Loglines & Screenplays by Mark Thomson

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Hammer Hands

GENRES: Comedy

When an immigration raid wipes out most of his workforce the same day he lands a 1,000-home government contract, a desperate construction boss is forced to rebuild his crew from scratch—training unqualified local apprentices under the watch of a documentary crew, while rivals, politics, and his own chaos threaten to bring the entire project crashing down.


ASH CLOUD

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

When a visiting volcanologist becomes stranded in Hawaii as a catastrophic eruption triggers a global chain reaction, he must convince a skeptical U.S. command to act on an unprecedented theory—while fighting to keep his family alive as ash clouds collapse cities and time runs out for humanity.


SEALEVEL

GENRES: Drama, Thriller / Suspense

When a remote mining operation breaches a sealed prehistoric layer, a driven CEO accelerates extraction to secure a breakthrough resource—unleashing a dormant biological threat that spreads invisibly through air and infrastructure, forcing a scientist to expose the truth before ambition turns a contained discovery into global extinction.


BODEGA BURNOUT

GENRES: Comedy, Thriller / Suspense

Trapped behind the counter of a crumbling neighborhood bodega, a nihilistic, razor-tongued clerk insults customers, cops and coworkers all day long — never realizing his total indifference is making him look like the criminal mastermind of a much bigger operation. 


VALUE MEAL

GENRES: Comedy, Thriller / Suspense

At a struggling fast-food chain kept afloat by chaotic staff and daily dysfunction, a mismatched crew fights to survive understaffing, corporate pressure, and each other—unaware that behind the scenes, headquarters is hiding a horrifying secret that will turn their “value meals” into something far more sinister.


LIVING LITTLE

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

After a drunken online purchase leaves him owning an absurdly narrow plot of land, a recently divorced marketing executive is forced to build a life—literally—from nothing, accidentally turning his survival hacks into a booming tiny-living brand that exploits the very housing crisis it claims to solve.


TROUBLE IN PARADISE

GENRES: Action, Crime

Exiled to the Caribbean for political optics, a disgraced federal agent teams with a sidelined local detective to uncover a cartel-backed weapons network embedded across police, port and military logistics — and becomes a target of the very institutions meant to protect them.


A GANG OF DICKS

GENRES: Comedy

In colonial Aotearoa, three directionless young Māori men enlist in the Crown’s militia for all the wrong reasons, only to desert, stumble through war, whaling, gold-rush chaos and cultural collision, and accidentally build a rough-and-ready tavern that finally gives them the freedom and belonging they were chasing. 


SILICON SLOPES

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

At a profitable Utah tech company, a visionary CEO’s obsession with becoming “AI-first” drags executives and engineers into a high-speed identity crisis where ambition, valuation and self-preservation collide. 


FALL FROM LIGHT

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

After a failed FBI raid leaves him unraveling, a gifted but unstable agent begins experiencing disturbing visions and uncovering a hidden network operating inside the Bureau itself—forcing him to question whether he’s losing his mind or being drawn back into a secret ritual he once escaped.


RED MOB

GENRES: Comedy, Horror

After a sacred ritual is disrupted in remote Australia, kangaroos begin moving with unnatural coordination, launching violent, targeted attacks on humans — forcing two locals to confront an evolving threat that is dismantling the illusion of human dominance over the land. 


The Dig

GENRES: Horror

When two ambitious archaeology streamers join a government-sanctioned excavation in Egypt’s Western Desert, they uncover evidence of a forgotten ruler whose sealed burial site begins to distort history, perception, and reality—turning their livestream into the only record of a truth that may not want to be found.


EVE

GENRES: Horror

EVE

After a mysterious bite at an underground club triggers a violent transformation, a young woman begins to lose her humanity—while a centuries-old predator searching for redemption and a relentless investigator closing in on a string of brutal killings are pulled into a collision that will decide what she becomes.


Witless Protections

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

After overloaded police dump too many protected witnesses into one quiet NZ town, two families struggle to keep up fake suburban lives — until a murder turns awkward comedy into paranoid chaos.


PRIME TIME

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

When a methodical serial killer dominating headlines in Santa Monica is suddenly overshadowed by a looming extinction-level meteor event, he escalates his murders with reckless precision to reclaim attention — forcing a lone detective to hunt a man who would rather be seen than survive the end of the world. 


AS INSTRUCTED

GENRES: Comedy

After a burned-out office worker tells an AI assistant to “handle his life,” his stress begins disappearing overnight — along with his job, marriage, finances and autonomy.


SECOND PLAGUE

GENRES: Horror

When four missing teens turn up mutilated in the Louisiana bayou, the horror that follows appears to be a violent outbreak — until survivors discover the real plague is only just beginning.


THE ROOF

GENRES: Comedy

When four ordinary men are remanded into a New Zealand prison through bad luck, bureaucracy and systemic failure, their attempts to quietly survive are mistaken for coordination — turning them into the apparent leaders of a prison crisis they barely understand.


Dirt Bag

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

Dirt Bag

A broke, hapless courier becomes an accidental viral sensation in New York City — and his stubborn refusal to perform for the camera forces a burned-out brand executive to choose between the life she's built and the one she actually wants.


Starbound Twins

GENRES: Animation, Family

Starbound Twins

When twin sisters who feel unseen by their struggling parents wish to shine like stars, their world transforms into a cosmic realm where the girls glow as radiant celestial beings, and the whole family must learn to voice their feelings and forgive in order to reunite and shine together.


The Murderer

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

The Murderer

In pre-colonial Aotearoa, a grief-stricken Ngāpuhi outcast descends into madness and cannibalism after losing his mother, transforming into Hihiotote — a man-turned-monster who stalks travellers through the northern forests. As fear spreads and his legend grows, a grieving chief and his son vow to hunt him down, igniting a blood-soaked battle between vengeance and the remnants of a human soul.


Tales of The Cosmic Tide

GENRES: Animation, Family

When rifts tear open between mythologies around the world, three legendary heroes — Māui, Sun Wukong, and Amaterasu — must set aside ego, culture, and history to repair the cosmic current that connects all stories, before an ancient shadow known as the Ebon Sovereign consumes creation itself.


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