Story Driven is out with DEADME by Asabi Lee & Paul Hart-Wilden. Aimless and down-on-her-luck Ash, inadvertently finds herself caught in the world’s most secretive and deadly game, where absolutely anyone….
Between July 1st and July 31st, we tracked 22 new feature specs hitting the market, with only 4 having some type of attachment. Surprisingly, this is only a 4.3% decrease in specs from June. June saw a monstrous uptick in specs from the rest of the year, so it looks like we’re holding steady for the summer. Still, July didn’t beat out the record high for the year but came quite close to it.
Artists First is out with BLACK MAMBAS by Kevin A. Garnett. An all-female anti-poaching unit gets stranded in the heart of a gaming reserve with a group of tourists.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps but described as I, TONYA meets BEHIND THE CANDELABRA that is based upon a true story about fitness guru Richard Simmons.
A group of rugged firefighters meets their match after rescuing a trio of rambunctious children.
Based on the true story of a couple who rushed to plan their dream wedding after learning one of them has liver cancer.
A young couple’s impending nuptials are dampened by news of the groom’s cancer diagnosis. Determined to overcome this, the two focus on love, life, and laughter as they continue to plan their wedding in the face of this devastating news.
Former classmates, now in middle age, routinely participate in an elaborate game of tag.
After the decline of his marriage, a lawyer takes piano lessons to learn to play his wife’s favorite song in order to win her back.
A young woman who is skeptical about love suddenly realizes her life has become a romantic comedy.
Set in a society that can create a snapshot of a specific day in time that can be real again for one day, the court uses these snapshots for investigations. When a detective on Snapshot Duty investigates the memory of a call that was never logged, he makes a horrifying discovery.
Under wraps, but said to be an elevated action/sci-fi in the vein of Lucy.
The hot spec Hummingbird from writer John McClain is hitting the market with production company Broken Road leading the way. The project already has Marcus Kryler and Frederick Akerstrom attached to direct and actor Shailene Woodley interested in starring.
Under wraps, but said to be an elevated action/sci-fi in the vein of Lucy.
Logline: A CIA assassin out to avenge his family chases the mastermind behind their deaths to a secret underground town built for international criminals to live out their wildest fantasies.
Logline: This is the true story of Ebola survivor and doctor Kent Brantly.
Logline: A CIA assassin out to avenge his family chases the mastermind behind their deaths to a secret underground town built for international criminals to live out their wildest fantasies.
Logline: This is the true story of Ebola survivor and doctor Kent Brantly.
Based on the true story of the relationship between a desperate lead detective and a famed Hollywood psychic-to-the-stars as they try to solve the Boston Strangler murders.
The summertime spec market is heating up once again as red hot comedy Besties from scribes Cassie Daniels and Mark Bartosic makes its way into all major studios.
Logline: A woman finds a long lost love note and sets off on a road trip with her three best friends to break up the wedding of her childhood crush.
Pitched as being in the vein of Top Gun, story centers on a young FDNY cadet who finds himself pushed to his limits by his veteran instructor, while falling in love with a woman way out of his league.
McKinnon may be headed back to high school, as the actress is in talks to star in Senior Year. The CBS Films comedy comes from the 2015 Hit List script by Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of Top Gun, story centers on a young FDNY cadet who finds himself pushed to his limits by his veteran instructor, while falling in love with a woman way out of his league.
An underwater earthquake decimates a research crew working at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, leaving two survivors with limited resources to ascend 35,000 feet and reach the surface before their life support runs out.
Vacation Friends has tapped Ice Cube to lead the feature comedy from 20th Century Fox. Chris Pratt and Anna Farris were previously set to star. Ice Cube is taking over Pratt’s role with no word on the new female lead.
Need For Speed helmer Scott Waugh has signed onto to direct Blackout from Sierra/Affinity and Broken Road, about a man plunged into darkness in the midst of transporting a dangerous criminal criminal across town.
Centers on a cop tasked with transporting a dangerous criminal across town and is put to the test when a citywide blackout plunges them into darkness and chaos.
Fresh off of his supporting role in Rick Famuyiwa’s Sundance hit Dope, Blake Anderson is taking his hilarious slacker/stoner routine to Broken Road’s Diplomatic Immunity
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