MOVIES IN DEVELOPMENT

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Dark Blue

Some things belong to the sea... and there they should remain.

Mike and Kevin run a diving center in Malta and are struggling financially. Mike, the more reckless of the two, discovers the location of a Norwegian ship that went missing in the Mediterranean, which was transporting a mysterious treasure destined for the Third Reich during World War II. With the help of Megan, Kevin's girlfriend, and the warnings of Olaf, a mysterious sailor, they will discover that some things belong to the sea and must remain there. GENRE: MYSTERY/THRILLER/ADVENTURE

Abyss

Her dreams. Your nightmares.

Jenny is a 4-year-old girl with staggering psychic powers. Her parents, John and Sarah, try to protect her from the outside world and avoid drawing attention. Two years after her abduction by a mysterious organization, only her parents can prevent her from destroying the very fabric of reality. They must venture into her mind, discovering a world of terror and horror, and succeed where trained military personnel have failed. GENRE: DRAMA/HORROR

AI

They're listening. They're learning.

An ordinary couple. Two people like many others. When they each download two mental health apps, they are manipulated, tested, and corrupted, until they become enemies within the same house, in an escalation of suspicion, hatred, and violence, which transforms their quiet life into a terrifying nightmare and forces them to fight for their lives, unable to understand what is truly happening. GENRE: DRAMA/HORROR

Ancient Whispers

You hear. You die.

In a remote village, an exorcism goes terribly wrong, resulting in several casualties. Recognizing an ancient and anomalous pattern, the Vatican decides to send seven military priests to the location to investigate the incident and drive the demon that has possessed the entire village out of the world. But there is something older than Christianity in the bowels of the earth. GENRE: HORROR

Fear West

Legends always have a kernel of truth.

A solitary cowboy, guided by a map recovered by chance, arrives in a small frontier town. The nearby gold mine recently collapsed, killing several miners, and strange phenomena, disappearances, and acts of violence have begun concurrently. The stranger, the saloon owner, a poker player with tuberculosis, and a Native American discover that an ancient evil is hidden within the mine. GENRE: WESTERN/HORROR

Followers

Like or die.

A close-knit couple, but with financial problems, unexpectedly and accidentally finds surprising success on social networks, becoming viral and a popular phenomenon. They are both Boomers and are unaccustomed to new technologies and trends, and the situation quickly spirals out of their control, with tragicomic consequences. GENRE: BLACK COMEDY

In Articulo Mortis

There are places where your mind woudn't go. Where it shouldn't go.

A homicide detective, Dante, endowed with a sinister power that allows him to revisit a victim's final moments of life as a mere ethereal spectator, clashes with a killer who possesses the same abilities, uncovering an ancient and eternal battle between the forces of good and evil. Only with the help of his best friend, Virgil, can he hope to stop the ruthless killer and find redemption from his past. GENRE: THRILLER/ACTION/MYSTERY

Lotus

Kindness is contagiuos.

Liza is a pure soul, a survivor in a hard and harsh world, with an unwavering faith in humanity and in Buddhism. Mike is the complete opposite: cynical, disillusioned, and angry. Their genuine friendship is the core of change and demonstrates how, despite life being terrible, there is always hope and strength within each of us. A tribute to Nichiren Buddhism and the concept of resilience itself. GENRE: DRAMA

Lethal Game

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Sebastian clutches the copy of the year's most anticipated video game: Mortal Game. Orphaned of his father, he lives with his mother and has never truly accepted his dad's loss. He has the whole weekend to play his new video game, but as he does, he slowly realizes that the main character he is using reacts much more fully to his commands. It somehow seems to be alive! GENRE: ACTION

Samael Drake

You won't like what you find.

A private investigator is hired to find a missing painter. His paintings are unsettling, and his latest series is incomplete. His investigation will lead him to also rediscover his own origins and how he arrived at the orphanage. In a city that holds far more secret and mysterious places than he ever thought, Samael Drake will uncover a disconcerting truth and be called upon to make an epochal choice. GENRE: THRILLER/MYSTERY

Sins

Abandon all hope

Ethan and Orion are two mercenaries specialized in impossible missions. They are returning after retrieving a briefcase from a rebel camp, but they get lost in a forest that shouldn't exist. Their instruments don't work, and they must reach the extraction point. However, what should have been a relatively simple journey turns into a traverse through a mysterious, dangerous, and absurd place, forcing Ethan to confront the sins he has committed. GENRE: ACTION/THRILLER/MYSTERY

The Dreamer

Reality is just another nightmare.

Mark lives a perfectly normal life with his girlfriend. A repetitive job. Established routines. But for a few weeks, a recurring dream has been heavily disrupting his days: a desperate man in a mountain cabin, trying frantically to escape something monstrous that lives in the woods. When certain details begin to manifest in his real life, Mark must figure out what is real and what is not. The shadow of an abyssal creature appears. GENRE: THRILLER/HORROR

The Drone

You shouldn't see everything.

Two families and a picnic. The children are playing with a drone, but it ends up going over the forest. The drone is later recovered, but it has video-recorded something very strange. When the two fathers of the families find what they shouldn't have seen, they realize that something terrifying has already happened and that creatures, perhaps aliens, have already begun to invade their town. Who is still human and who is not? GENRE: HORROR/SCI-FI

The last chat

Eternity or Identity.

Michael, a middle-aged man and philosophy professor, is the last man left on Earth. Humanity has slowly gone extinct, due to listlessness, the loss of necessity, and the lack of a reason to continue. He is summoned before the Artificial Intelligence that governs the planet, which seeks to understand what to do with the memories of human beings, and Michael attempts to comprehend what legacy his race will leave behind for the new one. GENRE: DRAMA

The Purple Dragoons

What you fear more, could be your last hope.

In a world where magic has been banned forever, three knights arrive at a citadel governed by a peaceful king, his wife, and his daughter. An ancient demon is about to awaken from its prison, ready to transform the world, along with its followers, the "Dreamers." Only the three crimson knights, by resorting to what cannot be used, can hope to confront the ancient threat. GENRE: FANTASY

The Tide

As the water rises, the truth drowns.

A detective from a coastal town wakes up with short-term memory loss in a pine forest near the sea. A child has been kidnapped, and the tide of the century is looming, threatening to bury the truth and cover the culprit's tracks forever. John Stone must reconstruct his shattered memory to figure out where the child is and whether he himself is the monster who kidnapped him. GENRE: THRILLER

Visual Snow

Forget your origins.

The successful painter Marie Matthews is the sole witness to a politically motivated murder, but she is unable to recognize the culprit due to a rare condition she has: Visual Snow. Together with Detective Leon and Michele, a Nobel-candidate scientist, she must escape mysterious attackers and will unwillingly become involved in a war of unimaginable proportions, with ancient, non-terrestrial roots. GENRE: THRILLER/SCI-FI

Who's the man

Vengeance is just the beginning.

Four survival experts are involved in a game with a large sum of money at stake. They must cross an unexplored area of the Amazon and document the entire journey. Unfortunately, they uncover dark shadows from their parents' past that have consequences for their own lives, and they discover that the unexplored area conceals a frightening and deadly secret. GENRE: ADVENTURE/THRILLER/HORROR

Wolves

Wild rise.

A very famous football player retires to the mountains after his wife's death and tries to coexist with the often gruff and hostile local population. When he meets a nature photographer, he discovers that perhaps his life did not end in the tragic accident that destroyed his existence. Meanwhile, poachers want to reclaim the land where he has settled, but they discover that Navra, the photographer, is hiding a terrifying secret. GENRE: THRILLER/MYSTERY

Deus Ex Machina

Extinction.

Two detectives from the Ori-1 division are called to investigate a series of murders of influential figures, committed by someone calling themselves Prometheus. This is a state-of-the-art AI that is killing human beings. They discover a community of homeless, marginalized, and isolated people where the vigilante is taking refuge, but they will uncover a truth they were not ready to face. GENRE: THRILLER/SCI-FI

Silent Orbit

In the deep void, something was waiting. And now, it has found you.

A solitary astronaut in orbit around the Earth, with only days left before his homecoming. After being forced to retrieve a damaged satellite to prevent a catastrophic reentry and save its vital cargo, he must face a choice that will change his life and the lives of those he loves, forever. GENRE: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER/ INTIMATE SCI-FI

The last kiss

Death is not the end.

After 339 years, a world-weary vampire meets his lost love reborn and resolves to embrace death instead of feeding on her soul. But his progenitor, an ancient power, won't permit him to cast away the 'gift' of immortality. GENRE: GOTHIC ROMANCE/URBAN FANTASY

Specimen

This hunt, is no accident.

Kara is on a desert planet to recover something valuable. Despite being wounded, she remains determined. While tracking the crash site of the ship she is seeking, she is hunted by a predator creature. She manages to survive, but the final showdown with the alien takes an unexpected turn. GENRE: SCI-FI/THRILLER

Sherlock Holmes

The shadow of reason

Expelled from London after violent clashes and conflicts with the King, Sherlock Holmes relocates to Turin, Italy, where he crosses paths with the brilliant Dr. Jean Watson. Hunted by the Italian police for his expertise in the city’s most desperate cases, Sherlock struggles with a violent alcoholism, attempting to quiet his restless mind with narcotics. But when a series of ritualistic murders, steeped in the ancient art of alchemy, rocks the city, Sherlock is forced to confront an adversary as cunning and dangerous as himself. GENRE: THRILLER

MOVIES IN PRE-PRODUCTION

A "normal" dai with Desiree, a girl that suffers of a severe form of Visual Snow, a neuropathology affecting every single moment of her life, her remembers, her dreams, eyes open or closed. She sees the world like she's inside a huge snow storm and has others side effects like halos, trailer, tinnitus, brain fog.

Cast: Michael Segal, Desiree Giorgetti

Genre: Docufilm

Director: Michael Segal

Production companies: LaDCF - PME

To die in not an option. After surviving a mysterious plane crash, a woman and a silent stranger find themselves stranded on a deserted island, both marked with the same number and bound by a countdown they cannot explain. As they fight to stay alive, the island reveals terrifying threats and impossible visions. When the final seconds run out, the woman discovers a shocking truth that ties her fate to the survival of what remains of humanity.

Cast: Michael Segal, Desiree Giorgetti

Genre: Survival/Mystery/Thriller

Directors: Michael Segal - Martin Bonnici

Production: PME - Costantino Films - Hediji Films

Submit. Obey. Or die. In a brutal authoritarian regime, Anna wakes up in a decaying prison cell, stripped of identity and under relentless psychological and physical pressure to betray her comrades. As torture escalates, she uncovers a secret network of prisoners communicating through coded markings, forming fragile alliances that help her endure the unendurable. Refusing to break, Anna becomes the unexpected symbol of a resistance the regime can no longer silence.

Cast: Desiree Giorgetti

Genre: Dystopian/Drama/Thriller

Director: Michael Segal

Production: PME - Hediji Films

An ex-mercenary, traumatized by his violent past, lives in a mountain cabin, isolated from the rest of the world. His only contact with the world is the bartender in the nearby town, a cheerful and smiling girl who, however, hides a dark past. When she is threatened by a local gang of smugglers, the ex-mercenary decides to take matters into his own hands, but he will discover that the girl is not who she claims to be.