Paradigm is out with WE USED TO BE FRIENDS by Jess Bond & Sydney Sweeney. Centers on a best friend break-up between two girls during their senior year of high school.
Between August 1st and August 31st, we tracked a total of 15 feature specs out. This marks the third month in a row where specs have decreased. However, we all predicted the low rate of material out between vacations and productions slowly rolling out.
Paradigm is out with SPIDER RAIN by Duncan Samarasinghe. A struggling single mother must protect her daughters and keep her family together.
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.
Paradigm is out with FOUR ASSASSINS AND A FUNERAL by Ryan Hooper. The adoptive daughter of a legendary assassin returns home for his funeral.
Between March 1st and March 31st, we tracked a total of 25 specs out. This marks a minimal 2.8% decrease in specs from February’s count. So, while March did not outperform February, we saw little drop-off between the months. Of the 25 specs out, 9 have some type of attachment.
Artists First is out with UNMAGICAL by Jared Gruszecki. A teenage underachiever is rejected from the wizard school of her dreams.
Love is in the air as we reach what some believe to be the most romantic month of the year – February. Sure we had yet another impeachment trial, but from awkward online Hinge dates to sweet cards from Grandma, February is showing some promise on all fronts.
Paradigm and Lit Entertainment are out with THE FIGURE by Michelle Hsu. A female scientist aims to further her career by building a larger-than-life synthetic human being.
Oh, October, the month filled with ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and of course, specs.
Housefire Management is out with ROOFTOP by Brandon Constantine. A bartender and his buddy are recruited last minute to sling drinks to celebrities for a post-Oscars bash.
Paradigm is out with VICKY by Jeny Batten. Two female science students create “Karen,” a robot.
Alas, we reach the end of August and with Labor Day just around the corner, we’re returning to cooler weather and pumpkin spice lattes invading our life yet again.
Paradigm is out with THE BAD ASS BIKER CHICKS OF MARRAKECH by Lindsay Cohen & Nzingha Stewart. Five teenage girls break into the male-dominated realm of competitive motocross racing.
July has proven to be the roller coaster of emotions we all thought it would be.
Paradigm is out with MOTHER LAND by Kevin Coughlin & Ryan Grassby. A mother and her sons eke out a pitiful existence while clinging desperately to their homestead
831 Entertainment is out with THE BAKER by Mike Maples. A whistle-blower lives a quiet life in witness protection until his life is turned upside down.
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.
Paradigm is out with TAKE OFF by Jay Thames. After a work for hire art recovery goes bad, Frank Foster has the love of his life die in his arms.
Circle of Confusion is out with SIMULACRUM by Calvin Starnes. A mom tries to save her son, after she gets roped into helping an AI escape the government, who is tracking it down.
America’s first female Vice President finds herself besieged on Air Force One by evil, depraved bloodsuckers. Oh yeah, and there are a bunch of vampires onboard too. When the red eye from Moscow to DC is overrun, she has to take on the fanged terrorists to save her family… and the free world.
In a bid to keep her marriage-obsessed parents off her back, an Indian-American woman gets a fake boyfriend for wedding season-but in the end, gets the courage to stop living a double life.
Title: EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE GREAT Logline: A funny and sad valentine to big dreamers whose dreams won’t necessarily come…
As the 2028 Election looms, a precocious Stanford undergraduate learns how to hack the Government’s ‘universal memory cloud’ – exposing a secret with devastating consequences for the Democratic Presidential Candidate. On a search for the truth and pursued by enemies seen and unseen, he begins to learn that nothing – not even memory – is quite what it seems…
Three siblings are stalked by a masked killer after they become stranded on a country river.
The children of undercover DEA agents play a game of cat and mouse with their parents as they rob from a dangerous cartel.
A young female graduate of Army Ranger School is just belligerent enough to get herself assigned the worst detail of all, Open Skies Surveillance Mission. What she thinks will be a boring, by the books, USA/Ukraine military flight over the United States turns into something with much greater consequences when the surveillance plane is taken hostage and the fate of her colleagues, the plane and the United States is put at risk.
Story details are being kept under wraps but is said to revolve around a man with a classified line of work who must take his family on a perilous trip while protecting them from the horror he has in tow.
When a former drug mule’s son is abducted, she teams up with her estranged older sister, a foul-mouthed, bronze-knuckled cop, to fight their way through a cartel and reunite their family.