Cross Creek Pictures

Between June 1st and June 30th, we tracked 23 new feature specs hitting the market, with 6 having some type of attachment. However, one spec made waves that hit the market some time ago, bringing our total success up to 7 (more on that spec later). That is a 43.75% increase in specs from last month. Not only that, but this is the highest number of specs in a single month all year.

Cross Creek Pictures picked up DRUDGE by Cody Brotter. Oddball internet reporter Matt Drudge broke the Lewinsky Scandal and nearly took down a presidency…

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMThe true story of a high-ranking CIA officer who was caught selling secrets to the Russians. He then embarrassed the U.S. government when he did it again, this time from behind prison bars. What the imprisoned officer did was train his son in the ways of spycraft so he could continue to spy for Russia and even ferret out the mole that ratted out his father in the first place.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PMWhen a malicious cyber attack against U.S. Space Command forces the President-Elect and the outgoing President into the Situation Room hours before the Inauguration ceremony, the rival Presidents and their National Security teams work with and against each other to determine who is responsible for the attack and how to respond before it’s too late.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMSet in deep space, Jules Addison and Amelia Radcliffe, join forces in a tomb-raiding race on a newly discovered planet to unravel the secrets of an ancient, long-extinct civilization – only to uncover a revelation that could spell the end of the human race.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMCenters on Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his indispensable muse and fiercest competitor. Desperate to define herself through her own art, the film explores the question: Can love exist between creative equals? Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Zelda Fitzgerald was dubbed was hailed as the “first American Flapper.”

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMWhen his business partner, and frontman for their firm, has a sudden heart attack, a hard-nosed liberal lawyer starts to uncover a web of unsettling things their crusading firm has been involved in. As the trail of lies goes deeper, his existential crisis turns into extreme action.

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Logline: Gutzon Borglum, the iconic, controversial, visionary sculptor/artist whose passion and perseverance resulted in the creation of one of America’s most beloved and enduring landmarks – Mt. Rushmore – while battling an indifferent public, recalcitrant politicians and the Great Depression.

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Project based on the video game which lets gamers play with professional athletes, who are morphed into kids, to participate in games played in the yard.

Logline: Pitched as “The French Connection” meets “American Gangster,” the true story of the cops that stole drug money from the French heroine bust in the 1970’s.

Logline: Set in an alternate version of 1880s Seattle, where the city has been walled in and a toxic gas has turned many of its remaining residents into “Rotters,” aka zombies. The story centers on a young widow who hunts for her teen son in the Seattle underworld, while dealing with airship pirates, a criminal overlord and heavily armed refugees.

Logline: Follows the story of man who fakes his own death to escape his old self and meets a woman who is also in the process of trying to escape her old life.

Logline: Story centers on a group of people as they struggle to survive in the aftermath of the February 27, 2010 Chilean earthquake that hit 8.8 on the Richter scale, created a tsunami and claimed the lives of almost 500 people.

Logline: Story centers on a loving father who buys a used clown costume to dress up in after the clown-for-hire cancels on the 6-year-olds birthday. However, once the party ends, the father discovers the costume won’t come off, and even worse, that it is slowly transforming him into a blood-thirsty monster, ready to kill anyone who tries to take the costume off of him.

Logline: True story of three expeditions that were hit by ferocious blizzards on a climb to the top of Mt. Everest.