CURRENT PROJECTS

We are developing or licensing the following scripts and TV projects, which are 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
After a battle over a supermarket parking space, one woman investigates and discovers the other woman, her husband, and two partners are involved in a chop shop, illegal immigration, welfare fraud, and banker's murder. Threatened by exposure, they try to kill her and the cop helping her, leading to a dramatic chase through city sewers. (A  director with 25+ years directing TV features is interested in directing once funding is secured).

RICH AND DEAD: a murder/suspense thriller
A homicide secretary suspects that the husband of her wealthy friend, who is seeking divorce, is poisoning her. After her friend's death, with help from her boyfriend and a homicide detective, she prevents a cremation and foils efforts to dispose of the body, while evading hit men trying to kill her.

COKE AND DIAMONDS: an action and legal thriller; based on a true story
A federal prosecutor matches wits with an international drug trafficker posing as an importer, who charms a jury and enters high society. When the prosecutor pursues with an FBI agent, using surveillance, stings, undercover agents, informants, wiretaps, and a hotel raid, he nearly loses the case, his job, and reputation, but succeeds due to an unexpected clue.  (We have had foreign investors who have expressed interest in providing matching funds.)

DEADLY AFFAIR: a cop/action/mystery thriller
After a beat cop with marriage problems has an affair with a neighborhood activist battling drug dealers, she turns up dead, and he could be the suspect.  Fearing the lies of criminals and a media circus, he turns to his brother-in-law, a homicide investigator, to find the real killer, and they risk getting killed as they investigate. 

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.
 

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
Sam, a wealthy businessman, whose life and health are failing, seeks a new life through a brain transplant, but due to a mix up he gets the body of a dying criminal.  As Jack, he marries and becomes a respected community leader, until a TV story leads to his arrest for murder. His trial becomes a media circus about who he is - Jack, Sam, or the criminal.  (A director with 25+ years experience editing studio and indie features is interested in directing once funding is secured.  We have several interested actors, too.)

THE NEW CHILD: a sci-fi contemporary drama about relationships
A U.S. archaeologist working in Mexico discovers 15,000 year-old skeleton and uses the DNA in a cloning experiment to have the child, since he and his wife can't have one.  But the child becomes increasingly wild as she grows up, leading to a media firestorm, flight to Mexico to return her, and surprise ending. (A completed script trailer for this film is availalbe.  A director with 25+ years experience editing studio and indie features is interested in directing once funding is secured.  We have several interested actors, too.)

DEAD NO MORE: a sci-fi crime, action, mystery drama
After a lawyer wins a dispute and acquires a cryonics tank with a shrewish wealthy woman frozen 20 years, a scientist friend brings her back.  It turns out her husband "killed" her and her children took her property.  When he tries to regain her property, her husband tries to kill her again but fails, as she transforms into a nice person. 

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

COUGAR AND CUB: a suspense thriller

She’s a 40-something woman with magical powers who picks up young men and entrances them. One turns is a psychopath who captures her in his car trunk, but she gets away by turning into a cat and jumps out, after the cops stop him, leaving him mystified. Later she helps the cops capture him. (Script video trailer available)

OUT OF CONTROL: a psychological drama inspired by a true story

When a struggling wanna-be producer with psychological problems becomes a mentor to a newcomer, she comes close to launching a new film but gradually destroys the group; when the newcomer uses what she has learned to gain success, the wanna-be goes crazy and on a revenge vendetta to destroy the newcomer and those close to her. (A memoir and novel are also available).

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 relationships

A 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…..?

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 www.doyoulooklikeyourdog.com has received over 1000 photos from all over the U.S. and other countries and receives about 50,000 hits a month.  Since a trademark has been approved for “Do You Look Like,” the show lends itself to a line of licensed properties.  There is also a Do You Look Like Your Dog? song on YouTube now. Just click to play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlsTtv565d0

JACKPOT
Based on the popular game published by Briarpatch in which players race to match up images to create Jackpots.  The game was introduced at the 2007 American Toy Fair and has received international publicity.

HOMICIDE BY THE RICH AND FAMOUS

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 www.richandfamoushomicide.com . 

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:

• Participants choose their favorite and least favorite dogs, respond to a series of questions, and guess what types of dogs the other participants are most likely to choose and why.

• Participants participate in role plays where they imagine themselves acting like different types of dogs, and the judges, who include celebrity judges, author of the book, and viewers, rate their role plays. 

       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 

Based on the popular book: A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses featured at www.badbosses.net , the show features former employees (sometimes disguised) telling their stories. As they do, clips of reenactments by actors will show what happened. Then, a panel of judges gives advice on what the person should do – or should have done. There are also prizes for the worst bosses.  Audience members and viewers are invited to share their stories and vote on the winners, too. 

WORK IT RIGHT!

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 www.workingwithhumans.com .   

THE LYING GAME

Inspired by the book Playing the Lying Game and The Truth about Lying, The Lying Game is a show in which people compete in games to 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 who has told the best, worst, or funniest lie. The show lends itself to a series of boxed games which players can play at home with their family and friends. 

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.