Between January 2023 and January 2022, there has been a 45% increase in specs hitting the market. Surprisingly, this is the highest number of specs in January since 2019.
Ensemble Entertainment is out with BOUND BY GRACE by Dawn Burgess. After joining a youth group, a high school neo-Nazi confronts his violent past and racist prejudices at the risk of losing….
Ensemble Entertainment is out with DOG MEETS GIRL by Mark Goff & Anise Goff. Dog-phobic Calvin Barnes, whose zealous dog-rescuer girlfriend just dumped him, accidentally hits an adorable stray and finds that he’s somehow switched bodies with the pup. Now he has two big problems….
Heavy scheduling for managers’ and clients’ meetings, logging submissions, rolling calls, reading and coverage, and scouting potential clients and projects.
Heavy scheduling of managers and clients’ meetings, logging submissions, rolling calls, reading & coverage, and scouting potential clients and projects.
Responsibilities include busy phones and scheduling, script evaluation, project tracking, intern hiring/supervision and general office management.
Between June 1st and June 30th, we tracked a total of 22 feature specs out. We’ve been coming from a steadily declining slump of material out, but June turned it around from May’s slow market. While not the highest number of features out this year, things are starting to mend.
Ensemble Entertainment is out with CHOKEPOINT by Tamra Teig. A work-obsessed senator is taken hostage on a ship hijacked by high-tech pirates.
Ensemble Entertainment is out with THE DIPLOMAT’S WIFE by Mary A. Byron & Tamra Teig. A newly-wed PR executive comes to grips with the challenges of her bi-racial marriage.
March 2020 came in like a lion and left us with only 16 specs tracked: only 7 with attachments, 5 with a production company, and 1 with a studio. Take a breath, and let’s dive in.
Ensemble out with PROKSE by G.J. Echternkamp & Kyle Stiff. In the near future, automation has replaced much of our traditional forms of employment, creating a class of mass joblessness and poverty. But a technology is invented that allows people to “rent out” their bodies to the wealthy – acting as physical proxies for their clients’ senses and desires. Now someone has taken this to the extreme, hosting Prokse parties where anything goes, even murder.
An autistic man believes an infant is the reincarnation of his dead wife and pursues a relationship with her family ultimately becoming her nanny.
Manipulated by his illiterate and grasping housekeeper who has tricked him into marriage and a brutish concierge, Peter Kien is forced out of his apartment – which houses his great library and one true passion – and into the underworld of the city.
The story follows a reclusive academic who lives in a world of books and ideas. When he marries his illiterate housekeeper, it is believed he is taking advantage of her, but her own secret power tilts their relationship in strange and unexpected directions.
TheOrange Is the New Black actress and the Dog Eat Dog scribe are teaming back up after working together on the 2008 indie Your Name Here.
A young man returns home for his fathers funeral only to learn that dad’s fraternal lodge was secretly fighting aliens and he is needed to replace his father.
A lazy tech genius creates a robotic doppelganger of himself to go to work in his stead. The plan goes awry when everyone likes the robot better!
Three extreme skiers journey to an arctic island for the ultimate ski adventure, but it turns into a nightmare which none of them may survive.
Logline: A lowly PR assistant is befriended by a huge movie star who completely transforms her life, until she finds out the star is a complete whack job she can’t get rid of.
Logline: A new and beloved President takes office and quickly learns that he has no power at all.
Logline: Based upon the real life story of the ping pong match between Zhuang Zedong of China and Glenn Cowan of the U.S that forged a rich friendship and lead to the historic meeting of Richard Nixon and Chinese leader Mao Zedong that changed world history.
Logline: Follows one couple’s tumultuous fifty years of marriage.
Logline: Story of mobster David Berman and his determination to be sent to Europe to fight the Nazis.
Logline: Story follows Don Dawson who left his friends, family and emptied his bank account to travel to Vietnam in hopes of finding his brother Daniel, who’s surveillance plane disappeared over the jungle during the Vietnam war.
Logline: Story will focus on the 24-hour period leading up to his ride from Charlestown to Lexington, becoming a cantral figure in the American Revolutionary War.
Logline: The story follows a Vermont ski team as they attempt to stop a corporate resort developer from wrecking their local mountain.
Logline: When a man who makes his living smuggling people into America from Mexico discovers part of his cargo is the wife of an deadly druglord, he suddenly finds himself directly in harm’s way, as he is forced to fight for both of their survival.
Logline: Tells the story of Ronald Reagan’s life, from his devout catholic suburban childhood, to his big screen power as a Hollywood star, to his eventual climb into the chair of the president of the United States.
Logline: After he arrives in Thailand for the funeral of his fomer commanding officer who recently died in a boating accident, a young ex-marine begins to suspect foul play at hand, and begins to investigate the seedy Bangkok underworld, looking for answers.
Logline: On November 6, 1964, U.S. Army pilot Daniel Dawson went Missing In Action after Viet Cong soldiers shot down his L-19 surveillance plane. Three weeks later, his younger brother Don, a 24-year-old boat captain, left his job, his family and friends, emptied his bank account, and traveled to Vietnam to rescue his brother–or bring his body home to his widow and four children.
