Scoggins Report - September 2013 Spec Market Roundup

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The Scoggins Report

by Jason Scoggins & Landon Rohwedder

October 7, 2013

September 2013

Spec Market Roundup

The word of the day is: Two.

Three different buyers bought twospec scripts each last month (ElectricEntertainment, big Fox and Thunder Road), and twoagencies sold twoeach (CAA

and Gersh). Elsewhere, WME didnt sell a spec in August or September, the first timethe agency notched zeroes twomonths running since August/September 2010. Oh, andthere have been twospec sales so far in October as well.

Cute? Yes. Meaningful? Maybe not, but at minimum its nice to see a healthy number ofsales overall last month, not to mention the spec market ramping up in general. Ten newscripts hit the market last week, the highest weekly number in months.

Septembers raw numbers are below, followed by the usual weekly breakdowns and thedetails of each sale. Enjoy.

Year-Over-Year Breakdown

2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

New Specs 23 22 25 34 40

Specs Sold1 9 9 7 6 4

Percent Sold2 39% 27% 12% 15% 10%

Genres Sold

3 Action

2 Comedy2 Sci-fi2 Thriller

3 Action/Adventure

1 Comedy1 Sci-fi

1 Thriller

2 Action/

Adventure1 Drama2 Thriller

1 Action/Adventure

1 Comedy1 Fantasy1 Sci-fi

1 Thriller

1 Action/Adventure

1 Drama1 Sci-fi

4 Thriller

! 1 Total sales in September! 2 Sales percentage of scripts that came out and sold in September

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Genre Breakdown

Genre Total Sold % Sold

Action/Adventure 5 3 60%Comedy 6 2 33%

Drama 0 0

Horror 1 0

Sci-fi 7 2 29%

Thriller 4 2 50%

The above percentages reflect just those that came out and sold in September.

Weekly Activity Breakdown

Week of September 2: 1 new spec hit the tracking boards and has not yet sold 5 additional spec sales were announced:

Come As You Are (9/3) Into the Fire (9/4) Matthew 21 (9/5) Sicario (9/5) Time Square (9/3)

Week of September 9: 5 new specs hit the tracking boards, none of which have yet sold 1 additional spec sales were announced:

Hyperbaric (9/12)

Week of September 16: 4 new specs hit the boards, none of which have yet sold 2 additional spec sales were announced:

Critical Hour (9/16) No Good Deed (9/16)

Week of September 23: 4 new specs hit the tracking boards, none of which have yet sold 1 additional spec sale was announced:

! The Ambassadors (9/27)



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Spec Sales (alphabetical by title)

Project titles in the report are now linked to the corresponding Spec Scout page,

so you can click to see which of the below weve covered and scored there.

COME AS YOU AREWriter: Erik Linthorst (High School)Reps: UnreppedBuyer: Radar PicturesGenre: ComedyAttachments: Hans Canosa is attached to direct and will produce with Barret Stuart,John Baca and Radars Ted Field.Notes: Remake of the 2011 Belgian film Hasta La Vista!

Logline: Chronicles an outrageous pilgrimage undertaken by three young men on aquest to lose their virginity: Scotty, a quadriplegic wanna-be-rapper; Matt, a paraplegicformer surfer; and Neil, a blind older (and wiser) guy. With the help of no-nonsensenurse/driver Sam, they secretly embark on a road trip to El Cielo, a Mexican brothel thatcaters to their kind.

CRITICAL HOURWriter: Eric TiptonReps: Resolution (Dennis Kim) and Haven Entertainment (Jesse Hara, Rachel Miller,Dan Vantresca)Buyer: Electric EntertainmentGenre: ActionAttachments: Electrics Dean Devlin is attached to direct and will produce with Electricpartners Marc Roskin and Rachel Olschan.Logline: A wounded hitman and two paramedics go on the run from a drug cartel.

HYPERBARICWriter: Dominic Morgan & Matt HarveyReps: APA (David Saunders, Steve Fisher) and Energy Entertainment (Brooklyn

Weaver)Buyer: Voltage PicturesGenre: ThrillerAttachments: Voltages Nic Chartier and Craig Flores will produce with ShannonGaulding and Brooklyn Weaver. Rock Shaink will executive produce.Logline: A thriller in the tone of Training Day and Das Boot.



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INTO THE FIREWriters: Matt SavelloniReps: Gersh (Devra Lieb, Bob Hohman) and Kersey Management (Andrew Kersey)

Buyer: The ExchangeGenre: Action thrillerAttachments: Intrigue EntertainmentsTariq Jalil and Lucas Carter will produce.Logline: In the vein of Falling Down.

MATTHEW 21Writer: Kurt Wimmer (Total Recall)Reps: CAA (Spencer Baumgarten, Brian Kend)Buyer: Thunder RoadGenre: Sci-fi action

Attachments: Wimmer is attached to direct. Thunder Roads Basil Iwanyk will producewith QEDs Bill Block.Logline: Revolves around the journey of the machine to become human.

NO GOOD DEEDWriter: Brandon Boyce (Apt Pupil)Reps: ICM (Doug MacLaren) and Kaplan/Perrone (Alex Lerner)Buyers: Electric EntertainmentGenre: Thriller

Attachments: Electrics Marc Roskin will direct and produce with partners Dean Devlinand Rachel Olschan.Logline: A pair of young valets who moonlight as burglars find themselves way out oftheir depth when they target the wrong house and stumble across a woman being heldcaptive.

SICARIOWriter: Taylor Sheridan (2012 Black Lists Comancheria)Reps: Gersh (Debra Lieb, Bob Hohman, Bayard Maybank) and Elevate Management(Jenny M. Wood, Alex Cole)

Buyer: Thunder RoadGenre: ActionAttachments: Thunder Roads Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee will produce.Logline: Kept under wraps.



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THE AMBASSADORSWriter: Tripper ClancyReps: UTA (Jon Huddle, Emerson Davis) and Benderspink (Jake Wagner)

Buyer: FoxGenre: ComedyNotes: Dany Boon (Welcome to the Sticks) is attached to direct and will produce withInvention Films Nicky Weinstock and DYD 26 EntertainmentsDean Nichols andYael Boon.Logline: Ensemble road trip comedy that starts at Heathrow Airport and spans Europe.An international group bonds over the quest to help an American get home in time for alife-changing event.

TIME SQUAREWriter: Dan Mazeau (Wrath of the Titans)Reps: CAA (Frank Jung, Dan Kopple) and Circle of Confusion (David Alpert, AshleyBerns)Buyer: FoxGenre: Sci-fi thrillerAttachments: Shawn Levy is attached to direct and will produce through his 21 Lapswith Kerner EntertainmentsJordan Kerner.Notes: Production executives are Kira Goldberg for Fox, Billy Rosenberg for 21 Lapsand Ben Haber for Kerner.Logline: Kept under wraps.

About The Scoggins Report:The Scoggins Report is a terribly unscientific analysis of the feature film developmentbusiness based on information assembled from a variety of public and non-publicsources. The numbers in the reports are by no means official statistics. Caveat emptor.

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