Blood On The Border, Coming Soon From Cinema Arts and Verge Films

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DEA agent, Hank Farris is heading a blood-bath mission to clean up the dangerous El Paso/Juarez border after Drug Cartel member’s beheadings and the killing Hank’s own daughter. In his search for the killers, he comes across a bizarre Davidian cult, where kids are dying from drug overdoses in a closed community where it’s not supposed to happen. A deep dark secret slowly unfolds, revealing the truth and inside operations of the Cartel.  

Production Notes:
Rob Walker – Director/Producer
Gary Van Haas – Writer/Producer
Gilberto Vera – Executive Producer
Jeremiah Vaughn – Producer
John Avarese – Music

Location:
New Mexico

Production Companies:
Cinema Arts
Verge Films

Action thriller “Body Count”, now in development.

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“Friday the 13th” meets “Seven” meets “Batman.”
They killed the woman he loved, ran him over and left him for dead. But what they didn’t know is that he has hyper advanced cellular regeneration abilities, a bio-morphic, exoskeletalsuit of living muscle, giving him the strength of a hundred men and an insatiable
desire for vengeance. Now they’ll have to pay the toll with their lives, when they face…
ROAD KILL as the BODY COUNT rises!

Production notes:
Desi Singh – Writer,director,screenplay.
Gilberto Vera – Executive producer
Ken Joseph – Music score.

Production Companies:
AMRA Pictures Entertainment. LLC
Verge Films
Cinema Music Consulting

Location:
Los Angeles

“Beneath”

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I’m honored to come on board as a producer along with writer/director/producer Desi Singh and AMRA Pictures Entertainment for the feature length sci fi thriller; “Beneath”.

Beneath tells the story of a group of people who embark on a fishing trip and suddenly awaken in life rafts with no memory of how they got there or where they are. Over three hundred miles from land, with a limited supply of food and water, they must survive the elements, the dangers of the open Ocean and each other.

The survivors soon realize a mysterious pod of highly intelligent and strange sea creatures are hunting them with a voracious appetite for human flesh. As the strange creatures pick the survivors off one by one, the survivors become embroiled in not only a fight for their own survival but for the survival of all humanity.

Production notes:
Stelio Savante – Actor
Desi Singh – Director,producer, screenplay
Yukari Watanabe – Producer
John Duffy – Producer
Gilberto Vera – Executive Producer
Brian Elliot Turnauer – Producer/Esquire
Geza Sinkovics – Cinematographer
Cleve A. Hall – Special Effects Makeup
Louis Brill – CGI Modeler / Concept Artists
Ken Joseph – Score

Production Companies:
AMRA Pictures Entertainment. LLC
Verge Films
Cinema Music Consulting

Status: In Development
Location: Los Angeles

Genesis of Lincoln

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Directed by Richard O’Sullivan, who wrote the screenplay and will produce along with Gilberto Vera, the project is a “movie-within-a-movie,” focusing not only on the historical Lincoln tale, but also on a modern-day filmmaker’s attempt to make The Genesis of Lincoln into “an Oscar-worthy movie.” Things are further complicated when the director impregnates the teenage pop star cast to play Lincoln’s mother in the film. Does he follow in the footsteps of Lincoln’s biological father or does he take responsibility for his actions?

Notes:
Principle photography will begin in early 2012.
Location: New York City
Richard O’Sullivan, Story and screenplay
Producers, Richard O’Sullivan, Gilberto Vera, Sandra Rayne Garcia
Music supervisor, Joey Lauren Koch
Production companies: Lost Colony Entertainment, Verge Films

Vampires of Hollywood

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‘Music industry investigative-journalist, Paul Shaye, is on a desperate search for a master vampire named, ‘Darcy Manning’- a flamboyant Rock Superstar– a top of the charts musician, who killed Paul’s good friend and singer song-writer, Robin Barker. In Paul’s search for Robin’s killer, he finds himself caught up in a tense whirlwind of danger and deception unleashed against him by the killer Vampire, trying to out wit him and beat him at every turn, set amongst the wild background of the jaded, lively record industry, complete with sex and drugs, and the glamorous, decadent world of Rock Musicians in Hollywood!
Production notes:
Starring:
Malcolm McDowell
Rob Walker, Director/producer (LA)
Gary Van Haas, Executive Producer/Writer
Gilberto Vera,Co- Producer
Bob Powell,Co- Producer
Jeremiah Vaughn, Co Producer/Casting Director(LA)
Scott C. Sanford, Co Producer
Production Companies:
Cinema Arts
Canyon Pictures
Verge Films
Locations:Los Angeles, London, UK.

Nephilim enters pre production in the UK.

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Working as music consultant along with London film composer John Koutselinis in the animated action film, Nephilim in the UK.
Plot Summary
The story begins with the first signs of the warfare evolving between good and evil. Set in modern times two archangels, an atypical priest, an ex-homicide detective, and a resurrected spirit form an unlikely alliance uniting to obstruct the upsurge of the fallen angels and the termination of free will. The final battle was destined when the seeds of the initial race of Nephilim were planted by Beshwa, the first fallen angel to mate with a human in the early times on earth. Now Markus must lead the war against a fallen angel named Azazel who moves to release Beshwa from his shackles so he can mate again, this time with a Succubus, Semyaza, for the new race of Nephilim to begin. If born, the Nephilim will prevail over all mortals, and wreak unmitigated havoc and unstoppable evil. With the birth of Nephilim the final battle for eternity would commence.

One Night With You

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Quirky romantic comedy from Writer/Producer/Director Richard O’Sullivan. When former child star Nikki Monroe’s career is rocked by a series of public scandals, her lecherous agent convinces her to do a reality dating show in order to clean up her image. Things get sticky, however, when she falls for the celebrity-hating bartender hired to pour drinks on the show.

Notes:
Location: Los Angeles
Dan Lashley, Story
Richard O’Sullivan,screenplay
Producers, Richard O’Sullivan, Gilberto Vera, Sandra Rayne Garcia
Music supervisor, Joey Lauren Koch
Production companies: Lost Colony Entertainment, Verge Films.

The Wizard of Seattle Bound For Big Screen

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Kay Hooper Film Adaptation Set To Be A Harry Potter/Twilight Franchise For Grownups?

As the Americanized “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” prepares to launch into theaters, many Hollywood insiders are hailing the return of the adult genre movie.

“I think recent R-rated comedies like ‘The Hangover’ and ‘Friends With Benefits’ have given mainstream movies their edge back,” says Writer/Producer/Director Richard O’Sullivan. “There seems to be a willingness in Hollywood now to push the envelope and not play it quite so safe. It’s a little like a daring return to the adventurous 70′s.”

O’Sullivan is banking on that trend continuing with the announcement that he’s optioned the popular Random House/Bantam Books fantasy novel, The Wizard of Seattle, penned by New York Times-best selling author Kay Hooper (Blood Ties), with the hopes that it can become a “more adult version” of such mega-franchises as Harry Potter and Twilight.

“With series like ‘Harry,’ the idea was quite literally to pull readers in at a young age, then let the characters and story mature with the audience,” says O’Sullivan. “Well now, that first crop of kids are young adults. They’re in adult relationships, living in the adult world. What I like about Kay’s book is that she uses things like wizardry and magic to explore male/female relationships in a very mature and complex manner. It’s fun, it’s sexy, and ultimately very thought provoking.”

The Wizard of Seattle, one of the earlier books from Hooper (who rose to superstardom in the literary world with her Bishop crime series), tells the story of two modern day wizards who must travel across time to fight for their right to love one another.

“It’s very timely,” says O’Sullivan. “I think it will resonate with a lot of people on a lot of different levels. Forbidden love is as old as humanity itself. Romeo loving Juliet, vampires loving vampire slayers. In a world where people are increasingly intolerant of people living their lives the way they wanna live them, I can think of no better metaphor. Plus, it’s got the potential to be a terrifically entertaining popcorn movie.”

O’Sullivan, last in the news for his part in the controversial, on-again/off-again Lindsay Lohan comeback vehicle “One Night With You,” is currently in pre-production to direct the groundbreaking horror film “Hallows,” produced by Dale Alexander Carnegie (whose recent remake of “Clash of the Titans” grossed some $500 million wordwide). He is not only signed to write the screenplay for “The Wizard of Seattle,” but will also produce the film along with Linda Parks of Far City Films, in association with Gilberto Vera of Verge Films.

Acclaimed novel, “She Rain”, being adapted for film.

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Beautifully written by Michael Cogdill (27 Emmys and a national Edward R. Murrow Award, his work has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and The Today Show).

She-Rain branches toward one of the least-expected figures ever in a Southern novel. Her mystery begging the question — what might have been, had an African-American infant born of scandal been placed on the arms of one of the grandest American fortunes of the early 20th Century? In the bosom of that fortune, she is raised utterly cloistered, hidden in the clefts of Appalachia, steeped in her “adoptive” mother’s Vassar education, classical piano, and the refinements most mountain people considered as distant and alien as the stars.

When that son of an opium addict (fresh from battling wilderness, a freight train and a white-water river) happens upon her — each in uniquely desperate times — they set off a seismic change to the worlds they’ve known. Driven by what Faulkner might call human hearts conflicted deep within themselves, they rise to meet an adventure compared to that of Cold Mountain and The Color Purple. She-Rain is a magnetic tale that melts the hard rocks of racism, classism, and the violent self-destruction of living down to the worst human expectations. By its contemporary end, this tale has moved readers of both genders to tears.
Entertaining with wild humor, the grit of reality, and a love triangle of the least expected.

Produced by Richard O’Sullivan and Gilberto Vera
Currently being considered for attachment by several major sales and distribution companies.