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APA is out with THE BACKYARD BRAWL by Dan Ewen. A football game between rival families becomes the most high stakes sporting event in history.

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.

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.

APA is out with THE COLLEGE DROPOUT by Michael J. Ballin & Thomas Aguilar. The story follows the rise of rapper Kanye West.

Typically, January serves as that buffering month following the busy holiday season where everyone slowly emerges from the depths, picks up steam at work, and gets back into the rhythm of things.

APA is out with NORTH POLE ENTERPRISES by Michael Sherman & Steve Desmond. A group of kids set off on a journey to find Santa Claus.

While most years’ November is a time to look back on the things we’re thankful for, 2020’s November decided to serve up a heaping pile of news for our gravy and cranberry sauce.

APA is out with LITTLE BITCHES by Theresa Bennett. A bitter dance teacher must coach a group of underdog preteen girls.

Oh, October, the month filled with ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and of course, specs.

APA shops BOYS OF SUMMER by Bryan Schulz & Cornelius Uliano. A boy begins to suspect that a supernatural entity may be hunting the children.

As we bring September to a close, we also bring an end to the third quarter of 2020. We’re about to enter the final stretch of the year.

APA is out with IDYLLWILD by Kelli Breslin. Jake and Rebecca head to their summer home to work on their marriage.

Alas, we reach the end of August and with Labor Day just around the corner, we’re returning to cooler weather and pumpkin spice lattes invading our life yet again.

APA is out with DARKROOM by Liz Devine. A woman is haunted by the childhood murder of her parents.

July has proven to be the roller coaster of emotions we all thought it would be.

APA is shopping AMERICAN RUST by Christine Lavaf & Fritz Bohm.. Outdated cyborg super-soldier Peter Hendricks goes on a rogue mission to retrieve his wife.

March 2020 came in like a lion and left us with only 16 specs tracked: only 7 with attachments, 5 with a production company, and 1 with a studio. Take a breath, and let’s dive in.

APA out with STEP-FATHER CHRISTMAS by Joey Mazzarino. Garland Festooni is a 40-year-old man child who hates Christmas but loves his mother. His holidays take a turn for the worst when he spies mommy kissing Santa. Garland decides to sabotage their relationship before it’s all a wrap.

Read about the 24 specs tracked in February 2020: 7 with a studio or production company attached; 12 with producers; 7 with directors; & 5 with talent attached.

Follows a viral video challenge in which the participants film themselves breaking into other people’s homes to set up elaborate pranks to make the residents believe their home is haunted, but a group called “Ghost Crew” get more than they bargained when they go into a house that is actually haunted.

New spec SAD SELMA by Alexi Pappas & Jeremy Teicher is out from APA.

Logline: Unlucky in love Briar thinks she has finally met the man of her dreams, but her biggest nightmare is realized when she goes home to stay with his family for the weekend and finds out that his dad is someone Briar had a one-night stand with months earlier.

Logline: When three young women unwittingly unleash an ancient evil that uses mirrors and reflections to torment and kill, the demon forces them to confront their painful pasts, or spend eternity haunted by them.

A socially impaired twenty-nine-year-old woman’s life is turned upside down when she’s appointed guardian of an estranged cousin: a young boy who’s spent all seven years of his life locked in a house with no contact with the outside world.

During a hurricane in Puerto Rico, an American tourist finds a young man struck by lightning who has lost his memory completely. As they pass the storm together in an abandoned farm, they start to uncover evidence of multiple murders, leading each of them to wonder if the other is friend or foe.

A young woman wants a break from fighting supernatural forces to experience normal life.

A suspended police officer returns home to Atlanta and becomes involved in a dark underworld of blackmail and extortion.

An unassertive 17-year-old turns his high school on its head when he finally builds up the courage to asks out his crush, a transgender girl.

A cop attempts to thwart a heist while protecting the residents of the building during a hurricane.

Two friends set out to make a faith based film to cash in on the genre’s popularity.