March 2020 came in like a lion and left us with only 16 specs tracked: only 7 with attachments, 5 with a production company, and 1 with a studio. Take a breath, and let’s dive in.
APA out with STEP-FATHER CHRISTMAS by Joey Mazzarino. Garland Festooni is a 40-year-old man child who hates Christmas but loves his mother. His holidays take a turn for the worst when he spies mommy kissing Santa. Garland decides to sabotage their relationship before it’s all a wrap.
Read about the 24 specs tracked in February 2020: 7 with a studio or production company attached; 12 with producers; 7 with directors; & 5 with talent attached.
Follows a viral video challenge in which the participants film themselves breaking into other people’s homes to set up elaborate pranks to make the residents believe their home is haunted, but a group called “Ghost Crew” get more than they bargained when they go into a house that is actually haunted.
Logline: Unlucky in love Briar thinks she has finally met the man of her dreams, but her biggest nightmare is realized when she goes home to stay with his family for the weekend and finds out that his dad is someone Briar had a one-night stand with months earlier.
Logline: When three young women unwittingly unleash an ancient evil that uses mirrors and reflections to torment and kill, the demon forces them to confront their painful pasts, or spend eternity haunted by them.
A socially impaired twenty-nine-year-old woman’s life is turned upside down when she’s appointed guardian of an estranged cousin: a young boy who’s spent all seven years of his life locked in a house with no contact with the outside world.
During a hurricane in Puerto Rico, an American tourist finds a young man struck by lightning who has lost his memory completely. As they pass the storm together in an abandoned farm, they start to uncover evidence of multiple murders, leading each of them to wonder if the other is friend or foe.
A young woman wants a break from fighting supernatural forces to experience normal life.
A suspended police officer returns home to Atlanta and becomes involved in a dark underworld of blackmail and extortion.
An unassertive 17-year-old turns his high school on its head when he finally builds up the courage to asks out his crush, a transgender girl.
A cop attempts to thwart a heist while protecting the residents of the building during a hurricane.
Two friends set out to make a faith based film to cash in on the genre’s popularity.
Crackerjack, America’s best hitman, takes on his most difficult hit ever—assassinating China’s best hitman, Si Long (Death Dragon). To discover Si Long’s identity, Crackerjack must hire Si Long for a hit and lay in wait. But who’s really drawing out whom? Two masters face off in a violent dance of death and deception.
Story details are being kept under wraps but it’s described as a John Wick-esque hard boiled action film with an African American male lead.
Geraldine is disillusioned by the grind of modern day Los Angeles until her life is changed by Thomas Mayfly, the first human clone in existence. The catch is Thomas has 24 hours to live and they only have one day to spend together.
A battered child makes a phone call about the escalating brutality in her home and social services jeopardizes her safety, condemning her to keep her father’s secret.
Matt hasn’t eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, but Matt won’t give in. Because Matt has discovered something: the hungrier he gets, the more he seems to have . . . powers. The ability to see & hear things he shouldn’t be able to. Maybe even the authority to bend time and space. But Matt doesn’t realize there are many kinds of hunger…and he isn’t in control of all of them.
Sabrina Shelby, 22, has been forced to drop out of medical school after the death of her father, and finds herself working as an attendant at the City Morgue. Into her life comes charismatic Trevor Pryce, the young, hot English movie star who has been convicted of DUI and is sentenced to community service…. at the City Morgue. Trevor is a force of nature, by turns hilarious and obnoxious, and his bad behavior and disrespect for the dead unleashes a century old curse that causes the already haunted morgue to erupt in a spectacle of carnage and terror, from which Sabrina must save them both.
A burnt out former Olympic athlete, who now specializes in corpse recovery from the world’s highest mountains, battles extreme vertical elements and ruthless mercenaries as she races to summit Everest and recover top secret information from the body of a dead spy.
Romantic break-ups can be hard. But friend break-ups are basically impossible. This is the epic (and deeply misguided) tale of two girls who, at wits end, decide there is only one way to get out of their toxic friendship with their insufferable “BFF”… they have to get her pregnant. Think Bridesmaids meets Horrible Bosses but with babies.
Driven to be a collegiate National Champion, an emotionally guarded sprinter endures physical and mental abuse from a relentless national winning coach
Judith, the latest arrival at the Sunset Manor Nursing Home, fears for her sanity and for her life when she uncovers a dark force preying on the elderly.
When the teenage son of a Native American hunter is murdered by a group of backwoods drug dealers, the mourning father decides to exact revenge on those responsible for his death and the corruption in their small town.
Inspired by actual events, a reporter sets out to debunk the exorcism of a teenage girl, only to discover she’s inhabited by God himself to protect her from something far scarier than any normal demon.
The photographer. The distributor. And the recruit. Told in an intertwining story during WWI, a British combat cinematographer, a newspaper tycoon and an army soldier all face the same question: follow their conscience or follow their orders?
Inspired by a true story — this is the tale of Adolfo Kaminsky. After narrowly escaping death at a concentration camp, Adolfo became the most notorious forger in the French Resistance during World War Two.
During an enormous wildfire, a fireman wrecked with guilt after the death of a colleague, searches for evacuees who have failed to leave their homes. But when he stumbles upon an isolated cabin, he makes a horrifying discovery — a young woman is being held captive inside – and he must now fight to get them both out of there alive before it’s too late.