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Daniel Spero
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After the sudden death of her father, a woman discovers that his keepsakes unlock more than memories—they reveal the painful truth behind them.

When Nina retreats to her late father’s secluded tiny house, she’s hoping for solitude—but what she finds instead is a series of emotional echoes embedded in the objects he left behind. A cracked ashtray, a faded lunch ticket, a weathered conch shell—each one stirs intense, almost mystical visions from his childhood and her own. As past and present blur, Keepsakes unfolds as a layered, emotionally resonant exploration of grief, legacy, and the complicated bonds between parent and child. Both intimate and immersive, Keepsakes blends mystery and metaphysical drama into a haunting portrait of the memories we inherit, the pain we carry, and the moments that bind us across time.

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From Fort Custer to the Coral Sea, one man’s true story of duty, love, and survival during WWII.

George & Maxine
is a cinematic adaptation of a true wartime romance—a sweeping, character-driven WWII drama inspired by the story of a young Greek-American officer and the woman he loves. When George Spero defies his immigrant parents to marry Maxine, their brief honeymoon is cut short by a draft notice and a world tilting toward chaos. From Kentucky distilleries to the jungles of New Guinea, George charts his journey through letters, journal entries, and moments snatched between air raids and radar duty—his voice reflective, dryly humorous, and deeply resonant.

As George crosses oceans and battlefields, Maxine endures cold stares from neighbors and colder nights without word. What unfolds is a layered portrait of love, loyalty, and the struggle to hold on when war threatens to unravel everything. Told with stark clarity and drawn from firsthand experience, George & Maxine is more than a war story—it’s an enduring love letter from the greatest generation.

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When your birthright is ritual sacrifice and your greatest miracle is crop-dusting the pious with messianic methane… salvation stinks.

​What if Jesus bailed on the crucifixion… and told humanity to wait for Kevin? In this blasphemously brilliant satire, Kevin—a clueless man-child raised by the bizarre cult of Kevish monks—learns he’s the long-prophesied savior… just in time to be ritually executed. On the run from sacrifice, he unleashes fart-propelled miracles, dodges weaponized nipples while triggering cartoon firework orgasms, and joins forces with kebab-hating Vietnamese hackers, a sex-addicted British operative, and a global harem of spiritual groupies in a chaotic quest to find his true calling.

A fearless, flatulent farce that Dutch-ovens religion in a backdraft of sacrilege, Wait for Kevin mashes biblical parody with dick jokes and media satire to create a holy mess of epic proportions. The Second Coming has arrived—and it reeks of rectal retort.

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​A voyage through space becomes a revelation about the human condition—from the beings who engineered it.

In The Naked Ape, the real adventure begins not with a rocket launch, but with a misfire of intention. When scientists Ava and James attempt a cautious time-travel experiment, they’re flung across space instead—landing on a distant world where advanced beings have preserved and studied humanity like a living museum. Guided by a curator of evolutionary memory, they witness the rise of the human species, from the ashes of the dinosaurs to their own post-modern era. As their journey unfolds, an alien civilization gently peels back the layers of human assumption, forcing Ava and James to confront staggering truths about identity, agency, and origin—if they can ever make it home.
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Inspired by Desmond Morris’s seminal work, The Naked Ape is a genre-bending sci-fi odyssey that fuses evolutionary theory with cosmic mystery, posing one profound question: What if humanity was merely the product of ancestral experimentation?

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​When a mushroom-fueled murder spree masks a terrifying alien agenda, one disgraced agent’s final case may determine whether Earthlings evolve—or die trying.

​In 2047, after surviving an assassination attempt, the U.S. president claims he encountered an alien entity named Samare—who reveals a staggering truth about humanity’s origins. Soon after, a wave of bizarre murders among elite scientists all point to the same unlikely connection. Enter Rob Bradley, a disgraced FBI agent reluctantly pulled back into the field alongside his former partner, Paula Triano. Their investigation uncovers a terrifying possibility: humanity is being culled by its cosmic creators, the Ori’Ionites, while a rogue alien race known as the Thlotrians fights to save what’s left.

Can two agents stop a species-level extinction engineered across eons? Only a journey beyond Earth—to confront our intergalactic architects on Ori’Ion—holds the key. A cerebral thrill ride steeped in existential horror and metaphysical noir, Port of Cull is a genre-bending, high-stakes prequel to The Naked Ape, where evolution, extinction, and alien intervention converge in a chilling cosmic conspiracy.

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When dreams drown in Dong Nai, a wide-eyed Vietnamese teen escapes to Saigon—only to find love and meth pulling him into deeper waters.
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​​In the sweltering heat of southern Vietnam, teenage Sang flunks his university entrance exam and finds himself crushed beneath the weight of family, poverty, and pride. With few options left, he leaves his sleepy river town of Bien Hoa for the raw chaos of Saigon’s Pham Ngu Lao district, where neon streets pulse with promise—and peril. Surrounded by foreign tourists, sex workers, street kids, and drug dens, Sang receives a new kind of education—one soaked in sweat, heartbreak, and hard truths. But when tragedy strikes back home, he must confront the guilt he left behind and the addiction that threatens to consume him.

Part drama, part urban odyssey, Sang of Ghenh Bridge is a haunting coming-of-age story—a mosaic of voices echoing across a river, a city, and a life just beginning to unfold.

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She uses sex to protect. He uses truth to expose. Together, they could uncover a killer—or die trying.
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​Haunted by war and failure, journalist Eli Landry returns from the Middle East with little more than trauma and an unfinished book. A favor from an old friend lands him at White Horse, a Boston nonprofit serving at-risk youth—now reeling from the mysterious murders of several staff members. As Eli embeds within the agency, shadowing the tough but empathetic Debbie and her volatile, hypersexual boss Holly, he’s pulled into a web of secrets, seduction, and spiraling suspicion. Holly, brilliant and unhinged, believes she can manipulate time and stop the killer—by sleeping with the men she wants to protect. As the body count climbs, Eli must navigate not only office politics and his own haunted past, but a minefield of sexual power plays, shifting identities, and fraught alliances across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

Darkly funny, sexually charged, and uncomfortably prescient, White Horse is a genre-defying noir that entwines investigative thriller, mental health satire, and erotic psychodrama—skewering the savior complex and exposing the dysfunction lurking beneath good intentions.

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In a world obsessed with spectacle, a washed-up orthopedist becomes a viral MMA sensation—but when fame hits hard, rock bottom hits harder.

​Dr. Jeff Rodgers was a respected orthopedics professor—until a drunken bar bet changed everything. When he humiliates a trained MMA fighter using nothing but medical knowledge, Jeff becomes a viral sensation overnight. Dubbed “Freak Show,” he catapults into the underground fight scene, snapping limbs and stacking wins. But with each victory, he spirals deeper into absurd fame, professional disgrace, and personal ruin. As he burns through money, women, and whiskey, Jeff lands a million-dollar bout against a UFC legend—only to suffer a knockout so humiliating it becomes meme history. Broke, toothless, and disgraced, he takes refuge in the storm drains beneath Vegas. Among the mole people and misfits, Jeff begins a strange second act as a rogue healer—until ego and excess come knocking once again.

Whether soiling himself in front of a sold-out arena or patching up addicts in the sewers, Jeff is the anti-hero America didn’t ask for—but can’t stop watching. Pressure Points is dark, deranged, and disturbingly funny—a takedown of internet culture, toxic masculinity, and what happens when you weaponize intelligence in a world that worships spectacle.

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  1. As his people are forced into Imperial servitude, a young pilot risks everything to protect a secret that could save the Rebellion.
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Long before he was Red Six, Jek Porkins was just a dreamer—a fisherman’s son with a knack for flight and a heart too big for his island. When he and his father secretly restore a long-forgotten X-wing, they set off a chain of events that draws the wrath of the Empire. As Bestine IV falls under occupation and its people are enslaved to build a device that could expose the entire Rebellion, Jek must protect a secret that could change the fate of the galaxy.

Guided by Jedi wisdom and driven by love and loss, Jek risks everything in a daring fight for freedom. Intersecting with Rogue One and A New Hope, this canon-adjacent origin story blends classic Star Wars lore with bold new mythos. From undersea escapes and disguised raids to first contact with fugitive Jedi, Porkins becomes the galaxy’s most unlikely hope. 

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Imprisoned to exploit his mind, a prodigy becomes the world’s last hope—and its greatest threat.

Gordon Zane never asked to be a hero. Or a prisoner. Or a prodigy. But when the 13-year-old invents a powerful weapon in his garage and maims his abusive brother, he’s swept into a secretive U.S. military program that exploits gifted youth for national defense. Shipped to a remote Arctic base, Gordon is forced to build weapons for a world on the brink of collapse. As global war erupts, Gordon resists control—clashing with sadistic guards, rival intellects, and the creeping madness of a decade in solitary confinement. But when America faces annihilation, the military offers him a deal: freedom in exchange for deploying his invention, Project Rheostat. The question is—will Gordon save the nation that discarded him, or let it burn?

The Hermit Kingdom is a dystopian thriller—darkly cerebral and wickedly funny—a tale of institutional cruelty, weaponized brilliance, and what happens when a mind too dangerous to be free—and too brilliant to be caged—takes control.

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A funeral, a sex scandal, and a revenge-fueled monkey with a taste for fecal messaging—Roy’s legacy, and a primate’s dingleberry, hang by a thread.
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​Roy O’Bannon’s quiet life as an actuary goes up in smoke when his best friend Phil Jackson (no, not that one) dies mid-bestial orgy—and Roy is accused of co-piloting a depraved animal sex ring. Fired, dumped, and punched on every street corner, Roy becomes public enemy number one. But as society strips away his humanity, he’s forced to confront what it really means to leave a legacy. Determined to reclaim his name, Roy embarks on a darkly absurd quest of self-discovery—planning his own funeral, exploring America’s strangest death rituals, and trying (in vain) to save the savaged anuses of dozens of exotic pets.

The Funeral Director is a balls-out black comedy that skewers cancel culture, toxic friendship, and our twisted relationship with shame, death, and dignity. A gut-punch of satire soaked in bong water and bad decisions, it turns the worst week of one man’s life into a grotesquely hilarious funeral march.


Pilots
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He came to disappear. Instead, he’s become a pawn in someone else’s war.
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Julian wanted out—a clean break from heartbreak, dead-end jobs, and the relentless calls of debt collectors. So he did what any rational man would do: sold everything and flew to Vietnam. But life as an expat isn’t the postcard fantasy. Adopted by a merry band of degenerates, Julian learns to navigate sex tourism, bribery, and bar girls with barbs.

As he puts his investigative instincts to work, the real picture emerges: three powerful groups—the Communist Party, a ruthless crime syndicate, and a network of dissidents—are locked in a covert battle for control of Vietnam’s future. And all three have discovered the same fourth weapon: Western expats.

Expat is a cynically amusing, slow-burn thriller into the chaos, corruption, and moral fog of modern-day Saigon. But beyond its gritty drama and criminal intrigue, the series is also a cultural study— a piercing, uncompromising look at life on the margins of modern Southeast Asia, where Western drift collides with Eastern survival. 

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One portal. Infinite realities. Endless brown-eye burps. Welcome to The Multiperverse, where physicists pebbledash the punch bowl of logic in this pan-cracking parody.

​​The Multiperverse is a warped comedic sci-fi pilot that fuses high-concept science fiction with uncensored social satire and a chaotic ensemble cast. When a team of scientists perfects a device that opens portals to the multiverse, they trigger a volatile journey across realities—starting in an alternate Earth where they’ve devolved into street-level crack addicts scraping through a surreal version of Chicago. At the center of the madness is Ronald Richards, a delusional prophet who believes a planet called Crackooine awaits—if he can just sell enough spray-painted 2x4s as “golden tickets” to get there.

Punctuated by absurdist humor and grounded in a strange logic of its own, the show collides lowbrow mayhem with cerebral meta-commentary. Filthy, fearless, and darkly reflective, The Multiperverse is a savage parody of science, society, and sanity—where the boundary between intellect and insanity isn’t just blurred—it’s crop-dusted.

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