Tracking every spec script as it hits the market.
Eleni Larchanidou is out with JOLIET by Ioannis N. Skiotes. A female reporter challenges the all-male power structure while exposing The Outfit’s corruption into city politics, business, and police after they slaughter her mentor.
3 Arts Entertainment is out with MY MASTERPIECE by Jason Hellerman. A hitwoman is hellbent on dismantling an unfair system within her industry.
Between May 1st and May 31st, we tracked a total of 19 feature specs out. We’ve seen a progressively steady decline of specs hitting the market since re-openings have started to rise. May marks the second lost number out, next to January. The more shocking number is that of the 19 feature specs out, only 2 have some type of attachment, with one additional spec from a past month selling in May.
PK Agency is out with PROJECT ABADDON: RISE OF THE DESTROYER by Peter Borreggine. A scrappy starship crew must locate and destroy an ancient artifact.
Writ Large is out with THE COMPOUND by Gemma Crofts. An ex-marine single mother is forced to take a job half a world away in a survivalist compound.
WME and Cavalry Media are out with MINDSET by Matt Kic & Mike Sorce. Alcoholics discover they have the exact same identity and memories and go on the run together.
The Muraviov Company is out with PONTIAC DIARY by Gregory Scott Houghton. A depressed widower is forced to confront change when a zany, aspiring social media influencer invites herself on his road trip.
FMRL is out with THE DOGXORCIST by Daedalus Howell & Trane DeVore. The devil is accidentally raised into the body of a dog.
Verve is out with THE HALLOWED ONES by Mikki Daughtry. A rebellious Amish girl must fight unknown creatures.
3 Arts Entertainment is out with STEAM by João Dall’Stella and Alessandro Pederzoli. An innocent young man is forced into a gay bathhouse to spice up the dying relationship with his possessive boyfriend.
Silver Lake Entertainment is out with BLUFF by Tyler Ruggeri. In a ploy to make extra cash, a card-trick prodigy follows up on an old offer to write a feature magazine article – on the art of cheating at cards.
Gersh & Kersey Management are out with SPY DO by Heath Medley. A CIA operative and a Cuban agent elope.
Bellevue Productions is out with JARED LETO LIVES NEXT DOOR by Eric Podell. A married couple’s life is turned upside down when they move into their forever home only to discover that their new neighbor is the wife’s teenage obsession.
Circle of Confusion is out with THE BLACKOUTS by Dirk Blackman & Grace Abbate. A rising New Wave band navigates the wild road to fame.
Empirical Evidence & Kaplan Stahler Agency are out with MOTHER MOUNTAIN by Andy Friedhof. Two scam artist brothers attempt to con a poor village by hiring a prostitute to act as a cave-dwelling Incan goddess.
CSP Management is out with LET HIM IN by Cedric Houle. A teenager survives an attack by a masked killer.
Verve is out with MUM’S THE WORD by Will Matthews. Amy gets her hands on some government secrets and quickly realizes the only person who can save her is America’s top spy hunter.
UTA is out with THE CHAIN by Erin Martin. A bride-to-be and her four besties discover their emails inadvertently included a total stranger.
Epicenter is out with EAT THE POISON by Brian DeLeeuw. An aspiring chef moves into a hyper-luxury Manhattan skyscraper to housesit for a wealthy couple.
Grandview is out with MAKE THE YULETIDE GAY by Mike Van Waes. A perpetually single man gets more than he bargained for when his family mistakes his dating app hookup for a wholesome new boyfriend.
Good Humor Literary is out with BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE by Billy Riback. A high school co-ed – obsessed with every detail of the classic film “The Wizard of Oz” – journeys back in time to 1938.
The Muraviov Company is out with STEALING BUDDHA’S DINNER by Jenna Finwall Ryan. An awkward, Asian immigrant is on a quest to become a normal American teen when the kids are all white.
Between April 1st and April 30th, we tracked a total of 22 feature specs out. While it’s a positive from last April, it’s continuing our steady decline of specs from the past couple of months. We’ve seen a 12% decrease in specs from March’s count. We’ve continued to decrease in specs since February, wherein in a traditional market, we’d see increases in April, a hot month for the material.
Aaron Kogan Management is out with SENATE SNOW DAY by Frank Smith & Ryan Harrison. Only the women show up for work at the United States Senate.
20th Century Studios picked up NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU by Brian Duffield. Story details are being kept under wraps.
CAA is out with YOUNG LUST by Henry Michaels. Story details are under wraps.
Management 360 is out with ABBI AND THE EIGHTH WONDER by Matt Roller. Story details are being kept under wraps.
Fourth Wall and Luber Roklin are out with BURY ME AT NAPER HIGH by Michael Lackos. When the class valedictorian is humiliated by her classmates, she decides to get revenge.