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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.

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.

The Oscar-nominated actor will also produce the adaptation of Kevin Wignall’s upcoming novel To Die in Vienna under his production company Nine Stories.

Freddie Makin, a civilian surveillance contractor in Vienna, has been watching a Chinese academic named Jiang Cheng for the past year. When Freddie interrupts a break-in at his apartment, the intruder escapes, only to return to try and kill him. Now Freddie has to figure out who is trying to kill him and why, all while hiding the past that he’s been running away from.

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.

Gyllenhaal is expected to star in the film, which is based on the true story of a ragtag team of American volunteers, socialists and outcasts who are fighting alongside the Kurdish militia known as the YPG to beat ISIS in Syria and establish an anarchist collective amid the rubble of war.

Chronicles the true story of a group of American’s and the YPG who fight ISIS in Syria.

Based on the popular video game that is set in a dystopian New York City in the aftermath of a smallpox pandemic.

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.

Miranda Richardson is set to join Jake Gyllenhaal in Lionsgate’s Boston Marathon bombing film Stronger, which is inspired by the New York Times best selling book of the same name by Jeff Bauman and Bret Witer.

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.

Red Crown Productions is in development with Theater of War, a feature based on a story that was originally broadcast as a part of an episode of the venerable radio show-turned-popular podcast This American Life.

Fort Bragg army base was suffering a number of unnecessary deaths, so they decided to attempt to save soldiers’ lives through the art of musical theater.

Logline: Follows the true story of Jadin Bell, a fifteen year-old openly gay high school sophomore that committed suicide, leaving his father, Joe, filled with regrets. Joe sets out across the country to raise awareness for the dangers of being prejudice.

Logline: Follows a young college grad who returns home after a year of volunteering abroad and unknowingly falls in love with America’s latest teen music heart-throb who is required to remain single.

Hollywood takes on the Bush family once again.

Logline: A young boy is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters when civil war engulfs his West African country.

Logline: After losing his corporate job, a twenty-two year old makes ends meet by selling weed on Craigslist, which not only strains his relationships with friends and family but also chips away at his already neurotic personality.

Logline: Story will chronicle the life of a young Florida girl who entered the child welfare system when she was four and her relationship with an unpaid volunteer who discovers her nine years later.

Logline: Two best friends, attached at the hip, find their unique and long-term friendship threatened when one of them begins a serious relationship with a new guy.

A hoarder and cat lady in her sixties becomes obsessed with a younger man who starts working at her company.

Logline: When four twelve-year-olds are sent to the exclusive School of Fear to conquer their phobias, they soon realize that their teacher, Mrs. Wellington, may in fact be scarier than the phobias that got them sent there in the first place

Logline: After hooking up during college, an American Girl and a British guy go on to become, respectively, the President of the United States and the UK Prime Minister – and must confront their feelings for each other in the middle of an international oil crisis.

Logline: Follows the First Lady as she reviews her life on a day in which a scandalous secret threatens her husband’s presidency, and their marriage.

Logline: Based on the series of books where each story is written from a second person point-of-view with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character’s actions.

Logline: Follows the story of a sensitive daughter of divorced and irresponsible parents.