TLLjournal Names Top Loglines for June/July 2014
TTLJournal.com has announced the top six loglines of their June/July 2014 Logline Contest:
Screenplay title: A Ghost Story Of Christmas
Written by: Eddie Yaroch
Genre: Family
Logline: "A Christmas Carol" meets "The Conjuring" when a modern-day Scrooge hires professional ghost hunters, one of them his former fiancee, Belle.
Screenplay title: The Executioner
Written by: Jean-Marie Mazaleyrat
Genre: Black comedy/Thriller/Mystery
Logline: When a series of murders with obscure motives stain with blood a small kingdom just after the abolition of the capital punishment, the police end up suspecting the former last executioner to work on his own.
Screenplay title: Just in Time
Written by: Jim Jackson
Genre: Coming of Age/Action/Sci-Fi
Logline: When a nerdy college student wakes up on a train forty years in the past, he's mistaken for a spy, finds romance, and discovers the fate of his long lost father - a government agent.
Screenplay title: Purpensula
Written by: Debra Johnson
Genre: Family/Fantasy
Logline: Maddie and Timothy Petrolly journey into the mysterious world of Purpensula, and with the help of the Whurples, they fight the giant monster Whiggats to rescue a cousin they've never met who is trapped in Purpensula. They must complete their task in three days or remain in Purpensula forever!
Screenplay title: Guess Who?
Written by: Sue Romansik
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Logline: A newly engaged woman thought she was over a fiancé who left her at the altar, until she woke up in his wife's body.
Screenplay title: The Dummy
Written by: Alan S. Ferguson
Genre: Drama
Logline: For most people getting shot would be the worse day of their life. For this bullied young man, it's the best day of his life.
Updated: 08/12/2014
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Post Your Script Here!A Risk of Exposure
In 1953, Russian ballet teacher plots to smuggle secret photos of Stalin's crimes while part of a cultural exchange to the U.
At the Sound of the Tone
"I think I killed her," an unknown voice confesses on her answer machine, and a frightened architect seeks answers from an Apache policeman with a who has a troubled history of his own.
BUMPED
A deeply troubled man with little hope in life, is thrust into a world between life and death, which may provide the purpose he has long been searching for.
THE RISE OF OMEGA
When a group of teenage tech geniuses reprogram a retired police robot to fight against corruption, they uncover a sinister plot by the police chief to control the city, leading to an epic showdown between the rogue robots and the rebels.
The Christmas Sermon
When a former 90’s R&B boy band member and current nightclub owner learns his mother’s dying wish was for him to become the pastor of her church, he must confront his lost faith, his loveless marriage, and the Church Board’s opposition to give a Christmas sermon that could change his life for the better.
The Christmas Sermon
When a former 90’s R&B boy band member and current nightclub owner learns his mother’s dying wish was for him to become the pastor of her church, he must confront his lost faith, his loveless marriage, and the Church Board’s opposition to give a Christmas sermon that could change his life for the better.
The Christmas Sermon
When a former 90’s R&B boy band member and current nightclub owner learns his mother’s dying wish was for him to become the pastor of her church, he must confront his lost faith, his loveless marriage, and the Church Board’s opposition to give a Christmas sermon that could change his life for the better.
CLOUD CITY
LoglineAfter discovering the richest citizens of Earth are abandoning the planet for a secret floating city above Venus, a young astronaut-in-training must find a way to save the Earth with the help of an adventurous young woman
GIRL OF MY DREAMS
When a lonely scientist who believes dreams are a link to a parallel world meets the literal woman of his dreams, he must find a way to bring her into the waking world before they are both discovered by the dream world’s evil ruler.
A Bullet For God's Bounty
In a small Arizona town in the 1880s, a righteous French bounty hunter agrees to track down a violent fugitive, only to discover he has been hunting the wrong man.
