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Set in the near future, a notorious corporate raider renounces his worldly wealth. To redeem himself, he signs up for an interplanetary mission to colonize the greater solar system. During his final days on Earth, a fallout occurs when the trip doesn't go as planned.

A modern retelling of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greek tragic dramas set in the world of contemporary crime.

19-year-old Vivian Morris has been kicked out of Vassar College, and is sent by her parents to live in Manhattan with her aunt. There she meets people who will shape the rest of her life.

Set in Las Vegas during the late 1960s, a pair of hustlers rob the decaying Moonlight Casino.

No plot details have been announced. Involves an exploration of a youth subculture.

The film tells the true story of Capt. Ernest Evans, the U.S. Naval Commander posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle off Samar, part of the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf - one of the largest naval engagement in history.

The film is based on the main antihero in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It's an original story rather than an adaptation of Jules Verne's 19th-century novel.

Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player, unwittingly plunges into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of 1990s NYC.

15-year-old Caden Bosch who is afflicted with schizophrenia imagines himself on a pirate ship voyaging through the Pacific Ocean.

The Egyptian queen Cleopatra, a firm ruler and military tactician, embarks on a ruthless rise to power. She twice marries brothers, killing each of them as well as a sister. Romantic alliances with the much-older Roman honchos Julius Caesar and Marc Antony help her solidify power, but her dalliance with Antony undoes both of them.

Set against the backdrop of the making of Star Wars, Peter Mayhew tries to balance a career as a hospital worker while chasing Hollywood dreams by playing furry suited alien Chewbacca, who goes on to become one of the most iconic screen sidekicks in modern times.

Erie, Pa. pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells enters a bank and tells the teller he’d been shackled with an explosive device around his neck and forced to pull off a heist. The bomb goes off as Wells exits the bank, which is surrounded by cops, and it kills him instantly. While investigating the crime after his grisly death, the FBI ultimately discover that Wells was not an innocent victim but a co-conspirator unaware that a real bomb would be involved for the actual heist. The alleged mastermind of the intricate plot is Marjorie Diehl Armstrong who is currently serving life in prison plus thirty years.

Willow Chance, a 12-year-old genius who is obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life her world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world.

Follows the marriages and friendship of two academic couples, who meet in Madison, Wisconsin, over the course of several decades.

A biopic (in the vein of The Social Network) on Martin Cooper, referred to as “the father of the cell phone,” who is credited with inventing the first handheld cellular device at Motorola.

Elissa Hall, a Latina college student, competes in Mexican horse dancing, only to discover she has A.P.L. (Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia), an acute form of leukemia. As she goes to the hospital for treatment, her horse, Centurion, goes from being abused to starring as a celebrated champion.

Steve Banerjee goes from pumping gas in Culver City to running a high-end nightclub that evolves into Chippendales. After hiring a New York choreographer to polish the all-male dance troupe, Banerjee becomes wildly rich, as well as unreasonably competitive and paranoid. Banerjee hires a hitman to murder the choreographer when negotiations go sour. After being arrested, Banerjee dies in jail awaiting his trial.

Air Force Combat Control Technician (CCT) John Chapman dies in battle on March 4, 2002 in Afghanistan. Following his death, no one imagined it would take over a decade for the truth of what really happened on that snowy mountainside to emerge.

The film follows a tax attorney who uncovers layers of greed and fraudulent accounting after taking a position at Enron.