Feature Film DEVELOPMENT
CLEAN UP GIRLS
Title: Cleanup Girls
Genre: Action / Comedy Feature
Producers: Scott Duncan
Director: TBD
Writer: Debra Rogers
Log Line: Two suburban housewives, frustrated by their humdrum lives, start a business cleaning crime scenes. But the when they uncover a series of murders are linked, they become the next target.
Synopsis: Fired from her Housewares Department job, SUE RUNION coaxes DARLA DUNKIN, a bored housewife to start an odd, but profitable business: a biohazard cleanup service. But their grand plans to get out of debt and to get a life get twisted when several crime scene cleanups link a corrupt senator’s “suicide” with a dangerous drug ring. These two domestics are unprepared for how far they’ll have to go to clean up this lethal mess…and stay alive.
Budget: $25 Million USD
Locations: Connecticut and California
BROTHER JACK
Title: Got To Get Going (a.k.a. Brother Jack)
Genre: Drama. Inspired by the life of Jack Healey.
Producers: Jack Healey, Jimmy Miller
Log Line: Things get hot under the collar when a young catholic priest moves into a house full of free loving hippies during the height of the counter culture revolution.
Locations: Pittsburgh, PA & Washington, DC
Budget: $15 Million USD.
WHO DO YOU LOVE
Title: Who Do You Love?
Producer: Scott Duncan
Director: Todd Korgan
Writer: Todd Korgan
Genre: Drama
Log Line: Three interconnected stories about the complexities of love and the resiliency of the human spirit.
Synopsis: At th intersection between three connected stories of love and despair this film explores the complexity of the human hear. A policeman answers a routine call to help a single mother and compassion turns to misplaced lov. A widower facing his own mortalit is forced to sell his home, and his grief aunts the young couple that begins to build their own life on the shadow of his own. A newly single woman is asked to watch her neighbor' cat, but when he fails to return it opens a door to a new life for her. Who do you Love? explores the challenges of relationships, the esiliency of the human spirit, and the complexities of love.
Screenplay Awards: Finalist: Austin Film Screenwriting Festival, Winner - Los Angeles Reel Film Festival, Merit Winner - Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood, Finalist -Adapted Screenplay Festival , Finalist - Inspired Minds Screenplay Competition, Honorable Mention - Williamsburg Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition
Distribution: TBD
Budget: $2.5M
Status: Script complete and ready for casting
Locations: Canadian locations
HOW TO COOK A TART
Title: How To Cook A Tart
Genre: Dark Comedy Feature
Producers: Scott Duncan
Director: Todd Korgan
Writers: Todd Korgan and Dan Korgan (screenplay). Nina Killham (novel)
Synopsis: Film adaptation of the popular book. Cookbook author Jasmine March's life is like a perfectly prepared béchamel-rich, satisfying, and drenched in butter. But even a great béchamel curdles sometimes. Her husband, Daniel, has taken up with one of his Zone-dieting drama students; Careme, her daughter, is bent on starving herself to death; and Jasmine's fellow foodies have had just about enough of her astronomically caloric recipes. To make matters worse, her publisher is threatening to cancel her contract. And then there's the small matter of the dead body she finds one morning on her kitchen floor.
Budget: $10-12 Million USD
Locations: Portland, OR & Seattle, WA