Deals (Film)

Here is a list of various studio and financier deals as of January 2024.

Here is a list of various studio and financier deals as of May 2022.

July has proven to be the roller coaster of emotions we all thought it would be.

Launch Pad alum Caitlin McCarthy’s award-winning screenplay WONDER DRUG is taking off with producer Stephen Nemeth and director Tom Gilroy.

Despite the mounting uncertainty as we head into July, the spec market looks to be catching its stride and continues to rise from previous months.

Between May 1st and May 31st, we tracked a total of 23 specs scripts. That is an increase of 8.7% from April but doesn’t top February’s year-high with 24 specs out.

Check out the latest pod deals across all of the major studios and networks.

Between April 1st and April 30th, we tracked a total of 21 specs. That’s a 27% increase from our March report, yet doesn’t top February’s numbers which had 24 specs out.

March 2020 came in like a lion and left us with only 16 specs tracked: only 7 with attachments, 5 with a production company, and 1 with a studio. Take a breath, and let’s dive in.

The television business is in a state of flux as the global COVID19 pandemic continues to claim lives and impact the economy worldwide. This is an update on the TV networks and studios in light of the current industry slowdown.

Read about the 24 specs tracked in February 2020: 7 with a studio or production company attached; 12 with producers; 7 with directors; & 5 with talent attached.

In what’s looking to be the biggest spec sale of the year, DON’T WORRY DARLING heads into multiple studios and streaming services with Olivia Wilde attached to direct and Katie Silberman rewriting.

The project will be based on the short story “We Have Always Lived on Mars” by Cecil Castellucci, which follows a woman who discovers she can breathe the air on Mars, upending her world and that of her fellow colonists.

A series based on 28 Days Later seems like a no-brainer. After all, The Walking Dead is one of the biggest shows on TV, but it can’t go on forever. Wouldn’t it be smart to have a show ready to fill that void once it signs off?

Garland’s wife, Paloma Baeza, will direct the film, which follows an American family who move into an old Victorian house in London and begin to believe it might be haunted.

The Oscar-nominated actor will also produce the adaptation of Kevin Wignall’s upcoming novel To Die in Vienna under his production company Nine Stories.

Kroll will serve as an executive producer on Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut A Star is Born and Edward Norton’s directorial debut Motherless Brooklyn, as well as John Crowley’s adaptation of The Goldfinch.

Sandler will play a NYC cop who finally takes his wife (Aniston) on a long promised European trip. A chance meeting on the flight gets them invited to an intimate family gathering on the Super Yacht of elderly billionaire Malcolm Quince. When Quince is murdered, they become the prime suspects in a modern day whodunit.

Based on the excellent book by Josh Bazell that was adapted by Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the story follows a young ER doctor whose life is upended when a patient recognizes him from his past life as a mafia hitman.

The story follows a screenwriter who takes his wife and daughter to a remote house in the Alps so he can finish writing a sequel to his big hit movie. And then, as in The Shining, unexplained occurrences prompt the writer to begin going mad.

Gary Scott Thompson (The Fast and the Furious) penned the original spec, which has since been rewritten by Run All Night scribe Brad Inglesby. Storyscape Entertainment is producing with Pioneer Pictures.

Sherryl Clark will produce the horror thriller, which follows the sole survivor of a plane crash, who washes ashore on a mysterious island where she faces her worst fears.

The studio has picked up the spec from Madison Turner and set Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell of Safehouse Pictures to produce alongside Jordan’s Outlier Society.

Richard Wright’s celebrated novel emphasizes the systemic inevitability behind Bigger’s crimes, and the protagonist’s lawyer argues that his client cannot escape his destiny, as he’s a product of a society that has told him since birth who, exactly, he is supposed to be.

Based on the bestselling novel by Stephanie Perkins, the Nebraska-set story follows a young girl whose high school friends begin to die in a series of gruesome murders.

The Good Time star plays a wealthy pioneer who sets out across the American frontier to marry the love of his life (Mia Wasikowska), but that logline hardly does the film justice, and since the film kind of defies description, just go in expecting a clever deconstruction of traditional gender roles.

The story follows a career con artist who finds his next mark in a wealthy widow whom he meets online. She takes him into her home and as she opens her life to him, he finds himself starting to care for her… but not all is what it seems in this cat-and-mouse game.

The distributor hopes to release the new Panos (Beyond the Black Rainbow) Cosmatos film, co-starring Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roache, sometime over the summer.

Based on the career of female bodyguard Jacquie Davis, the film was produced under West End Films’ WeLove brand, which looks to develop and promote films by and for women.

Bay will turn his attention to Robopocalypse after he directs 6 Underground this summer. Written by Deadpool scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, the secretive Skydance project is described as a cross between Suicide Squad and Bay’s own The Rock.