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    • Clean Break Set Up No Agent 2024 Ryan Brennan
      When a fiercely independent pool hustler finally meets her match in a fellow pool shark, their irresistible but destructive attraction to one another leads to deadly consequences that she can’t outrun.
      Market: Tue, 26 Nov 2024Sold: Tue, 26 Nov 2024
      Producer: Scott Free
      Manager (Untitled Entertainment)
      StudioSearchlight Pictures
      ProductionScott Free Productions
    • Tiny Dancer Available No Manager No Agent Drama 2024 Justin Bellow & Shanika Denise Moore
      Surviving 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
    • Alignment Set Up No Agent Thriller 2024 Natan Dotan
      Alignment is described as having the urgency of thrillers such as Margin Call and Contagion and takes place in a 36-hour period. It tells of a board member at a booming AI company who wrestles with corporate politics and warped incentives as he tries to prevent his colleagues’ willful ignorance from causing a global catastrophe.
      Market: Thu, 21 Nov 2024Sold: Thu, 21 Nov 2024
      Producer: Brad Weston
      Manager (Untitled Entertainment)
      Lawyer (Gang Tyre)
      StudioFifth Season (fka Endeavor) (Per THR, Fifth Season is buying the script for $1.25 million against $3 million if the movie gets made. It’s an unprecedented deal for an unknown writer in modern Hollywood.)
      ProductionMakeready
    • Megayacht Pirates Action Comedy 2024 Brenden Gallagher
      A high-end escort recruits a merry band of misfits to become pirates and rob the Mega Yachts of the rich, landing them in the crosshairs of a corrupt Russian oligarch.
      Market: Wed, 13 Nov 2024
      AgentLyra Tan (Gersh Agency)
      ManagerDallaslyn Lamb (Rain Management)
    • Cold Turkey No Agent Action Comedy 2024 Barry Battles & Nir Paniry
      When a government spy attends Thanksgiving dinner with his estranged family, a malicious terrorist group besieges his mother’s home, demanding he hand over a USB drive that could start the next world war. In order to protect his family and prevent the drive from falling into the wrong hands, the spy and his family must put aside their differences, air their grievances, and work together to survive the night.
      Market: Wed, 13 Nov 2024
      ManagerJeff Portnoy (Bellevue Productions)
    • Three Hitmen and a Baby Set Up Action Comedy 2024 Dave Matalon & Matt Altman
      Pic’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 Cox
      This 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.
    Recent Coverage
    • Rural Mountains Unrepped Available Sci-Fi Thriller Scouted 71.1 Terry Podnar2 weeks ago
      A husband struggling with anxiety moves to a secluded mountain house with his family in the hopes of improving his mental health. As the family adjusts to their new life, though, their home becomes a target for a mysterious and possibly malevolent threat.
    • The Man Who Came From The River Unrepped Available Action Sci-Fi Thriller Scouted 75.9 Kieran O'Dea and Brennan O'Dea1 month ago
      A 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 Fjestad3 months ago
      In 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 Festorazzi6 months ago
      Prisoners 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 Hall7 months ago
      Two 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.
    Recent Scouted
    • Rural Mountains Unrepped Available Sci-Fi Thriller Scouted 71.1 Terry Podnar
      A husband struggling with anxiety moves to a secluded mountain house with his family in the hopes of improving his mental health. As the family adjusts to their new life, though, their home becomes a target for a mysterious and possibly malevolent threat.
    • The Man Who Came From The River Unrepped Available Action Sci-Fi Thriller Scouted 75.9 Kieran O'Dea and Brennan O'Dea
      A 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 Festorazzi
      Prisoners 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 Hall
      Two 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 Hicklin
      When 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. Moore
      After 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 Axelrod
      Two 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 Reid
      After 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 Vanwoezik
      Seduced 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 Gabriel
      A 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.

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