Between January 1st and January 31st, 2022, we tracked a total of 11 new feature specs hitting the market. Compared to last month, we are seeing a 15% decrease in the material out. That is fairly standard for the time of the year, thanks to the holidays. In terms of successes, of the 11 specs out, 4 have some type of attachment.
Nine Stories Productions
BOOM! Studios and Nine Stories are pitching SNOW BLIND.
Three generations of women – daughter, mother and grandmother – are haunted by a manifestation of aged dementia that takes over their family home.
Out of desperation to save his dying wife, Willard Russell turns to prayer which succumbs to sacrifice in a story told across two decades.
Based on a true story. The FBI pairs a young, African-American agent with Greg Scarpa, the most notorious hitman in mafia history, to solve the murder of a civil rights activist in 1966 Mississippi.
After catching her husband in bed with a hooker and causing him to die of a heart attack, Sue Bottom buries the body and takes advantage of the local celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband.
Based on recently declassified materials, tells teh incredible true story of Arthur Meyerowitz, an American turret-gunner whose B-24 bomber was shot down over Vichy France in 1943.
Written by Steven Knight (Locke), the film follows a reporter (Gyllenhaal) who travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit a wealthy friend (Cumberbatch), only to get roped into a plot to fake his friend’s death.
Chronicles the true story of a group of American’s and the YPG who fight ISIS in Syria.
Streaming giant Netflix is close to landing The Helicopter Heist, an upcoming film based on an unpublished manuscript of the same name by Jonas Bonnier. Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star and produce.
A 16-year old living in Montana watches his parents discover the limits of their marriage.
Based on the popular video game that is set in a dystopian New York City in the aftermath of a smallpox pandemic.
Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories is teaming up again with Bold Films on a feature adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s The Son. Denis Villeneuve is set to direct.
Follows the life of Sonny Lofthus, a once gifted 15-year-old and promising wrestler, whose downward spiral ensues when his cop father commits suicide.
Jake Gyllenhaal’s film, Stronger has found a home at Bold Films. The company will produce and finance the project about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
