INVESTMENT STATEMENT

 

du Jour Films and Entertainment, Inc. has 30 plus years of experience in the Entertainment Industry.
 

Our staff is comprised of talented professionals and artist, who possess expertise in all facets of the media property life-cycle.
We bring projects to the table with a wide range of genres that can appeal to all audiences.

du Jour Films and Entertainment, Inc. raises money through private equity, distribution pre-sales, financial institutions and film funds.
 

du Jour Films and Entertainment, Inc. is not a project clearing house.

Each of our projects is rigorously screened along the most stringent guidelines.
Projects with compelling storylines must qualify in other areas in addition to content, including:

 

  • Script Mechanics
  • Marketability
  • Same Genre Performance History
  • Demographics
  • Bankable director and talent, with Letters of Interest
  • Product Placement and Merchandising Feasibility
  • Production Requirements
  • Additional Broadcast Revenue Streams
  • Overall Profitability

                           du Jour Films and Entertainment, Inc. and Gypsy Productions will have offices in San Jose, Costa Rica in-mid 2012

 


PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT



The Mayor of Harlem

Genre: Urban Drama
Writer: Bill Lee Brown
Logline:
A popular oldies deejay acquires controlling interest in a radio station when the gospel deejay defaults on a loan. The gospel deejay concocts a diabolical scheme to get the station back.  When the oldies deejay learns of this, he devises a counter scheme that unearths dark secrets about the gospel deejay that puts his world into a tailspin.


Barbados Music Festival 

Genre: Musical Concerts
Producer / Promoter: du Jour Films and Entertainment in association with Fharro Entertainment

The Barbados Music Festivals is a 5-year musical concert deal which will take place at two venues on the beautiful island of Barbados and broadcast worldwide.


The American Soul Concert Series 

Genre: Musical Concert Tour
Producer / Promoter: RLT Music and Film Works
The American Soul Concert Series is a 3-year concert, touring 9-cities in the first year out. The American Soul Concert Series opens at the Staple Center in Los Angeles. The overall line-up is an all-star roaster of performers' featuring:
 

Frankie Beverly and Maze, The Commodores, Mary J. Blige, Kool & The Gang, The Whispers, The O'Jays, Patti LaBelle, Dionne Warwick, Alicia Keys, Russell Thompkins Jr. & The New Stylistics, Maxwell, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Gap Band, Stephanie Mills, Maxi Priest, Beyonce, Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana), The Jonas Brothers, Jeffery Osborne and The Jukebox Tour.


seedlings   

Genre: Animated Fairytale  formally titled  "New Moon"
Writer: Doris B. Gill 
(Have Ideas Will Write)
Logline: In an idyllic kingdom where subjects are born old and become young, a child-like creature, STAR is stolen by a jealous society of have-nots. REMBRANDT JACQUE, a dashing wander must recue STAR and unite the two kingdoms for the King and POPPY, STAR's beautiful guardian, and he must accomplish these daunting
tasks before it's too late!
    


The Software Empire 

Genre: Fiction
Writer: Pascal Clarysse
Logline: The President over reacts to a terror attack on the nation and overreaches his war prerogatives and increases the technological control over the country.
 


Change 

Genre: Comedy
Writer: Josh Fuller
Logline: A popular athlete has the time of his life when he abandons his high pals and his girlfriend to taste the fruits of an out of town college.


Unguardian Angel  

Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Writer: Onnie Fitzgerald Terrell
Logline: Strange and violent occurrences are thrust upon a teen's life after being blamed for the death of his older brother in a horrific car accident and the one person he confides in and trust...is the same person accusing him. 

              "UNGUARDIAN ANGEL"...was announced as a semi-finalist at the...HOLLYWOOD 2009 SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL


Billie Jean

Genre: Comedy Drama
Writer: Paul Goulding
Logline: "Billie Jean" is a warm hearted comedy about the relationship between Winston Churchill who is the ridiculously proud Black African teenager who after 18 years arrives in England to meet Tom Collins his manic depressive White English father. 


Peer Pressure 

Genre: Urban Drama
Writer: Roderick A. Marks
Logline: Antwoine, 13, from South-Central L.A. who is a good kid and not in a gang, kills a member of the East Coast Crip gang in self defense and then finds himself sucked up into the violent gang lifestyle that he was so desperately trying to avoid. 


She Left Me for a White Dude

Genre: Drama
Writer: Gary Martinis
Logline: A womanizing soul singer loses his wife and kids, and must reach deep within for the courage to change and win her back.


The Dead Cry 

Genre:  Horror Mystery
Writer: Jose Luis Zuazua
Logline: A college grad, a teacher, two cops and a retired wrestler share a connection to a mysterious series of child murders committed by an unseen terror. 


Old 99

Genre: Action
Writer: Rick Crane
Logline: While checking her father's corn fields, 16 year old Mikey unearths the remains of a large steam locomotive...Where did it come from?  After discovering the terrible truth of the wreck of "Old 99", Mikey and her friends find a way to help it complete its run and deliver its ghostly cargo.
 
 


Resurrection

Genre: Action 
Writers: Rick Crane and Gary Crane
Logline: All of the gang and all of the ghost of "Old 99" are back! This time they're trying to help Willie save his newly inherited railroad from his rival...the evil Mike Williams...who will stop at nothing to expand his empire. 
 


The Secret of Forgiveness 

Genre: Family Drama 
Writers: Sandra Duplessis - Tammy Nickson - Felita Bell
Logline: A deep and compelling true to life family orientated drama of a home wreaker who comes to learn a valuable lesson after destroying the lives of two close families.
 
 


Space Platform OZ 

Genre: Si-Fi Drama 
Writer: C.T. Giles
Logline: The U.S. Air Force TOP SECRET platform is in a deep geo synchronous orbit which is positioned over and between Russia and China. Suddenly and without warning all of OZ's offensive and defensive laser weapons systems (A.P.W.S. & A.L.W.S.) become activated and OZ repositions her orbit directly over Washington, DC. 


Consenting Adults  

Genre: Drama 
Writer: Ira Herman
Logline: Playboy Steve Abraham has it all...his own chain of Megabytes Restaurants...a 70' luxury yacht...a sprawling mansion overlooking the Malibu coastline and an uninhibited affair with two beautiful sisters. Life is really good for Steve until one of the sisters and her new lover are found shot dead on Steve's yacht. 


A.S.A.P.  (ALWAYS SAY A PRAYER)  

Genre: Stage Play, Musical Comedy Drama 
Writer: Cassandra Sanders
Logline: This stage play is based on the lives of 4 sisters who deal with their demons individually and collectively.  A.S.A.P. will reach and touch the hearts and minds of all genders and will make everyone take a good look at the
 "man in the mirror".


The Bartender  

Genre: Drama 
Writer: Jason Allen Smith
Logline: Brian couldn't be more down on his luck then to be stuck bartending at Rudy's, a joke of a nightclub. His luck changes when a bar-back that he trained, tells him of a new club that is opening in Denver which will give him a second chance. 
 


Black Gloves  

Genre: Urban Drama 
Writer: Markiece Palmer and Minh T. Nguyen
Logline: Black Gloves is the story of a young man who is forced to choose between fighting in the streets of fighting in the ring. In both arenas he fails miserably and sinks so low, he can reach up and touch the bottom. But by the grace of God and the power of love he rises to his feet to and finds his true calling.  


9-1-1...What Is Your Emergency?

Genre: Action Drama 
Created by: Sanedria Potter
 
Logline: 9-1-1...What Is Your Emergency?, is a made for T.V. series documenting the real life experiences of 9-1-1 operators, the police department and the emergency response units that respond to the calls and situations that the 9-1-1 operators receive.