Between December 1 and December 31, 2024, we tracked a total of 1 Spec and 1 IP new on the market.
Dark Comedy
Markerstone Pictures is out with WORK-DEATH BALANCE by Travis J. Taylor. As a last ditch effort to avoid bankruptcy, a failing entrepreneur accepts the perilous job of traveling with a thrill-seeking CEO as his….
Between April 1st and April 30th, 2024, we tracked a total of 12 new specs on the market – three of which were TV pilots. This was a decrease from March, but not unexpected. Of the 12 scripts we tracked, 3 were TV pilots. Drama dominated the top genre spot with 7 projects associated with the genre. Comedy and Thriller tied for a second place with 4 projects each. Then Action, Adventure, Family, Historical and Horror all tied for third place with 2 projects each.
Stormchaser Films is out with GHOSTED by Kristen Ruhlin. A f*ck-boy’s life of one-night stands and non-commitment spirals into chaos when he is haunted by….
Rain Management is out with UGLY DUCKLING by Patrick Tobin. Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Dickens begrudging friendship ends in chaos after the Danish author’s overlong stay at….
Stefanie Epstein Productions is out with THE PRINCESS EXPERIENCE by Geoffrey Ashley. After a suicide attempt, a meek, birthday party princess has a seeming break with reality when her favorite cartoon heroine from childhood crosses into our real world as….
Stefanie Epstein Productions is out with FRONTIERS by Geoffrey Ashley. An army deserter and his partner — the alien super-intelligence inhabiting his ship — seize the chance to impress a mysterious, intergalactic gangster, setting the soldier on the path toward….
Paperclip Ltd. & Winterlight Pictures are looking for a writer to develop BITER.
Cody Lassen & Associates picked up HOW TO GET CLICKS by Wesley Taylor & Alex Wyse. After an unlucky writer achieves viral fame by exploiting his own misery, his world turns upside down when….
The Film Co-Operative is out with CURBSIDE SERVICE by Christan van Slyke. A recently separated couple find themselves stranded in the desert on their way to….
Independent Artists Media is out with CHRISTMAS IS FOR PAGEANTS by Pavan Moondi. A family man tries to connect with his 10-year-old son and honor his late father by reviving the town Christmas pageant, but amidst mounting financial troubles….
While the idea of something like WEDNESDAY is exciting for them given that they are working with big IP, THE CONSULTANT is actually closer to what they look for as a company.
Departure is out with AIRTIGHT by Dillon Magrann-Wells. When a carpenter shows up to put the finishing touches on an eccentric billionaire’s…
Independent Artists Media is out with PHASE ONE by Pavan Moondi & Nicholas C. Martin. A young woman moves to the big city and falls in with a clique of hipster millennials…
Avenue 220 is shopping rights to SINKHOLE by Davida Breier. Lies from the past and a dangerous present collide when, after fifteen years in exile, Michelle Miller returns to her tiny hometown…
AMC is looking for a writer to develop EDWARD GOREY’S NEGLECTED MURDERESSES.
Citizen Skull is out with SWEET MERCI by Gianmarco Maximilian Giacomelli. A misanthropic farmer sets out to steal a vindictive maple syrup cartel’s syrup.
Empirical Evidence & Kaplan Stahler Agency are out with MOTHER MOUNTAIN by Andy Friedhof. Two scam artist brothers attempt to con a poor village by hiring a prostitute to act as a cave-dwelling Incan goddess.
In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinity Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist Mega Church, attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild their congregation. But in order to make the biggest comeback that commodified religion has ever seen, they must first reconcile their faith and confront personal demons. Shot in a mockumentary style, HONK FOR JESUS takes a satirical look at Mega Churches and how most secular liberals misperceive the religious community.
A heist gone wrong finds a charismatic young schemer and his makeshift crew on the run from the Russian mob, the long arm of the law, and eventually each other.
A dark comedy where a former beauty queen and her nerdy daughter are mistakenly abducted on their way to the Miss Imagination Pageant by a desperate farmer, who believes they’re related to the crooked banker foreclosing on his century farm. As they struggle to escape and still make it to the pageant, the farmer’s harebrained plan comes undone: leaving a trail of bodies, crashed cars, and un-retrieved ransom dotting the blizzard-swept Great Plains.
A pizza delivery girl at the end of her financial rope has to fight for her life — and her tips — when her last order of the night turns out to be high society Satanists in need of a virgin sacrifice.
Logline: A man must deal with having the uncontrollable “gift” of his spirit jumping randomly into other people’s bodies, while managing the rest of his life, which is falling apart due to his periodic absences.
Logline: After the untimely death of the most popular girl in her class, a teenage nobody takes her shot and gets the lead in the school’s production of The Crucible, only to find that the subject matter brings forward her own latent magical abilities.
Logline: An Iraqi war vet struggling to make ends meet begins working as a mercy killer.
Logline: When an out-of-work divorced mother stops taking the court-ordered medication that made her feel like a zombie, her brazenly immoral, 15-year-old imaginary friend appears to help get her life back on track.
Logline: A woman who realizes her sociopathic ways are starting to get out of control moves to a one-person tourist trap town in an attempt to escape her deadly impulses. But, when the only other inhabitant of the town suddenly dies, and tour buses start rolling in she realizes she may have accidentally set herself up in the perfectly murderous setting she was trying to escape in the first place.
The remarkably true, modern Robin Hood story of a group of ex-strippers who stole money from filthy, rich men.
Logline: A recently dumped and hopelessly stoned 20-something goes on a blind date that could turn into the best night of his life — until his new crush is kidnapped by a serial killer.
Logline: After their plans to kill each other go awry, two highway serial killers become determined to destroy each other’s lives.
