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.
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.
Teddy thinks he’s the only living person left in a world where humanity is frozen in time… until his ex-girlfriend, Leyna, shows up at his doorstep. Together, they must go on a journey to find the cause behind the freeze and in the process, confront the issues that plagued their relationship before it’s too late.
A 17-year-old girl must navigate the challenges of modern life in Philadelphia after becoming a single mother during her freshman year of high school.
While a student at Stanford University, Evan Spiegel creates the American multinational technology and social media company Snapchat.
In a place distant from our normal reality, a reclusive man charged with interviewing prospective candidates for the privilege of being born must choose between an applicant he likes and one he considers tough enough to survive in the real world.
After their friends lose their daughter to a drunk driving accident, a neurotic New York couple find themselves unable to comfort and relate to their pain. But as the pair grapples with their personal inadequacies, their own relationship slowly begins to unravel.
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.
When a down on his luck high school senior discovers that the old roadside diner outside of town is secretly a hangout for parallel universe travelers, he sets off on a mind-bending adventure across the multiverse that takes him beyond his wildest dreams. Based on the Hugo Award-winning short story.
The story of Derek Paravicini, a blind and autistic boy who needed an incredible teacher to help realize his world-class, musical ability.
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.
Set during the recording of DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS, songwriter Bob Geldof discovers a dead body and must find out who killed the star without derailing the song.
Now into producers, this hot new spec from the writer of Rose Red promises two powerful female leads and a dark twist on the worlds we thought we knew.
Haunted by nightmares of Oz’s impending destruction, Dorothy Gale finds herself in a home for others like her with troubling, vivid dreams. While she is there, she meets Alice, a mysterious girl who involves her in a perilous quest to not only save the worlds of imagination, but the world as we know it.
Follows the story of the Hulk Hogan v. Gawker lawsuit that resulted in the shuttering of Gawker.
The storyline is currently being kept under wraps.
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.