Crossing Rio

Crime, Thriller - In Development (Financing)

A former intelligence officer goes to Rio de Janeiro to help a beautiful activist bring down a powerful industrialist, but is forced to change his plans when a corrupt policeman is on to him.

Stephen Campanelli, a veteran camera operator and a close collaborator on Clint Eastwood's films for the past 16 years will be directing.

PACKAGING

American King

Action, Adventure, Drama - In Development (Script)

This picture depicts the incredible true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker, who in the 1830s, bluffed and blustered his way into the Great Game, the  conflict for domination of Central Asia between Britain and Russia.

Following in the footsteps of Alexander The Great, this sometime doctor, soldier and spy, managed to ingratiate himself with the highest rulers of the region to lead an army across the Hindu Kush to finally fulfill his dream of becoming a King in Afghanistan.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Treatment.

Eye In the Sky

Drama - In Development (Script)

An ambitious network executive is asked to head a new cable network owned by a powerful media mogul known for his salacious and controversial tastes.  As the growing success of the network forces her to deliver more and more sensational and terrifying real-time content, she is torn between her ambitions, her decaying morals and her role in a society seemingly gone mad.

IN DEVELOPMENT

The Waste Land

Historical Action/Adventure - In Development (Script)

In August 1914 as the Great War broke out in Europe, restless charming rabble rousing Irish born adventurer Ernest Shackleton set for the Antarctic determined to cross its forbidding continent. Beset by a slew of calamities including the destruction of his beloved ship Endurance by pack ice, Shackleton remained undeterred by the bleakest of circumstances and slowly led his weary crew back to civilization through a series of incredible harrowing journeys.

Shackleton returned to England in May 1917 without losing a single man.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Screenplay by Pierre Lapointe.

Mreyeh

Drama - In Development (Script)

A woman forced to flee war-ravaged Lebanon as a young girl in 1976 returns to Beirut many years later to reconnect with lost family in an effort to make up for her painful past. 

IN DEVELOPMENT

Story and screenplay by Therese Chbeir.

Balangiga

Drama - TV movie - In Development

On September 28, 1901 during the Philippine-American War, the church bells in the village of Balangiga rang, signaling the ambush of an American regiment while they ate breakfast.  The Filipino insurgents killed 48 and wounded 22 of the 78 men in the unit.

Outraged and angered by the attack, General Jacob H. Smith ordered that the island of Samar be turned into a "howling wilderness" by killing all Filipino males above ten years of age capable of bearing arms.

Following orders, American troops massacred 2000–3000 Filipinos, the majority of whom were civilians, and recovered the three bells from the charred remains of the village church to take back to the United States as war trophies.

This true event serves as a backdrop to our fictional story of an American soldier who falls in love with a local Filipino woman and his efforts to save her family including a younger brother who was altar-boy and guardian of the bells.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Story and Teleplay by Ed Arguelles.

d'Artagnan

Adventure, Comedy - Series - In Development

The series follows the whimsical court intrigues and romantic adventures of the celebrated Musketeer in 1630's France.

Annointed Lieutenant of the Musketeers by Cardinal Richelieu, d'Artagnan is entrusted by king Louis XIII to handle secret and delicate royal missions.  With so many enemies surrounding him, including the Marquise de Rambouillet and the king's own brother the Duke of Orleans, d'Artagnan must use all his cunning to successfully accomplish his assignments and keep the throne secure.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Series Treatment & Pilot