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Lickety Split (Action/Comedy)  Written by:  Ed Colman
 
Logline:   Lesbian Biker Chicks and a bumbling detective team up to foil an international conspiracy.
 

Synopsis: Someone is killing off Japanese bankers. After a string of high tech, remote control murders, CIA agent Thomas Collins recruits ex-CIA agent Lyla Bangles to infiltrate the Japanese Yakuza, suspected masterminds of the assassinations. Lyla, fired from the CIA after seducing the director's daughter, is a beautiful, highly trained fighter with a penchant for tough girls and Harley Davidsons.

Mr. Ichiban, the head of the Japanese bankers Association is coming to America. A furious gun battle erupts at the airport between the Ichiban’s bodyguards and the Yakuza gunmen. Ichiban escapes the carnage and ends up in the baggage claim where our most unlikely hero, Paul (Bogie) Bogasaki, reluctantly rescues him. Bogie, a half Japanese, half African-American Sam Spade wannabe, specializes in locating lost pets but has dreams of bigger cases. He’s a little clumsy but loveable and very earnest. Hopelessly inept, somehow he always manages to land on his feet.

Lyla calls Bogie to help her on the case. She met him a few years ago when he tracked down Lyla’s mother’s lost Rottweiler, and knowing of his desire to become a world-class detective, throws him some non pet-related work from time to time. Paul stakes out a Yakuza hideaway while Lyla, posing as a high-class hooker, infiltrates the Mob. Together they uncover a massive counterfeiting plot involving billions of Yen, Euros and Dollars. The Mob is laundering the phony money into real money with the aid of their counterfeit bankers who have replaced the murdered bankers. Bogie somehow steals the counterfeit printing plates and, having seen this in an old movie, hides them in a locker at the bus station

While on the trail, Bogie’s identity is discovered by the Mob and he is kidnapped and tortured to reveal the location of the plates. Lyla and her gang of biker chicks storm the Yakuza’s headquarters. During the battle, they wrest control of the Yakuza’s remote control ‘Death Chopper’, and with its help defeat the mob. Lyla rescues Bogie just as the leader of the mob is about to perform some very unorthodox surgery on him. 

On her way to collect her reward from Collins, Lyla is in turn kidnapped and taken to a mysterious desert hideaway. Bogie and Ichiban follow the clues out to the desert where they break into the underground stronghold. With the aid of Ichiban’s surprising ninja abilities, the two rescuers battle through the guards and bump into Lyla who has managed to escape on her own. They are all recaptured and brought to the real head of the plot, Collins the CIA agent who hired Lyla in the first place. He is at the center of a scheme to destroy the world’s economies with the counterfeit money. They are flooding the world with phony money to undermine confidence in the international banking system and plan to institute a One World Bank with Collins at the head. Once they return the counterfeit plates, Collins arrogantly lets them go, thinking he has nothing to fear from them. But Ichiban finds an inventive way to destroy the hideout along with Collins, making the world safe for bankers, biker chicks and fumbling detectives.

 
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Isle of Ice (action/sports) Written by  Barry Dillinger and Brian Scully
 
Logline: This feature-length film script is the "Rocky of Hockey"; a must-read for all hockey fans!
 
Synopsis:   The New York Storms were a hockey dynasty decades ago.  Nowadays, the "black sheep" of the Continental Hockey League is lucky if they can survive a single season with even one check mark in the win column.  Coach Dale Patton has been hand-picked by the owner to bring the team back to its former glory.  Coach Patton had a winning record . . . with the Lafayette Beavers . . . a team of twelve-year-olds from Rhode Island.  But can he have the same success in the big leagues?  When he brings a rookie, Sebastian Crowe, to the team and gives a chance to a huge 6'8" Native American goalie, Nathanial Quick River, it seems that the fortunes of this hapless team are finally turning around.  If you love the sport, you'll deem this one, the "Rocky of Hockey"!  A must-read for all hockey fans.
 
 
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Hell's Own   (Fantasy/action) Written by  Daria Karpova
 
Logline:  To rescue her lover, an exiled demoness teams up with a sceptical art thief to steal the ancient keys to the Hell's Own prison--only to discover that all of humankind is at stake.
 
Synopsis:  LILITH, the princess of Hell, had it all--and lost it all when she took the blame for her lover AZZIE's crime against BELIAL, a demon mobster with visions of grandeur.
 
Exiled to Earth , stripped of most of her powers, Lili now lives in seclusion, running a magic shop for tourists and staying out of trouble.
 
But a human gangster PIERCE, a mercenary hired by a mysterious demon, kidnaps Azzie. Pierce wants Lili to use her experience with both worlds to find and steal a three piece artifact-- the Book, the Bell and the Candle--if she doesn't, Azzie is history.
 
Driven by love and guilt, Lili has no choice but to play the lethal game she has sworn to abandon. She knows all about artifacts, but she doesn't know a thing about stealing. She has to hire a professional thief.
 
TRAVIS is an art thief in love with his work. But when Lili makes him an offer he can't refuse, he has no idea he is about to take on the most dangerous job of his life.
 
But they aren't the only ones hunting the BBC set. When Lili discovers Pierce's rival is none other than Belial--now living on Earth and running for President --it is too late to turn back. The Book, the Bell and the Candle aren't just pretty things locked in high-security museums and private collections --they are the ancient keys to the Hell's own prison--home to demons even the inhabitants of Hell find way too dangerous.
 
Pierce works for Shammariel, an extremely diabolic convict ought to be executed pretty soon.
 
And Belial wants to set the demons free, using his new insane army to reign over the Earth and overtake Hell itself.
 
However, until he gets them under his command, he has to keep things undercover--there are laws even in Hell, you see--and this is the only tiny chance Lili and Travis can use to stop them both.
 
Together, they must race through reckless heists, competing against the clock, Pierce's schemes and Belial's people in order to save not only Azzie but the whole humankind.
 
 
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Vengeance Gone Wrong  (Action/Martial Arts) Written by Pearly Wing
 
Logline: A powerful man masterminds the perfect vengeance against a girl who is the daughter he never knew he had.
 
Synopsis: A vengeful tycoon unwittingly frames his own daughter for trafficking  heroin in Singapore. Nick Forster, the brainy one, and Wing Li, the  kung fu fighter, must overcome their dislike for each other and team up just to have a 50-50 chance of defeating the tycoon and saving her from the gallows.
 
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