Tracking every spec script as it hits the market.
UTA is out with SUMMERING by Benjamin Percy & James Ponsoldt. Four girls discover a dead body and set off on a journey.
Verve is out with BASIC WITCHES by Tim Cairo, Jake Gibson, & Lauren Lillie. Three women starting a book club out of spite inadvertently acquire the sacred texts of an ancient witch coven and unlock powers beyond their wildest dreams.
Fictional Entity is out with SAVING ESPERANZA by Betty Sullivan. A grieving mother hastily decides to save a dying local child from the Cartel.
ICM Partners sets SONGBIRD by Adam Mason & Simon Boyes at Bay Films and Invisible Narratives. A pandemic leads to a government conspiracy.
The Muraviov Company is out with TIME ZERO by Erin Carere & Carlo Carere. An unfulfilled engineer wakes up shackled to a ticking nuclear bomb in an underground chamber with only a phone and one instruction to save millions of people: she must convince the US President to kill himself.
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CAA is out with HOUNDS by Lisa Duva. One evening a young woman is bitten by a vicious feral dog and she thinks she’s recovered until strange things begin to happen.
Anonymous Content is out with ASKED by Selena Lane. After accepting her boyfriend’s proposal, Maya’s late parents contact her from the afterlife through Instagram and show her what life could have looked like with her first love.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with LOCKDOWN by Jim Starr. In the middle of a pandemic, a nurse struggles to save herself and her fellow riders on a subway train held hostage by an armed terrorist on a suicide mission.
UTA is out with RESURRECTION PARK by Alexander Cadiff & Cameron Dupuy. In a remote national park known for its otherworldly ability to reconnect the living with the dead, a troubled Park Ranger attempting to escape the trauma of his past takes up shop during the off-season.
Verve is out with VALOR by Andrew Rhymer & Jeff Chan. A twelve year old’s fantasy RPG character comes to life.
ICM Partners is out with THE MONSTER by James Greer & Jonathan Bernstein. This is a contained genre thriller, following two millennials who make quick money by flipping incredible NY apartments they don’t own to new lease applicants willing to pay a premium upfront before they know they’re being scammed, when they run into an apartment owner with a dark secret in his basement who flips the game on them.
Netflix picked up DARK DAYS AT THE MAGNA CARTA by Michael Paisley. A woman goes to great lengths to save her family during a catastrophic event.
CAA is out with HERE COMES THE FLOOD by Simon Kinberg. Story details are currently being kept under wraps.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with LOCKDOWN by Jim Starr. In the middle of a pandemic, a nurse struggles to save herself and her fellow riders on a subway train held hostage by an armed terrorist on a suicide mission.
Luber Roklin Entertainment is out with YOU, ME, & ETERNITY by Paul O’Brien. Bound by their enchanted marriage, a disgruntled immortal couple goes on a quest to get divorced and become mortal so that they don’t have to stay together anymore.
Verve is out with MR. CHRISTMAS by Byron Willinger & Phil De Blasi. A stressed-out dad who wished Christmas out of existence discovers it’s no easy task bringing it back to the world. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE meets YESTERDAY.
Artists First is out with OXBOW by Andrew Weinberg. Story details are currently being kept under wraps.
Housefire is out with ALIMONY by Ben Agron & Brandon Feldman. When a founder of a dating app realizes her deadbeat husband’s alimony payments are bleeding her dry, she embarks on a mission to find him a new wife before her company goes public.
Echo Lake is out with THE EDIT by Neal Baer & Richardo Perez Gonzalez. Centers on CRISPR, a miracle gene-editing tool that homes in on a mutated gene, surgically snips it out and splices in a healthy gene in its place. But when CRISPR is used by rogue scientists, they use the technology to replace healthy genes with time bombs to eliminate a group of people deemed as undesirable.
51 Entertainment is attached to produce WOLF QUEEN by Matt Ross. Story details are being kept under wraps.
CAA is out with THE KITCHEN SINK by Jaquie Brown. A grieving woman finds love and a reason to live when she pulls a clump of hair from her kitchen sink and it becomes a man. But when she discovers that there are more men where he came from and their intentions are evil, she must summon the courage to destroy the one thing that made her happy to save everyone she loves.
Between April 1st and April 30th, we tracked a total of 21 specs. That’s a 27% increase from our March report, yet doesn’t top February’s numbers which had 24 specs out.
Lionsgate has picked up 16 STATES by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa. A mother tries to reach her family during a zombie pandemic.
The Cartel is out with LONG HAUL by Joshua Henson. It’s 1977, the golden age of trucking. The era of Duel, Convoy, and Smokey and the Bandit. Truckers are the new American cowboys. Scott, a long-haul trucker, picks up a runaway girl who, inexplicably, looks exactly like his late wife. Pursued by a mysterious government agent, Scott has to get her cross-country in 24 hours or less. The fate of the Universe is at stake.
UTA is out with I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA by John Corcoran & Ram Getz. After witnessing his mother kiss who he believes to be Santa, a young boy writes a tell-all letter to Mrs. Claus who throws the real Santa out in the cold. Santa, now banned from the North Pole and without his magic gloves, must recruit the boy to sneak into his workshop, find Mrs. Claus, clear his name, and save Christmas.
LBI is out with ALIENS ARE STEALING OUR WEED by Matthew K. Firpo & Ryan Firpo. Two hapless pot growers who, after their entire crop of weed inexplicably goes missing, uncover an alien conspiracy to steal the planet’s marijuana supply.
CAA is out with CEREBRAL by Dave Kalstein. A disgraced psychiatrist who used to cater to the world’s most intelligent minds is asked to help investigate a murder in a secluded government-operated Victorian mansion where nine of the smartest people in the world reside.
Verve is out with HOME by Jeff Thomas. Story details are kept under wraps but described as a new psychological thriller dealing with mental illness and dementia, with elements of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST and THE TRUMAN SHOW.