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.
CAA is out with THE CHILDREN by Shay Hatten. Kids from a small town must work together to survive.
July has proven to be the roller coaster of emotions we all thought it would be.
Grandview is out with CUT THROAT by Daniel Robbins. A group of honors students search for the source of violence.
HBO Max has acquired SHELL by Jack Stanley. Set in the health and beauty industry.
CAA is out with DAVID’S BROOK by Jake Duerden. A reclusive tech billionaire invites the cast of her favorite 90’s teen-drama to shoot a reunion episode.
Despite the mounting uncertainty as we head into July, the spec market looks to be catching its stride and continues to rise from previous months.
CAA is out with THE SLEEPOVER GAME by Aaron Eisenberg & Will Eisenberg. Four twenty-somethings rekindle their childhood friendship on Halloween Eve.
Between May 1st and May 31st, we tracked a total of 23 specs scripts. That is an increase of 8.7% from April but doesn’t top February’s year-high with 24 specs out.
CAA and Lit Entertainment is out with SPACE CADET by Liz Garcia. A Florida party girl turns out to be the only hope for the NASA Space Program.
CAA is out with SIEGE OF BILLIONAIRES ROW by Mike Walden. An ensemble of cut-throat and colorful characters vie to break into a townhouse on Billionaires Row
CAA is out with HOUNDS by Lisa Duva. One evening a young woman is bitten by a vicious feral dog and she thinks she’s recovered until strange things begin to happen.
Netflix picked up DARK DAYS AT THE MAGNA CARTA by Michael Paisley. A woman goes to great lengths to save her family during a catastrophic event.
CAA is out with HERE COMES THE FLOOD by Simon Kinberg. Story details are currently being kept under wraps.
CAA is out with THE KITCHEN SINK by Jaquie Brown. A grieving woman finds love and a reason to live when she pulls a clump of hair from her kitchen sink and it becomes a man. But when she discovers that there are more men where he came from and their intentions are evil, she must summon the courage to destroy the one thing that made her happy to save everyone she loves.
Lionsgate has picked up 16 STATES by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa. A mother tries to reach her family during a zombie pandemic.
CAA is out with CEREBRAL by Dave Kalstein. A disgraced psychiatrist who used to cater to the world’s most intelligent minds is asked to help investigate a murder in a secluded government-operated Victorian mansion where nine of the smartest people in the world reside.
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.