JBalmer

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10 loglines
38 reviews

Loglines

After mythology’s most vicious monsters and history’s most heinous criminals escape from hell, a neurotic college-sophomore finds herself imbued with the power to send these evildoers back from whence they came.

April 8, 2020
After waking from a coma, a heterosexual young woman begins to believe that the universe is plotting to put her in the arms of the female EMT that saved her life, and away from her male fiancee.

September 30, 2014
The lives of an undefeated boxer and a former hitman intermingle on the corrupt and sinful streets of New Orleans as they join forces to save the they love city and the people in it from cataclysm

July 16, 2014
The story that I?m trying to tell now is a film that depicts the 24 hours prior to Brutus deciding to join the conspirators in killing Caesar.

June 16, 2014
A modern adaptation of Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, told from the cutthroat, conniving, and competitive world of a woman-ran Software Company.

May 16, 2014
A notoriously misogynistic 1940?s Texas police sheriff, awakens from a coma to discover that he is being haunted by the spirits of history?s most infamous women, who are on a mission to alter his chauvinistic ways during which they assist him in solving criminal cases.

January 28, 2014
Along with their pet turtle, a brother and sister duo encounter some of America?s most exciting historical figures while on a journey to collect jelly beans they accidentally spilled into a time portal.

August 17, 2013
The schizoid daughter of America?s most prolific serial killer, must assist the FBI in catching the man who has begun reenacting her father?s murders.

July 2, 2013
In order to avoid a lengthy prison sentence, a baobhan sith agrees to work with an anti-vampire organization whose sole mission is to protect citizens from things that go bump in the night.

June 6, 2013
The Greek gods and goddesses from myth are very much real, callous, and they are all coming for an unsuspecting 16-year-old Alexandra Adler, whether she likes it or not.

April 24, 2013

Recent reviews

on The lives of an undefeated boxer and a former hitman intermingle on the corrupt and sinful streets of New Orleans as they join forces to save the they love city and the people in it from cataclysm

the boxer is physically the alpha and the hitman is mentally the alpha. And yes the cataclysm is Katrina.
on The story that I?m trying to tell now is a film that depicts the 24 hours prior to Brutus deciding to join the conspirators in killing Caesar.

Hey. I'm making a short film. It's not all of Caesar, just my idea about what all went into Brutus' decision to join the plot of killing Caesar.
on A modern adaptation of Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, told from the cutthroat, conniving, and competitive world of a woman-ran Software Company.

Hey guys. I wrote the script and hated it so now I am in the revise/rewrite process. The plot has even changed. The story that I'm trying to tell now is a film that depicts the 24 hours prior to…
on A modern adaptation of Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, told from the cutthroat, conniving, and competitive world of a woman-ran Software Company.

I?m planning for the short to be about 30-40 minutes. As far as how the script is going to correlate to the play, it runs from Flavius and Murellus quieting the celebrators to the morning that Decimus arrives to Caesar?s…
on A modern adaptation of Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, told from the cutthroat, conniving, and competitive world of a woman-ran Software Company.

A subtle change, but so much better!
on A modern adaptation of Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, told from the cutthroat, conniving, and competitive world of a woman-ran Software Company.

Is blood really thicker than water? Is the devotion to the company started by her grandfather more important than her devotion to her friend? Actually since it's a short I didn't plan on including Octavian. How about: This melodramatic parody…
on A modern adaptation of Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, told from the cutthroat, conniving, and competitive world of a woman-ran Software Company.

Yes, I suppose that is is a parody. I want to create a logline that basically says the ambition of two women, leaves someone broken and torn in the middle. I'm even thinking of changing the title. The short is…
on A modern adaptation of Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, told from the cutthroat, conniving, and competitive world of a woman-ran Software Company.

How about: When the ambitious desire for complete control of a software company comes to a head, a war between power and devotion explodes into the professional fatality of Caesar and the internal lamentation of Brutus.
on A modern adaptation of Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, told from the cutthroat, conniving, and competitive world of a woman-ran Software Company.

@Valentin The company is in Rome, New York. The CEO is Caesar. Brutus is the protagonist and she is trying to stop Caesar the CEO from selling the company that her grandfather helped to create. This is a short, and…
on After residents of a small town are quarantine by the military, the adult male residents begin to show signs of pregnancy – with something that might not be human.

When a state-wide quarantine is enacted, the male residents of a small town become cocoons for invading extraterrestrials.
on A notoriously misogynistic 1940?s Texas police sheriff, awakens from a coma to discover that he is being haunted by the spirits of history?s most infamous women, who are on a mission to alter his chauvinistic ways during which they assist him in solving criminal cases.

I agree that the hook should be these ghosts helping this man. But I thought that the who and why could be answered with this particular time period.
on A notoriously misogynistic 1940?s Texas police sheriff, awakens from a coma to discover that he is being haunted by the spirits of history?s most infamous women, who are on a mission to alter his chauvinistic ways during which they assist him in solving criminal cases.

I thought that with the popularity of Mad Men and the Americans that both the 1950's and the Cold war were becoming interesting subjects again. I guess my target audience would be the same for a procedural like bones or…
on A notoriously misogynistic 1940?s Texas police sheriff, awakens from a coma to discover that he is being haunted by the spirits of history?s most infamous women, who are on a mission to alter his chauvinistic ways during which they assist him in solving criminal cases.

I took you guy's notes about that. Instead of having multiple ghosts, I decided to stick with only three. Cleopatra, Hypatia, and Joan of Arc were all accused of witchcraft. Cleopatra is the only one that didn't die because of…
on A notoriously misogynistic 1940?s Texas police sheriff, awakens from a coma to discover that he is being haunted by the spirits of history?s most infamous women, who are on a mission to alter his chauvinistic ways during which they assist him in solving criminal cases.

Hey guys. I know this is pretty long, but what about this: An FBI agent working for the House of Un-American Activities Committee, is forced to secretly undermine the agency?s endeavors to persecute supposed subversive citizens when the ghosts of…
on A notoriously misogynistic 1940?s Texas police sheriff, awakens from a coma to discover that he is being haunted by the spirits of history?s most infamous women, who are on a mission to alter his chauvinistic ways during which they assist him in solving criminal cases.

Back to the drawing board I go!
on When lonely long-haul truck driver D Forde falls in love online with a city writer and single mother, he must cross more than the Nullarbor to overcome his fear of abandonment and win her heart.

To capture the heart of his online love, a lonely truck driver must find a way to conquer the outback while battling his fear of abandonment.
on It's February 1930, just months after Black Tuesday. In light of their financial woes, a small-town mortician and his arrogant wife start murdering the rich to keep their beloved funeral home afloat.

In depression-riddled America, a mortician employs a new business model that includes a free murder per pine box.
on A notoriously misogynistic 1940?s Texas police sheriff, awakens from a coma to discover that he is being haunted by the spirits of history?s most infamous women, who are on a mission to alter his chauvinistic ways during which they assist him in solving criminal cases.

The women are infamous for a variety of things. I mean women like Cleopatra, Ching Shih, and Locusta. The visiting ghost will be determined by the case he is working on that particular week. Sometimes the same ghosts will hang…
on A notoriously misogynistic 1940?s Texas police sheriff, awakens from a coma to discover that he is being haunted by the spirits of history?s most infamous women, who are on a mission to alter his chauvinistic ways during which they assist him in solving criminal cases.

That's the plan, to feature different women each episode.
on Along with their pet turtle, a brother and sister duo encounter some of America?s most exciting historical figures while on a journey to collect jelly beans they accidentally spilled into a time portal.

I was thinking about adding different arcs and stuff, but I'm submitting to Amazon and they have a lot of serialized series on the development already. So I thought I would do standalone episodes with the show.