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Upon Waking

Upon Waking

Upon Waking

PRODUCERS: STEPHANIE CALEB, NICHOLES & JOSH COLE


DIRECTOR: MAX RISSMAN (Root for the Villain, The Shvitzing)


CAST: SHERILYN FENN, SULEM CALDERON, RACHEL SLAWSON, VANESSA DUBASSO, & ELSIE HEWITT


A supernatural LGBTQ+ coming-of-age love story about two young women who get carbon monoxide poisoning on their first date and fall into a shared coma where they discover their spirits have detached from their bodies and are trapped in Irene’s house until either perish or are resuscitated. In order to find themselves and live again, they must learn the true meaning of love.


STATUS:  POST-PRODUCTION / AVAILABLE IN ALL TERRITORIES

Odium

Upon Waking

Upon Waking

WRITER/DIRECTOR: ANNIKA PAMPEL


PRODUCERS: STEPHANIE CALEB, FRANCHESCA LANTZ, & PAULINA MICHAELS


A brilliant criminal psychiatrist and her husband return to their country home to process their grief related to their teenage son taking his own life a year earlier and aid a veteran police detective to solve the mystery of a local girl who went missing around the same time.


STATUS:  FULLY FINANCED / PRE-PRODUCTION

Twilight of the Dead

Twilight of the Dead

Twilight of the Dead

FILM BY: GEORGE ROMERO (Night of the Living Dead, Land of the Dead) & PAOLO ZELATI


WRITERS: JOE KNETTER, ROBERT L. LUCAS, & PAOLO ZELATI


PRODUCERS: STEPHANIE CALEB, SUZANNE DESROCHER-ROMERO, & PAOLO ZELATI 


DIRECTOR: BRAD ANDERSON


"Twilight of The Dead" is George Romero's final script in the "Night of The Living Dead" series which he created in 1968. It is the perfect end to the Living Dead series with a very real message about how humanity is the cause of its own destruction...over and over again.


"As the last man on earth tries to protect a little girl he is taken in by a unique village of zombies who have mysteriously begun to evolve and create their own seemingly peaceful civilization." Our film shines a spotlight on what the final outcome of the human race will be if we continue down this extremely divided path all shown through the lens of a world inhabited by zombies.


STATUS:  FULLY FINANCED / PRE-PRODUCTION

The Chattering

Twilight of the Dead

Twilight of the Dead

WRITERS: KEVIN LEONARD & JIM DOYLE


A wild mashup of nostalgia, horror, and John Hughes - a summertime monster movie bursting with sexy characters, snappy dialogue, popcorn and splatter. Prehistoric creatures frozen in a glacier for centuries descend on a cabin in the woods where a group of best friends are celebrating their final days of their senior year. The surprise guest lurking in the darkness for the graduating seniors is scarier than anything they could have ever imagined...the monsters’ Gremlin-like offspring waiting to hatch…her long, razor sharp teeth creating a horrific sound…THE CHATTERING


STATUS:  PRE-PRODUCTION

Take Care

Take Care

Take Care

WRITER: SHADLEY GREI


PRODUCERS: STEPHANIE CALEB & FRANCHESCA LANTZ


A dramedy that explores what happens when a 50-year-old man who has been a live-in caretaker for his passive-aggressive mother during the pandemic suddenly gets a two-day reprieve when she ends up in the hospital. Realizing that Covid bans him from being able to visit, Robert struggles to remember what freedom feels like and finds himself reconnecting with an old flame with new potential. Meanwhile, Robert's mother, Patty, finds an unexpected friendship with a male nurse who refuses to let her live in a pity party.


STATUS:  PRE-PRODUCTION

Lock In

Take Care

Take Care

WRITERS: KIT WILLIAMSON & BREA GRANT


PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ, STEPHANIE CALEB, & LESTER CHIN


CAST: ELSIE FISHER, SHANE WEST, SKEET ULRICH, JASON PRIESTLY, & CATHERINE CORCORAN


Devout teenagers stay up all night, drinking and making “bad decisions” while trapped inside a church with a killer on the loose. Welcome to the annual Central Baptist Christmas lock-in.


Set in Atonement, Texas, in the late 1980s, the story follows two teenage outcasts trying to survive the night at the Central Baptist youth group “lock-in,” a small-town tradition where teens are locked in the church overnight. With a masked killer on the loose picking off all the “sinners,” will the two make it out alive...or is everyone right that they’re going to hell?


STATUS:  PRE-PRODUCTION

Wildflower

Wildflower

Wildflower

WRITERS: MATTHEW FAULK (Vanity Fair) & MARK SKEET (Jason and the Argonauts, Vanity Fair)


PRODUCERS: STEPHANIE CALEB & FRANCHESCA LANTZ


The shooting of environmentalist, Joan Root, at her 88-acre farm overlooking Lake Naivasha last January shocked Kenya's "Happy Valley" and the entire conservation world. Blonde, beautiful and fearless, she was idolized for the pioneering wildlife films she made with her husband, Alan. After their agonizing divorce, she devoted herself to an even more dangerous mission: saving her beloved lake from the ecological ravages of Africa's lucrative flower-farming industry. The author investigates the violent clashes between desperate immigrant poachers and Root's private army that, some locals believe, brought three killers with an AK-47 to her door.


STATUS: FULLY FINANCED / PRE-PRODUCTION

Roth

Wildflower

Wildflower

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


A tribute to Joe Roth, quarterback for University of California, Berkley, he didn’t just improve the team’s game, he improved their culture. With a smile on his face and kindness in his heart, Joe Roth touched the lives of everyone who had the honor of meeting him. He was a light on this world during a dark time in history all while fighting a secret battle. He was only 19 when he was diagnosed with melanoma and during the 1976 football season, he learned the cancer had spread. He never let his spirit fade nor would he let being sick bring him down. He continued playing up until his death, even staying hours after the Japan Bowl to sign autographs for the kids only to pass away a few weeks later.


STATUS:  IN DEVELOPMENT

The Binding

Girls Like Us

Girls Like Us

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


Ten years after their son confessed to murder, a couple’s world is

turned upside down when new evidence emerges releasing him from a

psychiatric facility, but when another young boy goes missing, their son becomes a suspect in his disappearance.


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

Girls Like Us

Girls Like Us

Girls Like Us

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


Girls Like Us is a coming-of-age buddy comedy that follows life-long best friends Alex and Tina, on Halloween night of their senior year at NYU, as they track down a lost one-night stand and make big decisions about their futures. They’re at a precipice of life; it’s time to get in that two-person horse costume and giddy-up.


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

Land's End

Land's End

Land's End

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


Desperate for a safe place to raise her baby, a surly, pregnant teenager

reluctantly agrees to drive an elderly widower on a suicide trip to Land's End, in exchange for his house.


STATUS:  IN DEVELOPMENT

Bad at Sex

Land's End

Land's End

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


Fresh off a dream film festival rejection, a millennial filmmaker spirals when her boyfriend admits she’s not “technically” the best sex he’s ever had. To save her career and her ego, she makes a doc interviewing every man she’s slept with to prove she can't be that bad at sex.


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

Consensual

The Golden Hour

The Golden Hour

WRITER: YVONNE WILLIAMS


PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ, STEPHANIE CALEB, AUTUMN BAILY-FORD, & LAUREN SWICKARD


Through a sexual battery survivor's true story, she discovers brazen complicity, collusion, and fraud buried deep within the police department that was meant to protect her.After being nearly suffocated to death under the"BlueVeil"of silencing victims, the New Orleans Police Department has met their match in survivor, Morgan Anderson.


STATUS:  IN DEVELOPMENT

The Golden Hour

The Golden Hour

The Golden Hour

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


A mother's conversation with her daughter is revealed to be a virtual interaction that’s taking place after the daughter's death. Once the mother returns to reality she's desperate for another reunion but can't afford one: she's become deeply addicted to visiting the virtual version of her daughter and has spent all her money. She begins a shift at her second job, which she got in order to afford more reunions. After delivering groceries and returning to her car she's haunted by an ad from the virtual reunion company: a video of her daughter asking her to visit again.


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

Untitled Corn Maze Movie

Untitled Corn Maze Movie

Untitled Corn Maze Movie

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


Five people find themselves trapped in a mysterious corn maze, none of them fully sure how they got there. When crazy creatures start attacking them, they need to find a way out, but all is not as it seems.


STATUS:  IN DEVELOPMENT

Zombie Autopsies

Untitled Corn Maze Movie

Untitled Corn Maze Movie

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ, STEPHANIE CALEB, & MARK BURMAN


DIRECTOR: MARK BURMAN


A small team of scientists find themselves trapped in an underground military base on a remote island trying to find the cure to the zombie apocalypse.


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

Everything is Burning

Everything is Burning

Everything is Burning

WRITER: RYAN ELKINS


PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ, STEPHANIE CALEB, PAIGE BILLIOT, & REESE HARVEY


A neurotically optimistic father fights to protect his family amidst his husband’s cancer diagnosis and a California wildfire evacuation. It’s a one-location comedy in the tone of The Kids Are All Right and The Descendants.


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

Timber Wolves

Everything is Burning

Everything is Burning

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


Buck Whitney is a proud and world-weary man haunted by grief.When he's robbed, beaten and left for dead in his rural home, he becomes driven to rebuild with his young grandson, mend his divided family and protect his homestead from invaders at all cost- masking a deep seated vengeance that builds until the final reveal. 


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT 

Pangea

PRODUCER: FRANCHESCA LANTZ


An action adventure film about a maritime archeologist, Julian Dawson, uncovering an ancient pyramid off the coast of Spain, what he discovers about our past launches him into a battle for the future. Julian’s journey across the globe evolves into a race against time and an unknown enemy who seeks to harness perpetual energy from an ancient system of crystal spheres in order to “restart” civilization and create a selective utopia. Pangea is an epic quest for the truth that pulls from classics such as Indiana Jones, National Treasure, The Mummy and takes them where they have never gone before… the depths of the sea.


STATUS:  IN DEVELOPMENT

Tribute

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


After the death of her mother, a young woman and her husband travel to her mother’s homeland and stumble upon her cult-like family members. They discover that this place is rooted with a disturbing history of ceremonial sacrifices and a family curse that could tear them apart.


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

Pathside Predator

Pathside Predator

Pathside Predator

PRODUCERS: FRANCESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


When an elusive serial killer known as the “Pathside Predator” resurfaces, FBI profiler Bradley Whitman is pulled back into the hunt, despite still grieving the sudden loss of his fiancée and unborn child. As he delves deeper into the investigation, Bradley begins receiving cryptic messages that suggest the killer has a chilling personal vendetta. Struggling to

maintain his composure under public scrutiny and questioning his own instincts, Bradley realizes that the Predator is not only taunting him but may be orchestrating a twisted game where Bradley’s darkest secrets—and his very sanity—are at stake.


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

Deacon Jim

Pathside Predator

Pathside Predator

PRODUCERS: STEPHANIE CALEB & FRANCESCA LANTZ


When an outlaw with a heart of gold becomes sheriff of a small town, he makes it his goal to bring criminals to justice, which doesn’t sit well with the other corrupt officers in town.


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

It's a Good Day to Liquidate

It's a Good Day to Liquidate

It's a Good Day to Liquidate

PRODUCERS: FRNACESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


When a down-and-out furniture salesman, drowning in debt and failure, is recruited by a slick liquidation mogul, he finds himself swept into a world of corruption, crime, and moral  compromise, forcing him to choose between redemption and going down with a ruthless empire.


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT 

The Player

It's a Good Day to Liquidate

It's a Good Day to Liquidate

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


A struggling minor league baseball team may have found the next Babe Ruth, but his Amish boy’s culture clashes with his path to fame and

fortune.


STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

The God Gene

The God Gene

The God Gene

PRODUCERS: FRANCHESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


Bach Holden returns home for his estranged father’s funeral and uncovers a mystery his father left behind: the search for an artifact rumored to hold a hair of Jesus Christ, with the power to reshape faith itself. Joined by old friends, Holden follows his father’s trail, facing enemies and buried secrets, leading to a climactic choice about proof of God’s existence. A thrilling mix of National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code, The God Gene explores action, mystery, and faith.


STATUS:  IN DEVELOPMENT

Mojo Man

The God Gene

The God Gene

WRITERS: JOSE PEÑA & ELLIS MARTIN


PRODUCERS: FRANCESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


At his birthday party, Jed Moses hides under a mask to hide his skull, but when he touches people, he steals their skin as they decompose, so he must find a way to reverse the curse and avoid the woman behind it.


STATUS:  IN DEVELOPMENT

Sleepaway

Sleepaway

Sleepaway

WRITERS: MATT & RACHEL WOLF


PRODUCERS: FRANCESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


A year after his younger brother's accidental death, a misunderstood teenager is sent away to an exclusive summer camp for at-risk youth, where he soon discovers his fellow campers are being killed off one by one.


STATUS:  IN DEVELOPMENT

Horrified

Sleepaway

Sleepaway

WRITER: MICHAEL ZARA


PRODUCERS: FRANCESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


A substance-addictive scream queen attends a convention for the film series that she got famous for, but the killer from the movies begins to kill her friends, so she must fight to survive her movie’s killer.


STATUS:  IN DEVELOPMENT

Dear Mr. Watanabe

WRITER: YAEL ICHILOV


PRODUCERS: FRANCESCA LANTZ & STEPHANIE CALEB


A young, aspiring artist becomes pen-pals with her favorite artist whilst navigating her rigid relationships with her mother, neighbors, friends, and new boyfriend in a drab part of New York City. 


STATUS:  IN DEVELOPMENT

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