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- The Worst Man Set Up Action Comedy 2025 Matt Altman & Dave MatalonPlot details are under wraps.Market: Wed, 11 Jun 2025Sold: Wed, 11 Jun 2025
Producer: Kelly McCormick, David Leitch
Agent(Altman) (IAG) , (Matalon) (Paradigm)
Manager(Altman) (Parallax Talent Management) , (Matalon) (Gotham Group)
Production87North
StudioUniversal Pictures - Nitro Nights No Agent Action 2025 Scott LevyOn the run from authorities and haunted by a fractured past, a reclusive father and his rebellious teenage daughter survive off the grid by hustling in the underground drag racing scene—until a high-stakes race forces them to confront the very life they have been outrunning.Market: Tue, 10 Jun 2025
ManagerJosh Moses & Deborah Laurent (Universal Writers Management) - Starf*ckers Set Up Comedy 2025 Heather RegnierPlot details are being kept under wraps.Market: Tue, 03 Jun 2025Sold: Tue, 03 Jun 2025
Producer: Jonah Hill, Matt Dines, Alison Goodwin
Agent (UTA)
ProductionStrong Baby
StudioNetflix - Guys with No Friends Set Up Comedy 2025 Deborah Kaplan & Harry ElfontWhen 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. RosenTwo 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 BruijnTwo 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 WebbWhen 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)
- Ø Unrepped Available Sci-Fi Thriller Scouted Zachary Colt Messner3 weeks agoIn 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 Schlegel3 weeks agoA 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 agoAfter 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 agoA 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 Manuel4 months agoA 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.
- Ø Unrepped Available Sci-Fi Thriller Scouted Zachary Colt MessnerIn 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 SchlegelA 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 TanAfter 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 PodnarA 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 ManuelA 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 PodnarWhen 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 KraftUsing 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'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.
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