Between July 1st and July 31st, we tracked a total of 19 feature specs out. This is a decline from the specs out the previous month, but it was to be expected with many taking long-awaited vacations, coupled with the bottlenecking we’re seeing in the development chain. However, it’s not the drop-off we anticipated and is still on par with the past month’s numbers.
Silvera Management
A3 Artist Agency is out with DUPONT CIRCLE by Andy Tennant & Rick Parks. Centers on the chance meeting between a beautiful Russian spy and a fresh off the boat idealistic DC staffer.
A troubled teenage girl arrives at a new parochial Catholic high school and becomes the pupil of a deformed teen musical genius, who may be responsible for growing number of unsolved local accidents, disappearances, and deaths.
Not all is as it seems when a bank robber dumps his getaway vehicle off a bridge and into nineteen feet of water, resulting in a desperate search for a way to escape before he’s done in by advancing authorities or his diminishing oxygen supply.
Thunder Road Pictures has snapped up the high-powered action thriller Smoke On The Water from scribes Trey Callaway and Rick Parks–a project which could prove to be the launch of a new blockbuster franchise.
Logline kept under wraps, but the story is set in the world of offshore boat racing, open water drug smuggling and the U.S. Coast Guard–exploring the “nautical narcotic highway” from Cuba to Key West.
Logline kept underwraps, but the story is set in the world of offshore boat racing, open water drug smuggling and the U.S. Coast Guard–exploring the “nautical narcotic highway” from Cuba to Key West.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: A single mother’s blind date is interrupted by a man who claims she stole $6 million.
Spec Market Explosion Recap – who went out with what – to where – and what genre?
Logline: Pitched as “Die Hard” meets “The Siege”. After a 9/11 type attack paralyzes Wall Street, a female FBI agent attempts to track down the most sophisticated terrorist operation to occupy US soil. The only catch is people start to empathize with these domestic terrorists, as their goal is not destruction, but to start the next American Revolution.
Logline: A car goes on a rampage, terrorizing a small town.
Logline: A severely depressed woman is rejuvenated when she meets an intriguing man, but she faces peril when he disappears inside a haunted building.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Set in the early 20th century, the story follows two men who are part of a nomad-bounty-hunter group in search of a new breed of werewolf.
Logline: An elite team of private soldiers is left for dead on a black-ops mission and the survivors hunt down the people within their organization who are responsible.
Logline: When three students go missing in a rural town, detectives find a videotape left behind. Filmed by the students, the footage becomes more and more disturbing, as the detectives try to piece enough information together to find them before it’s too late.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “The Expendables,” story of a strike force, comprised of criminals, goes to Hell in order to prevent the End of Days.
