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The Good, The Bad & The Dead

unity — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:51:01 +0000

Title: The Good, The Bad & The Dead (View Video)

Status: In Development

Genre: Zombie, Western

Synopsis:

The year is 1885. The place, the United States of America. Three outlaws have unearthed a sacred Indian burial ground and with it, enraged spirits possessing the dead as they wreak havoc on Earth. The curse is now set. The living must live amongst the dead.

We follow a few survivors as they move across the country, seeking help and refuge. LEE SENTENZA, a gunslinger warrior leads the group of survivors as they try to stay alive long enough, hoping to figure out how to end the curse. Along the way they will soon discover that they may be the last remaining living people. Hot on their trail is JACK DEZBA, who aims to find those responsible for unleashing the dead on Earth, and will slash and cut his way across the entire land if need be. He knows that by returning the stolen grave artifacts, the angry spirits will be quelled, thus eliminating the curse.

And so the adventure begins, as the lone survivors fight their way across the country trying to find other people, hopefully still alive. Along the way they will fight through zombie infested towns, a forest straight out of hell, a zombie infested train, and many unimaginable horrors that make Dante’s nine layers of hell seem like child’s play. The world they know may never be the same again…

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE DEAD is a highly stylized feature film, produced with a graphic novel and video game approach. It goes where no other movie has gone before.

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A Fighting Chance

unity — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:26:36 +0000

Title: A Fighting Chance

Status: In Development

Genre: Action

Synopsis:

In a bout before the World Title fight GLEN ‘PRETTY BOY’ MADDOX recovers from being knocked down to win in dramatic fashion. During the fight he has a mild stroke caused by the medication he’s been taking for his fight-ravaged hands. Simultaneously SARAH, his wife, goes into labor. Their son, JAY is born.

Sarah struggles with the needs of a newborn while fighting depression. One day Jay gets accidentally hurt and Sarah takes him to the hospital. There she learns the truth of Maddox’s condition. She issues Maddox an ultimatum; stop fighting or she leaves. He won’t stop fighting – Sarah leaves. Maddox now must care for his son alone and win the championship.

Eight years later Maddox has raised Jay himself and Maddox’s boxing career has taken a downward turn. Jay, unlike his father, is a brainy kid. Picked on my kids at school, Jay is trained to fight by Maddox. Jay ‘decks’ the kid that punched him out at school and races to tell his dad, but he falls unconscious. Jay has Leukemia and Maddox must find Sarah in order to save his life. Against Maddox’s wishes, she now wants back into her son’s life.

After Jay’s recovery, Maddox is offered another chance to get his championship title back. Maddox’s condition with his hands has returned. He risks putting his life in jeopardy for a fighting chance at the belt. He wins, but suffers a severe stroke. Sarah cries over his unconscious body, praying for a miracle.

Twenty years later, Jay Maddox, now a championship boxer like his father is in the ring, waiting for his turn at the championship. Sam and Sarah cheer him on. Jay looks over to a man in his corner, supported by a cane. The man gives Jay the nod, the bell rings. Maddox smiles.

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The Way Back

unity — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:33:17 +0000

Title: The Way Back

Status: In Development

Genre: Faith, Family

Synopsis:

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Two years ago, Buck was the leader of the up and coming gang “La Familia”; one that would be the first to make use of power with intellect. Now, recently released from prison, he struggles with the choice of a new life or to return to the gang and the life he led.

Rage, A stray German shepherd, is roaming the ominous streets of Detroit as the leader of his own “gang” of sorts. With hundreds of families forced from their homes due to foreclosure pets are being left behind and must find a way to survive. The dogs, specifically, have been forming into packs to get by. Viewed as nothing but a threat to public safety, a growing group of citizens demands the City “round up the strays and put them down.” Something has to be done before something terribly wrong transpires.

There’s also Pastor James. Times are just as tough in his congregation as they are on the streets. The struggling finances at the church, the constant counseling sessions with couples in dire straits, and stress from struggles at home have taken their toll on the minister. He’s burnt out and ready to resign but his board insists he doesn’t quit but take a month sabbatical. He’s lost his desire to help and wants it back but where does he begin?

Buck wants to try his hand at the straight and narrow path though it will come with a price. It’s then he comes across Rage rummaging through some trash in the neighborhood. Buck sees a common thread between his gang life and the life Rage has been forced to live. Left to the streets without a place to call home and a family to care for you; both have learned to do what’s necessary to survive. Buck takes rage in and together they get re-acclimated to life off the streets.

Pastor James meets Buck at a counseling session for ex-cons and convinces Buck the only way back is to cut all ties to his former gang. Buck wastes no time but there’s only one way out of “La Familia” – a fight to the death. Mayhem ensues, and Buck must face his past and the threat of his gang head on. Buck is beaten to the point of death and is left hospitalized and clinging to life.

In the midst of the melee, Rage escapes back to the street where he attacks a woman in what he instinctively perceives as self-defense. The mob catches Rage and aims to make him an example by putting him down.

Pastor James still has some pull and a reputation and uses this to stop an angry mob from euthanizing Rage. He knows Buck’s only chance to survive could come from the presence of his best friend. He reunites the pair and a miracle occurs. In the process of seeing both lives saved Pastor James’ gets back his passion to serve.

A gang leader a pastor and the leader of a pack of dogs all have something in common. In leading they all lost their way. But together they just might find the way back.

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War Flowers

unity — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:43:29 +0000

Title: War Flowers (View The Trailer)

Status: Post-production

Genre: Family, Drama

Synopsis:

North Carolina 1863, the civil war is raging. In this inspired story of tragedy and love we follow the lives of Melody 7, and her young mother Sarah as they struggle on their farm to survive during the civil war.

Sarah is on the verge of a nervous breakdown from the recent loss of her youngest child to scarlet fever. She is trying to maintain the farm that lies in a valley in the middle between North and South. Melody meanwhile has created a protective fantasy world around her as she waits and prays for her confederate father, John Ellis, to return from the war.

During a raging battle that goes right over their farm a Northern soldier, Louis, is left for dead. Sarah and Melody end up nursing him back to health. At first they are both very nervous about helping this Yankee Northener, but they soon grow to like him in fact love him. When he finally leaves to return to the war it is anguishing for both

Sarah and Melody. They believe he will likely die in his attempt to get back.

Christmas is near and Melody waits and prays for the return of her father. Miraculously he does return – it is a dream come true for Melody and Sarah. Sarah is in Melody’s fantasy world. But as soon as he appears he is gone, the next day Sarah realizes it was an illusion as John’s return wasn’t real. Sarah and Melody are broken and starving at wars end.

In the real miracle Louis returns, appearing on the road leading to the farm back to them. He is there to join them and make a new life.

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Bad To The Bone

unity — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:38:07 +0000

Title: Bad To The Bone (View Trailer)

Status: Post- Production

Genre: Action

Synopsis:

Ultimate Fighter, Donner ‘Bone’ Mason is a sensation on the rise. His next fight could be the one to propel him to the championship. Little does he know, the fight is a ‘set up’. The opposing fighter’s coach, Decker, is Bone’s former Army Sergeant. Decker has rigged his fighter to die in the midst of the fight by giving him a drug that mimics death. His plan is to blackmail Bone and coerce him to fight for Decker, owning him “hook, line and sinker.”

Bone confides in his best friend, “Alex”, a woman he knew from his Army Special Ops days, now turned bounty hunter. Bone tells her that he has to fight for the hated Sergeant Decker or go to jail for murder.

Bone decides to fight for Decker and plans to throw the fight. At the last moment, his conscience won’t let him. This was not what Decker had planned. That night, Bone is attacked at his home, where they drug him and his daughter, kidnapping them both. Now Bone has no other choice but to fight for Decker to get his daughter back.

When the police are of no help, Bone’s wife enlists the aid of Alex to find her daughter and husband. But nothing ever goes according to plan, and an injured and tortured Alex tracks Bone to the captive’s hideout. Bone has been forced to fight for international gamblers betting thousands of dollars on the rigged outcome. He tried to escape to save his daughter, but was caught and beat up.

Alex plants a bomb in the back of the building and is about to save Bone, when all hell breaks loose.

“BAD TO THE BONE” is a taut thriller filled with action, MMA style fighting and an ending that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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