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.
Escape Artists out with WE ARE THE PEOPLE by Aaron Nee & Adam Nee. A Pasadena family’s Fourth of July is disrupted by a cloud of ash that drives neighbors and relatives into a ranting, violent rage. Separated, struggling to survive, the family members ultimately reunite and manage to uncover the solution that restores everyone to sanity.
CAA out with MINOR MODIFICATIONS by Shia LaBeouf. Based on the life of rapper Kevin Abstract; this biographical fiction follows a Texas teen as he struggles with identity, finding meaningful relationships, sexual fluidity, and his direction in life.
CAA out with package including Allison Friedman, Natalia Anderson, and Diane West.
Logline: Biopic of would-be assassin Sara Jane Moore – A despondent housewife searches for an escape from her stale, suburban life as a mother and homemaker, only to seek her independence through the unlikeliest of actions…attempting to assassinate the president.
Logline: A group of high school seniors who hack their yearbook to change their senior superlatives, only to wake up 20 years in the future and living out their chosen destinies.
Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, thinks she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, she returns to Florence, where she spent many happy times in her youth. There she meets Andrew Weissman, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old, and his father, Henry, a charismatic physician who specializes in reproductive medicine. The triangle resumes three months later in New York, where the relationships among them turn and tighten with combustive effects that cut to the core of what it means to be a father, a son, and―for Costanza―a potential mother.
After his first album topped the Billboard Charts, life was never the same for Malcolm McCormick aka Mac Miller. This is his story – a story of music, love, success, family, and addiction.
Logline: The crew of an American B-24 bomber steers their damaged plane through enemy territory to complete a critical mission behind enemy lines.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps but described as an erotic romance.
A rookie cop’s first night on the job turns deadly when the lone survivor of a sorority massacre stumbles into the police station for help, and the killer she escaped shows up to finish the job.
Logline: A cold-blooded killer/mercenary is working for a secret organization called The Twelve. Their master plan is to trigger a world war through a string of individual terror acts. None of the mercenaries know anything but their own mission.
Story details are under wraps but is described as a new take on the romantic comedy.
A big-rig driver leads a rescue mission to free trapped miners in northern Canada.
The career of John Dean, White House counsel for Richard Nixon turned whistleblower, is examined.
An augmented person fused in an indestructible fire suit breaks a rule to rescue a person trapped in a fire.
Story details are being kept under wraps but described as a psychological thriller spec for the Time’s Up era.
Story details are being kept under wraps.
Story details are being kept under wraps but described as a horror set amidst the coal mining crisis.
With resources scarce and society crumbling, a formerly middle class American mother struggles to protect her family in a new, dangerous world plagued by apocalyptic dust storms, food shortages, and armed militias.
More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, fleeing the Fall of Ystara. But she emerges from her magical sleep still beautiful, looking no more than nineteen, and once again renews her single-minded quest to be united with her lover, Palleniel, the archangel of Ystara.
Malko Linge, an Austrian nobleman and freelance CIA operative who spent his formative years in a special Nazi work camp for captured spies. Malko is a gentleman warrior without a country who works according to his own moral code and lives with a wicked wit and a lust for life.
An ex-con who has found spirituality becomes embroiled in a conspiracy amongst the backdrop of the Flint, Michigan water crises.
An intimate portrait of the sensational First Lady and ERA champion, Betty Ford, as she challenges, scandalizes, dances, and drinks her way through the White House to gain a higher popularity rating than any President in American history – all whilst maintaining a 26 pill-a-day drug habit.
From scribe Peter Hoare, DOWN UNDER COVER is sure to be heating up Cannes this year with Chris Hemsworth and Tiffany Haddish!
A yuppie couple’s relationship is put to the test when they buy a house in an up-and-coming Los Angeles neighborhood, oblivious to the fact that it lies on the border between rival gangs.
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.