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Monthly wrap up reports on the spec market.

A crime boss out on bail plans to skip town, but the money he stashed away for the occasion has gone missing — so he sounds out his right-hand-man to find the money, and punish whomever took it.

Logline: When their father elopes with a cocktail waitress, an uptight New Yorker and his party girl sister go to a lake house to meet their new step family and hear their dad’s big announcement. But the steps — and the announcement — are not what they expected.

Logline: Focuses on the story of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler teaming up to work as detectives and roughly basing their fictional characters Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe on their own real life exploits.

Logline: Follows a pair of high school students in Langley, Virginia, located 1.7 miles from the CIA. When one of their fathers is abducted they go on a hunt for him and begin to realize the CIA may be playing a big role in his disappearance.

Logline: Professional thieves steal $30 million from the CIA who responds by sending a team out to kill the thieves and reclaim the money.

Logline: After his phone, with the number of the girl of this dreams, is stolen, a young architect and his cousin get mixed up in the Mexican drug cartel.

Logline: A young father driving across the country to see his daughter is stopped by a sheriff at Exit 147, when the situation unexpectedly turns into a psychological game of cat and mouse.

Logline: After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life–with just a few minor adjustments. He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out, Victor’s fellow students, teachers and the entire town all learn that getting a new “leash on life” can be monstrous.

Logline: Story centers on a futuristic society in which robots are used to stave off rebellions until one robot joins the rebels.

Logline: Story follows Angelo Mortalli, a ruthless killer for the mob who is set up by the family and framed for a murder. During his capture he becomes the subject of a secret experiment to erase his memory, but in the process, gains superhuman powers.