Between August 1st and August 31st, we tracked 17 new feature specs hot out of Final Draft. 3 of them have some type of attachment, while 1 is reported to have sold that was previously out in 2021 (more on that spec later). That brings our total count of specs with attachments up to 4. This marks a 23% decrease in specs from July, and a 26% drop off from June. How the year has been shaping up, August has turned over some fairly better numbers than anticipated.
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Apple Original Films & Skydance Productions picked up THE FAMILY PLAN by David Coggeshall. A former assassin living as a suburban dad is forced to take his unsuspecting family….
The $125 million dollar commitment from Netflix sets the record for a spec package, a record that was also previously set by Netflix just two years ago when they committed $90 million to the Will Smith, David Ayer, Max Landis spec package for Bright.
Following a poor test screening that rankled producers Scott Rudin and David Ellison, Paramount has decided to sell international rights to Alex Garland’s new film to Netflix.
Storyline is under wraps but will chronicle the battle between good and bad luck.
A teenager protects her family from a threat to her kingdom by utilizing her magical powers.
When a cataclysmic event threatened life on Earth, the human race survived by traveling into space, and 5,000 years later, the descendants travel to Earth, completely altered by the disaster and time.
Nightcrawler star Jake Gyllenhaal will star opposite Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson in Daniel Espinosa’s Life. The story comes from Deadpool writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese.
After breaking records in Deadpool, star Ryan Reynolds is already on the move to his next project as he is in talks to join Life from Skydance Productions. The film would see Reynolds star opposite Rebecca Ferguson, who blew away audiences and critics alike in last year’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
Rebecca Ferguson is the first actor announced to star in the Skydance sci-fi film Life. The film will be directed by Daniel Espinosa and the script will be penned by Deadpool scribes, Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese.
Christopher McQuarrie confirmed on Twitter today that he’ll be back to both write and direct Mission: Impossible 6. The Tom Cruise-anchored franchise’s previous installment, Rogue Nation, was smash hit with audiences and critics, hauling in over $600 million worldwide.
A crew on an International Space Station discovers signs of life on Mars after retrieving a sample from the planet.
Due to his commitment to The Grinder, Savage is exiting the R-rated Bridesmaids-esque pic, though the search has already begun for a new director.
Kept under wraps, the continuing missions of the IMF, a government agency that faces the impossible.
With the fifth installment set for July, Paramount, Bad Robot and Skydance Productions have set the sixth. Tom Cruise, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and J.J. Abrams are returning to produce, with Don Granger and Matt Grimm set to serve as executive producers.
Logline: Based on real life paleo-archaeologist Richard Leakey who became an activist for the preservation of African elephants, battling ivory poachers during the 1980’s.
Logline: An FBI agent is drawn into a classified military program that trains its operatives to use paranormal abilities.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Inspired by a true story, a dog washed overboard during a family sailing trip learns to survive on a deserted island while her owner, a teenage boy, searches for her, refusing to give up hope that she’s still alive.
Logline: Inspired by a true story, a dog washed overboard during a family sailing trip learns to survive on a deserted island while her owner, a teenage boy, searches for her, refusing to give up hope that she’s still alive.
Logline: Story centers on a satellite designer who, when the world’s climate-controlling satellites malfunction, has to work together with his estranged brother to save the world from a man-made storm of epic proportions.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: After being told he’s bad in bed, a hunky womanizing fitness instructor tries to get in touch with his emotional side with the help of an overly sensitive love-making genius.
Logline: An ex-CIA operative freelancing as a bodyguard must protect an assassin who previously tried to kill him, escorting him safely to testify against a ruthless arms dealer.
Logline: When a rugged master assassin if forced to testify against a general in exchange for his wife’s freedom, a flashy ex-CIA agent is tasked with protecting him.
Logline: John Connor discovers that Skynet has a weapon unlike anything ever seen and plans to assassinate him in the past, where a young Sarah Connor has been raised by an aging T-800.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as being in the vein of “Monsters Inc.”
Logline: Story is pitched as an epic space adventure that begins in the year 2199, after the war with the planet Gamilon has turned the Earth’s surface into a radioactive desert, leaving earth with less than a year before their underground cities are uninhabitable. Now, a team of scientists must race to complete a starship in a desperate attempt to find another home.
