Original Film

Between June 1st and June 30th, we tracked a total of 22 feature specs out. We’ve been coming from a steadily declining slump of material out, but June turned it around from May’s slow market. While not the highest number of features out this year, things are starting to mend.

Original Film picked up RELAY by MacMillan Hedges.

CAA is out with THE CHILDREN by Shay Hatten. Kids from a small town must work together to survive.

Paramount made a preemptive deal on MURDER IN THE WHITE HOUSE by Jonathan W. Stokes. The president is murdered in the White House, and a Secret Service agent has one night to find the killer.

A movie version of “Crossfire,” the megahit game from South Korea’s Smilegate Group. Relentless armed conflict between world powers has given rise to a new underground rivalry.

When adventurers have gone as far into space as they can or to the deepest depths of the ocean possible, the last frontier remains the exploration of the afterlife, The Infinite.

Tells the story of the Swedish inventor’s fight to establish his peace prize along with his assistant who took up his mission after his death.

A professional bounty hunter suddenly finds himself the one who is hunted and must find money in order to pay off his own price tag.

Jeff Fowler will make his feature directing debut on the film, having worked alongside Miller at the latter’s Blur Studio. Fowler previously wrote and directed the 2005 Oscar-nominated animated short Gopher Broke, which Miller executive produced.

The series will be set in the arid plains of West Texas in a town called the Blinds, where criminals live in cinderblock bungalows surrounded by a 14-foot fence.

The storyline is being kept under wraps.

In the vein of The Heat, two overzealous female FBI agents go undercover — as men — in order to bring down a male-dominated domestic militia group, and in the process discover more about their true selves than they ever imagined.

A serial killer takes on the identities of attractive women to seduce and kill rich men, while a female detective tries to track her down before her next kill.

Plot details are being kept under wraps.

Details are being kept under wraps.

A riff on the historical tale of the Donner Party with a Walking Dead style twist.

Kept under wraps.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps, but spec is being pitched as The Shining or The Conjuring on a boat

Shane Black is moving on from the action and comedy of The Nice Guys and heading into some stormy weather with Category 5. Black will produce the film that follows a group of thieves who plan to rob the island of an El Chapo-type before a huge storm hits.

A group of thieves plan to rob the island of an El Chapo-type in a short window of time before a huge storm hits.

Strouse has been tapped to add some magic into Disney’s forthcoming father-son comedy Overnight. The Finding Dory writer was brought on shortly after the project was selected to receive $9.5 million in tax incentives from the California Film Commission in 2015.

With Charlize Theron on board for Fast 8, the title might as well be Fast and the Furiosa. The Mad Max: Fury Road star has officially signed on to join Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, and Jason Statham in the next installment of the wildly successful Universal franchise.

NBC’s Cruel Intentions has finally closed a deal for Sarah Michelle Gellar to reprise her role from the original role as the even Kathryn Merteuil. Kathryn was the step sister of Ryan Phillipe’s Sebastian Valmont.

Kept under wraps, but based on the popular Smilegate video game.

While details on the plot are still being kept under wraps, sources say that the movie will offer clues to the origins of the world’s greatest secret agent–an agent so secret that his codename has a codename–and who just so happens to be a mouse living underneath MI6 headquarters.

Story centers around the world’s greatest secret agent–an agent so secret that his codename has a codename–and who just so happens to be a mouse living underneath MI6 headquarters.

Straight Outta Compton‘s F. Gary Gray is at the head of the short list to direct the eighth installment of the hugely successful Fast & Furious franchise for Universal.

The next chapter in the car-centric action franchise.

Brantley Aufill’s other-worldly spec The Seven has been building some serious heat over the past 24 hours, with some major Hollywood players eyeing the property as they head into the weekend.