Brillstein Entertainment Partners & UTA are out with THE BLACK BELT by Randall Green. Eighth-grader Simon Paluska dreams of being a Taekwondo Black Belt.
Alas, we reach the end of August and with Labor Day just around the corner, we’re returning to cooler weather and pumpkin spice lattes invading our life yet again.
Verve is out with THICKER by Jeff Howard. Described as a whodunit in a family of vampires.
July has proven to be the roller coaster of emotions we all thought it would be.
Verve is out with UNTITLED ASSASSINS ON A PLANE PROJECT by Brooks McLaren & D.J. Cotrona. Described as JOHN WICK meets DIE HARD on a plane
Studiocanal & The Picture Company acquired the spec ROLE PLAY by Seth Owen. A married couple’s life is turned upside down.
UTA is out with SUMMERING by Benjamin Percy & James Ponsoldt. Four girls discover a dead body and set off on a journey.
ICM is out with AN AMERICAN MEMBER by Morgan Evans. After a party girl accidentally receives an unsolicited dick pic from the President of the United States, her life is in thrown into total peril. Now her only chance for survival is to team up with a whistleblowing NSA agent, and get out of town.
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.
Oakhurst Entertainment and Gloria Sanchez Productions Unite for Randall Green’s Black List Spec CARTOON GIRL with Amanda Marsalis in Talks to Direct!
A young girl in South Texas desperately yearns to get her period. But instead of coming into her body as a woman, she triggers the attention of a half owl/ half woman witch called The Lechuza and transforms from girl to bird instead.
A lonely, but devoted husband struggling to care for his terminally ill wife hires a robotic caregiver with sophisticated artificial intelligence who develops a deadly obsession for him.
A detective is forced to take the partner no one else wants as they go undercover to investigate a troupe of male erotic dancers who may be behind a series of casino heists.
After discovering she has an anxiety disorder, a woman leaves college and moves back in with her parents.
Kelly Fitzpatrick has never experienced the so-called “luck of the Irish (think Melissa McCarthy/ Kate McKinnon).” Instead, while working sanitation at NYC’s St. Paddy’s Day parade, she embarrassingly runs into the love of her life, who’s engaged to her arch nemesis. However, thanks to her chance exchange with an exceedingly mean man—who claims to be a magical leprechaun—Kelly’s shocked to find he granted her Irish Super powers. She decides to use these powers to reel in the man of her dreams.
When the best friends of an impossibly perfect couple fall in love, they magically become aware that they’ve been supporting characters in their friends’ lives and face challenges navigating their budding feelings for one another.
Details are being kept under wraps though it is described as a high concept, slightly meta take on romantic comedies.
It’s 1992 and Steve Guttenberg is on the verge of a career breakthrough when he is accused of stealing $2 million from a famous director. As Steve tries to clear his good name, he uncovers a conspiracy to keep him from Hollywood’s most sought-after roles. This is a True Story.
Before The Huffington Post and Breitbart News, there was The Drudge Report. This is the story of how oddball internet reporter Matt Drudge broke the Lewinsky Scandal, and nearly took down a presidency, all from a desktop computer in his one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood.
The story of the unlikely bond between a drag queen and the queen of Christian televangelism… Inspired by the very real life of Tammy Faye Bakker.
Every 50 years a gate opens up to another dimensional and allows monsters to come into our world. This is the story of The Gatekeepers who keep them out.
A young couple visits an exclusive destination restaurant on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, where the acclaimed chef has prepared a lavish tasting menu experience-along with some shocking revelations.
Clooney was originally slated to play Colonel Cathcart, but that role will now go to Chandler. Clooney will instead play the supporting part of Scheisskopf, which gives him more time to focus on directing and producing.
Sandler will play a NYC cop who finally takes his wife (Aniston) on a long promised European trip. A chance meeting on the flight gets them invited to an intimate family gathering on the Super Yacht of elderly billionaire Malcolm Quince. When Quince is murdered, they become the prime suspects in a modern day whodunit.
Directed by Stephen Gaghan (Syriana), production for the Universal release has already begun in London with Downey joined by Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Harry Collett and Jim Broadbent.
While the team at Annapurna has loved this project since the company first became involved with it several years ago, sources say Megan Ellison was wary about financing the film, given the hit the company took on Kathryn Bigelow’s underperforming drama Detroit.
Written and directed by Josh Trank (Fantastic Four), the film will cover Capone’s later years when he was suffering from dementia while in prison.
The 100 alum Tati Gabrielle joins Netflix’s Riverdale spinoff, Frequency star Peyton List boards Fox’s Gone Baby series, and Chuck‘s Ryan McPartlin signs on for a co-starring role opposite Jessica Alba in Bad Boys.
The new project from the writer/director of Me and You and Everyone We Know will begin filming in late May with July once again starring in it.
The Oscar-winner has most recently been seen on the small screen in WGN’s Bellevue, the Margaret Atwood adaptation of Alias Grace, and Amazon’s Electric Dreams.