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.
Don Granger
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.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Vox Media has a new COO and Disney has made multiple promotions.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Has started shooting in New Orleans, and to celebrate they added another actor to the cast – perennial tough guy Holt McCallany.
After multiple reports that actors are entering negotiations for Jack Reacher’s next adventure, we finally have a firm cast for this film — the latest being the villain.
The actress who brought to life Marvel’s Agent Maria Hill might be joining another action franchise.
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.
A roundup of the week’s exec moves!
Logline: Reacher heads back to his old military base in Virginia to take a woman to dinner who is now the commanding officer but by the time he gets there, she has been arrested and he finds himself being charged with beating a man and fathering a child with a woman, neither of which he remembers doing.
Logline: Four socially awkward teenagers set out on a vacation.
Logline: Jack Reacher, and ex-military homicide investigator, seeks the truth behind what seems an open-and-shut murder case after a trained military sniper is arrested for shooting five random victims.
