Mark Thomson

Musket And The Motu Budget: $30M+ | Period Piece ⋄ Military/War In early-nineteenth-century Aotearoa, Ngā Puhi chief Patuone sets out to redeem his family’s honor after the disastrous Battle of Moremonui, leading a musket-armed expedition south that allies him with the ambitious Ngāti Toa leader Te Rauparaha. As warfare and diplomacy collide, their friendship—and the future of the motu itself—hangs on every act of loyalty and betrayal.

Blood of The Land Budget: $10M - $30M | Family ⋄ Drama After discovering ancestral artifacts linking their family to both the Shawnee hero Tecumseh and U.S. general William Henry Harrison, two modern Native siblings embark on a treasure hunt across America to reclaim their lost heritage — uncovering coded histories, political secrets, and the blurred lines between pride and betrayal.

Psyche 16 Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy When the world learns that a gold-filled asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, chaos erupts as stoners, misfits, military nuts, teenage hackers, and corporate villains all race to Canada to claim the cosmic jackpot — turning a potential extinction event into the most insane treasure hunt in human history.

Red Eagle & The General Budget: $30M+ | Period Piece ⋄ Military/War In the war-torn frontier of 1813 Alabama, Creek leader William “Red Eagle” Weatherford wages a desperate campaign to defend his people from American expansion — until a final, fateful confrontation with General Andrew Jackson binds the two men together in mutual respect and moral ruin.

Silent Screams Budget: $30M+ | Period Piece ⋄ Drama When settlers arrive to claim lands they purchased in Sydney, they find the territory already occupied by Aboriginal communities. Escaped convicts, aware of colonial corruption, side with the Aboriginal inhabitants, training them to resist. As violence escalates, militia and military intervention turn the conflict into a deadly chase, culminating in desperate survival on cliffs and in tidal prisons.

New Wild Budget: $30M+ | Family ⋄ Animation When two children of pioneering scientists discover they can communicate with de-extinction animals, they help the bewildered creatures journey across a ravaged planet to heal its broken ecosystems—and teach humanity that the wild can thrive again if we listen.

The Society of The Letter R Budget: $10M - $30M | Family ⋄ Animation When two clever kids accidentally awaken a secret order of heroic pirates hidden beneath a Long John Silver’s restaurant, they join forces to protect the world’s oceans from time-traveling villains who are draining the seas for fuel—while the pirates themselves struggle to stay secret, stay relevant, and figure out who they are in a world that’s forgotten them.

The White Chief Budget: $30M+ | Period Piece ⋄ Biopic / True Story In 1830s Aotearoa, a desperate English deserter is captured by Māori warriors but spared by visionary Ngāpuhi leader Te Wera Hauraki. As the two men forge New Zealand’s first Māori-led coastal trade network, loyalty, love, and ambition collide—until the tides of colonisation force each to decide which world they truly serve.

THE ROAD TO TENOCHTITLAN Budget: $30M+ | Period Piece ⋄ Biopic / True Story Defying his masters in Cuba, a driven Spanish adventurer sails into an uncharted world and—through a shipwrecked friar, a brilliant native woman, and a renegade soldier who chose another life—discovers how ambition and faith can forge an empire.

THE FALL OF THE SUN EMPIRE Budget: $30M+ | Period Piece ⋄ Biopic / True Story Welcomed as divine guests, Cortés and his outnumbered army become prisoners of their own ambition as diplomacy curdles into siege and the Aztec world burns around them.

THE LAST JAGUAR Budget: $30M+ | Period Piece ⋄ Biopic / True Story Years after the fall of Tenochtitlan, the renegade Spaniard Gonzalo Guerrero leads the Maya in a doomed stand against the encroaching modern world—fighting not for empire, but for the soul born between two civilizations.

Quiet Tigers Budget: $10M - $30M | Period Piece ⋄ Military/War In 1968, the smallest unit in the Vietnam War becomes its most unpredictable — a Kiwi SAS team whose courage, cynicism, and quiet defiance expose the madness, absurdity, and humanity at the heart of modern warfare.

The Tide Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Horror In 1590s England, a devout Puritan family endures the Crown’s brutal campaign to erase their faith, forcing them into exile across the Atlantic—where the freedom they sought curdles into fanaticism, and the persecuted become the persecutors.

The Brother's Stand Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Biopic / True Story When Ngāpuhi chiefs and brothers Tāmati Wāka Nene, Eruera Maihi Patuone, and Wiremu Wāka Tūrau fight to protect Māori sovereignty in the 1830s, a young English clerk, Horace Hanley, and Patuone’s daughter Hapi Wāka become unlikely bridges between two worlds. Their marriage, born of hope for unity, collides with betrayal, injustice, and the burning of Kororāreka, forcing both peoples to confront what “partnership” under the Treaty of Waitangi truly means.

EVE Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror After a mysterious designer drug known as Malum hits Chicago’s underground rave scene, a centuries-old vampire named Malachi bites a young woman named Eve—unaware she’s high on the drug. The chemical reaction flips their natures: he slowly becomes human for the first time in millennia, while she transforms into a euphoric engine of slaughter. As Eve’s apple-biting rampage turns viral myth, Malachi must decide whether to destroy the last remnant of his own immortality or watch a new species of evil take root.

Vehicle City Budget: $30M+ | Thriller / Suspense After a prison transport crashes outside Flint, Michigan, six convicts vanish into the city’s industrial ruins, unaware the police have blacked out news of their escape. As paranoia turns them against each other and a fractured task force debates whether to go public, power, guilt, and revenge ignite a brutal struggle for survival — in a city where freedom always comes at a price.

Inter-National Treasure Budget: $30M+ | Family ⋄ Adventure A disgraced Hawaiian treasure hunter joins two Māori cousins descended from Tamati Waka Nene on a quest across Aotearoa New Zealand to decode Nene’s long-buried letters, outsmart a lethal secret society, and uncover the Holy Grail and Staff of Moses—real relics hidden since Queen Victoria’s reign—before realizing that some treasures are meant to remain sacred.

Ashes of The Block Budget: $30M+ | Drama In 1983 South Central Los Angeles, three neighboring families watch their tight-knit community crumble as drugs, guns, and systemic neglect infiltrate their streets — transforming a once-thriving block into the front line of America’s war on its own people.

Echo Chamber Budget: $30M+ | Thriller / Suspense In a world fractured by digital outrage and weaponized misinformation, an international task force born from the ashes of the United Nations must confront the new face of extremism — not on battlefields, but in the algorithms, biases, and lies that drive humanity toward collapse.

The Ancestors Budget: $30M+ | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Mystery In pre-contact North America, a shunned clan of bone-workers and spirit-talkers—reviled by their tribe for their grotesque rituals—become the only defense against an ancient hunger awakened in the forest. As bodies hollow and madness spreads, they must decide whether to save the people who hate them… or feed the darkness that loves them.

Dirt Bag Budget: $30M+ | Romance ⋄ Comedy A mullet-wearing Midwestern courier moves to New York City, where his small-town honesty collides with Manhattan chaos. When he falls for a perfection-obsessed model-heiress, his hilarious missteps to “fit in” spiral into viral humiliation—and a last-chance bike race that forces him to choose between polishing his image and being the only thing he’s ever been good at: himself.

Hammer Hands Budget: $30M+ | Comedy After faking the size of their construction company to win a 1,000-home government contract, a hapless Midwest crew must train a ragtag group of clueless locals to build the project before their con—and their reputation—collapses.

The Comeback Ward Budget: $30M+ | Comedy Three fallen celebrities—a suspended NBA star, a disgraced country-pop singer, and a washed-up sitcom actor—check into a secluded Colorado rehab lodge to salvage their reputations, only to find that recovery, fame, and friendship are messier than any relapse.

Young Riders Budget: $30M+ | Drama After a deadly protest shatters a small Montana town, a Native community unites to expose the truth behind the shooting—pitting families, politicians, and the media against each other in a fight for justice, sovereignty, and survival on their ancestral land.

Red Hands, Black Blood Budget: $30M+ | Drama In the aftermath of the Trail of Tears, a Cherokee community adopts the Southern practice of slavery to prove its “civilization.” As moral rot spreads and the Civil War approaches, one woman must defy her father, her tribe, and the world to break the chain of oppression before it destroys them all.

Faces of The Nation Budget: $30M+ | Drama ⋄ Biopic / True Story As Gutzon Borglum carves Mount Rushmore into the sacred Black Hills, his towering ambition collides with Lakota resistance, political corruption, and the moral cost of legacy — while the faces he leaves uncarved, Madison and Grant, become the ghosts of a nation’s forgotten conscience.

The Blackline Budget: $30M+ | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Action When a covert international strike team is secretly reactivated by a shadowy insurance conglomerate, they’re tasked with protecting the world’s most corrupt elite from kidnappings and assassinations — only to discover their employers may also be funding the crimes they’re hired to prevent.

Sacred Heads Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror When two best friend apprentices defy sacred instruction and open a forbidden container containing the preserved heads of ancestral enemies, they become possessed by the warriors’ vengeful spirits and turn on their own village. To restore the tapu and save what remains of his people, their friend Rangi must kill them both and perform ritual to imprison the spirits once more—knowing that in doing so, one may claim his soul forever.

Tales of The Cosmic Tide Budget: $30M+ | Family ⋄ Animation 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.

Light of The Little Eyes Budget: $10M - $30M | Family ⋄ Animation When two divided island communities face starvation and despair, a group of seven young women — one from each tribe — bridge their differences to restore balance to the land and sky, becoming the legendary constellation known as the Little Eyes.

Spark Budget: $10M - $30M | Family ⋄ Animation In a grey, joyless town where children and adults have forgotten how to dream, a tiny shooting star named Spark arrives, igniting bursts of colour and inspiration wherever it touches, teaching everyone that even the smallest light can chase away the darkest doubts.

Starbound Twins Budget: $10M - $30M | Family ⋄ Animation 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 Dig Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror When a young archaeologist joins a livestreamed dig beneath Egypt’s Siwa Oasis, the crew’s cameras capture something ancient awakening in the sand—an unseen force that erases its victims without blood or sound. As real-time posts and AI chat replies spiral into digital panic, the last survivor must confront her own guilt and the god buried beneath before dawn resets the desert as if nothing ever happened.

C.O.P.S Budget: $30M+ | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Action In a Gotham-esque city ruled by ruthless criminals, a battle-hardened cop and his elite squad wage a brutal, absurdly violent war against Big Boss — a crime lord and his army of demented enforcers — in a grindhouse spectacle where every gunfight ends like a comic book panel.

In The Shadow of Sand Creek Budget: $30M+ | Romance ⋄ Drama In a forgotten Colorado town crushed by the opioid crisis, a Cheyenne recovering addict and a guilt-ridden ex-oil worker cling to a fragile romance while confronting a corrupt cop, systemic neglect, and the unhealed wounds of the Sand Creek Massacre—fighting for redemption in a world that offers no easy answers.

Overnight Success Budget: $30M+ | Comedy ⋄ Biopic / True Story In 1970s Las Vegas, a desperate ad-man bets everything on a last-chance FedEx campaign — a gamble that could either rewrite global business history or destroy him overnight.

The Big Bankroll Budget: $30M+ | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Drama When a cunning gambler fixes a high-stakes boxing match in 1920s New York, he catapults himself into the orbit of politicians, mobsters, and dreamers — but as his fortune grows overnight, so does the trail of enemies determined to see him fall.

Ngutu Pārera Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Drama In 19th-century Aotearoa, Ngāpuhi chief Hongi Hika wields European muskets to dominate rival tribes in the brutal Musket Wars, while a young English missionary, entangled in his quest for power, grapples with faith and complicity as their worlds collide, reshaping a nation.

The Burned One Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Drama In the fiery chaos of New Zealand’s Musket Wars, Ngāpuhi rangatira Te Wera Hauraki rises from a devastating personal tragedy to lead battles, forge alliances, and protect Māhia’s people, wrestling with family ties, tribal duty, and the regrets of war to carve a legacy of integrity, as told by his Ngāpuhi descendant.

Man of God Budget: $30M+ | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Drama In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Akhenaten’s radical worship of a single god sparks a brutal reign of sacrifices, but as his tyranny fractures the kingdom, his own family—led by Queen Nefertiti and young Tutankhamun—joins a secret resistance to overthrow him, weaving a deadly web of faith, betrayal, and rebellion.

The Murderer Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Horror 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.

The Manny (The Nanny Reboot) Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy When a widowed TV producer drowns in single motherhood and the cutthroat world of television, an out-of-luck salesman with gambling debts bluffs his way into her household as “The Manny” — stumbling into fatherhood, chaos, and redemption while battling the jealousy of her sleazy business partner.

Dronewolf (Airwolf Reboot) Budget: $10M - $30M | Action A burned ex–Special Forces pilot and his team of outcast specialists operate Dronewolf, a stealth AI drone-for-hire, taking on impossible missions across the globe — until rival governments and their own employers brand them a threat, forcing them underground to fight for survival, profit, and their freedom.

Cancelled Budget: $30M+ | Other ⋄ Comedy When a washed-up cult celebrity, desperate to stay relevant, spirals into a cocaine-fueled social media war against newer stars, her chaotic tirades ignite a digital apocalypse of fanbase feuds, cancel campaigns, and truth bombs that expose the entire celebrity ecosystem as fake, toxic, and terminally addicted to attention.