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Specs Scripts that Hit in April 2021
Between April 1st and April 30th, we tracked a total of 22 feature specs out. While it’s a positive from last April, it’s continuing our steady decline of specs from the past couple of months. We’ve seen a 12% decrease in specs from March’s count. We’ve continued to decrease in specs since February, wherein in a traditional market, we’d see increases in April, a hot month for the material.
While a student at Stanford University, Evan Spiegel creates the American multinational technology and social media company Snapchat.
The 2013 New York Times best-seller by Casey Sherman is about notorious New England hitman Joe “The Animal” Barbozza and how he became the first gangster put into the Witness Protection Program.
The true story of Joseph Barboza, a brutal enforcer, who, after being betrayed by the Mob, became an FBI informant.
Rain Man writer Ron Bass will adapt the novel with McMillan, the two of them having collaborated on How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale.
The popular genre filmmaker first broke onto the scene with the independent sci-fi horror film twenty years ago. He’s been directing a lot of television in recent years including Hannibal, The Strain and Westworld but this will be the first pilot he directs.
Chronicles the true story of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.
Production is set to start this summer on Long Island, and the film will premiere next year on Netflix.
Described as a cross between The Paper and Cape Fear, the script follows a Midwestern newspaper editor who is stalked by fringe extremists after she writes an article endorsing one of the candidates.