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.
Jackson Pictures and Stampede Ventures have partnered for THE DEBRIEFING by Ken Nolan. A top CIA operative has to debrief a GRU computer tech seeking asylum.
UTA is out with GO DARK by Spencer Marentette & Josh Marentette. Black-ops soldiers use an experimental technology to travel into the afterlife.
UTA is out with THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER by Darren Lemke. An aspiring writer picks up a lone hitchhiker only to discover that she is a vengeful spirit.
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.
Universal Pictures has picked up UNTITLED ANKELES/JURGENSON ADVENTURE PROJECT by Alex Ankeles & Morgan Jurgenson. Described as a four-quadrant adventure-comedy.
TriStar Pictures picked up TIN ROOF RUSTED by Michelle Harper. Two life-long best friends discover that they’re both pregnant.
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.
Kaplan/Perrone is out with BOYFRIEND MATERIAL by Becca Noble. A young woman visits her boyfriend’s friends at a remote cabin in the Sierra Nevadas.
Legendary Pictures bought BRING ME BACK by Crosby Selander. Described as an epic love story.
Despite the mounting uncertainty as we head into July, the spec market looks to be catching its stride and continues to rise from previous months.
Kaplan/Perrone is out with DELICACY by Will Widger. An infamous food critic embarks on a harrowing, nightlong odyssey.
Read about the 24 specs tracked in February 2020: 7 with a studio or production company attached; 12 with producers; 7 with directors; & 5 with talent attached.
Title: EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE GREAT Logline: A funny and sad valentine to big dreamers whose dreams won’t necessarily come…
In a futile search for closure, a lonesome widower finds something deep in the woods that is sinister and shapeless – and perhaps only visible by him.
An augmented person fused in an indestructible fire suit breaks a rule to rescue a person trapped in a fire.
Story details are being kept under wraps but described as a psychological thriller spec for the Time’s Up era.
An intimate portrait of the sensational First Lady and ERA champion, Betty Ford, as she challenges, scandalizes, dances, and drinks her way through the White House to gain a higher popularity rating than any President in American history – all whilst maintaining a 26 pill-a-day drug habit.
Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, holds the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter after a sudden global event takes away humankind’s ability to sleep. The question is, can she safely deliver her daughter and save the world before she herself loses her mind?
After having a mental breakdown, two versions of an assassin carry go down different paths, one kills a woman that is important to her, and the other takes her as they go on the lam.
Narnia. Hogwarts. Neverland. All magical places that mortals can travel to and marvel at the strange creatures and wonders not seen in our world. But what if a door to a magical land was discovered and instead of pure hearted adventures, a man saw an opportunity to charge a fortune for an exclusive private game reserve where you can “bag” a magical creature.
Ten years after graduating from a school of magic, a down-on-her-luck witch is working at Dunkin’ Donuts and lamenting old romances when a high school reunion-gone-wrong makes her the last hope to stop a couple of witch supremacists from world domination.
A beloved Colorado lawman who lives by his own version of the truth is headed for prison. Before he gets there, he escapes custody. A young female sheriff who still believes in right and wrong must go it alone chasing him through the rugged Colorado wilderness.
When an ambitious girl from the slums of China manipulates her way into marriage with a media tycoon, she becomes one of the most powerful women in the Western world. This is the story of Wendi Deng, second wife of Rupert Murdoch.
