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    • Guys with No Friends Set Up Comedy 2025 Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont
      When four socially awkward, middle-aged men are reluctantly pushed into a ‘man date’ by their fed-up wives, their evening spirals into a series of unexpected and chaotic misadventures across the city. This wild night leaves them not only bruised and bewildered, but also unexpectedly bonded, forging an unlikely friendship that forever changes their mundane lives.
      Market: Fri, 30 May 2025Sold: Fri, 30 May 2025
      Producer: Tory Tunnell, Joby Harold, Matt Schwartz
      Manager (Entertainment 360)
      StudioParamount Pictures (Seven-figure deal, per Variety)
      ProductionSafehouse Pictures
    • Supermax Set Up Action Thriller 2025 David Weil & David J. Rosen
      Two FBI agents investigate a murder that’s taken place in the world’s most secure prison in a propulsive and twist-laden action thriller.
      Market: Thu, 29 May 2025Sold: Thu, 29 May 2025
      Producer: Alex Heineman, Andrew Rona
      Agent (CAA (Weil, Rosen))
      Manager (Anonymous Content (Rosen))
      ProductionThe Picture Company
      StudioMiramax (Miramax won an auction in a six-against seven figure deal, per DL)
    • Early Action Set Up No Manager Comedy 2025 Sophie de Bruijn
      Two parents who go to extreme lengths to get their son into his dream college – even if it means manufacturing a traumatic experience for him to write about in his admissions essay.
      Market: Fri, 16 May 2025Sold: Fri, 16 May 2025
      Producer: Kevin Walsh, Liz Lippman, Patrick McNamara
      Agent (Anonymous Content)
      StudioApple
      ProductionThe Walsh Company
    • Last to Live No Agent Horror 2025 Alex Webb
      When six influencers perform a stunt that inadvertently kills the daughter of a cartel boss, he forces them to undertake deadly versions of their own YouTube challenges.
      Market: Mon, 28 Apr 2025
      ManagerLuke Scrase (Golden Gate Management)
    • Fight Set Up Action Thriller 2025 Nathaniel Halpern
      Plot details are being kept under wraps.
      Market: Wed, 23 Apr 2025Sold: Wed, 23 Apr 2025
      Producer: David Leitch, Kelly McCormick, John Schoenfelder, Russell Ackerman
      Director: David Leitch
      Agent (CAA)
      Manager (Untitled Entertainment)
      StudioUniversal Pictures
      Production87North
    • Untitled Morgan Lehmann Teen Comedy Set Up Comedy 2025 Morgan Lehmann
      Delaney Pitts is a nerdy teenage virgin who has a secret online life as an erotic fan fiction author.
      Market: Tue, 08 Apr 2025Sold: Tue, 08 Apr 2025
      Producer: Emma Stone, Dave McCary, Ali Herting, Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page
      Agent (CAA)
      Manager (Untitled Entertainment)
      ProductionLey Line Entertainment, Fruit Tree
      StudioA24
    • Renegotiate Set Up Action Thriller 2025 Mark Townend
      A troubled FBI crisis negotiator finds himself stuck in a time loop, re-living the events of a bombing and struggling to stop it before time runs out.
      Market: Mon, 07 Apr 2025Sold: Fri, 11 Apr 2025
      Producer: Ric Roman Waugh, Brendon Boyea, Brian Kavanagh Jones, Fred Berger
      Agent (Paradigm)
      Manager (Bellevue Productions)
      ProductionCineMachine, Range
      StudioLionsgate (Per DL, Townend’s deal is remarkable for a writer with no produced credits, particularly given that the script was taken out without any talent attachments. Sources described the outcome as a three-way bidding war that resulted in a mid-six-figure guaranteed fee against a low-seven-figure purchase/bonus. )
    Recent Coverage
    • Ø Unrepped Available Sci-Fi Thriller Scouted Zachary Colt Messner6 days ago
      In a dystopian world that has lost gravity and breathable air, a teenager ventures to discover what happened to her mother, which could prove to be the key to stopping the impending doom of an ocean crashing into a local lake, which is her camp’s only source of oxygen.
    • Deportados Unrepped Available Drama Scouted 73.4 Seth Schlegel6 days ago
      A midwestern man moves to Miami and falls in love with an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, though she faces increasing threats from authorities.
    • Heianzan Unrepped Available Drama Scouted 72.6 Phil Tan2 months ago
      After World War II, an aspiring fashion designer struggles to find her independence after she becomes betrothed to a man she does not love but must marry in order to gain access to her inheritance.
    • Feral Mountains Unrepped Available Horror Thriller Scouted 73.1 Terry Podnar2 months ago
      A man struggling with crippling anxiety moves to a peaceful mountain home with his wife and stepson, seeking a fresh start. But when an experimental compound explodes nearby, it unleashes a horde of vengeful rhesus monkeys who attack their house, turning their retreat into a fight for survival.
    • Anthem Unrepped Available Drama Scouted 70.3 Jose Manuel3 months ago
      A curious young man in a dystopian society discovers electricity and crafts a way to use it to help usher his people, including a woman he’s forbiddingly falling in love with, into their own free society.
    Recent Scouted
    • Ø Unrepped Available Sci-Fi Thriller Scouted Zachary Colt Messner
      In a dystopian world that has lost gravity and breathable air, a teenager ventures to discover what happened to her mother, which could prove to be the key to stopping the impending doom of an ocean crashing into a local lake, which is her camp’s only source of oxygen.
    • Deportados Unrepped Available Drama Scouted 73.4 Seth Schlegel
      A midwestern man moves to Miami and falls in love with an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, though she faces increasing threats from authorities.
    • Heianzan Unrepped Available Drama Scouted 72.6 Phil Tan
      After World War II, an aspiring fashion designer struggles to find her independence after she becomes betrothed to a man she does not love but must marry in order to gain access to her inheritance.
    • Feral Mountains Unrepped Available Horror Thriller Scouted 73.1 Terry Podnar
      A man struggling with crippling anxiety moves to a peaceful mountain home with his wife and stepson, seeking a fresh start. But when an experimental compound explodes nearby, it unleashes a horde of vengeful rhesus monkeys who attack their house, turning their retreat into a fight for survival.
    • Anthem Unrepped Available Drama Scouted 70.3 Jose Manuel
      A curious young man in a dystopian society discovers electricity and crafts a way to use it to help usher his people, including a woman he’s forbiddingly falling in love with, into their own free society.
    • When Pigs Fly Unrepped Available Comedy Scouted 70.2 Terry Podnar
      When a freeloading slacker goes to work on a farm after the initiation of a new government program for the unemployed, he discovers that the farmers are trying to sabotage the workers’ success so that they can get back to receiving government subsidies instead of the new program and decides to expose the farmers’ devious plot.
    • Long Road to LA Unrepped Available Thriller Scouted 72.8 Emil Kraft
      Using only his Special Effects skills and what he learned in prison, a down-and-out Hollywood veteran exacts revenge against the mob boss who killed his fiancé and forced him to confess to a crime he didn't commit.
    • 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.

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