Holiday

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 & Brillstein Entertainment are out with SANTA CON by Peter Hoare. Set during Santa Con, Manhattan’s annual city-wide Christmas….

Tobias Literary Management is out with THIS IS NAT KING COLE by E.C. Jones. During the final shooting of his landmark variety show, Nat King Cole recounts his life by overcoming racism, artistic integrity….

Paradigm is out with THE JEW WHO SAVED CHRISTMAS by S&M. When Santa accidentally enters the wrong house on Christmas Eve and mistakenly eats a weed laced chocolate chip cookie, Bernie Gold must…

Housefire Management is out with SASHA CLAUSE by Jordan Mitchell. Sasha Green, an overachieving teenager from Inglewood, gets invited to the first ever “Santa Games,” where she must…

Jackson Entertainment Management is out with ALL IS BRIGHT by Mark Rogers. While a hundred things go wrong, the thing that really
counts eventually goes right.

MGMT Entertainment is out with THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME by Andrea Savage. Two grown kids go home to spend Christmas with their mom, only to find out that their flawed, charismatic, absentee father is romantically back in the picture.

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.

Grandview is out with MAKE THE YULETIDE GAY by Mike Van Waes. A perpetually single man gets more than he bargained for when his family mistakes his dating app hookup for a wholesome new boyfriend.

Warner Brothers picked up STAY FROSTY by Tyler Marceca. A man has to figure out who wants him dead and why and still make it back home in time for Christmas.

A3 Artists Agency is out with THE MAN WITH THE BAG by Allan Rice. When Santa’s magic bag is stolen, he turns to his naughty list to find Vance, a former thief.

UTA is out with I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA by John Corcoran & Ram Getz. After witnessing his mother kiss who he believes to be Santa, a young boy writes a tell-all letter to Mrs. Claus who throws the real Santa out in the cold. Santa, now banned from the North Pole and without his magic gloves, must recruit the boy to sneak into his workshop, find Mrs. Claus, clear his name, and save Christmas.

Story centers on sixteen-year-old Grace who is given the golden ticket to forgo having to spend the holidays with her crazy family and instead go skiing with her new boyfriend Tad. When Tad unceremoniously breaks up with her before the trip, Grace must return home humiliated with a broken heart to endure her embarrassing family and their ludicrous holiday traditions.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM Noel Green, head of Santa’s Secret Service, is a man on a mission: to protect Santa and the North Pole. But when a vengeful elf from the South Pole threatens to take Santa down just before Christmas, everything starts to snowball out of control.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM Preparing for the holidays is hard. And unfortunately for the Harper family, they’ve been cursed to repeat Christmas Eve over and over again until they can create the perfect Christmas that they’ve never had. A family friendly GROUNDHOG DAY for the holiday crowd.

Logline: Pitched as an urban “Christmas Carol”, on Christmas, a slumlord who prides himself on not caring for his tenants is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Logline: A spoiled eleven-year-old girl is magically transported from the South Hills Village Mall in Pittsburgh, PA to the North Pole where she learns that she has upset the balance. Because of her, there are more naughty children in the world than nice. With time quickly ticking away, she must find a way to become good and make up for her naughty ways or millions of kids will get nothing for Christmas!