Loglines & Screenplays by Areale Hanks

GENRES: Adventure, Fantasy

As war consumes sixteenth-century Asia, young commander Lin Meiyun becomes the guardian of the legendary Jade Armor, only to discover that its true burden is carrying the memories of General Jian Ren—the celebrated hero whose greatest battles were fought in silence. While the African warrior Yasuke struggles to earn his place in history, Lin must decide whether honoring Jian Ren's legacy means preserving the legend...or revealing the painful truth that created it before another empire repeats his fate.

Can someone truly honor a legend without first understanding the burden that created it?

GENRES: Adventure, Family

After a deadly late-January storm in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood leaves imaginative twelve-year-old Zora Bennett and her emotionally withdrawn father, Jermaine, unconscious beneath an atlas blanket sewn by her late mother, Jacqueline, they awaken inside Dolor, a magnificent world of forgotten roads. To return to their bodies, they must find the Keeper of the Heart's Compass and confront the grief dividing them before their untreated pain transforms Dolor into a monster-filled nightmare and erases their only road home.

GENRES: Adventure, Science Fiction

After years in Europe and America, brilliant wildlife veterinarian Dr. Lena Zondo returns home to Botswana and is assigned to Sanaa, an unusually intelligent elephant whose violent escapes from captivity have made her a danger to herself and others. When Lena releases Sanaa under high-tech observation and follows her toward a forgotten refuge in the Angolan Highlands, she discovers the elephant is gathering animals and human communities ahead of a catastrophic underground collapse, forcing Lena to risk her career, unite resistant governments, and accept that saving millions may depend not on controlling the natural world, but on finally listening to it.

GENRES: Fantasy, Horror

Days after Commander Seraphine Vey ends a twenty-year civil war in Mexico’s volcanic highlands, an earthquake exposes a hidden Mexica archive beneath Vespra just as the Cathedral of the Revenants begins its once-a-century return. When Seraphine’s daughter Elianor becomes bound to the archive’s living black book, Seraphine and her secretive chaplain Lucien must enter the Cathedral’s seven chambers to save her—only to discover they have been summoned to answer for the dead Vespra erased.

GENRES: Other, Sports Drama

After their beloved basketball coach dies days before the final game of their senior season, four emotionally guarded teammates discover that he left them one final challenge: complete four basketball-related assignments before his funeral to receive what they believe is a life-changing inheritance. But as each challenge forces them to confront the troubled homes they have been escaping, the boys discover that their coach did not leave them money—he left them a way to survive without him.

GENRES: Romance, Sports Drama

A former championship point guard hired to rebuild a struggling women’s professional basketball team must share control with the brilliant former teammate whose rivalry once made them unstoppable. With the franchise facing relocation, their renewed competition pushes them to become better leaders, repair the bond they never fully understood, and confront the undisclosed feelings neither woman has been willing to reveal.

GENRES: Horror, Other

A struggling couple attends an exclusive party where every guest receives one life-changing wish, but before sunrise they must vote on who will pay the combined cost.

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

When a working-class Black family rises from poverty after inheriting a long-neglected Louisiana horse ranch, corrupt county officials fraudulently seize the land for a luxury development—awakening ancient nocturnal creatures beneath the soil and forcing the family to reclaim its stolen inheritance before the monsters spread beyond Blackwater County.

GENRES: Other, Thriller / Suspense

After six strangers survive a private-plane crash in an isolated mountain wilderness, their emergency beacon inexplicably reports seven living passengers. Each survivor remembers speaking with someone else aboard the flight—but no one can recall the passenger’s face, name, or seat. As supplies disappear, rescue signals are altered, and the crash site begins repeating impossible details, the group discovers that the seventh passenger may be the only one who actually survived.

GENRES: Other, Thriller / Suspense

After uncovering a devastating betrayal, a spouse refuses to leave the marriage and instead traps her partner in a calculated psychological war—forcing them into a deadly game where escape appears to require destroying the other first, until they discover that an obsessive outsider has been manipulating their marriage toward the ultimate “end game,” murder.

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

After a troubled lesbian couple purchases a luxury Phoenix home, each woman disappears for three days and returns as the partner the other always wanted. As their miraculous transformation draws curious neighbors inside, the community discovers that every improved person has left their original, increasingly enraged self trapped beneath the house.

A prestige ensemble psychological horror story about identity, intimacy, and the terrifying cost of becoming easier to love.

GENRES: Other, Thriller / Suspense

After returning to her family’s church for its final Sunday service, a young funeral director discovers that one member of the congregation is erased from existence every week—and she is the only person who remembers them. With seven days before the church gathers again, she must uncover the buried tragedy binding her family to the disappearances before she becomes the final soul everyone forgets.

GENRES: Action, Comedy

When assassins attack a lavish gay wedding, the grooms discover half their wedding party are former intelligence operatives whose shared past has turned the reception into a lethal reunion.

GENRES: Drama, Other

SERIES LOGLINE

After years of surviving through reinvention, emotionally guarded Angelique  returns to the orbit of her former fiancé, D’Marcus, during a luxury summer reunion in Florida—threatening the carefully constructed life she built while away. As their unfinished love reignites and contradictions surrounding her identity draw D’Marcus and his friends into an increasingly dangerous pursuit of the truth, Angelique must stay ahead of the people determined to expose, possess, protect, or save her before her past destroys her freedom, her family, and everyone still attached to the woman they believe they know.

GENRES: Fantasy, Science Fiction

When a forbidden romance leads a visionary alchemist to unleash outlawed portal magic, his transformation ignites a celestial war that fractures alliances, creates a godlike force, and forces the Seven Realms to seal away the very power that nearly destroyed them. 

GENRES: Action, Thriller / Suspense

When the niece of Dr. Alana “Maya” Reed-St. James, a former federal oversight authority, goes missing, Maya organizes an off-book recovery team that traces overlooked disappearances to a cross-border exploitation network protected by institutional power. To recover the victims and expose the pipeline, she must outmaneuver the agencies determined to bury the truth before countless others vanish permanently.

GENRES: Adventure, Animation

When Lord Licorice Black, ruler of the Bitterlands—a harsh realm of salty snacks, black licorice, rejected flavors, broken wrappers, and unwanted products—turns the year’s most competitive Candy Kingdom Games into a trap for every salty and “unsalty” snack seeking acceptance, textured-chocolate underdog Coco “Cris” Crisp must carry his injured best friend Twizzle Redvine across a tie-breaking finish, expose the tournament sabotage, unite the rival competitors, and rescue the taken champion Prince Reese Royale before the Bitterlands seizes the kingdom’s rejected citizens and claims them as its property.

Can Cris unite Candy Kingdom’s divided competitors, rescue Prince Reese Royale, and stop Lord Licorice from claiming the kingdom’s rejected snacks before the Bitterlands takes control?

GENRES: Comedy, Crime

After accidentally getting involved in a situation they were never supposed to be part of, a group of friends must survive a nonstop chain of escalating disasters—all within a single day where every decision makes things worse and the consequences become increasingly dangerous.

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

After a spontaneous Las Vegas marriage, two driven professionals must decide whether what started as a chance encounter can evolve into a real partnership—or collapse under the weight of ambition and distance.

GENRES: Action, Romance

As their relationship evolves beyond a spontaneous Las Vegas marriage, two ambitious partners build a business empire together—learning that power, love, and legacy require more than vision to sustain.

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

After the death of their matriarch, a devout Black family living in a hostile Southern town begins experiencing terrifying supernatural events when their young daughter’s prayers appear to awaken an unknown force — one that may be divine, demonic, or something far more ancient.

GENRES: Fantasy, Science Fiction

In a multiversal civilization built on controlling Light and outlawing Shadow, forbidden power resurfaces, unraveling the systems meant to preserve peace and forcing a new generation to redefine whether power should rule, protect, or set the world free.

GENRES: Fantasy, Science Fiction

In the aftermath of a devastating war, seven realms unite under living accords designed to enforce peace—but as control tightens and ideological divisions deepen, the systems meant to prevent catastrophe begin quietly creating the next one.

GENRES: Fantasy, Science Fiction

When a young outcast discovers she can forge Light itself, she becomes a threat to a civilization built on controlling it—forcing her to decide whether to challenge the system or become the power it was designed to suppress.

GENRES: Fantasy, Science Fiction

When forbidden shadow fragments resurface as an uncontrollable force, they infiltrate Asterion’s leadership and destabilize its systems—forcing a desperate search for knowledge long erased from history before the world collapses from within.

GENRES: Fantasy, Science Fiction

As long-buried truths about creation, power, and control emerge, a new generation must decide whether Light should dominate, protect, or finally free a civilization built on fear.

GENRES: Crime, Sports Drama

When underground sports evolve into a global system of control, athletes are trapped in a high-stakes game where winning brings temporary freedom—but losing could cost them, or the people they love, everything.

GENRES: Crime, Sports Drama

As elite underground sports become a global criminal enterprise, athletes are recruited into a system where competition masks control—and survival depends on understanding who is really pulling the strings

GENRES: Crime, Sports Drama

A streetball prodigy enters an underground league for opportunity, only to discover that winning traps him deeper in a system where his life—and the lives of those he loves—are tied to every game he plays.

GENRES: Crime, Sports Drama

As Skyline expands into a global empire, a former champion must dismantle a system that profits from survival and suffering—knowing that destroying it could cost countless lives, including his own.

GENRES: Horror, Other

When a mysterious supernatural force tied to the streets begins revealing the hidden consequences of everyday decisions, a cryptic, all-seeing storyteller known as Mr. Midnight (played by Snoop Dogg) guides audiences through chilling tales of survival, betrayal, and ambition in order to expose the irreversible cost of choices people believe they can escape.