Between February 1st and February 28th, we tracked a total of 17 new feature specs hitting the market, highlighting a 6.25% increase in specs hitting the market from last month.
Affirmative Entertainment
CAA is out with ZIP DRIVER by Jacob Chase.
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.
Affirmative Entertainment is out with AND THEN SHE WAS GONE by Justin Kohlas. Sharon Lemke notices something odd at the house behind her backyard. Through her neighbor’s kitchen window, she sees what appears to be a little girl washing dishes late at night….
In a bid to keep her marriage-obsessed parents off her back, an Indian-American woman gets a fake boyfriend for wedding season-but in the end, gets the courage to stop living a double life.
A man risks his life to protect one of Earth’s last remaining children, a 9 year-old-girl. When another survivor infiltrates their abandoned ToysRUs refuge with promises of more, they must decide if they’re willing to brave threats both human and inhuman in search for hope.
The premise for the sci-fi thriller involves scientists exploring the afterlife. Chase will be writing and directing a feature version of his horror short Larry for Amblin Partners.
The studio hopes to mirror the success of horror films Mama and Lights Out, which both originated from short films.
It’s unclear whether Bettany is coming in to replace Michael K. Williams, who was unable to return to the Star Wars set due to a scheduling conflict, or whether Bettany has been cast as an entirely different character.
WWII story when Shigenori Nishikaichi, an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot, crash-landed his Zero on the eponymous Hawaiian island after the participating in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Set in a not-too-distant future where Earth is under attack from creatures from an alternate world, bent on humanity’s destruction. It centers on a father who hides his 14-year-old daughter on an island to avoid her conscription in the all-female army and escape the war, but nowhere is truly safe.
Happy Endings alum Casey Wilson has landed at NBC to star opposite Busy Philipps in Tina Fey’s single camera comedy The Sackett Sisters. Several networks have been fighting to land Wilson the past few weeks before she settled on Fey’s sitcom today.
Discovery Channel’s FBI crime-drama Manifesto has booked Paul Bettany to star as Ted Kaczynski, also known as the “Unabomber.” The scripted project comes on the heels of Discovery’s ratings hit miniseries Harley and the Davidsons.
Saturday Night Live alum Harry Shearer is in the works on a weekly satirical series following President-elect Donald Trump called Too Soon? The series will follow Trump’s presidency.
Get your Eggos ready because Eleven is officially coming back for the second season of Stranger Things. Actress Millie Bobby Brown is set to reprise her role as the fan favorite from Netflix’s throwback Spielbergian sci-fi series.
Journey’s End, the play by R.C. Sheriff is getting a remake with Sam Claflin attached to star as Captain Stanhope alongside Freddie Highmore, Paul Bettany, and Toby Jones. The script was penned by Simon Reade and the team is searching for an A-List director to shoot in the UK next year.
A teenage boy, raised in total seclusion and indoctrinated by his enigmatic father, is sent to live with a foster family enrolled in a public high school when his father is incarcerated, causing the boy to question everything he’s learned and threatening his relationship with his unpredictable father.
A teenage boy, raised in total seclusion and indoctrinated by his enigmatic father, is sent to live with a foster family enrolled in a public high school when his father is incarcerated, causing the boy to question everything he’s learned and threatening his relationship with his unpredictable father.
She joins Mandy Moore in the story following divers that must swim 47 meters through shark infested waters to the surface before their oxygen runs out. The project is written and directed by Johannes Roberts and James Harris.
Logline: A father, forced to eke out an isolated existence while war rages nearby, chases away his daughter’s nightmares by explaining war with stories of fantastical creatures, only for them to become all too real.
ICM Partners signs the “Inkheart” actress.
Reher’s thriller spec adds some big talent to the roster.
A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!
Logline: An angel of death starts refusing to take innocent human lives, which changes the balance of the universe, causing a chain reaction of disasters.
And join the group of “international teens” that fight kidnappers.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!
Logline: The paths of an Iraq war veteran with a horribly scarred face, a disturbed young man and a masked preacher with a terrible secret all collide in an old mining shack buried deep in the mountains.
Logline: A haunting, emotionally absorbing horror film about an orphaned child whose dreams – and nightmares – manifest physically as he sleeps.
Logline: A story of loss, love, hope and redemption following two homeless people as they fall in love, expanding on their pasts and how they came to be in their current state.
