Film News

Monthly wrap up reports on the spec market.

Logline: A failing British literary agent trying to make a name for himself in the New York publishing world one day stumbles upon his reclusive literary hero on the street, and follows him into what he discovers is an AA meeting, and the beginning of a whole new world of networking opportunities. Just one problem – he’s not an alcoholic.

Logline: Follows a search and rescue team in deep space who are transported to a distant mining station to save the lone survivor of a freak accident and quarantine a lethal biological weapon before it reaches Earth.

Logline: A rep-man and his world traveler girlfriend, both stoners and apparently perfect for each other, find themselves in a dangerous love triangle.

Logline: Pitched as “The Ring” meets “District 9”. A contained sci-fi thriller but with a big twist that sets up a larger world and franchise.

Logline: Pitched as “American Graffiti” meets ‘real-world’ “High School Musical”. A classical guitar prodigy and a student civil rights activist fall in love at a newly integrated urban high school in 1962 Chicago.

Logline: When a sheepish farmer chickens out of a gunfight his girlfriend leaves him. Soon the wife of a notorious outlaw offers to teach him how to shoot, and the farmer at first sees a chance to win back his love but slowly falls for the woman. Complications ensue when the outlaw returns and reclaims his woman.

Logline: A retired hitman relentlessly pursues the Russian thugs who stole his car and killed his dog, a gift given to him by his deceased wife to keep him from killing himself.

Logline: Kept under wraps but said to take place in the shadowy world of private intelligence companies in the vein of “James Bond” or “Mission Impossible” franchises.

Logline: Follows the continued struggles between two crime families in Montevideo to control an immigrant-heavy portion of the city.

Logline: Story follows three beautiful young women who leave Buenos Aires for a relaxing weekend in the Pampa countryside only to discover the 19th-century rural estate they stay at is haunted by the Argentine colonialists’ massacre of the area’s native indians 200 years ago.