Susan Mears Literary is out with ARE YOU READY TO BE A SUPERSTAR? by Ruth Tunnicliffe. When a message arrives that promises her fame and fortune, it changes everything.
HBOMax picked up BLACK CHOKE by Doug Simon. Described as a neo-noir bank robbery gone wrong.
CAA is out with THE MOTOR CITY GIRLS by Matthew K. Firpo & Ryan Firpo. Five half-sisters must hone the unique power bestowed to each of them.
CAA is out with HI/LO by Eric Martin. Edie is the most influential casino host in Las Vegas and wields power with an iron fist.
Altogether Entertainment is out with BESTIE by Alex J. Mann. A teenage girl buys a mobile app which she thinks will help make her more popular.
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.
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.
Verve is out with KILLERS, INC. by Jayson Rothwell. A former soldier haunted by his brother’s death, is recruited to help assassinate the Russian politician who was responsible.
Jackson Pictures and Stampede Ventures have partnered for THE DEBRIEFING by Ken Nolan. A top CIA operative has to debrief a GRU computer tech seeking asylum.
Verve is out with THE ARENA by Jeremy Passmore & Andre Fabrizio. Random members of a small mountain town suddenly dress up in outrageous costumes.
Sugar23 is out with GLIMPSE by Richard Martin & Josh Calvert. A voyeur spies on a married woman and her family via their security cameras to pacify his impulses.
UTA is out with GO DARK by Spencer Marentette & Josh Marentette. Black-ops soldiers use an experimental technology to travel into the afterlife.
Eris Talent Agency is out with THE ENGINEER by Pamela Beach. A mercenary steals a valuable key from an African warlord.
Bellevue Productions is out with GAME, SET, MATCH by Peter Eskelsen. The lives of a varied group of people all intertwine in an escape mission.
Verve & Good Fear Content are out with THE PASS by Katelyn Crabb. Story details are being kept under wraps.
Ensemble Entertainment is out with CHOKEPOINT by Tamra Teig. A work-obsessed senator is taken hostage on a ship hijacked by high-tech pirates.
Ensemble Entertainment is out with THE DIPLOMAT’S WIFE by Mary A. Byron & Tamra Teig. A newly-wed PR executive comes to grips with the challenges of her bi-racial marriage.
Sculptor Media will finance & produce THE DELIVERED by Harrison Query. A U.S. Marshal risks everything to save his criminal brother.
3 Arts Entertainment is out with MY MASTERPIECE by Jason Hellerman. A hitwoman is hellbent on dismantling an unfair system within her industry.
Between May 1st and May 31st, we tracked a total of 19 feature specs out. We’ve seen a progressively steady decline of specs hitting the market since re-openings have started to rise. May marks the second lost number out, next to January. The more shocking number is that of the 19 feature specs out, only 2 have some type of attachment, with one additional spec from a past month selling in May.
Writ Large is out with THE COMPOUND by Gemma Crofts. An ex-marine single mother is forced to take a job half a world away in a survivalist compound.
WME and Cavalry Media are out with MINDSET by Matt Kic & Mike Sorce. Alcoholics discover they have the exact same identity and memories and go on the run together.
3 Arts Entertainment is out with STEAM by João Dall’Stella and Alessandro Pederzoli. An innocent young man is forced into a gay bathhouse to spice up the dying relationship with his possessive boyfriend.
Silver Lake Entertainment is out with BLUFF by Tyler Ruggeri. In a ploy to make extra cash, a card-trick prodigy follows up on an old offer to write a feature magazine article – on the art of cheating at cards.
Between April 1st and April 30th, we tracked a total of 22 feature specs out. While it’s a positive from last April, it’s continuing our steady decline of specs from the past couple of months. We’ve seen a 12% decrease in specs from March’s count. We’ve continued to decrease in specs since February, wherein in a traditional market, we’d see increases in April, a hot month for the material.
CAA is out with YOUNG LUST by Henry Michaels. Story details are under wraps.
Paradigm is out with FOUR ASSASSINS AND A FUNERAL by Ryan Hooper. The adoptive daughter of a legendary assassin returns home for his funeral.
The Muraviov Company is out with THIRTY BILLION DOLLAR WOMAN by Elizabeth Dean. After fleeing from Nazis in her homeland, Hedy Lamarr becomes the most beautiful woman in American film whose passion for inventing leads her to mastermind a new technology that changes our world forever.