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Artists First is out with THE SIX AT MIDNIGHT by Sehaj Sethi. When a terminally ill woman accidentally falls asleep on a NYC subway, she awakes in 1939 and meets the love of her life.

CAA is out with THE MAKING OF by Ed Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz. Long-married filmmakers cast overemotional actors to portray their younger selves.

Eris Talent Agency is out with #SEXCHASE by Barry Stiglets. Centers on a married couple’s extreme role-playing sex game.

“In this situation, when the president of a studio is calling you, you’re pretty confident that you’re not going to oversell yourself”
In the spirit of all things horror this October, David Boxerbaum of Verve joins us this week to break down the Horror/Thriller box-office hit THE SHALLOWS from writer Anthony Jaswinski. The script gained mass appeal when it hit the market, landing Jaswinski on the Black List, Blood List, and Hit List that year.

Centers on two pals from Laguna Beach who share the same girlfriend and a thriving business growing and distributing the best-quality pot on the planet. When they resist being muscled by a Mexican drug cartel, the girl is kidnapped and the ransom is every cent they’ve made for the last five years. They agree to pay but hatch an alternate plan to get her back, get revenge, and then get lost.