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Examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in between.

Rick Wershe, a teen living in Detroit in the 1980s, joins the ranks of the drug kingpins on the East Side to become a prolific cocaine trafficker, going by the name "White Boy Rick." Wershe works as an undercover informant for the FBI and DEA while simultaneously rising to become one of the biggest drug dealers in the city.

Two strangers meet in Manhattan and spend one night together as the conflicts in their own lives become the basis for their exploration of each other and themselves.

A young woman is accused of murder in Iceland in 1829 and faces becoming the last woman to be publicly executed in the country. The film will tell the story of a tragic romance set against the odds during an endless Icelandic summer.

In addition to being a wife and mother, a woman is a Blackhawk pilot in the National Guard who is called to serve a tour of duty in Iraq.

A young female detective goes undercover to solve a murder in an elite college town. The detective wants to discover the truth, but she finds this new world to be quite seductive.

Career criminal Nick Mason is released from prison after serving only five of a 25 year sentence. He promptly moves into a tony condo on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, living with a beautiful roommate and driving a new car. The circumstances behind Mason's release soon become clear. He made a deal with an infamous Chicago crime lord, Darius Cole, who lived on the same cell block as Mason and used his clout to free Mason, only if the ex-con will pick up the crime lord's cell phone call and execute every thing asked of him, from robbery to murder to fixing any problem, no questions asked. Mason made this Faustian bargain so he could re-connect with his estranged daughter. Hounded by the cop who put him away in the first place, Mason must figure out how to get out from under.

The true story of an American-Japanese military unit that became the most decorated unit in American history for their efforts against the Nazis in World War II.

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.

A shepherd leaves Spain in search of a treasure in the Egyptian pyramids and meets various spiritual messengers along the way.

On a late-night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets fellow passenger Lily Kintner. Thinking he will never see her again, he tells her he's been thinking about murdering his faithless wife. When they land, Lily tells the guy she wants to help, and they form a strange twisted, bond plotting the wife's demise. He doesn’t know she has some experience in this kind of thing.

Legendary Pictures is developing an elaborate 2010 cross-platform launch for "The Lost Patrol," a supernatural thriller.

True series of events from author Douglas Preston's life. Shortly after moving his family to Italy in 2000, Preston learned that an olive grove on their property had been the scene of a brutal murder. Teaming with Italian journalist Mario Spezi, Preston began investigating the crime, which was part of a series of eight double homicides between 1968-85.

Set in 1935 Ethiopia with the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane & his wife Aster's household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and overwhelming rage. As the war begins in earnest, Hirut, Aster, and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms against the Italians.

The story centers on an American economist who becomes the target of professional assassins. When a U.S. intelligence agent investigating his case finds herself discredited, the two end up on the run and uncover a vast multinational conspiracy manipulating the global economy and world events.

A young Florida girl gets lost in the child welfare system for five years until she's discovered by an unpaid volunteer who must convince the girl's biological mother to release her parental rights.

Aru Shah, a twelve-year old girl of Indian descent, lives in an annex of the Museum of Ancient Indian Arts and Culture and is known to lie to her classmates at a rich Atlanta private day school to get them to view her traditional wardrobe as something exotic and not freaky.

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