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.
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HBOMax picked up BLACK CHOKE by Doug Simon. Described as a neo-noir bank robbery gone wrong.
Story details are being kept under wraps.
The film follows the Green Angels, a high-end weed delivery service that hired models to work as drug dealers. The group operated for nearly a decade without being busted, all while growing into a multi-million dollar operation.
To spite her mother, plus-sized Willowdean aka Dumplin’ enters a beauty contest and unintentionally becomes an inspiration to other social outcasts.
Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds has taken an interest in The Rosie Project as he is currently circling. If Reynolds joins, he would be the first major attachment since Jennifer Lawrence and director Richard Linklater dropped out.
Everything changes for a band after the drummer begins to lose his hearing and has to come to grips with a future that will be filled with silence.
Dakota Johnson and Matthias Schoenaerts are signing on to star in The Sound Of Metal. The film is currently in the process of setting financing and planning to shoot in August.
Tells the story of legendary newscaster Mike Wallace who, while building TV news juggernaut 60 Minutes, struggled with a severe chemical depression that he kept hidden from family and friends until the end of his career.
Tells the story of legendary newscaster Mike Wallace who, while building TV news juggernaut 60 Minutes, struggled with a severe chemical depression that he kept hidden from family and friends until the end of his career.
Ghost In The Shell has added Pilou Asbaek to the cast. He will star opposite Scarlett Johansson in the pic from DreamWorks.
Amid the chaos of a falling nation on April 29, 1975, the objective was clear: safely evacuate all remaining Americans from Saigon. But to Major Jim Kean and Ambassador Graham Martin, the moment represented something else: the final opportunity to uphold promises and obligations to the people of South Vietnam.
Logline: Centers on an hard partying college dropout who suffered a traumatic brain injury at the age of 31 and, after his recovery, realizes that he is a math genius.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but involves Greek Gods living on Earth in the modern day.
Logline: A look at the politics of desire between a man and a woman lost in the Mediterranean.
Logline: A hitwoman trying to get out of the murder business falls right back into it following a high school reunion and one night stand.
Logline: Story of a lonely mountain man who stumbles upon an unconscious and abandoned young woman who he nurses back to health only to find that something dark and inhuman lies within her, and only appears with the full moon.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as a sci-fi disaster movie set in London.
Logline: Based on the book by Elizabeth Miles, a spell is cast on the popular crowd after an outcast girl is driven to commit suicide.
Logline: True story based on the life of former NFL running back Gale Sayers and his friendship with Brian Piccolo.
Logline: Kept under wraps but said to revolve around the Greek Gods set in modern day in the vein of “The Avengers.â€
Logline: While on an intergalactic research mission, three astronauts are forced to challenge their perception of reality to uncover the purpose behind their mission and unveil the secrets of Planet X.
Logline: A group of aliens visit the ancient Greeks and stay on Earth for thousands of years, hiding among modern society and using their powers only when called upon.
A hitwoman trying to get out of the murder business falls right back into it following a high school reunion and one night stand.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: A middle-aged professor with Aspergers creates a dating questionnaire to help him fight a straight-laced woman. But when a free-spirited lady comes around he finds that he starts falling for her.
Logline: A man suspects that his wife has been abducted by an infamous serial killer who uses the Internet and e-mail to taunt the victim’s loved ones and police.
Logline: A boxer continues to fight in spite of his diagnosis with a fatal disease.
Logline: During WWII, a fifteen year old German boy is sent to America to spy for the Fatherland by joining a politically-connected family as an English war orphan. Tension mounts when the boy gets the chance to assassinate President Roosevelt.
Logline: Based on a true story, a promising young law student fights an oppressive legal system and growing public scrutiny when his routine traffic stop snowballs into shocking criminal charges, imprisonment, daring escapes, and ultimately acting as his own attorney in a nationally televised murder trial.
