THE FAMILY - The rock and roll career of Charles Manson directed by Susan Montfort and Don Murphy. Cast includes Mena Suvari, Amy Smart, Jeremy Sisto, Bijou Phillips, Jeremy Davies, Anna Farris, Dominique Swain and Tom Seizmore.
LONDON FIELDS - Martin Amis's murder story for the end of the millenium. Sam Baer is set to direct.
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BATHORY - Screenplay by Julie Delpy from the true story of Countess Bathory, who became a notorious serial killer in her search to preserve her beauty with the blood of young virgins. A true horror story with an a view into the occult knowledge of the period. Click here to see Julie Delpy as the Countess Bathory.
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THE KILLER INSIDE ME - From the notorious pop pulp fiction author Jim Thompson of the most important film noire works such as Kubrick's The Killing, Pekinpah's The Getaway, Frears' The Grifters, Foley's After Dark My Sweet and many more. Andrew Dominik (dir. Chopper) set to direct. A story set in a small Texas pan handle town. This suspense classic portrays a seemingly innocuous group of individuals and creates one of the most cogent explorations of a psycho-sexual deviant's inner life. A deputy sheriff leads everyone to believe he didn't kill a hooker, when he did do it. Eventually every single person turns against him, yet he does not break.
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GOING DOWN - the first novel by Jennifer Belle was originally developed for Madonna. The story is a funny picaresque tale of a woman whose seemingly innocuous lifestyle as a student in the drama dept at NYU leads her into an exploration of the seedy underworld of the "call girl." From a series of call girl rings to a jaunt on Martha's Vineyard where our protagonist experiences love and nearly keeps it. We discover poignant humor mixed with the terrors of selling your body and knowing that you have to face reality in the end. It is the Belle de Jour of NYU.
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THE LINE - A Chinese Western co-produced by Dan Halsted and Muse. Screenplay by Tom Vaughan. Chow Yung Fat is attached to play the protagonist.
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GARDENS OF THE NIGHT - Written and Directed by Damian Harris. A cinema verite look of children driven to the streets of San Diego. John Malkovich and Jerod Harris are attached to star with Jeremy Sisto, Cole Sprouse, January Jones, Jonahtan Rhys Meyers, Jon Abrahams and Michael Imperioli.
IN A COUNTRY OF MOTHERS - No relationship is more charged than that between a psychotherapist and her patient - unless it is the relationship between a mother and her daughter. A.M. Homes, the author of Jack, The Safety of Objects and Music for Torching, delivers another masterpiece filled with love, humor, and tragedy.
MUSIC FOR TORCHING by A.M. Homes. An ironic suburbia where love triangles fall within love triangles has its tragic side too.
VATICAN CONNECTION this is the true story, written by Richard Hammer, of the relationship of the Vatican with the American and Italian Mafia and the elite mystical group of Masonic industrialists known in Italy simply as the P2, that lead to practice of collateralizing the Vatican's disastrous financial losses in the late 1970's with stolen and fraudulent securities to the tune of more than $900 million dollars. This criminal activity lead to the deaths of many, mostly by murder, most notably a Pope, Albino Luciani, and an important Vatican banker Robert Calvi who was found hanging supposedly by suicide from the Blackfriar bridge in London. Only $20 million of the phony or stolen stock and bonds were ever retrieved-the rest lost in the Vatican financial machine forever. The greatest conspiracy of the 20th century! Noted director Elias Merhige (Shadow of the Vampire) set to direct.
LEOPARD IN THE SUN - by Laura Restreppo. Romance in Colombian drug society. A modern
Columbian cartel West Side Story.
MAMA BLACK WIDOW - Iceberg Slim pens this tragic classic about a black family in Chicago during the
fifties adrift in the dark world of pimpdom, crime, and violence. This is Iceberg Slim's most vivid portrait of ghetto life - a masterpiece. Charles S. Dutton is set to direct the adaptation by Will De Los Santos.
FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID - The Philip K. Dick classic science fiction novel about the most famous man in the world who wakes up one day to find he's lost his identity.
LOST TRIBE - Based on the novel with the same title, this is a philosophical journey into the heart of sub Saharan Africa. A rag tag group of adventurers search for an ancient lost tribe. Walter Hill set to direct. Hill directed 48 Hours, Streets of Fire, Last Man Standing, Warriors, and Wild Bill.
ONE ARM - Tennessee William's screenplay from his novella follows the life of a former navy boxer whose life falls into the downward spiral of a gigolo and murderer after he loses his arm in an auto accident. Vincent Gallo is set to direct.
THE SERIAL KILLERS CLUB - In the vein of a Farley brother's film. The hilarious novel by Jeff Povey about a group of serial killers who meet once a month and ironically find out that the tables have been turned and they are now being hunted by a serial killer who only kills serial killers.
SOFTWARE - Steve Beck is set to direct this futuristic story about a robotic war on the moon based on the Rudy Rucker classic. Ed Pressman, Jeff Most and Phoenix Pictures will be producing along with Chris Hanley. Scott Ross of Digital Domain is producing the CGI.
THE LAST TEMPLAR - this Indiana Jones escapade follows the adventures of a man and a woman and their questfor holly scribes. Rupert Wainwright of Stigmata is set to direct this screenplay by Raymond Khurry.
GENERATION X - The term that coined an entire Generation, based on Douglas Coupland's infamous novel,
Generation X will be a classic "period piece" film. Andy Fleming is set to direct with a screenplay with Coupland and Fleming.
PLATO - The epochal true story of the rise of the school of Plato, Plato's escapades with Socrates and his fated interlude with the originator of "free love," Dionysis. Produced in association with Danny Vinik's Brink Films. Concept and script by the legendary Will De Los Santos.
TOASTER MAN - Josh Evans is set to direct this comedy with Frank Whalley to star.
HANDS - Matt Bright's funny but touching story of an adolescent gang of pickpockets let loose in New
York. Matt's twist on another classic, this time; Oliver Twist.
PUSHER - This is a remake of the Danish box office hit that follows a day in the life of a drug deal gone bad. Chris Hanley is producing along with Adam Del Deo of Scanbox International.
KICKS - It's Gremlins meet Platoon in Tijuana in the year ten thousand. Matt Bright's most twisted script.
JULIETTE - From the notorious sexual philosophical jouney written by Marquis De Sade. Juliette is adapted to the screen by Matthew Bright and is to be directed by Abel Ferrarra.
THE SCANNER DARKLY - by Philip K Dick, with superstar vid director Chris Cunningham attached to direct. SciFi undercover narcotics agent gets too involved in the durg he is investigating the source of only to find that he is observing himelf on his surveillance scanners without realizing that his identity has split in two from using the drug.
BOOGIE WOOGIE - The true to life version of the avaricious, sexually duplicitous contemporary art scene based on the novel by Danny Moynihan.
ALICE (IN WONDERLAND) This version of Alice, should be entitled ALICE UNDER SURVEILLANCE. Written
by young Brittish upstart Rickey Shane Reid, this tale is like The Conversation meets Brazil, or better yet The Prisoner.
HIGH RISE by J. G. Ballard with a screenplay by Don Macpherson and to be directed by Alex Proyas.
A combination of Speed and Lord Of The Flies placed in a super chic modern residential high rise building -sometime in the future.
THREE LITTLE PIGGIES - by Matthew Bright. A smart but trashy high school girl takes on the system -or the
whole weight of the world we should say. But she does ok. To be directed by Matt Bright.
PRETTY LITTLE HATE MACHINE - by Matthew Bright. A couple of hit-men that took out JFK back in the 60's leave a legacy of crime and genetic tendencies with their children, now grown up. The protagonist, the 16 year old daughter -learns that she has the aptitude to fall into the footsteps of the father she never knew much about.
SEVERED - The provocative true story of the infamous "Black Dahlia" murder told from the inside perspective of the actual detective who investigated the bizarre case. Ed Pressman is Producing with Floria Sigismondi set to direct.