Between May 2022 and May 2021, there has been a 15.8% decrease in the material hitting the market. This gap has only continued to grow in past years. Dating at its peak, 2019 saw 33 specs out in a single month. Comparing that to now, that is nearly a 51.5% drop-off. While materials have decreased, the success rates have seen a bit more of a u-shape in the last few years.
WWE Studios
The Muraviov Company is out with A HOLIDAY TAIL by Larry Postel. A rescue dog comes back to life as a woman.
A bullied boy with aspirations of one day becoming a WWE Superstar gets to live out his dream when he discovers a magical wrestling mask granting him incredible abilities.
John Requa and Glenn Ficarra will direct from a script by Craig A. Williams, while Andrew Lazar will produce with WWE Studios president Michael Luisi and Adam Goldworm of Aperture Entertainment.
The Purge meets Bourne Identity. Four criminal soldiers, whose skills have been enhanced by horrifying experiments, escape to a small Wisconsin town and begin a campaign of terror. Only a former army medic, his tough high school sweetheart, and a weathered local sheriff stand in the way of these brutal killers who are on a mission to find the eccentric who holds the key to their survival.
Reformed gangster Ricky, his wife Julia, daughter Raya, and son Zak scrape a living together performing in tiny venues. When brother and sister get the chance to audition for the WWE, Raya and Zak learn that becoming an international superstar demands more than they ever dreamed possible.
Josh Gad and writing partner Ryan Dixon will pen the script for the biopic Gorgeous George, the infamous professional wrestler and entertainer. WWE Studios and Great Point Media are currently developing the project.
Will chronicle the life and career of ‘Gorgeous George’ Raymond Wagner, the professional wrestler and sports entertainer.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: A former bounty hunter is caught up in a tournament that pits convicts in a fight to the death that is broadcast to the public.
Logline: When crooked cops set out set out to recover incriminating evidence, a police officer finds himself trapped in his own station.
The companies renew their partnership with a six feature deal.
Logline: Follows a hard-nosed detective who deliberately commits a crime to be sent to prison where he seeks vengeance on a crook serving a life sentence for murdering a detective’s wife.
Logline: A thief by occupation forces himself into a prison and gets involved in a series of secret operations in order to try and save something that the prison warden stole from him.
Logline: An LAPD detective receives a ransom video of a missing child with a bomb strapped to him but the kidnapper is killed before the child’s location is disclosed. The detective has 6 hours and 42 minutes to locate the bomb before it detonates.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel and goes after a group of medical students who fight to survive.
Logline: A man tries to win a celebrity death pool by hiring a hit man to kill David Hasselhoff.
Logline: Two ex-cops who don’t play by the rules go after the criminals that killed their mentor.
Logline: A mother, in an attempt to connect with her wrestling-fan son, trains to become a wrestling diva.
Logline: A group of American tourists in Ireland discover that something terrifying lurks in the seemingly idyllic village they’re visiting.
Logline: Pitched in the vein of “The Usual Suspects.†An unorthodox interrogator goes mano-a-mano with the prime suspect in a mysterious ticking time bomb situation.
Logline: After a documentary film crew go missing in the Bermuda Triangle, only their recovered film footage holds the clues to their fate.
Logline: A man suffering from dementia and his daughters are trapped in a cabin during a blizzard.
Logline: A teenage girl is abducted and thrown inside the trunk of a car, but manages to call a 911 call center, leading to one employee’s personal crusade to save her.
Logline: Strapped for cash, but promised a sizable inheritance two years down the line, three brothers decide to collect fugitives for reward money. However, when the fugitive they were originally after is killed, they turn their eye to a kidnapped American billionaire, who’s reward money promises even more riches to the brothers.
Logline: Five survivors try to survive in a cannibal infested wasteland as supplies and ammunition dwindle.
Logline: A timid New Orleans assistant district attorney joins forces with the cop he recently failed to prosecute to find his father’s beloved Studebaker, leading them to become a target of the local mob.
Logline: Story centers on Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman by day and bounty hunter by night.
