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.
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Similar to what we shared last Spring, here are the updated PODS for the TV industry in 2021.
Apple and A24 picked up SHARPER by Alex Tanaka & Brian Gatewood. A con artist sets her sights on billionaires.
Logline: A sorcerer must cross death’s threshold to restore the balance between good and evil.
Story details are being kept under wraps, but the project is being pitched as a fresh, contained, high concept twist on the vampire genre in the vein of Panic Room and 30 Days of Night.
In Elijah Bynum’s debut, Chalamet plays a young man who gets involved with selling drugs while trying to win the girl, in this case played by It Follows star Maika Monroe.
Richard Wright’s celebrated novel emphasizes the systemic inevitability behind Bigger’s crimes, and the protagonist’s lawyer argues that his client cannot escape his destiny, as he’s a product of a society that has told him since birth who, exactly, he is supposed to be.
One of the more successful newer indie distributors has discovered the secrets of marketing and distribution to the point where they might have their best year yet with Lady Bird and The Disaster Artist.
The festival favorite, starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried, is the distributor’s first official buy at the 42nd annual film fest.
Lily James and Jai Courtney fall in love alongside Christopher Plummer in the new trailer for A24’s upcoming film The Exception.
While most of the Hollywood contingent at Sundance has already left Park City, there are still plenty of festival deals being made, chief among them one for Dee Rees’ acclaimed drama Mudbound, which is the hottest acquisition title left on the board.
The Sundance Film Festival has reached its halfway point and the sales market has been brisk thanks to streaming giants like Amazon and Netflix, who as expected, have been as active as anyone in Park City.
In the city of Kingfisher – where drug dealers, corrupt politicians, headstrong police, and anti-ghost activists all live side by side – everyone has a part to play in the inevitable climax of the battle between the Dead and the Living. A strip mall becomes the site of a supernatural showdown, and a mom and pop pizza shop is at its epicenter.
A father stops at nothing to protect his family from an evil and mysterious presence tormenting their house
Dakota Johnson is set to join Andrew Garfield in the Los Angeles set noir crime thriller, Under the Silver Lake directed and written by David Robert Mitchell.
This marks the second collaboration between the actor and director who worked together on The Lobster which was also acquired up by A24 last year at Cannes.
Follows a charismatic surgeon named Steven and a teenage boy who wants to bring him into his dysfunctional and fractured family. The teenage boy’s intentions become increasingly evil which forces Steven to make an unexpected sacrifice.
Debra Winger and Tracy Letts are in final negotiations to star in The Lovers. The drama hails from A24 who will be financing, producing, and distributing.
About a relationship gone bitterly bad between Michael and Mary, but when they sit down to call it quits they find themselves suddenly, unexpectedly and even awkwardly falling back in love again.
Jonah Hill will sit in the director’s chair for the first time for the dramedy Mid-90s, a coming-of-age story about a group of teens in California in the ’90s learning about the ups and downs of life during their adolescence.
A coming-of-age story about a group of teens in California in the ’90s learning about the ups and downs of life during their adolescence.
A24 and Plan B are partnering to produce Moonlight. Based on the play by Tarrell McCraney, two young men navigate the Miami drug war and their own journeys to modern manhood.
Based on the play by Tarrell McCraney, two young men navigate the Miami drug war and their own journeys to modern manhood.
Centers on a bank robber’s flailing efforts to evade the dragnet closing in on him.
Explores the true story of how Harry Macklowe clashed with industry titans to own and re-develop one of the crown jewels of New York City real estate in the 1990’s and into the 2000’s, New York’s famed G.M. Building.
Logline: Follows the true story of Jadin Bell, a fifteen year-old openly gay high school sophomore that committed suicide, leaving his father, Joe, filled with regrets. Joe sets out across the country to raise awareness for the dangers of being prejudice.
A round-up of today’s distribution sales, deals, and awards at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
