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.
Tracey Nyberg
HBOMax picked up BLACK CHOKE by Doug Simon. Described as a neo-noir bank robbery gone wrong.
A mysterious, supernatural figure with unnaturally long arms is involved with the disappearance of children.
Follows a former clandestine operative, now the best private security consultant in the world, who is framed for a horrendous crime and must join forces with the protégée sent to kill him in order to survive.
Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton are reteaming for the first time in twenty years in Divanation, a comedy-feature for Netflix. The trio previously starred in The First Wives Club.
Centers on two desperate brothers who attempt a robbery in order to pay for their dying mother’s health care. The job goes south and during their escape, they steal an ambulance — only to discover that it’s occupied by a dying heart patient.
The story follows a junior year college student, Allison Gallagher, who studies abroad in England, where she falls in love with her young British professor Jamie Davenport. Their relationship becomes complicated when she finds out that he has leukemia.
Logline: Inspired by a true story, an unlikely bond forms when a cab driver takes an elderly woman on one last cab ride, visiting places that hold cherished memories for her.
Logline: Based on a true story about an American pianist who in 1958, at the age of 23, won the first International Tchaikovsky competition held in Moscow at the height of the Cold War.
Logline: In an alternate world, the champions of the 12 bloodlines that make up humanity must battle to the death in order to determine which bloodline will survivor.
Logline: A broken-hearted man adopts a pregnant dog to cope. As the dog’s pregnancy nears, he brings her to a local shelter for help where he falls in love with a woman he meets there.
Logline: A high school senior must secretly live in the back of a school bus when her mother’s boyfriend kicks them out.
Logline: Story follows two intertwining love stories. The first story focuses on a 90-year old man stuck in his car after a major crash on an isolated road who sees visions of his life love, who died earlier. The other story follows a young art history major and a handsome bull rider who fall in love despite coming from completely different backgrounds.
Logline: When their airplane crash lands on a deserted island, a 32-year old teacher and her pupil develop a strong relationship that becomes tested years later when they’re rescued.
Logline: An American college student falls for a young poetry professor at Oxford who is keeping a secret.
Logline: Follows the story of Laurel, a high school sophomore, who sprouts wings and discovers that she was born a fairy. When ill-intentioned developers offer to buy her human family’s land, which contains the portal to the fairy kingdom, Laurel must race to protect the fairies.
Logline: Story centers on a college professor and game theorist who finds himself caught up in the middle of a large-scale global incident.
Logline: Story follows a young woman who is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of unexpected events draw her into two reluctant relationships, both of which begin to remind her of a dark secret from her past.
Logline: When a kid is locked in a police station, he resorts to stealing evidence in order to escape a band of crooked cops.
Logline: A town’s sheriff and madame team up to stop a crusading television personality from shutting down the local whorehouse.
Logline: A mentally challenged adult man undergoes an experimental surgery to improve his intelligence.
Logline: When a young girl discovers that her mother is remarrying, she makes a wish for her parents to get back together and causes Manhattan, where her father lives, to break away and float across the Atlantic ocean towards her home in England.
Logline: Based on the true story of Dewey, a kitten who changed the lives of townsfolk when he wandered into a library and became its mascot.
