Hopscotch is out with this spec by Peter Barnes. When the sun doesn’t rise, a blind woman navigates a dark world to save her son.
UTA is out to studios with SHELLY. A young woman returns home a decade after an embarrassing prom prank ran her out of town.
ICM Partners sets SONGBIRD by Adam Mason & Simon Boyes at Bay Films and Invisible Narratives. A pandemic leads to a government conspiracy.
The Muraviov Company is out with TIME ZERO by Erin Carere & Carlo Carere. An unfulfilled engineer wakes up shackled to a ticking nuclear bomb in an underground chamber with only a phone and one instruction to save millions of people: she must convince the US President to kill himself.
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.
ICM Partners is out with THE MONSTER by James Greer & Jonathan Bernstein. This is a contained genre thriller, following two millennials who make quick money by flipping incredible NY apartments they don’t own to new lease applicants willing to pay a premium upfront before they know they’re being scammed, when they run into an apartment owner with a dark secret in his basement who flips the game on them.
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.
Echo Lake is out with THE EDIT by Neal Baer & Richardo Perez Gonzalez. Centers on CRISPR, a miracle gene-editing tool that homes in on a mutated gene, surgically snips it out and splices in a healthy gene in its place. But when CRISPR is used by rogue scientists, they use the technology to replace healthy genes with time bombs to eliminate a group of people deemed as undesirable.
Lionsgate has picked up 16 STATES by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa. A mother tries to reach her family during a zombie pandemic.
The Cartel is out with LONG HAUL by Joshua Henson. It’s 1977, the golden age of trucking. The era of Duel, Convoy, and Smokey and the Bandit. Truckers are the new American cowboys. Scott, a long-haul trucker, picks up a runaway girl who, inexplicably, looks exactly like his late wife. Pursued by a mysterious government agent, Scott has to get her cross-country in 24 hours or less. The fate of the Universe is at stake.
CAA is out with CEREBRAL by Dave Kalstein. A disgraced psychiatrist who used to cater to the world’s most intelligent minds is asked to help investigate a murder in a secluded government-operated Victorian mansion where nine of the smartest people in the world reside.
Verve is out with HOME by Jeff Thomas. Story details are kept under wraps but described as a new psychological thriller dealing with mental illness and dementia, with elements of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST and THE TRUMAN SHOW.
Grandview is out with 2084 by Mattson Tomlin. Story details are being kept under wraps but is described as THE MATRIX meets INCEPTION.
Verve, Good Fear, and Romark are out with FEAR AT HOME by John Wikstrom. A contained Horror that follows a group of people trapped in a Home Depot during a hurricane who quickly find out the storm is the least of their problems…
Epicenter is out with TOOTH & NAIL by Brian DeLeeuw. During the World War II siege of Leningrad, a family must endure starvation, German bombs, and deadly cold before facing the greatest threat to their survival: a cult of ravenous werewolves.
WME is out with WE BURY THE DEAD by Zak Hilditch. When the United States is left reeling after a military test instantly kills millions of citizens, Ava Newman volunteers to a body retrieval unit in order to find out if her husband was among the victims.
Elevate Entertainment is out with FUSE by Marek Polgar & Martyn Pedler. A government assassin suffering from trauma with two personalities battles as the first persona attempts to complete his mission, while the second tries to stop him. Think MEMENTO meets BOURNE IDENTITY meets TAKEN.
Pantheon has optioned COCAINE by Andi Albin. An overzealous police detective gets involved with a crime family that is heavily connected to the local political scene. With the 1980s cocaine wars as a backdrop, this film is immersed in the history of South Florida’s drug trade, paired with a tumultuous, violent love story.
Paramount made a preemptive deal on MURDER IN THE WHITE HOUSE by Jonathan W. Stokes. The president is murdered in the White House, and a Secret Service agent has one night to find the killer.
Zero Gravity Management is out with POLICE STATION by Kurt McLeod. An organized crime target running for his life intentionally gets arrested and thrown in jail at a police station where he thinks he’ll be safe for the night, but when the hitman pursuing him does the same, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
Escape Artists out with WE ARE THE PEOPLE by Aaron Nee & Adam Nee. A Pasadena family’s Fourth of July is disrupted by a cloud of ash that drives neighbors and relatives into a ranting, violent rage. Separated, struggling to survive, the family members ultimately reunite and manage to uncover the solution that restores everyone to sanity.
Set up with Cold Iron Pictures & The Film Arcade with Julian Higgins directing. GOD’S COUNTRY follows a college professor living at the edge of a national forest who confronts two hunters trespassing, triggering a battle of wills with dangerous ramifications.
In order to help pay off a friend’s debt, a daredevil free solo rock climber agrees to participate in a heist that requires him to embark on the most dangerous climb of his life.
A group of black teenagers find themselves lured into a church where a white police officer accused of a racially motivated murder has been taken hostage.
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.
New spec ESCAPADE by Briggs Watkins & Wes Watkins is out from Schemers Entertainment.
Logline: A business professional’s rare night on the town turns into a deadly fight for survival when she’s abducted by a man posing as a rideshare driver, taking her for a wild ride through a crime-filled scape of silent, rusting factories, and broken dreams.
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.