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The Project

  • The first “kissing movie”
  • Ultra-nostalgic, retro, dreamy — set in 1959
  • A feature film in six one-hour chapters

The Audience

  • Girls and women from 15 to 60
  • Romance fiction readers who
    • generated $1.37 billion in book sales in 1999
    • buy 18 percent of all books sold; 55.9 percent of all paperback books sold
    • numbered 37.9 million readers in 1999
    • are 37 percent college-educated


Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

— Remy de Gourmont, French writer


Screenwriter/Producer Richard Thornton, Y*A*I*L Productions, is a born romantic, whose other passion is film.  Always fascinated by the “pulps,” especially the romance variety, he found the inspiration for Rays in a pulp magazine story about a woman who had just broken off her third engagement.  He’s focused Rays on the most important element of every romance pulp story — the kiss.  His script has grown from a feature-length film to an innovative six-part serial.  Rays is the antithesis of the “buddy movie.” Thornton calls it a “girl-chum movie.” It’s the ultimate “chick flick.”


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