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- Tiny Dancer Available No Manager No Agent Drama 2024 Justin Bellow & Shanika Denise MooreSurviving a tortuous childhood in foster care, a young woman battles with injury, loss, and love to become the most profound aerial dancer.Market: Mon, 25 Nov 2024
Producer: Shanika Denise Moore
Director: Shanika Denise Moore
ProductionSistah Soul Productions - Three Hitmen and a Baby Set Up Action Comedy 2024 Dave Matalon & Matt AltmanPic’s logline is being kept under wraps, though its title clearly riffs on the classic 1987 comedy Three Men and a Baby, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson, about three bachelors whose lives change forever when a baby suddenly appears on their doorstep.Market: Fri, 01 Nov 2024Sold: Fri, 01 Nov 2024
Producer: Kelly McCormick, David Leitch
Agent (Paradigm (Matalon))
Manager (Gotham Group (Matalon)) , (Parallax Talent Management (Altman))
Production87North
StudioLionsgate - Love of Your Life Set Up Drama 2024 Julia CoxThis romantic drama follows Maya, a smart, wry nurse, who is swept up in an immersive love, one that sets her life on a trajectory she never would have imagined.Market: Thu, 31 Oct 2024Sold: Thu, 31 Oct 2024
Producer: Ryan Gosling, Jessie Henderson
AgentAdam Perry (CAA)
StudioAmazon MGM
Per Deadline, one of the biggest spec script deals in recent memory, in the $2 million range. In total, six studios made a play for the spec, including Warner Bros, Miramax, Lionsgate, Apple, and Paramount/Skydance, with Amazon ultimately winning out. - Blackbirds Available No Agent Action Thriller 2024 John GaryHoneymooners Anna and Danny struggle with work/life balance — difficult bosses, constant crises, brutal deadlines – made worse because the bosses are rival heads of the CIA and MI6, the crises are agency moles and assassins, and the deadlines are the destruction of everything they care about, including each other.Market: Wed, 16 Oct 2024
ManagerChris Cowles (Alldayeveryday) - The Exec Available No Agent Rom-Com 2024 Eric PodellIn a not-too-distant future, where Hollywood relies on a sophisticated AI program to write all of its biggest blockbusters, a studio executive is dispatched to Silicon Valley to figure out why the program is unable (or unwilling?) to finish its latest tentpole. After being partnered with a quirky coder who helped create the software, The Exec begins to find himself falling in love with her… and back in love with the very thing that drew him to the film business in the first place.Market: Mon, 07 Oct 2024
ManagerJeff Portnoy (Bellevue Productions) - The Mailman Available No Agent Action Thriller 2024 Colin McLaughlinA solitary mailman is forced back into his past life as a member of a covert fraternity of elite operatives after a woman on his route is kidnapped.Market: Mon, 07 Oct 2024
ManagerAllen Eckhouse (Logical Talent Management) - Outdueled Set Up Action Family 2024 F. Scott Frazier & Jimmy LowereeHigh concept, potential franchise launcher, logline is being kept under wraps. Contemporary action adventure with a strong male and female lead role, and an ensemble family group.Market: Wed, 02 Oct 2024Sold: Wed, 02 Oct 2024
Producer: Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Tony Shaw, Jonathan Shukat, David Bloomfield
Agent (CAA)
ManagerChris Cowles (Alldayeveryday)
StudioAmazon MGM (Per DL, unusually heated and high-priced battle for a spec script with no attachments. Deal calls for a wide theatrical release, and a fast track to production.)
ProductionEscape Artists
- The Man Who Came From The River Unrepped Available Action Sci-Fi Thriller Scouted 75.9 Kieran O'Dea and Brennan O'Dea1 day agoA black man travels back in time, from 1973 to 1862, to search for his 12-year-old son and must rely on an injured white Confederate soldier he saves to get him from Virginia to D.C.
- Port Royal Unrepped Available Drama Pilot 73.2 Jay Fjestad2 months agoIn 1665, the bustling Jamaican seaside city of Port Royal is officially under British rule but still besieged by past political and social tensions. The British governor enlists a reluctant young former military man, now working as a pirate, to lead a privately funded militia to take on a mysterious group of Spanish rebels still living in the mountains.
- Kengir Unrepped Available Drama Scouted 75.7 Billy Festorazzi5 months agoPrisoners at a Soviet concentration camp in 1954 Kazakhstan band together to overthrow their captors. Among them is a prisoner who is torn between his belief in the rebellion and his desire to escape to freedom with his lover.
- Fuzzbox Unrepped Available Drama Scouted 74.7 Damian Hall5 months agoTwo marginalized, low-income women strike up a friendship on the streets of 1980s Portland, forming a transgressive punk rock band. As they chase success, the personal traumas of their pasts and the rampant sexism around them threaten to destroy the bond they've built.
- Dorothy Unrepped Available Comedy Horror Scouted 72.1 Edward Hicklin5 months agoWhen a local corrupt real-estate developer tries to force an elderly man out of his house in order to regentrify and put up condos by sending his goons to beat and potentially kill the elderly man, he and his dead wife fight back.
- The Man Who Came From The River Unrepped Available Action Sci-Fi Thriller Scouted 75.9 Kieran O'Dea and Brennan O'DeaA black man travels back in time, from 1973 to 1862, to search for his 12-year-old son and must rely on an injured white Confederate soldier he saves to get him from Virginia to D.C.
- Kengir Unrepped Available Drama Scouted 75.7 Billy FestorazziPrisoners at a Soviet concentration camp in 1954 Kazakhstan band together to overthrow their captors. Among them is a prisoner who is torn between his belief in the rebellion and his desire to escape to freedom with his lover.
- Fuzzbox Unrepped Available Drama Scouted 74.7 Damian HallTwo marginalized, low-income women strike up a friendship on the streets of 1980s Portland, forming a transgressive punk rock band. As they chase success, the personal traumas of their pasts and the rampant sexism around them threaten to destroy the bond they've built.
- Dorothy Unrepped Available Comedy Horror Scouted 72.1 Edward HicklinWhen a local corrupt real-estate developer tries to force an elderly man out of his house in order to regentrify and put up condos by sending his goons to beat and potentially kill the elderly man, he and his dead wife fight back.
- The Unraveling Unrepped Available Thriller Scouted 70.1 Melvin M. MooreAfter the death of her journalist sister, a lawyer dealing with PTSD nightmares and an alcohol addiction finds that she was looking into some cold cases and begins to suspect that her sister was killed to hide a dark secret connecting the murders.
- Regime Change Unrepped Available Action Comedy Scouted 75 Jesse AxelrodTwo childhood friends and diehard basketball fans, one a locker room attendant and the other a disgraced CIA agent, are disheartened to learn that the New York Knicks’ clueless billionaire owner aims to move the team to Tampa. In an effort to sabotage the sale, they start digging for compromising materials against the man, soon discovering evidence that he might, in fact, be a foreign spy.
- Tipping Point Unrepped Available Drama Scouted 72.2 Alan ReidAfter meeting and being in a relationship with an environmental activist, a grieving widower working for an oil company begins questioning his role in preserving Earth for future generations. He makes plans to try and prove that not enough is being done to get renewable energy up and running.
- Stronger, Harder, Faster, Longer Unrepped Available Action Drama Scouted 70.5 Stephan VanwoezikSeduced by a troubled exotic dancer and the allure of a lucrative black market, a Spec Ops Bomb Tech risks his military career smuggling meth onto the island of Guam.
- Don Janus Unrepped Available Comedy Drama Scouted 71.8 Emil GabrielA struggling screenwriter, desperate to have a breakthrough, takes on the identity of his friend's dead, agoraphobic neighbor. This piques the interest of literary agents and industry folks, and soon the writer grows famous and successful under this false persona.
- Cuckoo, Cuckoo Unrepped Available Thriller Drama Scouted 71.1 Terry LynamAt a remote lake house, a powerful financial investor has an employee help him expose his younger wife’s cheating, leading to a messy battle of wits and betrayals between the couple and the employee.
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