The Spec Market

ALL SPEC MARKET PROJECTS.

Curate is out with MOXIE by Heather Quinn. To combat crime in near-future Los Angeles, the FBI creates supercops based on specific genetic sequences. To their shock, their best candidate….

Story Driven is out with DEADME by Asabi Lee & Paul Hart-Wilden. Aimless and down-on-her-luck Ash, inadvertently finds herself caught in the world’s most secretive and deadly game, where absolutely anyone….

Mania Entertainment is out with CURVEBALL by Ted Lazaris. A middle-aged actor enters a witness protection program and starts a new life. Sometimes life can throw you a….

Bright Leicht Content is out with DEEPFAKE by Rob Rex. A grief-stricken woman seeks solace in an AI-powered service that emulates the digital persona of a deceased loved one, but the more emotionally invested she becomes….

StudioCanal & The Picture Company picked up HONEY TRAPPED by April Wolfe. A cabal of assassins arrive in Las Vegas and fight their way up every floor of a busy….

Housefire Management is out with NIGHTMARE TERRITORY by Indiana Lista. After their extreme haunt attraction is abruptly canceled, two thrill-seeking young women fight to get back….

CAA is out with SATURN RETURN by Lauren Hadaway. An eccentric, jaded lesbian clinging to a failing relationship shepherds a straight-laced, newly-out lesbian through….

Tobias Literary Management is out with FENIX 2132 by Nick Whooler & Hassan Omar. When displaced migrants breach a pandemic quarantine, human and artificial intelligence must team up to….

UTA is out with BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster. After 40-some years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with their announcement of a planned divorce. This sparks….

Mutiny is out with CAN WE TALK? by Jacob Held. Joan Rivers jumps ship as permanent guest host of the Tonight Show and takes a leap of faith in starting her own program on the fledgling Fox Network, fighting against….

Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment is out with STEAL THE DARK by Josh Marentette & Spencer Marentette. A team of CIA operatives attempt to infiltrate a Romanian black site and steal its prized….

Jackson Agency is out with PARAMORE NO MORE by Rena Carter. A twisted assortment of personalities clash interpersonally at Paramore No More, the US arm of a secret Chinese-based company that gets revenge for….

Bellevue Productions is out with SURVIVING JAMES DEAN by Matthew Carlson. Aspiring screenwriter William Bast struggles with both his career and identity in 1950’s Hollywood while falling in love with….

Between October 1st and October 31st, we tracked a total of 23 new feature specs hitting the market. It makes a tie for second-most specs out in a single month, matching June, and just one spec shy from first place. That title still belongs to September. As such, it makes a 4.1% decrease in specs from last month. Of the 23 new feature specs, only 4 have some type of attachment that we’ve tracked.

Art/Work Entertainment is out with FORGERS by Brenden Gallagher. After the patriarch of a civil war souvenir shop dies, his children take over only to discover that the family business was not entirely….

Basilisk Entertainment is out with NEOGENESIS by Vaughn Roste. In the year 2507, the first interstellar ship arrives at its destination – but its peace-loving colonists discover that the planet is….

WME is out with RUNNER by Tommy White & Miles Hubley. High-end courier, Hank Malone, has three hours to transport a liver from LAX to a Santa Barbara hospital for immediate transplant surgery….

Logical Talent Management is out with FRANK DRESDEN by Colin McLaughlin. Grieving the death of his wife, an aging, aimless former spy sets out to track down the Soviet agents who….

Gersh & Fictional Entity are out with INBORN by Joe Russo & Chris LaMont. A small-town politician’s perfect life is turned upside-down when a stranger from his past shows up with….

Verve is out with BLACK KITE by Dan Bulla. After a devastating wildfire, a brilliant-but-cynical fire investigator meets a determined mother who shows him he’s not just looking for….

UTA is out with SHREDDED by Josh Lawson. A woman gets far more than she singed up for when she joins an extreme gym led by a charismatic coach who….

Bellevue Productions is out with THE CURSED PATH by Barry Battles & Nir Paniry. When their community is cursed with a devastating plague, the elders of a Colonial New England town – a town with a dark history of persecuting and executing witches – summon a witch to help….

Housefire Management is out with IT’S BRITNEY, BITCH by Cerina Aragones. A dramatic and musical character study of global pop icon Britney Spears, leading up to her very public unraveling at….

Anonymous Content is out with LISTEN by Brian Birch. Military police officer Andrew is trapped in his apartment, struggling with his life as a shut-in in a foreign country. When he hears mysterious noises from his new neighbors downstairs, he becomes suspicious….

Mosaic is out with FOR LIFE by Brett Goldstein & Will Bridges. Two best friends who are secretly in love with each other are forced to live on the periphery of one another’s lives after one of them undergoes a “test” to find….