Between December 1st and December 31st, we tracked a total of 10 new feature specs on the market. This marks the lowest volume of specs out in a single month, and if that surprises you, you probably thought “Puss in Boots” would beat “Avatar” at the box office.
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Between November 1st and November 30th, we tracked a total of 17 new feature specs on the market. Though it’s not the lowest volume of content in a single month this year, it marks the lowest since August 2022.
StudioCanal & The Picture Company picked up HONEY TRAPPED by April Wolfe. A cabal of assassins arrive in Las Vegas and fight their way up every floor of a busy….
XYZ Films is out with RUN RABBIT RUN by Hannah Kent. A woman is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter.
Verve is out with BASIC WITCHES by Tim Cairo, Jake Gibson, & Lauren Lillie. Three women starting a book club out of spite inadvertently acquire the sacred texts of an ancient witch coven and unlock powers beyond their wildest dreams.
A New England state trooper with hearing loss is tasked with investigating a gang leader’s prison break out.
A stowaway is discovered on a spaceship travelling to Mars.
A man goes with his fiancée to right his wrongs at his ex-girlfriend’s horse ranch, only to find sinister happenings.
Directed by Fred Grivois from a screenplay by Matthew Ian Cirulnick, XYZ Films and Sentinel Pictures hoping to start production this fall.
After a couple visit a new housing development to find a home, they find themselves trapped in within the maze of houses raising an alien child.
Centers around a mysterious man who travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister.
A motel owner with a dark past unknowingly befriends a young hitman responsible for a string of violent acts in a small town.
In desperation, a former boxer works as a drug courier and winds up in jail where his enemies force him to commit acts of violence.
Anthony Byrne’s thriller In Darkness has added Emily Ratajkowski to the cast. She joins Natalie Dormer, Ed Skrein, and Stacy Martin in a script Byrne co-wrote with Dormer.
Nicolas Cage will enter the thrilling realm of horror in the upcoming Mom and Dad. Hollywood’s National Treasure will star as a parent who turns wildly violent against his children after a mass hysteria hits.
A teenage girl and her little brother must survive 24 hours as their parents turn violently wild against them due to an unknown mass hysteria.
Safe Neighborhood has a few more additions as production gets underway in Sydney, with Virginia Madsen and Patrick Warburton joining the cast. Chris Peckover is directing from a script he wrote with Zack Kahn.
Set in a quiet American suburb on a snowy evening on the lead up to Christmas, Ashley, the regular babysitter for Deandra and Robert Lerner, has to defend their 12-year-old son from strangers breaking into the house – only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.
Amell and Taylor have signed on to star in Orphan Black writer Tony Elliott’s post-apocalyptic thriller, which will be released by Netflix as part of the streaming service’s global indie film strategy of working directly with independent filmmakers.
Natalie Dormer is proving herself to be a force to be reckoned with, taking on the lead role in a new thriller she co-wrote with director Anthony Byrne. The Game of Thrones actress will play a blind musician who overhears a murder in the apartment above her.
A blind musician hears a murder in the apartment above her and finds herself pulled into the dark underbelly of London until we realize she has been following her own path of revenge for some time.
Expendables 3 helmer Patrick Hughes is out as director of The Raid: Redemption remake. In addition, we’re hearing that the project is no longer at Screen Gems, and that XYZ Films is the sole producer on the project.
The former pro-wrestler is racking up the roles this year after his star-making turn in 2014’s Guardians of The Galaxy. Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott are directing this script that Nick Damici and Graham Reznik adapted from an original story by the directors
Logline: Barbara Thorson, a young girl battling monsters both real and imagined, faces her fears in this coming of age story.
Logline: Yann Kernan, orphaned at birth, possesses a unique biological gift – the power to accelerate or slow down the speed of his own metabolism.
Logline: A young woman emerges from a Brooklyn subway to find her neighborhood under attack and must cross five blocks of Bushwick in order to get home and be reunited with her grandmother.
Logline: A group of subversive tales fashioned around globally recognized celebrations including Christmas, Easter, Halloween and Mother’s Day.
When a wild child takes a new designer drug at a party, she unwittingly becomes the test subject for a fast-acting retroviral specifically developed to introduce foreign DNA into the human genome.
When a wild child takes a new designer drug at a party, she unwittingly becomes the test subject for a fast-acting retroviral specifically developed to introduce foreign DNA into the human genome.
Logline: Follows a disillusioned young man who arranges a bachelor party for his best friend at a locked-down location. But he has to fight for his life when it turns out that the groom is a werewolf.
