Between June 1st and June 30th, we tracked 23 new feature specs hitting the market, with 6 having some type of attachment. However, one spec made waves that hit the market some time ago, bringing our total success up to 7 (more on that spec later). That is a 43.75% increase in specs from last month. Not only that, but this is the highest number of specs in a single month all year.
Cross Creek Pictures
Cross Creek Pictures picked up DRUDGE by Cody Brotter. Oddball internet reporter Matt Drudge broke the Lewinsky Scandal and nearly took down a presidency…
The true story of a high-ranking CIA officer who was caught selling secrets to the Russians. He then embarrassed the U.S. government when he did it again, this time from behind prison bars. What the imprisoned officer did was train his son in the ways of spycraft so he could continue to spy for Russia and even ferret out the mole that ratted out his father in the first place.
A brand new — and appropriately timely — spec is hitting the market this week from scribe Patrick McConville. The political thriller Inauguration Day has already captured the attention of several producers and is moving into major territories.
When a malicious cyber attack against U.S. Space Command forces the President-Elect and the outgoing President into the Situation Room hours before the Inauguration ceremony, the rival Presidents and their National Security teams work with and against each other to determine who is responsible for the attack and how to respond before it’s too late.
During the Baku oil rush, Emanuel Nobel begins a romance with a ballerina while attempting to emerge from the shadow of his family of inventors.
Sci-fi adventure novel Unearthed has landed at Cross Creek Pictures with an eye for Doug Liman to develop and director. Authors Aime Kaufman and Meagan Spooner are fans of Liman leading them so sell the rights ahead of the book’s 2017 publication.
Set in deep space, Jules Addison and Amelia Radcliffe, join forces in a tomb-raiding race on a newly discovered planet to unravel the secrets of an ancient, long-extinct civilization – only to uncover a revelation that could spell the end of the human race.
Centers on Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his indispensable muse and fiercest competitor. Desperate to define herself through her own art, the film explores the question: Can love exist between creative equals? Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Zelda Fitzgerald was dubbed was hailed as the “first American Flapper.”
The spec Inner City from Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy is nearing a deal with Sony Pictures and Cross Creek Pictures. The new project, which Gilroy will write and direct, already has Denzel Washington attached to star.
When his business partner, and frontman for their firm, has a sudden heart attack, a hard-nosed liberal lawyer starts to uncover a web of unsettling things their crusading firm has been involved in. As the trail of lies goes deeper, his existential crisis turns into extreme action.
Story is based on embattled medical company Theranos and its 32 year-old founder Elizabeth Holmes.
The spec market is heating up yet again as the buzz around P.J. McIlvaine’s The Man On Lincoln’s Nose begins to build. The script, centered on the man who sculpted Mt. Rushmore, has made its way into the hands of some big name producers heading into the weekend…
Logline: Gutzon Borglum, the iconic, controversial, visionary sculptor/artist whose passion and perseverance resulted in the creation of one of America’s most beloved and enduring landmarks – Mt. Rushmore – while battling an indifferent public, recalcitrant politicians and the Great Depression.
Project based on the video game which lets gamers play with professional athletes, who are morphed into kids, to participate in games played in the yard.
Fifty years after his death, a woman sets out to learn about her largely absent father, who researched manic depression and suffered from depression himself.
The Australian actor has signed on for Mel Gibson’s WWII drama about the first conscientious objector.
Logline: Memoir of Robert Wittman, an FBI agent that took charge of many great art theft cases, helping to locate paintings by Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet.
Logline: Pitched as “The French Connection” meets “American Gangster,” the true story of the cops that stole drug money from the French heroine bust in the 1970’s.
Logline: Set in 1962, story revolves around an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.
Logline: Follows a man who left his Kansas home as a boy when his sister died under bizarre circumstances, only to return twenty years later when another girl from his hometown goes missing.
Logline: The true story of what happened to all of the heroin confiscated in the famed “French Connection” case. Ironically enough, it was stolen by dirty cops and sold back to the mafia.
Lolgine: Story follows a young couple as they move into Eel Marsh House 40 years after the original events where, after being seized by the government during World War II, The Woman in Black reawakens.
Logline: Set in an alternate version of 1880s Seattle, where the city has been walled in and a toxic gas has turned many of its remaining residents into “Rotters,†aka zombies. The story centers on a young widow who hunts for her teen son in the Seattle underworld, while dealing with airship pirates, a criminal overlord and heavily armed refugees.
Logline: Follows the story of man who fakes his own death to escape his old self and meets a woman who is also in the process of trying to escape her old life.
Logline: Story centers on a group of people as they struggle to survive in the aftermath of the February 27, 2010 Chilean earthquake that hit 8.8 on the Richter scale, created a tsunami and claimed the lives of almost 500 people.
Logline: Story centers on a loving father who buys a used clown costume to dress up in after the clown-for-hire cancels on the 6-year-olds birthday. However, once the party ends, the father discovers the costume won’t come off, and even worse, that it is slowly transforming him into a blood-thirsty monster, ready to kill anyone who tries to take the costume off of him.
Logline: A communications director for a rising politician becomes victim to backstabbing and deception on the campaign trail.
Logline: True story of three expeditions that were hit by ferocious blizzards on a climb to the top of Mt. Everest.
Logline: Story centers on a girl from the valley who falls in love with a punk from the city.
