Alex Ankeles

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.

Universal Pictures has picked up UNTITLED ANKELES/JURGENSON ADVENTURE PROJECT by Alex Ankeles & Morgan Jurgenson. Described as a four-quadrant adventure-comedy.

20th Century Fox Animation is moving forward with Zita the Spacegirl. The studio has secured the rights to the graphic novel trilogy from Ben Hatke and intend to turn the series into a feature-length adaptation at Chernin Entertainment.

Zita sets out on a quest to rescue her friend who is abducted by an alien cult.

Where once they were just names on a list, now they are known throughout the industry!

Logline: Kept under wraps.

THE VOTES ARE IN!

Logline: Two teenagers who think they’ve discovered a UFO circling their neighborhood, start to unravel something far more mysterious about the neighborhood it is circling.

HOT Spec claims more territories!

Logline: Two teenagers who think they’ve discovered a UFO circling their neighborhood, start to unravel something far more mysterious about the neighborhood it is circling.

Spec speeds into producers and studios!

Logline: Pitched as “Men In Black” meets “Midnight Run” and “48 Hours,” when a tough cop recruits a geeky sci-fi author to help him track down a mysterious murder witness, they find themselves in the middle of a space opera playing out here on Earth.

Logline: Story follows an MIT graduate student who attempts to find and win over the love of his life through complex math equations.

Logline: When Jack Churchill and Ruth Gallagher encounter a terrifying, misshapen giant beneath a London bridge they are plunged into a mystery which portends the end of the world as we know it where all over the country, the ancient gods of Celtic myth are returning to the land from which they were banished millennia ago.

Logline: After a terrible day, Penny Talbot wishes she was a somebody in her high school, specifically the most popular girl, the most athletic and the class president. When her wish becomes an unexpected reality, she lives through the girls’ bodies and gets a chance to see how the other side lives.

Logline: Story centers on a boy who goes missing after his father and step-father, who have never gotten along, begin arguing while they’re passing him off.

Logline: Pitched as “What About Bob” meets “Modern Family,” a family therapist if forced to set up an intervention when he discovers his own family is the most dysfunctional of them all.

Logline: Fed up with his life after his marriage fails, an Australian man decides to sell his entire life, possessions, friends and family included, on ebay.