The American Film Market is going strong this week. Annually producers from all over the world congregate in Santa Monica and try to sell their wares to distributors. Some movies are in hot demand, others less so. Let’s look at a few of this years offerings that might fall in the latter category. All information taken verbatim from the AFM Website!

13TH CHILD

Cast
Christopher Atkins, Robert Guillaume, Cliff Robertson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Maryk
Production Status
Completed
Synopsis
Every Halloween, the LEGEND OF THE JERSEY DEVIL emerges from the darkness to bring terror to those living along the Pine Barrens Wilderness of Southern New Jersey. Homicides, linked to a creature that can shape shift from demon to human, have haunted the locals since the 1800’s. With Halloween approaching once again, will anyone be safe?

THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED

Cast
Eleonore Hendricks, Josh Safdie
Synopsis
A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she’s left their lives. They owe her their thanks.

WARWOLVES

Cast
John Saxon, Tim Thomerson, Michael Worth, Adrienne Barbeau
Synopsis
Jack Ford leads a special forces unit back to the United States to hunt down Jake Gabriel, a soldier who has been infected with the werewolf virus that turns man into wolf. Little does Jack know that three of the female soldiers serving in his unit have also been infected and have already transformed into she-wolves. The she-wolves’ forces of evil and Ford’s special op forces of good, are pitted against each other in the race to save mankind from turning into wolves.

END CALL

Cast
Tasuku Nagaoka, Yuria Haga
Production Status
Completed
Synopsis
A group of high school girls call the Devil to be granted a wish but cannot end the call until they are dead.

JACKIE A.

Cast
Grant Barker, Siri Baruc, Kevin Sorbo,
Synopsis
In this heartwarming comedic tale, a young boy learns about determination and triumph with the help of a very opinionated talking mule.

SUNDAY SCHOOL MUSICAL

Cast
Candise Lakota, Chris Chatman
Director(s)
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Synopsis
Two competing groups of high school students must rally together and enter a song and dance competition in order to save their church from closing.

BILLY OWENS AND THE SECRET OF THE RUNES

Cast
Dalton Mugridge, Ciara O’Hanlon, Christopher Fazio, Mikayla Ottonello
Synopsis
Billy, along with his two fellow students in magic, must find a way to free their teachers soul from an enchanted amulet before he is trapped forever.

ACCURACY OF DEATH

Cast
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Manami Konishi, Sumiko Fuji
Synopsis
Chiba (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is a god of death who loves music. His job is to determine whether the human being chosen by the world of Death is ready to die or not, after examining the person’s life for 7 days in the human world. He appears in human forms and always wears white gloves. He spends time and listens to music in CD shops whenever he is free. When he works in the human world, somehow, it always rains. Thus, he has never seen the blue sky

HAROLD

Cast
Nikki Blonsky, Spencer Breslin, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Synopsis
A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school’s janitor.

-daniel k.

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