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Art/Work Entertainment is out with RESUSCITATION by Sawyer Black and Kathryn Cottam. In a small-town hospital siege, a paramedic with a troubled military past must outmaneuver a group of armed criminals to save….

Between February 1st and February 29nd, 2024, we tracked a total of 17 new specs on the market. This was a sizable increase from the previous month. Of the 17 scripts we tracked, 4 were TV pilots. Comedy squeaked out the number one genre spot once again with 6 projects associated with the genre. But close behind, Action and Drama tied for second place with 5 projects each identified with those genres.

Art/Work Entertainment is out with RETARGETED by Sean Platt and Kathryn Cottam. A tech-savvy high school outcast leads her band of misfit friends in a ruthless social media campaign to dethrone her former….

Art/Work Entertainment is out with BESTIE by Sean Platt and David W. Wright. When a sixteen-year-old orphan moves from a mental institution into a conservative foster home, her imaginary friend emerges, coaxing her to….

Between October 1st and October 31st, we tracked a total of 23 new feature specs hitting the market. It makes a tie for second-most specs out in a single month, matching June, and just one spec shy from first place. That title still belongs to September. As such, it makes a 4.1% decrease in specs from last month. Of the 23 new feature specs, only 4 have some type of attachment that we’ve tracked.

Art/Work Entertainment is out with FORGERS by Brenden Gallagher. After the patriarch of a civil war souvenir shop dies, his children take over only to discover that the family business was not entirely….

Art/Work Entertainment is out with MELTDOWN by Bonnie Johnston & Sean Platt. Two neurodivergent boys must outsmart their parents, the government, and mysterious alien forces when a strange probe crash lands….

Art/Work Entertainment is out with SEX, VLOGS, AND KIDNAPPINGS by Kyla Sylvers. Four friends discover new ways to explore intimacy in order to have great sex with their partners, but they soon find….

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.

Art/Work Entertainment is out with WANDERER by Jeremy Adams. A man cursed with immortality by the Son of God and a young professor who, until yesterday, didn’t believe in the supernatural, band together to hunt….

Between June 1st and June 30th, we tracked 23 new feature specs hitting the market, with 6 having some type of attachment. However, one spec made waves that hit the market some time ago, bringing our total success up to 7 (more on that spec later). That is a 43.75% increase in specs from last month. Not only that, but this is the highest number of specs in a single month all year.

Art/Work Entertainment is out with ZOOMERS VS BOOMERS by Sean Platt & Niamh Arthur. A disillusioned teen finds himself trapped in a real-life game of survival. Together with eleven other high schoolers…

Between April 1st and April 30th, we tracked only 13 specs hitting the market. That is nearly a 31% decrease in specs out in comparison to March 2022. Though not the lowest volume out this year, it is certainly the lowest April in recent years (more on that soon). Of these 13 specs, 6 have some type of attachment, with one from January selling as well. That brings our total up to 7 successes of some type.

Art/Work Entertainment is out with ANALOG HEART by Sawyer Black. A bitter and dying retired “robot recycler” with a deep prejudice against robots must assume one final mission.

Art/Work Entertainment is out with THE MARGRET HOME by Rana Mancini Cavanaugh & Lydia Kane. A midwife causes outrage when she turns her family estate into a refuge for pregnant unwed mothers.

Between February 1st and February 28th, we tracked a total of 19 feature specs hitting the market. That is quite the jump in numbers compared to last month. Of the 19 specs out, 5 have some type of attachment. So, while some really strong material hit the market, the heat is still working at finding a home.

Art/Work Entertainment is out with DEAD CITY by Sean Platt & Bonnie Johnston. Three women team up to unearth the truth behind the biggest coverup in history.

Art/Work Entertainment is out with CAN’T HELP IT by Jess Nurse. A queer radio show icon has shaped her entire life around her identity as a Lesbian.

Between November 1st and November 30th, we tracked a total of 23 new feature specs out on the market. November tends to be a mixed bag year over year. This month traditionally marks the end of the literary calendar where most agents and managers are wrapping up going out with new material.

Art/Work Entertainment is out with OLIVIA CRUZ: TOMB RAIDER’S ASSISTANT by Leah Folta & Lia Woodward. An overlooked, nerdy archeologist’s assistant teams up with her boss, who turns out to be secretly a globe-trotting female Indiana Jones.

A teenage boy and girl from different backgrounds discover they can swap bodies. They become desperate to cross space and time to find a way to meet and stop an impending disaster.

Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson, and Matthew Porter have teamed up to create Penchant Entertainment. Their inaugural project is The Scrawl written by Zach Crawly and executive produced by the Oscar-nominated writer Eric Heisserer.

After finding success with Maleficent, Cinderella, and The Jungle Book, Disney is continuing to adapt their animated library for new projects as they put a live-action Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into development.

Heisserer is putting the finishing touches on the script, originally written by Daniel Casey. Cold in July helmer Jim Mickle is directing for STX Entertainment and producer Lawrence Grey.

The Girl On The Train scribe Erin Cressida Wilson has signed on to adapt Eileen, a novel from Ottessa Moshfegh. The feature is set up at Fox Searchlight with Scott Rudin set to produce.

A geo-caching teenage girl needs to go on a real life-daring adventure with her brother and friends in Hawaii in order to save her family.

After hearing about the death of his son, an aging ex-con is forced out of his self-imposed isolation to protect the only family he has left and avenge the son he hardly knew.

Eric Heisserer and Jon Spaihts have been tapped to co-write Universal’s Van Helsing reboot, which will serve as an entry in the studio’s revamped monster universe. Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan are producing the pic.

Brandon Lee Tenney has been tapped to rewrite the Terrestrial, the sci-fi thriller that generated a ton of buzz last year when first-time feature writer Peter Gaffney sold it to Lionsgate.

20th Century Fox has picked up the feature rights to Agatha Christie’s iconic mystery novel And Then There Were None and has set The Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum to direct and Eric Heisserer to script.