuts down the internet and gives humanity five years to prove it deserves reconnection, the fractured family of one of its creators must survive an offline world—and each other.