Between January 2023 and January 2022, there has been a 45% increase in specs hitting the market. Surprisingly, this is the highest number of specs in January since 2019.
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New Line Cinema picked up WEAPONS by Zach Cregger. Centered around witchcraft and missing children.
Lionsgate has picked up 16 STATES by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa. A mother tries to reach her family during a zombie pandemic.
Story details are being kept under wraps but described as a psychological thriller spec for the Time’s Up era.
Where do you go when you die? Not heaven or hell, somewhere else. Somewhere you have to fight to survive. Somewhere the people from the past are waiting for you-the good and the bad.
In a world where your life can be “saved,” uploaded to a computer, and restarted in the case of your untimely demise, a husband returns from the dead to suspect his wife may have been involved in his death.
Described as a female Indiana Jones, the story follows Delilah Dirk as she wields her sword, battles pirates and escapes on her flying boat while seeking adventures around the globe.
Legendary and Disruption Entertainment are teaming up to bring the classic Chinese novel to American audiences.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but tells a story of war and politics taking place in the end of the Han Dynasty.
Logline: In the vein of the “Bourne” series for young adults, a young female government operative has had her memory erased and told she was a former terrorist, and although she carries out military missions, she secretly questions what she’s doing and who she really is.
A recap of the week’s executive moves!
Logline: Upon being fired in 1992, a KGB nuclear scientist buried a nuclear device in hopes of finding a potential buyer. Sixteen years later, an undercover agent poses as a buyer for the device, but begins to develop Stockholm Syndom with the KGB scientist, putting humanity in peril of nuclear war.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Pitched as “Men In Black” with mythological creatures, the story centers on a young man who reluctantly becomes a member of an elite secret order charged with protecting humanity from the beasts of folklore who invade our world.
Logline: A young man from a messed up family tries to win the girl of his dreams in a bet with a mobster’s son.
Logline: A high school teacher and arm chair enthusiast becomes an overnight superhero.
Logline: The sole survivor of a wrecked spaceship drifts through space. When a passing vessel ignores his distress signal, he becomes obsessed with revenge and ultimately uncovers a secret destined to change the course of history.
Logline: Follows the 1950’s test pilots who broke altitude records in helium balloons.
Logline: With the world nearing its end, a human baby is sent to live on Superman’s home planet, Krypton.
Logline: In post-WWIII New York, a group of motorcycle-riding teens must stop one of their members from abusing his newly acquired telekinetic powers.
Logline: An aspiring artist comes back to Los Angeles after some time in France and becomes a handyman to people who end up helping him grow as an artist.
Logline: The government creates a virus to increase everyone’s IQ, but it ends up having reverse effects, lowering the population’s Iq to 83- the border of mental retardation. The creator of the virus must find a cure as his own mental state crumbles away.
Logline: Story centers on a female mercenary who roams the universe of a distant future, undertaking missions that require fearlessness, ingenuity and sensuality.
