Code Entertainment

Between July 1st and July 31st, we tracked a total of 19 feature specs out. This is a decline from the specs out the previous month, but it was to be expected with many taking long-awaited vacations, coupled with the bottlenecking we’re seeing in the development chain. However, it’s not the drop-off we anticipated and is still on par with the past month’s numbers.

Code Entertainment picked up THE VAMPIRE ASSET by Jonathan Stokes. A reluctant vampire is recruited by the CIA to find his former lover.

A big-rig driver leads a rescue mission to free trapped miners in northern Canada.

Elizabeth Banks’s iteration of Charlie’s Angels is about to get elevated to a theatrical level with Pultizer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn as the screenwriter.

Pitched in the vein of The Fault in our Stars but with a supernatural twist, the story centers on a teenager, who, after his girlfriend dies, discovers a way to reconnect with her by bending the laws of reality.

Explores the origins of the hugely popular Parker Brothers board game, Monopoly.

Big Beach Films is developing a new film exploring the origins of the world’s most popular board games. The untitled pic, which centers on the creation of the hit Parker Brothers game Monopoly, will be based on Mary Pilon’s book The Monopolists.

Based on the 1970s TV show, three skilled female detectives take jobs from the mysterious man, known only through a speaker phone, Charlie.

Christoph Waltz will lead and direct the film following the true story of Albrect Muth, an eccentric social climber who seduced and married a wealthy older widow, Viola Drath. The lies in their relationship came under fire when Drath was found murdered in their home.

Logline: Centers on a young man in Alaska during the 20th century Gold Rush who befriends a wolf dog during his travels.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as a female version of “A History of Violence.”

Logline: Centers on a peace activist who falls deeply in love with a free spirited woman who refuses to commit to only one man. Desperate to stay with her, the activist transforms himself into a writer, nomad, junkie, and lead singer of a band called Steppeulvene.

The “Frozen” writer/director takes on Disney’s adaptation of the children’s classic.

A woman goes to Calcutta in search of her missing husband, but as she gets closer to the truth, she finds herself at the center of a dangerous conspiracy.

Logline: A powerful extremist faction in pursuit of world domination hunts a video recording that will launch the planet into political and military chaos.

To three more companies.

Logline: At wits’ end after their 10-year marriage slides downhill, Jack and Claire opt for divorce. But when they choose a “Birds’ Nest” custody arrangement – living in a shared apartment and taking turns in the house with the kids – what they learn forces them to look at their “nest” and each other in a surprising new light.

Logline: In 1859, a group of elite cavalrymen are sent to New Mexico to kill the chief of the Navajo in response to a brutal mass slaughter of 30 white men, women and children. The President appoints as their leader a man who has no experience in the Indian territories, and as they near their goal, tensions reach a peak…

Logline: Story will revolve around radical abolitionist John Brown and his 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry.

Logline: A journalist in Africa for a story on early civilizations ends up in the middle of a plague of killer ants.

Logline: After the big Halloween game, Hogeye High’s football players and cheerleaders find themselves being hunted down by someone dressed as the school’s mascot.

Logline: A former child art prodigy, and second generation petty thief, arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to change his plans and commit one last big job for the syndicate who financed his early release.

Logline: A mother is kidnapped by a man who collects exotic animals and as she tries to escape from his monstrous Iguana, she discovers why she was taken.

Logline: As a wedding approaches, the families of the bride and groom compete in a variety of physical and mental games to determine which last name the couple will take.

Logline: A man who has been dead for over 20 years is given the chance to return to Earth and rebuild his life.

Logline: A man who has been dead for over 20 years is given the chance to return to Earth and rebuild his life.

Logline: A computer scientist tries to impress her family by pretending that her humanoid robot is actually her boyfriend.

Logline: A man meets a beautiful woman on a plane who later disappears in the airport, but while searching for her, he attracts attention from an assassin.

Logline: After preventing a hit on an accountant, a paranoid schizophrenic hitman is forced to take her with him as he sets off to destroy the mafia family that wants her dead.

Logline: Follows a Puerto Rican man who lives in the US, having built his career away from his home country.