Tracking every spec script as it hits the market.
APA is out with ELEVEN by Kacie Fagan. A sibling fights a losing battle with drug addiction.
Fourth Wall Management is out with BITTERROOT by Hunter Phillips. A park ranger and her estranged teen daughter must escape the Bitterroot Wilderness.
Verve is out with RULES OF CONDOMINIUM LIVING by Nastaran Dibai & Firoozeh Dumas. An Iranian teenager’s California dreams and family’s life are upended.
Cavalry Media is out with GRIP TAPE by Larry V. Santana. A tug-of-war for a young black man’s soul is waged between the blood-stained gutters that raised him, and the pull of a life more extraordinary.
Between November 1st and November 30th, we tracked a total of 23 new feature specs out on the market. November tends to be a mixed bag year over year. This month traditionally marks the end of the literary calendar where most agents and managers are wrapping up going out with new material.
Recon Literary is out with 8 DAYS A WEEK by Ian Southwood. A busy, single father invents a pill that lands him in an eighth day of the week.
Artists First is out with THE SIX AT MIDNIGHT by Sehaj Sethi. When a terminally ill woman accidentally falls asleep on a NYC subway, she awakes in 1939 and meets the love of her life.
APA and Heroes & Villains Entertainment are out with B.A.D. BLOOD by Danielle Iman. A rebellious teen teams up with her bad-to-the-bone grandfather to reunite a clan of assassins.
Logical Talent Management is out with FLIGHT RISK by Valerie Brotski. In the early 1960s, the top two female aviators and rivals of the time team up to create the first astronaut training program for women.
Good Humor is out with JAKE AND MONICA’S PANIC ATTACK by Gary Goldstein. Two desperate NYC therapy patients track down their missing therapist.
Verve and Bellevue Productions are out with IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S ME by Tyler Austin & Patrick Eme. A young publishing editor is shocked to find out that the secretive author is his ex-girlfriend.
Echo Lake Entertainment is out with GROUPIES by Corey Dashaun. Two status-obsessed groupies in the vibrant Atlanta hip-hop scene find themselves fighting for survival.
Zero Gravity Management is out with CRAZY EIGHT by Alex Hollister. Eight contract killers are invited to a remote manor.
Citizen Skull Productions is out with BREACH by Joshua Hull. A lone surviving astronaut finds herself confined inside an evacuation pod.
Verve is out with MICHAEL BAY: THE EXPLOSIVE BIOPIC by Sean Tidwell. Tell-all Michael Bay origin story which reveals the explosions that defined him and the fire that ignited his little heart.
Art/Work Entertainment is out with OLIVIA CRUZ: TOMB RAIDER’S ASSISTANT by Leah Folta & Lia Woodward. An overlooked, nerdy archeologist’s assistant teams up with her boss, who turns out to be secretly a globe-trotting female Indiana Jones.
Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment is out with CANDLELIGHT by Benjamin Christopher. A woman discovers her scientist father’s time machine, offering her a chance to rewrite history.
Jackson Agency is out with SEED MONEY by Tracy Grant. A newcomer is desperate to prove himself.
Verve & Writ Large are out with THE SPERM KING by Austin Everett. An Ivy League graduate unable to find a job recruits his group of friends to start an underground sperm bank.
Jackson Entertainment Management is out with ALL IS BRIGHT by Mark Rogers. While a hundred things go wrong, the thing that really
counts eventually goes right.
Logical Talent Management is out with M24 by Colin McLaughlin. A corrupt police lieutenant is forced to assist his captors in a robbery.
CAA is out with REUNION by Jake Duerden. A reclusive tech billionaire invites the cast of her favorite 90s teen-drama to shoot a reunion episode.
Heroes & Villains Entertainment is out with WEIRD by Augustus Schiff. An autistic kid tries to do normal college things.
Romark Entertainment is out with TWO DAY RENTAL by Dennis Curlett. A 30-something underachiever, hopelessly stuck in the past, stumbles upon a magical video store.
Between October 1st and October 31st, we tracked a total of 18 new feature specs out on the market. This is a notable decline of 25% in new material hitting the market from September 2021.
Bellevue Productions is out with BOWIE’S WAY by Peter Eskelsen. The destinies of a renegade Gunrunner, his Rodeo-Prince Brother, an African-American Biker, and a Mexican Policewoman all intertwine as they seek revenge.
JEM is out with DRUM by Mark Rogers and George Walczak. A story of Black resilience and strength in the midst of America’s darkest time. A forgotten story ready to be told.