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A police officer is forced into a deadly dilemma when an active shooter situation is revealed to be occurring at a nearby high school while a renegade trio of student activists respond by kidnapping and threatening to kill the parents of the shooter in a bid to make him stop his deadly rampage.

April 7, 2023
A New Zealand construction crew completing the build of a reclusive billionaire’s survivalist bunker in a remote section of the country take shelter within it when nuclear war strikes the globe. However, their sanctuary is shattered when their paranoid project manager becomes convinced that the billionaire owner planted one of his own men amongst the crew to ensure that he could regain access to the bunker should such an incident occur during construction.

November 17, 2022
A young woman successfully flees from her stalker ex-boyfriend but, after he kills himself and leaves her his sizable estate, she must decide whether to take the money and risk the wrath of the man’s surviving family, who believe the money is rightfully theirs.

April 4, 2021
With a near-bankrupt Gotham City descending into chaos in the wake of an unjustified police shooting, Lieutenant James Gordon is approached on behalf of a group of Gotham’s bankers to instigate a police-lead coup of Mayor Garcia’s administration and install leadership more favourable to the banker’s wishes so as to restore order to the city.

October 24, 2020
When AI modelling is able to generate an image of someone’s ‘perfect match’ by scanning their brain, a married man must decide whether to secretly pursue a real-life woman that was mistakenly identified as his match by a social media algorithm when he shared his match image (Black Mirror Spec).

October 22, 2020
When a global pandemic strikes, a construction crew in the midst of building a mysterious billionaire’s remote New Zealand bunker attempt to save themselves by sheltering inside it. However, they risk their own lives when their client arrives wanting to use it and they refuse to leave.

June 7, 2020
A giant IRL (In Real Life) shooting game in an abandoned warehouse is targeted by a masked serial killer who starts to pick off the warring combatants under the cover of darkness.

November 12, 2019
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A driver intent on picking up and murdering a hitch-hiker picks up a hitch-hiker intent on murdering a driver.

October 26, 2018
After his daughter is violently assaulted by an ice addict, a police chief secretly teams up with the head of a drug empire to modify the empire’s drug supply in order to sterilise drug addicts in exchange for protection from the law.

December 15, 2015
In order to coordinate an extra-terrestrial landing that is expected to occur in the Australian outback, the Australian Government enlists a controversial think-tank, who are now depending on the success of this event for their own livelihood, think 'Contact' meets 'The Games' TV show.

June 30, 2015
A fake hitman working for the police becomes the real thing when, learning that his actions have inadvertently taken the life of a young child, he teams up with the child's mother to take down a notorious criminal boss who has evaded justice.

June 19, 2015
In 'Found Photos' style, a pair of Google Street View car drivers unknowingly take a photo of a dangerous cult performing a ritualistic killing in a remote field and are pursued by them. Detectives are left with an abandoned car and a series of mysterious photos in order to find the pair before it's too late. (Inspired by these types of lists – http://www.viralnova.com/creepiest-things-on-google-maps/

March 17, 2015
An aspiring video games actor must save the life of a young actress with whom he is smitten when her jealous producer husband attempts to kill her within a game in order to claim her life insurance policy.

August 9, 2013
Upon learning that suicide will forbid him entry to Heaven, a religious yet guilt-racked hitman secretly lets the public democratically determine his next target in order to righteously earn the Lord's favour and then be killed in the process.

August 9, 2013
A lowly bartender planning her upcoming marriage has her Celebrity Free Pass, the one famous person she can sleep with without any consequences from her partner, walk into her bar, creating a world of problems for herself when she accepts his advances.

August 8, 2013
Joseph, a wealthy but ailing patriarch organises a family gathering and announces that he intends to take his life at its conclusion. He asks his offspring for forgiveness for his past deeds and it is up to his favoured son David to unite the warring factions of the family and have them accept the apologies of his father before he passes away.

August 8, 2013
In a distant future ravaged by war, a secret society stages a fake alien invasion in order to unite the world's warring factions.

March 11, 2013

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on A young woman successfully flees from her stalker ex-boyfriend but, after he kills himself and leaves her his sizable estate, she must decide whether to take the money and risk the wrath of the man’s surviving family, who believe the money is rightfully theirs.

Cheers appreciate it!
on A young woman successfully flees from her stalker ex-boyfriend but, after he kills himself and leaves her his sizable estate, she must decide whether to take the money and risk the wrath of the man’s surviving family, who believe the money is rightfully theirs.

Thanks for the feedback Richiev! I'm thinking that she rightfully feels that she's entitled to the money because of the pain and suffering he caused her but then is consumed by guilt after seeing his surviving children fall into poverty…
on When AI modelling is able to generate an image of someone’s ‘perfect match’ by scanning their brain, a married man must decide whether to secretly pursue a real-life woman that was mistakenly identified as his match by a social media algorithm when he shared his match image (Black Mirror Spec).

I just realised this might be better and more marketable from the woman's perspective, similar to The Invisible Man. "When AI modelling is able to generate an image of someone's 'perfect match' by scanning their brain, a young woman is…
on With a near-bankrupt Gotham City descending into chaos in the wake of an unjustified police shooting, Lieutenant James Gordon is approached on behalf of a group of Gotham’s bankers to instigate a police-lead coup of Mayor Garcia’s administration and install leadership more favourable to the banker’s wishes so as to restore order to the city.

Thanks, I've just confirmed that Batman is not in fact a superhero (according to Robert Pattinson too in a recent news story). He has a secondary storyline in this narrative.
on When AI modelling is able to generate an image of someone’s ‘perfect match’ by scanning their brain, a married man must decide whether to secretly pursue a real-life woman that was mistakenly identified as his match by a social media algorithm when he shared his match image (Black Mirror Spec).

Thanks a lot for the feedback, an excellent point you raise! I think I'd exerted so much focus in trying to explain the concept in a logline that I neglected the action that follows from the decision!
on After his daughter is violently assaulted by an ice addict, a police chief secretly teams up with the head of a drug empire to modify the empire’s drug supply in order to sterilise drug addicts in exchange for protection from the law.

Yeah so I thought that trade-off would be one of the dilemmas faced by?to the drug lord. Does he go along with the arrangement and have a better chance of delivering short-term profits and then leave the game or reject…
on In 'Found Photos' style, a pair of Google Street View car drivers unknowingly take a photo of a dangerous cult performing a ritualistic killing in a remote field and are pursued by them. Detectives are left with an abandoned car and a series of mysterious photos in order to find the pair before it's too late. (Inspired by these types of lists – http://www.viralnova.com/creepiest-things-on-google-maps/

Thanks, yeah thought it was pure horror, the protagonist and his fellow driver need to escape these cult members that they've revealed to the world. The villainous cult members stand in the way of that. The police are left with…
on Upon learning that suicide will forbid him entry to Heaven, a religious yet guilt-racked hitman secretly lets the public democratically determine his next target in order to righteously earn the Lord's favour and then be killed in the process.

Hey guys, thanks a lot for the feedback. Yeah I realised the 'secretly' element is confusing as written, it refers to the protagonist disguising his identity and crowd-sourcing the votes submitted by the viewers of his Wikileak'd videos online. His…
on A lowly bartender planning her upcoming marriage has her Celebrity Free Pass, the one famous person she can sleep with without any consequences from her partner, walk into her bar, creating a world of problems for herself when she accepts his advances.

Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it - Yeah I was thinking that it would be different to Hall Pass in that it would not be sanctioned by her partner and that much of the drama would come from her…
on A lowly bartender planning her upcoming marriage has her Celebrity Free Pass, the one famous person she can sleep with without any consequences from her partner, walk into her bar, creating a world of problems for herself when she accepts his advances.

Hi thanks a lot for the response. Yeah it's lengthy because I thought I would have to briefly define the Free Pass and also that this was a celebrity already established to be her free pass. Additionally, part of the…
on In a distant future ravaged by war, a secret society stages a fake alien invasion in order to unite the world's warring factions.

Thanks guys, yeah I wasn't exactly sure where to place the focus of the narrative so didn't yet write in a specific protagonist. I thought that it might be a good juxtaposition to follow both the powerful society and an…
on Desperate to be free of his well meaning but molly-coddling family, a fiesty free-spirited granddad fakes his own death – with unintended consequences.

I love the amended logline, I'm already conjuring up images of the family and the grandfather, similar to that in the film 'Greedy'. There's plenty of room for conflict and comedy and it feels like the type of story that…