Between December 1st and December 31st, we tracked a total of 10 new feature specs on the market. This marks the lowest volume of specs out in a single month, and if that surprises you, you probably thought “Puss in Boots” would beat “Avatar” at the box office.
Verve is out with THE GET BACK by Chris Bruno & Dave Lee. Drowning under the weight of their collective debt, a millennial group of New York City roommates decides….
Between July 1st and July 31st, we tracked 22 new feature specs hitting the market, with only 4 having some type of attachment. Surprisingly, this is only a 4.3% decrease in specs from June. June saw a monstrous uptick in specs from the rest of the year, so it looks like we’re holding steady for the summer. Still, July didn’t beat out the record high for the year but came quite close to it.
Gotham Group is out with MAN OF WAR by Jordan Ross. Sergeant Noah Galloway, a military hero who lost both his arm and leg during the Iraq War, and faces an internal battle upon his return to….
Gotham Group is out with LULLABY by Robert Nelson Jacobs. An aspiring pop singer with a thirst for fame is chosen to participate in an artistic retreat run by….
Locate, maintain, and process relevant documents, materials, and data in databases, files, archives, and other locations.
Main responsibility will include rolling calls, coordinating schedules, covering scripts, managing lists, sending submissions, and other tasks as needed.
Duties include a high-volume of rolling calls, coordinating schedules, script coverage, managing grids, material submissions and assisting the team in any way needed.
Main job responsibilities will include rolling calls, coordinating schedules, script coverage, managing grids, and assisting the team in any way needed.
20th Television is looking for a writer to develop ALL THE SECRETS OF THE WORLD.
Between January 1st and January 31st, 2022, we tracked a total of 11 new feature specs hitting the market. Compared to last month, we are seeing a 15% decrease in the material out. That is fairly standard for the time of the year, thanks to the holidays. In terms of successes, of the 11 specs out, 4 have some type of attachment.
Gotham Group is out with DRY HEAT by Abner Pastoll. A jaded teen’s father is mistakenly kidnapped in a heist gone wrong.
Main job responsibilities will include rolling calls, coordinating schedules, script coverage, managing grids, and assisting the team in any way needed.
Main job responsibilities will include rolling calls, coordinating schedules, script coverage, managing grids, and assisting the team in any way needed.
Between August 1st and August 31st, we tracked a total of 15 feature specs out. This marks the third month in a row where specs have decreased. However, we all predicted the low rate of material out between vacations and productions slowly rolling out.
Between July 1st and July 31st, we tracked a total of 19 feature specs out. This is a decline from the specs out the previous month, but it was to be expected with many taking long-awaited vacations, coupled with the bottlenecking we’re seeing in the development chain. However, it’s not the drop-off we anticipated and is still on par with the past month’s numbers.
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.
Between May 1st and May 31st, we tracked a total of 19 feature specs out. We’ve seen a progressively steady decline of specs hitting the market since re-openings have started to rise. May marks the second lost number out, next to January. The more shocking number is that of the 19 feature specs out, only 2 have some type of attachment, with one additional spec from a past month selling in May.
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.
Untitled Entertainment is out with ARIANA GRANDE DM’D ME by Ed Decter & Matt Ember. Story details are being kept under wraps.
Verve is out with JAKE by Jeff Cassidy. Story details are being kept under wraps.
Between March 1st and March 31st, we tracked a total of 25 specs out. This marks a minimal 2.8% decrease in specs from February’s count. So, while March did not outperform February, we saw little drop-off between the months. Of the 25 specs out, 9 have some type of attachment.
Gotham Group is out with MORPHOLOGY by Jim Byrkit. Five grad students secretly experiment with their own latent DNA.
Paramount Pictures picked up BE MY EYES. A law student volunteers to receive anonymous video calls from blind people.
As we bring September to a close, we also bring an end to the third quarter of 2020. We’re about to enter the final stretch of the year.
Gotham Group is out with BITCH TO THE FUTURE! by Siena East. A young woman goes back in time to stop someone from ever being born.
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.
