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.
Logan Lerman
CAA is out with THE THREESOME by Ethan Ogilby. When a young man’s perennial crush leads him into an unexpected threesome, he thinks it’s his ultimate fantasy come true. But when the fantasy ends….
A father and son reluctantly embark on an eventful and emotionally fraught road-trip from Alabama to Ireland, honoring a request of their late wife and mother.
A working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus’s growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate.
The Shawn Christensen-directed Sidney Hall has added Blake Jenner, Margaret Qualley, and Tim Blake Nelson to the growing cast. The trio joins stars Logan Lerman and Elle Fanning for the drama.
Oscar-winning editor Angus Wall is set to direct darkly comedic thriller Rothchild from the 2014 Hit List script by John Patton Ford.
Fury star Logan Lerman and Somewhere’s Elle Fanning have boarded Sidney Hall, a drama being directed by Hit List alum Shawn Christensen.
Now that the festival’s biggest purchase has been made, things are starting to get a little quieter at Sundance — but that doesn’t mean films aren’t getting snatched up by studios. Acquisitions are still being made on some of the festival’s most buzzed about titles and the first round of awards have been handed out for short filmmaking.
Disney and Lucasfilm have narrowed down the search for the starring role of their untitled Star Wars Han Solo spinoff film. Among the names on the shortlist are a mix of familiar faces of young Hollywood as well as up and coming actors who have the potential to fill the shoes and charisma of the character originated by Harrison Ford.
Logan Lerman is set to star in high-class thriller Rothchild. Voltage Pictures and Black Box Management are set to produce. Featured on the 2014 Hit List, John Patton Ford’s Rothchild follows Becket Rothchild, the intelligent black sheep of a wealthy family.
Frances McDormand, Logan Lerman, Brit Marling, Christian Slater and Jonathan Pryce sign on to new drama THE WIFE.
Logline: Adapted from the true-story novella of journalist Mitch Swenson, detailing his quest to track down a mysterious Russian woman with whom with he had a torrid romance, taking him deep into the secret shadow governments of Russia.
In 1945, an American tank crew fights against the German army in its last throes.
In 1945, an American tank crew fights against the German army in its last throes.
Logline: A forty-year marriage unravels as a preeminent American novelist and his wife travel to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm
Noah is chosen by God for a great task before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world.
Noah is chosen by God for a great task before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world.
Noah is chosen by God for a great task before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world.
Noah is chosen by God for a great task before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world.
Noah is chosen by God for a great task before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world.
The magical borders that protect Camp Half-Blood have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and unless Percy Jackson and his friends find a cure, the only safe haven for demigods will be destroyed.
“Percy Jackson” star joins Brad Pitt in WWII pic.
The magical borders that protect Camp Half-Blood have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and unless Percy Jackson and his friends find a cure, the only safe haven for demigods will be destroyed.
Follows a fractured family trying to rediscover one another over the course of a tumultuous year.
Logline: In 1945, an American tank crew fights against the German army in its last throes
Follows a fractured family trying to rediscover one another over the course of a tumultuous year.
“Percy Jackson” star eyed for Carter Blanchard-penned pic.
Thesps join Darren Aronofsky’s biblical epic!
Story is narrated by a shy and unpopular teenager who describes his life by writing a series of letters to an anonymous person and explores the awkward times of adolescence, including drug use and sexuality.
Thesp ensemble joins new drama!
