Between January 1st and January 31st, 2022, we tracked a total of 11 new feature specs hitting the market. Compared to last month, we are seeing a 15% decrease in the material out. That is fairly standard for the time of the year, thanks to the holidays. In terms of successes, of the 11 specs out, 4 have some type of attachment.
Atlas Entertainment
In the aftermath of the shocking murder spree of ’69, Hollywood movie star Steve McQueen embarks on a vengeful hunt for the killers — the Manson family. As police hit a dead end, Steve’s unconventional pursuit pulls him deeper into the surreal world of the shamanic leader Charles Manson…while also sending McQueen into a downward spiral with his career and relationship with his family.
SICARIO meets SHANE
About a group of kids who develop super powers when a meteor flies over their town.
Director J.C. Chandor and writer-producer Mark Boal have recruited the Oscar-nominated actor for Paramount’s crime thriller.
Tracks several relationship stories all taking place in a group of neighboring high-roller villas in Las Vegas, similar to The Mansion at the MGM Grand.
Based on the video game series which follows the adventures of treasure hunter Nathan Drake.
Mike Binder has signed on to write and direct Keep Calm. The project is based on Binder’s first novel of the same name and is set up at New Line.
Follows an American man who gets caught up in an international incident and a female MI6 inspector is tasking with bringing him in.
Wonder Woman may be adding to the Amazons of Paradise Island, with Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman in talks to play a high-ranking warrior opposite Gal Gadot in the DC film. Patty Jenkins is directing the film due out in June 2017.
She is set to play Clary Fray, a girl that finds out on her eighteenth birthday that she is a human-angel hybrid called a Shadowhunter. When her mother is kidnapped, must team up with others to face the demons that have taken her.
Logline: A research team is tasked to develop a way to record the sensory experiences and emotions of humans, only to find out that their research has been exploited for military purposes.
The “Unfaithful” actress is set to star in the sci-fi project, that will mark her producing debut.
Logline: Follows students, with high-ranking government official parents, that attend at Langley High — the school that’s located less than a mile away from the CIA. After one parent goes missing and a teacher turns out to be more than he seems, one student becomes caught in the middle of a conspiracy much bigger than anything he could have imagined.
Logline: A man falls in love with a woman with cerebral palsy.
Anderson is adapting Andrea Cremer and David Levithan’s “Infinity” for Warner Bros., and her buzzed-about spec “Catherine the Great” is in development at Atlas Entertainment.
Logline: Sophia Augusta’s marriage to Peter III, the Emperor of Russia, is anything but the fairy-tale life that she had been promised. In a thrilling historical tale of political intrigue, sex and murder, she takes control of her life, her marriage, and her kingdom, becoming Russia’s most celebrated and beloved monarch: Catherine the Great.
Logline: A mother and daughter find themselves stranded in the middle of the night on an abandoned road. Deep in the surrounding woods a nightmarish terror stalks them, and they must find the courage to face the beast or be destroyed by it.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Story of a skilled defense attorney fighting to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.
Logline: Everything about Anna’s life is secret. Her father works for the government, running secret experiments on four genetically altered boys in the basement of their farmhouse. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, one of them stages an escape, and now on the run, Anna discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected
Logline: A broken Walkman and cassette serve as time travel devices in this tragic love story.
Logline: Will chronicle the rise of the Weider brothers — bodybuilding icon Joe Weider, who created the Mr. Olympia competition and, and brother Ben, who with Joe co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilders.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: In the aftermath of a smuggling deal gone awry, two border-town sheriffs must resort to extreme measures, in order to stop the mysterious cartel butcher sent to punish their small town.
Logline: After the Bermuda Triangle mysteriously starts to expand and threatens Earth with a global disaster, a disgraced fighter pilot, a burly scientist and a plucky NTSB investigator team up to stop it.
Logline: Chronicles the fall of American bicycling phenomenon Lance Armstrong and the effects his doping had on teammates such as Tyler Hamilton.
Logline: Story focuses on a single day in the life of a young man who holds a notorious outlaw captive as his gang closes in to take him back.
Logline: Rich playboy James Vandaleur and his expensive multiple aptitude android have become two aspects of a single insane murderous personality.
Logline: In the aftermath of a smuggling deal gone awry, two border-town sheriffs must resort to extreme measures, in order to stop the mysterious cartel butcher sent to punish their small town.
