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fortune cookies romantic comedy feature film screenplay (currently seeking production partners)

Logline: When an Asian woman tries to save her failing Asian restaurant she discovers her fortune cookies can tell the future and gets caught between a vicious landlord chasing her out, the man she’s fallen for and the overzealous customers obsessed with their fortune cookie fates. The Fortune Cookies script placed in the semi-finals of the Lifetime Network Screenplay Competition sponsored by the Bentonville Film Festival . (completed script available upon request)

THE SET UP

Crisalyn Flores, 30ish, goes through the chaos of her running her cute Asian fusion restaurant in a run down corner of town. She's a hard working woman who wants to date but her workaholic tendencies won't let her.

Vishay, the landlord, shows the restaurant to prospective buyers including a good looking guy named Sky. Vishay condescends to Cris telling her she's late on rent again and can't make the tough decisions to be successful in business. Vishay is itching to kick her out. On top of that Cris' wisecracking immigrant Asian Mom tells Cris her biological clock is ticking and needs to get busy. Cris is awash in an early life crisis when she eats a fortune cookie who's fortune portends something bad will happen.

At that moment Cris accidentally spills food on Sky and the sparks fly. When Sky forgets his business card holder at the restaurant Cris goes to his office to return it. But clumsily she spills something on him again. She takes him to the store to buy him a new shirt and quivers when he takes his shirt off to reveal ribbed abs.

The next day Cris eats another fortune that fortells a time deadline. Soon after, Vishay finds a loophole in the lease that says Cris has 30 days to pay back rent or else she's getting evicted. Cris sees her fortunes and figures out that they're adding up. She eats another cookie that tells her she needs to offer the world something unusual. She comes up with a crazy gimmick that she hopes will knock to world dead, if it doesn't ruin her first. In the meantime, she's planning her first date with Sky.

She's taking big chances and going all in on getting what she wants. With fortune at her back how can she lose? It's time to put her cautious lifestyle behind her and finally find out.

The Sweetheart

POTENTIAL FEMALE LEAD

CRISALYN is a focused career woman. But when it comes to love she believes in destiny. This presents a problem when she has to choose between leaving it to fate or risking everything to make her own destiny.

Clockwise from top left: Constance Wu (Fresh Off The Boat), Fan BingBing (L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties), Jaimie Chung (Gotham), Ziyi Zhang (The Wasted Times), Maggie Q (Allegiant)
The Hunk

POTENTIAL MALE LEAD

SKY is a self-made career man who desires Crisalyn but only if she's willing to get out of her own way to finally become the woman she wants to be.

Clockwise from top left: John Cho (Star Trek Beyond), Bradley Cooper (War Dogs), Tony Lau (The Great Wall), Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-O), Channing Tatum (22 Jump Street)
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The Filmmaker

THE FILMMAKER

Walter Boholst will be the writer, director and producer of FORTUNE COOKIES. Walter is an experienced creative who wrote/directed/co-produced the horror feature film "Voodoo Possession" with Danny Trejo that was distributed in the US by RLJ Entertainment and is available worldwide including territories in Europe, all of the Middle East and all of Latin America.

Before his recent genre hits, Walter cut his teeth doing comedy Youtube videos and even filmed a raunchy comedy feature film called "Thrust." Walter specializes in raunchy humor with a heart ala "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and has a mission to include, celebrate, and make fun of, all races, creeds, sexual orientations; especially people with no sense of humor.

The no budget "Thrust," shot on $5,000 and prayer, is about 3 filmmaker friends who try to save their TV show about the pimped out import car scene made popular in shows such as 'Pimp My Ride'. They race to sell the show before their investor pulls the plug and before they turn on each in the wacky world of Hollywood. "Thrust" had a successful film festival run across the nation.

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Walter is also an entertainment attorney of 23 years with a specialization in film/TV distribution and foreign sales. His business consulting clients and employers have included Image/RLJ Entertainment (distributor), Dean Devlin's Electric Entertainment (production, distribution, foreign sales) and XYZ Films (foreign sales). His previous industry stints include Assistant Story Editor for MGM Pictures, as a reader for John Davis' Davis Entertainment (Predator, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and in foreign sales at Initial Entertainment Group founded by Graham King (The Aviator, The Departed)

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