Magnet Management

Between March 1 and March 31, 2025, we tracked a total of 3 Specs on the market, and a total of 50 Film Deals and 50 TV Deals literary related deals.

Magnet Management is out with IT’S COMING TO DESTROY US by Jud Cremata. In rural Wyoming, a rookie deputy’s life is turned upside down when she tries to cover up a fatal shooting in the woods where….

Magnet Management is out with THE EXECUTIONER by Jud Cremata. Awaiting trial, an imprisoned cop is granted bereavement leave to travel to Guatemala to bury his expat father but gets caught between….

Between March 1st and March 31st, 2024, we tracked a total of 30 new specs on the market. This was an increase from February mostly due to one management firm’s big push into the market. Of the 30 scripts we tracked, 3 were TV pilots and 3 were Animation projects. Comedy dominated the top genre spot once again with 16 projects associated with the genre. Drama came in a distant second place with 8 projects. Then the genres Fantasy, Horror and Thriller tied for third place.

Magnet Management is out with POSITRON+ by Jud Cremata. A delirious patient begins to question her family and all she’s been told while undergoing….

Paramount Pictures picked up BE MY EYES. A law student volunteers to receive anonymous video calls from blind people.

Two down-and-outers, each with an orphan complex, get wrapped up in a hot car ring involving criminals, bad cops, gangsters, and a missing Shelby Cobra that everyone and their mother seems to want.

A brilliant programmer must race to unravel the mystery of a stolen top-secret research project when she learns the missing technology can be used to manipulate future events.

Achilles must hunt down the legendary warriors known as Heracles, Theseus, and Jason. But if he is to have any hope of surviving this deadly odyssey, Achilles must first learn that true heroes are defined not by their strength of arms, but by their purity of heart.

In the middle of the night, a shy teen is pressured into helping her cousin’s friends scare the new neighbor girl, whom they know nothing about.

Two science students travel to a remote part of Iceland to test a large-scale magnetic theory. But what they encounter is something larger than themselves, with ramifications that might go beyond the scope of the experiment.

The Southern food critic, television host, and award-winning author Morgan Murphy has signed with Daniel Pancotto and Jon Kanak of Magnet Management in all areas of representation.

Australian writer-director Lisa Robertson has signed with Daniel Pancotto and Jon Kanak of Magnet Management. Most recently, she completed her short film Commerce, which has the potential to become a feature-length film, with a draft already written.

French filmmaker Pierre Teulières has signed with Mike Esola at UTA and Jon Kanak at Magnet Management after a competitive signing process reached its conclusion.

Logline: A man who works as a security officer for a major corporation is asked to do what appears to be a simple surveillance job for the head of the company, only to soon after be immersed in a dark web of murder and mayhem. “The Conversation” meets “Nightcrawler.”

The exciting new spec Hummingbird from John McClain has landed at Fundamental Films after heating up the film market and getting the attention of several major studios and production companies. Swedish directing team Marcus Kryler and Fredrik Akerstrom is attached to direct.

Logline: “Before God created Man he created a monster.” A geneticist is invited to Europe to help another roguish scientist to break the secret code in the Torah that may solve the mystery of how man was created only for it to give birth to the monster known as The Golem.

Logline: A high school girl must decide whether to help her best male friend who is terminally ill with assisted suicide even though it’s illegal. In the vein of Juno and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

Logline: After a woman’s promotion forces her to abandon the butterflies she’s nurtured at a natural science museum, her separation anxiety gradually manifests itself in sinister ways. “Black Swan” meets “The Fly.”

Centers on a man in a lonely spaceship orbiting Neptune as he fulfills his dream to rebuild his dead wife and their son as androids, but when the androids begin demanding a life of their own, his life is suddenly in danger and a battle of wits and strength ensues.

MTV is in the works with a contemporary drama series based on the H.G. Wells classic alien invasion novel. Teen Wolf series creator Jeff Davis will executive produce and staff writer Andrew Cochran is penning the pilot.

The hot spec Hummingbird from writer John McClain is hitting the market with production company Broken Road leading the way. The project already has Marcus Kryler and Frederick Akerstrom attached to direct and actor Shailene Woodley interested in starring.

Under wraps, but said to be an elevated action/sci-fi in the vein of Lucy.

After a woman thinks her amazing one night stand “ghosted” her, she does a little digging and finds out that he has actually become a Missing Person. Now in order to get another shot at the man of her dreams, she’ll have to solve the mystery herself.

In what we’re hearing was an extremely competitive situation, Magnet Management and Condé Nast have secured the rights to an article published in The New Yorker this week, “We Live in the Pop-Culture World That Lou Pearlman Created” by John Seabrook with plans to develop the story into a limited series.

Logline: After a woman thinks her amazing one night stand “ghosted” her, she does a little digging and finds out that he has actually become a Missing Person. Now in order to get another shot at the man of her dreams, she’ll have to solve the mystery herself.

Kept under wraps, but in the vein of ’71.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but in the vein of ’71.

UPDATED: Rising French filmmaker Fabien Dubois has signed with Ramses Ishak, Mike Sheresky and Mike Esola at UTA shortly after signing with manager Jon Kanak of Magnet Management in an extremely competitive situation.

Logline: An ex-Navy SEAL conducts off book missions while shielding his partner from her disapproving father – who just happens to be the Deputy Director of the CIA, and his boss. Homeland meets Romancing the Stone.