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Aug. 11, 2024

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Ryland Grace is a school-teacher-turned-astronaut who wakes up from a coma, alone, on a space station with no memory of who he is or his mission. His memory returns in bursts and he pieces together that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to reverse the impact of a space event that had already hurled our planet into the early stages of an Ice Age. As details of the mission unravel, Grace must call on all of his scientific training and sheer ingenuity, but he might not have to do it alone…

Adventure Adaptation

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Teenage boy Marco sails the tranquil seas around Naples with a hardened fisherman. Marco falls love with an enigmatic girl, Caia, whose painful past fuels a ferocious resentment in him, setting off alarm bells.

Drama War

50%

50%

A boy struggles with self-doubt and bullying. His Navy SEAL uncle moves in and helps him build confidence and strength over a summer.

Drama Adaptation

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Set in an alternate present day, one percent of children are born savants with special powers. Called “brilliants,” they are capable of exceptional things. A federal agent uses his skills to become a master hunter of terrorists, pursues a savant terrorist who intends to provoke civil war.

Drama Action

90%

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From her place in the store, Klara, an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her.

Drama Adaptation

95%

5%

A young woman brought up in the foster care system learns to overcome her troubled by past by communicating through the Victorian art of flower arrangement. She ultimately is able to reconcile with the only mother she has ever known and accept the love of a flower vendor.

Drama Adaptation

98%

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In 1924, George Mallory makes an ascent of Mount Everest. But he and Andrew Irvine mysteriously never return from their climb. His legacy involves the possibility that he, and not Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, was the first man to reach the summit.

Drama Action

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A movie based on the iconic Mary Shelley story. No idea yet if it's modern or period take on the material.

Fantasy Adaptation

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The Cartel tells the intertwined story of Art Keller and Adan Berrera, friends whose paths diverged when Keller went to work for DEA and Berrera joined the Sonora drug cartel.

Drama Crime

76%

24%

Set against the annual competition known as “The Long Walk,” where 100 teen boys must maintain a walking speed above four miles per hour. If they receive three warnings in an hour, they are shot dead.

Thriller Adaptation

95%

5%

Jess and her 10-year-old son William set off to spend the summer in the French countryside where Jess’ ex-boyfriend and William’s father, Adam, runs a beautiful hotel in a restored castle. Adam and William don’t know of each other’s existence so Jess will have to find a way to reunite them but she has a secret of her own that she can’t let anyone discover, especially her son.

Drama Adaptation

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When 8-year-old Merry's older sister exhibits signs of an indeterminate and terrifying affliction, the Barrett family slowly tears itself apart. Now, 20 years later, Merry is confronted with her family's traumatic past when Rachel, a journalist with a similarly haunted past, delves into the case, causing Merry to relive and reconsider the devastating memories of her childhood.

Thriller Horror

92%

8%

A group of young female boarding school students end up stranded on an island and devolve into pre-pubescent savages.

Drama Thriller

83%

17%

A teenage boy suffers a malady that makes him gravely allergic to sunlight. His mother, so devoted to her son’s care that she has alienated the rest of their family, creates an oddly sustainable nocturnal lifestyle for him at the expense of her own well-being. When a neighborhood girl goes missing, the balance that kept them afloat begins to unravel.

Drama Adaptation

95%

5%

Follows Stella and Gerry, a long-time married couple who reach cross-roads in their relationship when they take a trip to Amsterdam.

Drama Adaptation

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An average boy, who daydreams about being a hero, enrolls in one of the world’s most prestigious and intimidating "superhero" school where he will find challenges that require him to risk everything to

Adaptation Sci-Fi

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A young man begins shrinking in size after playing a strange board game and goes largely unnoticed by his parents.

Adventure Adaptation

88%

12%

The story centers on a trio of entitled but unsuccessful NYC residents in their late 20s who orbit the life of a famous journalist in the months before and after the events of 9/11.

Drama Adaptation

87%

13%

Set in a perilous future of a declining human population fueled by drugs and electronic bliss. A world without art, children, or books where humanity’s future hinges on a love triangle between an android, a man and a woman.

Drama Adaptation

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