Between August 1st and August 31st, we tracked 17 new feature specs hot out of Final Draft. 3 of them have some type of attachment, while 1 is reported to have sold that was previously out in 2021 (more on that spec later). That brings our total count of specs with attachments up to 4. This marks a 23% decrease in specs from July, and a 26% drop off from June. How the year has been shaping up, August has turned over some fairly better numbers than anticipated.
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Apple Original Films & Skydance Productions picked up THE FAMILY PLAN by David Coggeshall. A former assassin living as a suburban dad is forced to take his unsuspecting family….
Sean Anders will direct the film, which follows a couple who decide to start a family and adopt through the foster-care system, only to find themselves raising three wild kids who have no interest in being parented.
Opening on Nov. 3 and 10 respectively, the two new holiday-related comedy sequels are going to be vying for the comedy market when they open although the Bad Moms sequel is going all-out with a VERY raunchy R-rated trailer.
The story of the Getty kidnapping crisis encompassing the Red Brigades, the Italian tabloids and the Vatican.
While the debate continues over whether or not Deadpool will receive any Oscar love, The People’s Choice Awards is happy to show the actioner the love, as the film picked up wins for Favorite Action Movie and Favorite Movie Actor.
A direct sequel to 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction.
An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis’s actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.
As we head into a season of indie films and critical darlings fighting for a few awards season nominations, the 2017 People’s Choice Awards has released their list of nominees, celebrating the big hits that gained pop culture notoriety over the past year.
An account of the Boston Marathon bombing, Patriots Day is the powerful story of a community’s courage in the face of terror.
Pitched as Panic Room meets Die Hard, a contractor whose artist wife suffers from an illness that prevents her from being in the sunlight builds a futuristic house that blocks out any natural light. When a band of criminals attempts to break into the house to steal one of his wife’s valuable sculptures, he must evade and outsmart them to protect his home.
Mark Wahlberg is attached to star in the thriller Home Invasion for Paramount Pictures. He’ll produce with Stephen Levinson through Leverage Management. The film re-teams Wahlberg with Contraband scribe Aaron Guzikowski.
In a continuation of Hollywood’s affinity for remaking high-profile foreign films, Mark Wahlberg is set to star in and produce an adaptation of Yuval Adler’s Israeli drama Bethlehem.
Tells the story of the complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant that grows even more morally conflicted, when the young man learns his employers are plotting to assassinate his radical brother.
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are teaming up again for Paramount Pictures’ Daddy’s Home. The first film bowed over the holiday season and racked up $240 million worldwide gross.
Sequel to the hit comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg.
Comedic actor Jerrod Carmichael is looking to get behind the wheel of an Autobot (or Decepticon) in Transformers 5.
Newcomer Lana Condor has been added to the cast of the Peter Berg-directed Boston Marathon bombing movie, Patriots Day starring Mark Wahlberg.
Kevin Bacon is the latest to join the cast of the Boston Marathon bombing movie Patriots Day starring Mark Wahlberg.
Michelle Monaghan is the latest to join the growing cast of the Boston Marathon bombing drama Patriots Day. The actress is set to play Carol Saunders, the wife of Sgt. Tommy Saunders played by Mark Wahlberg.
Vincent Curatola is the latest actor to join the growing cast of Patriots Day, the CBS Films and Lionsgate feature about the Boston Marathon bombing.
A story set on the offshore drilling rid Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and crated the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
10 Cloverfield Lane star John Goodman has been added to the cast of Peter Berg’s Patriot’s Day. He joins Mark Wahlberg and J.K. Simmons in the drama based on the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
J.K. Simmons has been tapped to star alongside Mark Wahlberg in the Boston Marathon bombing drama, Patriots’ Day. The movie will be based on the true events of the bombing and the five day search that led to the capture of suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The Mark Wahlberg-led actioner will hit screens December 22nd, 2017. Production eyes a September 2016 start, with Wahlberg, Bob Weinstein, and Stephen Levinson producing.
A mild-mannered radio executive strives to become the best stepdad to his wife’s children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling father arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids.
Goldsman will tackle the script for a fifth film in Michael Bay’s live-action series, and Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari are going to work on an animated prequel.
The Evan Turner-scripted romp follows Wahlberg as an LAPD detective who falls for a beautiful woman after a one night stand, only to find that she’s an FBI agent, and his new boss, on a high-profile case.
Peter Berg is in the final round of talks to helm Patriots’ Day, based on former Boston Police commissioner Ed Davis’s account of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Scripted by Graham Roland, the film centers on a CIA agents (Wahlberg) stationed in Indonesia, who takes on the mission of escorting a revealed informant from the heart of the city to a getaway plane 22 miles away.
