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.
New Line Cinema picked up WEAPONS by Zach Cregger. Centered around witchcraft and missing children.
Between September 1st and September 30th, we tracked 24 new feature specs hitting the market. However, of all this material only 4 have some type of attachment which we have tracked. Let’s not detract from the fact this is a 41.1% increase in material from last month. This marks the highest number of specs in a single month, beating out June which saw 23 new specs hit.
Between April 1st and April 30th, we tracked only 13 specs hitting the market. That is nearly a 31% decrease in specs out in comparison to March 2022. Though not the lowest volume out this year, it is certainly the lowest April in recent years (more on that soon). Of these 13 specs, 6 have some type of attachment, with one from January selling as well. That brings our total up to 7 successes of some type.
UTA & Zero Gravity Management are out with iWITNESS by Michael Donegan & Stephen Kerr. A resilient U.S. Marshal must escort a sentient android across the country.
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.
Lionsgate has picked up 16 STATES by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa. A mother tries to reach her family during a zombie pandemic.
Logline: A single mother has to do everything she can to protect her two small children after she is held captive by her violent ex.
In what’s looking to be the biggest spec sale of the year, DON’T WORRY DARLING heads into multiple studios and streaming services with Olivia Wilde attached to direct and Katie Silberman rewriting.
Story details are being kept under wraps but described as a psychological thriller spec for the Time’s Up era.
Two backpackers go off-roading in the Australian wilderness only to stumble upon a reclusive backwater town where they quickly realize that the locals hunt and kill outsiders for sport.
A sculpture that was part of a 2016 gallery exhibit in Tokyo and soon after went viral.
Story details are being kept under wraps but said to center on a family in a boarder town where the heroine comes to bury her grandmother and is forced to face her childhood fear.
A Native American teenager seeks killers for a monster living in caves underneath a house in Oregon.
Peter has always been told the voice he hears at night is only in his head, but when he suspects his parents have been lying, he conspires to free the girl within the walls of his house.
The story concerns a town in Maine where a space craft is unearthed. It emits a dangerous gas that begins to transform all the town’s residents except for one man who is immune to the effects of the gas thanks to a steel plate in his head.
Home invasion thriller nspired by the “Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter” in which a Kentucky family claimed to have survived an all night alien home invasion attempt.
A young refugee couple make a harrowing escape from war-torn Sudan but then struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface.
Ben Affleck isn’t long for the cape and cowl, while Zack Snyder has directed his last DC movie, and possibly his last movie ever for Warner Bros., where he still has a producing deal.
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.
When her violent past catches up with her, a woman in hiding from her criminal ex must work with a CIA agent to save the daughter she gave up for adoption years earlier.
A gritty western that follows two ambitious adventurers during the Gold Rush era as they set out to conquer and prosper in California’s Yuba river valley – a place that would go down in history as being one of the most dangerous, lawless, and wealth-fulfilling areas in the whole world. There Will Be Blood and Legends of the Fall.
Netflix has acquired the Russian mafia manuscript Vor by newcomer author Rimma Rose in preemptive film rights deal, setting up a potential publishing frenzy.
In the Russian Mafia, a “Vor” is a made man; an honor only given when the recruit shows loyalty beyond measure, with members of the Vor-world accept the code of the “Thief within the Law”. Criminologists and top military officials have cited Vor as one of the most lethal, best structured criminal organizations in history, still in operation to this day.
Logline: Story is being pitched as a big sci-fi twist on The Firm, and centers on a young lawyer/recruit who is tasked to help the firm defend a Treaty as old as civilization itself, which is set to expire.
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.
Letterman is set to direct the highly-anticipated adaptation of the iconic role-playing game from Warner Bros., Vertigo and Hasbro.
A young woman starts to work at a wealthy estate and soon realizes is haunted. She believes that the children may be possessed and begins to fear for her life. Inspired by the 1898 Henry James gothic ghost story The Turn Of The Screw.
Warner Bros. and 1821 Media are teaming up on an untitled “Treasure Hunt” feature based on an idea from 1821’s Terry Dougas. Grant Pierce Myers has signed on to write the the script.
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