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Searching for: Anton Diether
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Sci-fi romcom a la "Little Miss Sunshine" with aliens, and a human-alien love story. JIMMY, a Venice Beach boardwalk hustler, discovers beautiful alien JARA and her two intergalactic circus performers stranded on Earth. He cons them into his "family" of misfit street performers. On a road odyssey to Las Vegas, sweet-tempered aliens touch jaded human hearts, and ultimately Jimmy and his carnies must save Jara and her aliens from a ruthless Las Vegas casino kingpin.
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(Posted: 09/29/2009; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Sci-fi romcom a la "Little Miss Sunshine" with aliens, and a human-alien love story. JIMMY, a Venice Beach boardwalk hustler, discovers beautiful alien JARA and her two intergalactic circus performers stranded on Earth. He cons them into his "family" of misfit street performers. On a road odyssey to Las Vegas, sweet-tempered aliens touch jaded human hearts, and ultimately Jimmy and his carnies must rescue Jara and her aliens from a ruthless Las Vegas casino kingpin.
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(Posted: 09/03/2009; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Horror thriller for a female star, set in a suburban house, inspired by "Turn of the Screw". Two children seem to be haunted by their dead mother's secret lover, as seen through the eyes of a young woman hired as a temporary nanny while their father leaves town on business. Their house's ordinary back yard evolves into a nightmare world of evil and madness, emanating from the swimming pool.
Partial financing available; budget $5 Mil or less.
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(Posted: 09/03/2009; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Romantic war adventure in the style of David Lean's classic films, set against the backdrop of World War II China. Two mismatched fugitives of war, a jaded American newsman and a strong-willed Jewish refugee girl, escape Japanese-occupied Shanghai to reach Free China. They evolve into unlikely heroes among the Chinese, one as a mercenary destroying lives, the other as a Red Cross miracle worker saving lives. Their stormy romance ultimately brings them together to save Shanghai's Jewish refugees from extermination.
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(Posted: 09/03/2009; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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"The Dirty Dozen" meets "Black Hawk Down" in Mexico. Seven post-stressed war vets are hired by Mexican businessmen and a billionaire mercenary contractor to rescue a Sierra Madre town overrun by warring drug cartels. High-tech merc warfare, twisted heroism and ironic plot twists climax in a battle that inspires the locals to take up arms against the cartels, giving birth to a new Mexican revolution.
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(Posted: 01/03/2013; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Epic romantic adventure, set in India of the Mogul Dynasty. True love story of future emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, whom Shah's conniving father forbids to marry until he has conquered all of India. After years of war, they're finally united, until Mumtaz dies in child birth. Hence the building of the Taj Mahal, a testament of lost love. Lots of action and "Twilight"-styled teen romance.
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(Posted: 04/13/2012; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A reinvention of the medieval French fairy tale as a dark romance for adults, in which Belle and the Beast are transformed by love in more complex ways than in the Cocteau or Disney versions. The Beast is a moody, noble savage with magical powers who loves all beauty but despises his own ugliness. Once a handsome heartbreaker, he's cursed with a beastly body, imprisoned in an enchanted castle until the day a woman swears her love to him. Belle is a loner with an idealized sense of romance outside the real world, until she becomes the prisoner/guest of the Beast. Her fear and pity of him turns to friendship and finally to love.
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(Posted: 10/14/2011; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Body Heat meets Talented Mr. Ripley. An L.A. businessman hires a talented young actor to seduce his wife as grounds for divorce, but the devious arrangement spirals out of control into a double murder conspiracy. A potboiler of love, betrayal, plot twists and revenge in Bel Air.
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(Posted: 08/11/2011; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Horror comedy in the 80's retro style of "Gremlins". Two young, naive newlyweds move into a Victorian house that's in serious need of supernatural pest control. The new bride discovers and befriends a E.T.-type creature who may be a monster but is the key to an ancient mystery that may save their marriage...if they don't kill each other first.
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(Posted: 08/11/2011; Updated: 03/21/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Crime thriller about nuclear smuggling and the Russian Mafia in the 1990's. A Moscow hotel security guard's encounter with murder, the lure of money and power, and a mysterious American woman entangle him in a web of intrigue between the international underworld and a renegade nuclear scientist.
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(Posted: 02/18/2011; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A dysfunctional father and daughter vacationing in British Columbia, conflicted over a pending divorce, are sole survivors of a plane crash at sea and try to swim to the nearest coast, fighting both natural and human elements of danger.
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(Posted: 01/03/2011; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Revenge western with an African-American lead. A sharpshooting buffalo soldier is tricked into taking part in a complex bank robbery. Left for dead, he becomes a lone avenger and hunts down a supergang of racist outlaws with a fortune in gold bars -- evolving into a one-man army against fifty killers.
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(Posted: 09/08/2009; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An aspiring New York pianist is tutored by a world-famous Russian concert master and falls in love with his daughter, only to discover that the maestro leads a double life as a Soviet assassin who murdered his father. Seeking vengeance, the young pianist finds himself embroiled in a mysterious KGB plot to smuggle out an American prototype of the "Suitcase Bomb" -- the first portable nuclear device designed at the height of the Cold War.
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(Posted: 09/04/2009; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Action thriller set in a European ski resort. An American cat burglar with a recent fear of heights pulls off one last rooftop heist and steals a mysterious package. Crossing the Alps to deliver them to a mysterious banker, he's stalked by a clever female assassin. He evades her, using an innocent ski instructor and her students as a ruse, and boards a cable car. The assassin boards with them, when the lift is derailed in mid-air -- a skyhanger with unexpected twists.
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(Posted: 09/04/2009; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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True, untold story of Jon Hall and Howard Hughes who tried to build an auto engine that runs on water. Forties movie star JON HALL is an aspiring inventor who gives up stardom to pursue his scientific dreams and befriends HOWARD HUGHES, as they team up to develop a revolutionary auto engine. Their top-secret project is discovered by the oil industry which unleashes all its power to stop them. Hughes, consumed by paranoia and mental illness, abandons the project and warns Jon to give up. Refusing to quit, Jon forges on until his mysterious murder.
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(Posted: 09/04/2009; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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High-seas survival adventure in a lifeboat, based on a true story and a controversial naval murder trial. As a disabled cruise ship is evacuated, one of its lifeboats is hopelessly lost at sea -- in the path of an oncoming storm. A junior officer, acting as captain, faces a moral dilemma when he realizes there are too many people in the boat to survive the storm: he must play God and decide who goes overboard to die, in order to save the majority of passengers.
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(Posted: 09/04/2009; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Ghost dramedy with family values, a la "Ghost" meets "Parenthood". An acclaimed news cameraman who's been neglecting his family for his career dies suddenly under mystical circumstances and returns home as a ghost to haunt his 12-year-old son a week before his 13th birthday. He only has a short time to teach his son life lessons and to learn how to be, and to redeem himself as, a once-absentee dad.
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(Posted: 09/04/2009; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Updated take on "Key Largo", character-driven underdog actioner for a male star. A maverick ex-convict drifter and habitual thief, alienated from society and prone to violence, bonds with the pacifist woman owner of a Louisiana monkey sanctuary. When animal smugglers invade her wildlife preserve, the ex-con is forced into a confrontation that finally redeems his lost humanity.
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(Posted: 09/04/2009; Updated: 03/22/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The ghost of a teenager cyberbullied into suicide haunts the internet as a social-network virus that turns abused kids into killers who take revenge against bullies. When a smart but family-troubled geek fights back and succumbs to the cyberghost, his father has to intervene to save his son.
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(Posted: 09/03/2009; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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