Tracking every spec script as it hits the market.
WME is out with SABBATICAL by Keely MacDonald. Marketing exec Lacey lets loose for one night and wakes up on a plane en route to New Zealand…
UTA is out with HARPER by Patrick Burleigh. The mysterious discovery of a manuscript. The tumultuous creation of a masterpiece. This is the true story of…
Focused Artists is out with ROBERTO’S FRIEND by Robert Mann. Hall of Fame baseball legend Roberto Clemente comes back to life as a twelve-year-old boy to befriend a minor league baseball coach, helping him manage…
Bellevue & WME are out with DIFFUSION by David Rothley. With the world on the brink of a second Cold War, a photojournalist inadvertently captures a murder-in-progress and finds himself…
Housefire Management is out with ANGELMAKER by Annika Pampel. The harrowing true story of the murder Colonel James Barrett by extremist Paul Hill Jennings at a women’s clinic…
Bellevue Productions is out with CRAIGSHAVEN by Nicole Ramberg. A troubled teen must confront a local legend when the reappearance of a missing classmate and a fabled ghost ship…
Housefire Management is out with SASHA CLAUSE by Jordan Mitchell. Sasha Green, an overachieving teenager from Inglewood, gets invited to the first ever “Santa Games,” where she must…
Verve is out with REMATCH by Jon Silberman & Josh Silberman. Twenty years after defeating his bully at a college party, David is now a divorced, out-of-shape MMA supply shop owner, struggling to keep his business afloat…
Bellevue Productions is out with ELLE AND THE DEFROSTER AGENT by Nathan Patton. Elle’s a spy on the run from her own government. Ben’s a Defroster who transports cryo-frozen Soviet-era spies…
Logical Talent is out with THE CHOSEN ONE by Colin McLaughlin. The black sheep son of an old-money dynasty inherits a talking sword and is tasked with protecting the city from evil.
The Muraviov Company is out with DOUBLE DUTCH by Jenna Finwall Ryan. Twin 30-year-old orphans venture out onto the competitive jump rope circuit to find their parents.
Between April 1st and April 30th, we tracked only 13 specs hitting the market. That is nearly a 31% decrease in specs out in comparison to March 2022. Though not the lowest volume out this year, it is certainly the lowest April in recent years (more on that soon). Of these 13 specs, 6 have some type of attachment, with one from January selling as well. That brings our total up to 7 successes of some type.
Fictional Entity is out with 100% HAPPY by Jerome Velinsky. A single mother is lured into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
CAA is out with WHEN RYAN SWIPED MOLLY by Ari Berkowitz. Ryan and Molly are polar opposites who keep finding each other on different dating apps over the course of a decade.
Authentic Talent and Literary Management is out with AFRAID by Jud Cremata. A rookie deputy sheriff accidentally kills someone and tries to cover it up to protect her young son.
Bright One Management is out with THE MAYBROOK SOCIETY by Allison Chaney. Four twelve-year-old girls in Memphis set out to solve a kidnapping.
Bright One Management is out with THE STORY OF MY FAMILY by Steve Race. With her quinceañera approaching, Maria finds herself chronicling her journey while coming to terms with family issues.
WME is out with GOAT by Skip Bronkie & Zack Akers. A promising first round draft pick is invited to train at the private compound of the team’s legendary but aging quarterback.
Art/Work Entertainment is out with ANALOG HEART by Sawyer Black. A bitter and dying retired “robot recycler” with a deep prejudice against robots must assume one final mission.
Art/Work Entertainment is out with THE MARGRET HOME by Rana Mancini Cavanaugh & Lydia Kane. A midwife causes outrage when she turns her family estate into a refuge for pregnant unwed mothers.
Bellevue Productions is out with FINAL ROUND by Jonathan Estrada. A Latino college student interviews for a job offer at an elite investment bank.
CAA is out with YOKAI by Bryan Parker. A man moves into a new home with his mother and newborn baby where they are targeted by an evil presence.
Logical Talent Management is out with MAYFLOWERS by Amanda Lehr. Four teenagers in colonial Plymouth, MA discover that the only thing harder than surviving in the New World is surviving adolescence.
Logical Talent Management is out with THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD by Zachary Zebrowitz. Different people from six different countries fall in and out of love.
CAA is out with IT’S A SHAME by Paul Downs Colaizzo. A former professional baseball player then later manager is permanently banned from the sport.
March is usually the month we see the market start to defrost and kick into high gear. Instead, the month stayed on course and went out with the exact same about as February. Between March 1st and March 31st 2022, we tracked a total of 19 feature specs hitting the market. Of these specs, 5 have some type of attachment. So, we’re seeing an even split between February and March, but with the market primed, it plays like a smaller month than anticipated.
Writ Large is out with LEFT ALONE by Stephen Mastrocola. When a woman he met online suddenly disappears, an amateur sleuth vows to find her.
Volition USA is out with DEADLY STAGE MOM by Tony Jerris & Shannon K. Dunn. One stage mom will do anything it takes to make sure her daughter becomes a star.