Between January 2023 and January 2022, there has been a 45% increase in specs hitting the market. Surprisingly, this is the highest number of specs in January since 2019.
Between December 1st and December 31st, we tracked a total of 10 new feature specs on the market. This marks the lowest volume of specs out in a single month, and if that surprises you, you probably thought “Puss in Boots” would beat “Avatar” at the box office.
Verve & Brillstein Entertainment are out with SANTA CON by Peter Hoare. Set during Santa Con, Manhattan’s annual city-wide Christmas….
Brillstein Entertainment is out with POPS by Brandon Cohen. A retired Navy SEAL whose mind has disintegrated due to dementia undergoes an experimental stem cell treatment that gives him….
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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.
ICM & Brillstein Entertainment are out with TINSELTOWN by Morgan Evans. A veteran superstar falls out of favor and must con & manipulate his way back on top.
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.
When Lili and Alex Newley, a young couple looking for a fresh start, move into a house left to them by Lili’s estranged father, they find one hell of a pest problem: their new home is the battleground between two factions of evolved nanotechnology. Men in Black in tone.
A broken, paranoid sporting goods store employee discovers that his life is being sabotaged by his shift manager and swears revenge.
A father starts stalking his daughter’s ex boyfriend. It’s a tight thriller in the vein of THE GIFT / LAKEVIEW TERRACE.
The original Valiant Comics character was created in 1992 with Deadpool director Tim Miller’s Blur Studios partner Dave Wilson directing from a script by Eric Heisserer (Arrival) with filming to begin in July.
The filmmaker behind the Oscar-nominated Kon-Tiki will direct the sci-fi thriller based on a script co-written with brother Andreas Rønning.
Written by Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins with revisions by Susanna Fogel and Katie Silberman, the comedy is about two high school seniors who realize they spent too much time studying and not enough time partying.
A writer trying to crack her second novel starts to lose her sense of reality as the book bleeds into her life and her life bleeds back.
After directing “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” and already slated for a few other projects, the Norwegian filmmaker is being tapped to direct Angelina Jolie in the sequel to Disney’s global blockbuster.
After jokingly posting photos of men reading from around New York City, a young woman and her friends gain viral attention, and she decides to use her powers for the greater good to create a visual missed connections tool – becoming the anonymous Cupid the city needs.
The storyline is being kept under wraps but will be set in the world of politics.
Upcoming Kevin Costner-starrer Yellowstone is filling out its cast with Cole Hauser, Wes Bentley, and Kelly Reilly. The family drama hails from Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan who penned and executive produces.
The story follows a young father who will stop at nothing to get home to his pregnant wife on the other side of the country following a mysterious apocalyptic event that turns the roads into mayhem.
After a less-than-great performance at the box office for his latest film, Baywatch director Seth Gordon is moving on to his next project. Middleton Media Group has tapped Gordon to helm their adaptation of Life in Rewind, based on the Terry Weible Murphy book.
The true story of young athlete Ed Zine, his struggle with mental illness and the Harvard doctor, Michael Jenike, who broke all the rules of traditional medicine to help him.
Plot details of Sarah Rothschild’s pitch are being kept under wraps, but the title sure sounds like it ups the ante on the 1980 workplace comedy 9 to 5.
Williams and Chris Pine will play ex-lovers and veteran spies who reunite for dinner, where they reminisce about a failed mission, though it’s unclear whether Pine hopes to rekindle their romance or get to the bottom of a conspiracy.
Based on a book by Stephen King, the original 1984 movie starred Drew Barrymore as a young girl with pyrokinetic abilities who is kidnapped by a secret government agency that wants to use her as a weapon.
A man takes his family on a camping trip and his in-laws crash the vacation.
Chronicles the experiences of two fathers during the week leading up to the wedding of their children.
Hidden Figures writer-director Ted Melfi has sold the dark, holiday comedy El Camino Christmas to Netflix. Melfi wrote the script with Chris Wehner and has lined up a solid cast for the ensemble.
Follows a young man who seeks out a father he has never met and, through no fault of his own ends up barricaded in a liquor sotre iwht five other people on Christmas Eve.
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