Between February 1st and February 28th, we tracked a total of 17 new feature specs hitting the market, highlighting a 6.25% increase in specs hitting the market from last month.
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Netflix picked up SEISMIC by Greg Russo. A mother fights to reunite with her son after Earth is decimated by….
Screen Gems has picked up SABINE by Gregg Hurwitz & Philip Eisner. An ambitious detective hunts a dangerous killer.
Here is a breakdown of the television mandates for networks, cable and streamers for the 2020-2021 season.
Netflix picked up DARK DAYS AT THE MAGNA CARTA by Michael Paisley. A woman goes to great lengths to save her family during a catastrophic event.
Story details are being kept under wraps. In the vein of THE SHALLOWS.
At the height of Jim Crow, a courageous black attorney with the audacious name of Scipio Africanus Jones risks his life and career to defend eighty-seven men wrongfully accused of murder, taking the case all the way to the United States Supreme Court and achieving a stunning victory that will change American history forever. Based on a true story.
Based on the bestselling novel by Stephanie Perkins, the Nebraska-set story follows a young girl whose high school friends begin to die in a series of gruesome murders.
The storyline is currently under wraps.
John J. Griffin’s script is described as a coming-of-age story set on the moon. It follows a boy living a lunar mining colony who, after the death of his father, takes a trip with his four best friends to explore a mysterious crater prior to being permanently relocated to another planet.
Good Universe has picked up the rights and 21 Laps (“Arrival,” “Stranger Things”) will co-produce the science fiction film.
The storyline is being kept under wraps.
Twin sibblings are transported into a world where fairy tales are real and they must complete the wishing spell to return home.
The story follows a paranormal investigator who finds himself drawn to a small town that has experienced bizarre phenomena. He soon discovers that these instances have an eerie connection with his own past.
When a paranormal investigator begins to explore the bizarre phenomena that drew him to a remote small town, he soon discovers that these instances have an eerie connection with his own past.
*UPDATED February 27th* As the project now goes into all buyers, more talent circles and offers start to come in! Gearing up for a star-studded Oscar weekend, one spec script has taken the town by storm as A-list talent and Producers fight for a piece of the pie.
Triplet queens compete against each other using their magical powers in order to acquire the crown.
Following a bloodthirsty bidding war that ended in a high six-figure deal, 20th Century Fox has acquired rights to Raymond Villareal’s novel A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising.
After scoring eight Oscar nominations on Tuesday for Arrival, producer Shawn Levy is looking to stay in the realm of science-fiction. Along with his 21 Laps banner, Levy will produce an untitled sci-fi pitch, which has been acquired by Fox 2000. James Ponsoldt will direct based on a script by Daniel Casey.
A couple contemplates whether or not to break up over the course of one night in Los Angeles as an apocalyptic disaster threatens the possible end of the world at sunrise.
A couple contemplates whether or not to break up over the course of one night in Los Angeles as an apocalyptic disaster threatens the possible end of the world at sunrise.
Logline: A bank teller stuck in his routine discovers he’s a background character in a realistic, open world action-adventure video game and he is the only one capable of saving the city.
Revolves around a recently released ex-con and his adopted younger brother who are forced to go on the run. Chased by a vengeful criminal, the feds and a cadre of otherworldly soldiers, their only protection is a found weapon of mysterious ancestry.
Finding themselves in the middle of an alien invasion, a newly divorced couple must survive a dangerous real-time journey on foot from downtown Atlanta to the suburbs, where their young children are home alone.
In the vein of Ex Machina, the story centers on a young woman – or robot – who walks into a police station and confesses to a murder, creating an unprecedented dilemma for the cop who must decide how to resolve the case.
After getting people excited a few days ago with the “first look” teasers for ABC’s new series, today at their upfront presentation they revealed full trailers for all the series.
Catch all the first look for ABC’s new series ahead of their upfront presentation in New York.
Jason Sudeikis, Ed Harris, and Elizabeth Olsen are in talks to star in the dramedy Kodachrome, based on a 2010 New York Times article by A.G. Sulzberger. Shawn Levy is set to produce.
A father and son set out on a road trip to Kansas to process pictures at Kodak’s last Kodachrome lab that is about to close.
Shawn Levy is set to blast off as the director of Columbia Pictures’ remake of the John Carpenter-directed 1980s sci-fi classic, Starman.
