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We are developing or licensing the following scripts and TV projects, which are all registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Contact us if you are interested in participating in any of these projects as a producer, co-producer, or director.
Action, Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, and Legal Dramas
FLARE UP: a cop/action/mystery/thriller
THE HELIFLYERS: a suspense thriller, based on the Heliflyer Website: www.heliflyer.org After a young entrepreneur creates the first U.S. helicopter commuter service, some executive commuters die mysteriously, and he struggles to find out who’s killing them and why before the negative publicity kills his company; then he becomes a target, too.
RICH AND DEAD: a
murder/suspense thriller
DEADLY AFFAIR: a cop/action/mystery thriller
COKE AND DIAMONDS: an action and legal thriller; based on a true story MOVING ON: a cop/action/mystery thriller A 30something writer has problems with a landlord, broker, moving company, and mover when she moves. As she investigates and uncovers their criminal secrets, they try to kill her. A cop teaching a class she takes helps her, and after a shoot-out in her house, she gains her dream house and the cop.
KILL.NET: a cop/mystery/serial killer film After a blow up with his wife, a man turns into a mysterious serial killer who finds young women victims through the Internet and kills them. The cops have to find the killer.
Sci-Fi Dramas
NEW IDENTITY:
a
sci-fi legal action drama
THE NEW CHILD: a sci-fi contemporary drama about relationships
DEAD NO MORE: a sci-fi crime, action, mystery drama RETURN OF THE MAYA is a sci-fi action drama
After guns and artifact smugglers encounter bandits in Mexico, their boss uses
DNA from an ancient Mayan ruler to create an army of androids to kill the
bandits and build a corporate empire. As villagers disappear through kidnappings
and deadly rituals, a U.S. archaeologist and his Mexican girlfriend track down
the company’s headquarters at an ancient Mayan site and foil their plans.
Psychological and Contemporary Dramas
THE INTERN: drama of contemporary relationships It’s a battle between generations, when a popular graduating college senior a marketing internship coordinator and has escalating conflicts with her teacher. As they battle over missed deadlines, fabricated research, missing money, and other problems, Janice feels humiliated before her peers, wants to kill her teacher, and tries. A twist conclusion shows what happens.
INTERNET ADDICT: drama of contemporary relationshipsA 30something computer store salesman addicted to the Internet is losing his girlfriend as the high-tech boom crashes. He joins a support group for high-tech casualties which helps him regain his balance in life and rescue a woman neighbor, recovering from a traumatic experience, from an abandoned house.
DELUSION: psychological drama about relationships; based on a true-story
Jerry, 40, a struggling writer, encounters Don, a successful high school friend,
who launches an Internet publishing venture after his wife leaves him. As the
venture tanks, Don has a manic-depressive breakdown, increasingly bizarre
fantasies, and turns to Jerry, who gains success by helping Don. TV Game and Reality Shows and Documentaries
DO YOU LOOK LIKE…..?
JACKPOT
HOMICIDE BY THE RICH AND FAMOUS
WHAT KIND OF DOG ARE YOU? Based on the Website www.whatkindofdogareyou.com and forthcoming book What Kind of Dog Are You?, in which people gain insights about themselves and others from their favorite and least favorite breed of dogs. The show features a variety of game activities, such as the following:
There is now a What Kind of Dog Are You song on YouTube, too. Just click to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wko1IvpNsKk
BAD BOSSES
WORK IT RIGHT!
THE LYING GAME
WHAT SHOULD I DO? Based on the popular book from Paragon Making Ethical Choices, Resolving Ethical Dilemmas, What Should I Do? is a show in which participants with an ethical dilemma are given advice by contests trying to give the best or worst advice and the likely results of following each choice are shown. Then, panel of judges decide who has given the best and worst advice and why, and that person wins a prize. The winner goes on to compete in the next show.
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The program is based
on a series of trademarked “Do You Look Like” Websites, including the popular
Web site and book of the same name, Do You Look Like Your Dog, and other
sites – Do You Look Like…Your Cat, Your Pet, Your Mate, Your Lover, a
Celebrity, Your Car, and
additional “Do You Look Like Categories.”
The DO YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR DOG game was introduced at the 2007 American Toy Fair
and is marketed and promoted internationally by Briarpatch. It recently
won a coveted Dr. Toy Award for one of the best games of the year. The
Do You Look Like Your Dog? book was published by Random House. In the shows contestants compete to show off who is the most alike and
participate in various activities with their pet, significant other, or other
look-alikes. A series of short video clips show the contestants at home showing
what they do to look more alike or interacting with others in the community.
Then, based on the in-studio show and the video clips, celebrity judges and
audience members decide the winners. Do You Look Like Your Dog is
suggested as the lead off program, since the site at
Based on the book of the same name published by both Greenwood and Berkley Books
Homicide by the Rich and Famous features cases with rich killers from the
19th century to the present. Each show features dramatizations of one or two
stories, highlighting different themes that characterize homicides by the rich
and famous – such as using an elaborate cover-up to hide the crime, hiring a
killer, or getting a great legal defense team. It draws on the cases described
in Homicide by the Rich and Famous and additional cases researched for
the show. A Web site for the book is at
Based on the popular book: A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses
featured at
Inspired by a series
of advice books on improving workplace relationships (A Survival Guide to
Working with Humans, Dealing with Bad Bosses, and Managing
Employees from Hell from AMACOM), Work It Right! is a show in which
people describe their workplace problems, followed by video clips from their
real workplace or a simulation and some clips showing different ways to resolve
the problem. Then, a panel of judges gives advice on what that person should
do. The Web site is
Inspired by the book
The Truth about Lying, The Lying Game is a show in which people compete
in games in which they tell lies, detect lies, and get people to participate in
activities based on truth and lies. People also describe situations in which
they have lied, and the judges and audience members vote on the participants who
have told the best lie, worst lie, or funniest lie. The show lends itself to a
series of boxed games which players can play at home with their family and
friends.