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The RifleLogline: A former college football star battling survivors guilt from a past fatal car accident gets recruited by a NFL scout as a practice player for training camp on a new expansion team. |
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FALLEN SONLOGLINE: When the son of mafia boss leaves the family business and is wrongly charged for murder, he must choose whether to stay loyal to his mob family and serve a prison sentence, or defy them by proving his innocence and risk assassination._____________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS: Chosen as next head of his family’s crime business, the eldest son of a New Orleans Mafia boss facing deportation orders abandons his Sicilian heritage by marrying an American woman and going into legitimate business. After his father is deported and his younger brother inherits the family business, the elder son is indicted for murder when a restaurant owner he had previously refused orders to kill turns up dead. Then he learns who is real family is and risks certain assassination by teaming up with an investigation lawyer against his blood family in court to avoid a death row prison sentence. |
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SHADOW WARLogline: Just when a battle-weary, suspended Navy SEAL revives his family fishing business, he spots Russian spetsnaz troops disguised as fishermen blowing up an oil rig, and fights to prevent a hit on their next target--the Trans-Alaskan pipeline. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Synopsis: On the verge of losing his family because of prolonged overseas duty, a Navy SEAL about to make captain is suspended for disobeying orders to kill terrorists disguised as fishermen caught sabotaging a Caspian Sea gas pipeline. When the disgraced SEAL returns home to Alaska to resume the family fishing business during his suspension, he again encounters terrorists posing as fishermen, but discovers they are Russian spetsnaz forces on a covert mission to destroy the Alaskan transcontinental pipeline. After he warns his family and government officials, they accuse him of having PTSD, and the suspended SEAL learns that to win back his family, save innocent lives and prevent an economic death sentence to the U.S., he must sacrifice his Navy career and disobey orders again by engaging the enemy in a tactical fight to the death on Alaska’s frigid waters. |
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WOMAN'S HOURThe 85-year-old woman leader of a rapidly growing controversial new Christian religion in the 19th century is targeted by a vicious yellow journalism smear campaign against her and her church. |
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ACTIVE MEASURESWhen a KGB-compromised ex-WWII U.S. intelligence agent turned restaurant owner and family man is reactivated as a KGB spy seventeen years later for a Soviet active measures assignment involving Fidel Castro and JFK, the sleeper agent and his son’s lives are threatened, and he realizes the only way he can secure his and his son's survival is to take active measures on behalf of his own and home country's side. |
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A social welfare boss flees from the ghosts of the people whose lives he ruined.
SEVERELY GIFTED
A bright, lonely teenager learns about love and loss while taking a summer job to escape his abusive father.
CATACOMB
On a field trip to Rome, a quiet teenage girl discovers her secret mental powers and must learn to use them in confronting a conspiracy to destroy the Vatican.
THE REDDITION
An idealistic monk crusades against manipulative, sadistic prefects at his order's reform school for boys.
DOWNsized
A young couple who work in a holiday display factory try to make their way back home after mysteriously being miniaturized among model Christmas villages.
THE WORD ON THE STREET
While trying to keep her family together, a young Catholic widow must also deal with prejudice as black families start moving into their all-white parish in 1950s West Philadelphia.
Ruthless
While investigating a missing child case, a female detective realizes the case is closer to home than she thinks, which leads her on an emotional, soul-searching journey.
Osceola
When treaties are broken and the Seminole chiefs are coerced into signing away their land, Osceola takes the lead in urging the Seminoles ad their black allies to fight for freedom and justice.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH - VERSION 4
A 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media This pilot streamer has it all.
