Between July 1st and July 31st, 2024, we tracked a total of 5 specs on the market. Granted there was July 4th with plenty of industry folks taking a week off for vacation along with the usual summer vacations and the biennial Summer Olympics, but it still proved to be a quiet month compared to Julys of the past.
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Silver Bitela Agency is out with THE ACCOMPLICE by Craig Sabin. A serial killer strikes a bargain with a woman who knows what he is and what he does, when she runs the risk….
Between June 1 and June 30, 2024, we tracked a total of 26 specs on the market – 2 of which were TV pilots. As in February of this year, the total number of specs we tracked was higher primarily due to one management firm’s sizable push into the market.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with CLAUSE 13 by Craig Sabin. A security guard father-to-be pisses off real superheroes by accidentally killing one, and has to run for his….
Silver Bitela Agency is out with HEDGEWITCH by Robert C. Powers. On the verge of losing his leg, a Marine with PTSD seeks out an old flame for help, and gets wrangled into helping….
Silver Bitela Agency is out with THE PET SITTER by Suzanne Gill. A city girl inherits a pet-sitting business that brings out her inability to walk and chew gum at the same time because….
Silver Bitela Agency is out with YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS by Suzanne Gill. Mother and daughter besties engage in a friendly bet as to how to finish their respective writing projects, but as Mom’s memory fades, and daughter’s illness progresses, they….
Between March 1st and March 31st, 2024, we tracked a total of 30 new specs on the market. This was an increase from February mostly due to one management firm’s big push into the market. Of the 30 scripts we tracked, 3 were TV pilots and 3 were Animation projects. Comedy dominated the top genre spot once again with 16 projects associated with the genre. Drama came in a distant second place with 8 projects. Then the genres Fantasy, Horror and Thriller tied for third place.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with THE IRON HORSE OF LUCY STEELE by Paul Zeidman. After her locomotive is stolen by a gang of ruthless outlaws, a fiery female engineer relentlessly pursues them to….
Silver Bitela Agency is out with SORRY, NOT SORRY by Christopher Bradley. A gay man must make amends to those he’s hurt because of his alcoholism, but each apology seems to….
Between January 1st and January 31st, 2024, we tracked a total of 5 new specs on the market. Two of the scripts were TV pilots and one was a TV/streaming movie. Overall, the month had a 40% increase in the amount of material we tracked on the market from December of last year.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with THE GEMINI by Jason Bortz. After an identical twin commits suicide, his surviving brother — a troubled police officer — attempts to piece together….
Between November 1st and November 30th, 2023, we tracked 8 Spec Scripts and 1 IP Rights being taken out along with 1 Spec Deal.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with CHRISTMAS NOTES by Craig Clyde. A couple who can’t have children adopt a little girl with special needs; she can’t speak but….
Between October 1st and October 31st, 2023, we tracked 10 Spec Scripts and 1 Book/IP Rights being taken out. 4 of the Scripts were TV pilots.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with BRAWLER by Craig Clyde. An ex-con “brawler” struggles to leave a criminal conviction for manslaughter behind him but becomes the pawn….
Between March 1st and March 31st, 2023, we tracked a total of 15 feature & TV specs hitting the market, highlighting a 12% decrease in specs hitting the market compared to February 2023.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with EXTREMIS by Robert C. Powers. A young destroyer captain must prove himself to his crew when he hazards his ship to rescue….
Silver Bitela Agency is out with LASERBLADERS by Robert C. Powers. A young blind girl is kidnapped from a roller rink and taken to the Nightmare Dimension where she is to marry the Lord of Nightmare and….
Silver Bitela Agency is out with HOT by Robert C. Powers. A “hot” teenage girl is kidnapped, imprisoned in a cabin and must use all her wiles to stay….
Between June 1st and June 30th, we tracked a total of 22 feature specs out. We’ve been coming from a steadily declining slump of material out, but June turned it around from May’s slow market. While not the highest number of features out this year, things are starting to mend.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with RUN FOR THE ROSES by David W. LeBlanc. A teen, a trainer, and a jockey believe they can make racing history.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with THE KID WHO MISSED THE BUS by Matt McCoy. Danny Boy loves hockey, but he loves women too.
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.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with the spec DESPERADO by Craig Clyde. Two law men go rogue to bring in a deadly gunman.
Silver Bitela Agency is out with LOCKDOWN by Jim Starr. In the middle of a pandemic, a nurse struggles to save herself and her fellow riders on a subway train held hostage by an armed terrorist on a suicide mission.
Read about the 24 specs tracked in February 2020: 7 with a studio or production company attached; 12 with producers; 7 with directors; & 5 with talent attached.
A deep-cover KGB agent sent to the US just before the collapse of the Soviet Union and left stranded for decades is reactivated and ordered to carry out a high-profile assassination that will destroy his American family.
Logline: During a romantic anniversary getaway with her husband, a woman discovers someone is trying to kill her, but she isn’t sure if it’s the suspicious stranger who showed up on their doorstep, or her husband.
Logline: A white wealthy father sees he’s got to show his son (a would be/could be basketball phenom) the reality of life, so he brings the kid home to where he grew up … in the projects.
