1st Quarter 2012: Spec Script Sales

2012 Spec Script Sales: 1st Quarter

1. Title: The Incredible True Story of Jessica & Drew Who Accidentally Boned on the Way to the Wedding Logline: The story centers on two people who, while on the way to a destination wedding and with other partners on their minds, hook up and fall in love. Writers: Erin Simon & Kimberly Karp Genre: Comedy Agency: WME Studio: Fox 2000 Date: 1/7/2012

2. Title: Run All Night Logline: In a single night, an aging mob hitman is forced to take on his former boss. The guy has to protect his son and family, and winds up on the run from the mob and the authorities with his estranged son. Writer: Brad Ingelsby Genre: Action Agency: WME Studio: Warner Bros. Date: 1/10/2012 Price: Mid-six / preemptive purchase.

3. Title: Coffee Town Logline: Will, played by [Glenn] Howerton [It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia], and his two thirty-something friends band together when their freeloading existence is threatened. Writer: Brad Copeland Genre: Comedy Agency: UTA Prod Co: College Humor Date: 1/12/2012.

4. Title: Flashback Logline: After becoming the first human to break the speed of light, a NASA pilot is struck with amnesia, and in the search for the memories of who he was, he discovers he has the ability to travel back in time. Writer: Will Honley Genre: Science Fiction Agency: Verve Management: Mindframe Entertainment Prod Co: Endgame Entertainment Date: 1/13/2012

5. Title: Everybody Wants Head Logline: A man with extreme OCD inadvertently meets a shameless sex addict in group therapy. After a series of unfortunate events, the two wind up on the run from the cops and the mob carrying a severed head in a bowling ball bag. Writers: Peter Hoare and Christopher Lilli Genre: Comedy Management: Kailey Marsh Management Prod Co: Sentinel Pictures / Cinetic Media Date: 1/13/2012 Note: First-time writer. Note: First movie by CollegeHumor.com.

6. Title: The Counselor Logline: The protagonist in The Counselor is a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip a toe in to the drug business without getting sucked down. It is a bad decision and he tries his best to survive it and get out of a desperate situation. Writer: Cormac McCarthy Genre: Drama Agency: ICM Producers: Nick Wechsler, and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz Date: 1/17/2012. Note: First spec script and sale from Pulitzer Prize-winning author McCarthy.

7. Title: Bermuda Logline: Set in the Bermuda Triangle, the story focuses on a documentary film crew that goes missing. The only trace is the discovery of their film footage chronicling their final desperate days. Writers: Bobby Lee Darby and Nathan Brookes Genre: Horror Agency: Original Artists Management Hung Entertainment Prod Co: WWE Studios Date: 1/19/2012 Note: Found footage project

8. Title: Thirteen Logline: When six friends decided to purposely become demonically possessed as part of an extreme experiment, they soon discover they’re in for much more than they bargained for. Writer: Ben Magid Genre: Thriller Agency: WME Management: Energy Entertainment Studio: Universal Date: 1/21/2012 Note: Found footage.

9. Title: Untitled Goffigan Project Logline: N/A Writer: L.D. Goffigan Genre: Thriller Agency: CAA Management: Jewerl Ross Prod Co: Lava Bear Date: 1/31/2012 Note: First-timer. Originally entitled “Intrusion.”

10. Title: NSFW Logline: NSFW centers on a young paralegal who is trapped in the office with a killer on a mission to destroy files for another corporation. Writers: Adam Mason and Simon Boyes Genre: Thriller Agency: WME Management: Brucks Entertainment Studio: Universal Date: 2/1/12 Note: Micro-budget, Joe Johnston attached to direct, writers are British.

11. Title: Gaslight Logline: Jack the Ripper, secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum, is called upon to help Scotland yard solve a series if murders that share the iconic death brand: dual puncture wounds to the neck. Writer: Ian Fried Genre: Thriller Agency: WME Management: Prolific Entertainment Studio: Hammer Date: 2/8/2012

12: Title: Saving Mr. Banks Logline: Saga of how Walt Disney persuaded Australian author P.L. Travers to sell him the rights to make a film out of Mary Poppins. That courtship took 14 years. Writer: Kelly Marcel Genre: Drama Agency: WME Studio: Walt Disney Company Date: 2/9/11. Note: 2011 Black List script.

13: Title: Picture Book Logline: Centers on the mysterious happenings in the mansion of a famous children’s author. The story is reminiscent of 2001’s “The Others,” with a supernatural twist. Writer: Benjamin Magid Genre: Thriller Agency: WME Management: Energy Entertainment Prod Co: SkyRock Venture Date: 2/8/12 Note: Second spec script by Magid to sell in a month.

14. Title: The Waiting Logline: Described as Rear Window meets Paranormal Activity, mysterious events occur when two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor. Writers: Mark Bianculli and Jeff Richard Genre: Supernatural Thriller Agency: WME Management: Anonymous Content Studio: Warner Bros. Date: 2/13/12 Note: Preemptive purchase. Writers are first-timers.

15. Title: Invertigo Logline: N/A Writers: Ehren Kruger & Bradley Camp Genre: N/A Legal: Jason Sloane Studio: Sony Date: 2/22/12

16. Title: Blood Mountain Logline: Spec is described as a gritty survival thriller with action elements. Writer: Jonathan Stokes Genre: Thriller Agency: UTA Prod Co: Derby Street Films Date: 2/28/12 Notes: Six figures. Script made the 2011 Black List.

17. Title: Bloodshot Logline: The protagonist is Angelo Mortalli, a ruthless killer for the mob who is set up by the family and framed for a murder. He instead goes into Witness Protection, but is betrayed by an FBI agent guarding him, kidnapped and forcibly subjected to an experimental program in which his body is injected with microscopic computers called nanites. They erase his brain and rebuild it and his body to be a weapon with superhuman strength and healing powers. Bloodshot escapes his makers, and though he isn’t his old self, he tries to figure out who he was. Things get bad for everybody who betrayed him. Writer: Jeff Wadlow Genre: Action Agency: WME Studio: Sony Date: 3/1/12. Notes: The WME-repped Wadlow got this through his own entrepreneurial spunk. He loved the comic, and made an agreement with Valiant and Original Film to write it on spec. They showed it to Sony, where [Neal] Moritz has his deal. The studio bought it. $450k-$1M.

18. Title: Tape 4 Logline: Incorporates Lovecraftian mythology into a modern setting. Writer: Jeremy Slater Genre: Horror Agency: UTA Management: Kaplan/Perrone Studio: Warner Bros. Date: 3/7/12 Notes: Part of WB’s push into low-budget genre films.

19. Title: Action №1 Logline: The story revolves around a group of nerds who attempt to steal Nicholas Cage’s copy of Action Comics №1, the landmark 1938 comic that introduced the world to the Man of Steel. Writers: Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon Genre: Action Comedy Agency: CAA Management: Principato-Young Studio: Lionsgate Date: 3/9/12

20. Title: Lockdown At Franklin High Logline: Pic is about a straight edge teen girl and her rebellious, socially outcast brother as they try to escape from their prison-like high school which has been locked down and plunged into anarchy and pandemonium due to the attacks of a ravenous, supernatural monster. Writers: Greg Bishop and Joe Ballarini Genre: Horror Thriller Agency: Paradigm Management: Apostle [Ballarini], Andy Cohen [Bishop], Studio: Sony Date: 3/9/12. Note: Preemptive purchase.

21. Title: Off The Grid Logline: A professional “fixer” named Ghost who helps white-collar criminals change their identities and disappear saves a seemingly innocent woman from a violent loan shark. Ghost finds his own life in danger after a private security firm puts a price on his head. He goes “underground” in an attempt to discover who his mystery assailant is and gets caught in a tangled web of betrayal, revenge and murder. Writers: Christopher Cantwell and Christopher Rogers Genre: Action Thriller Agency: Verve Management: Management 360 Studio: Indian Paintbrush Date: 3/12/12. Note: Former spec “The Knoll” a Black List script.

22. Title: Olympus Has Fallen Logline: A big action movie set in the White House. Writers: Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt Genre: Action Agency: Devra Lieb and Dan Vantresca Management: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment Studio: Millennium Date: 3/12/12

23. Title: The Good Samaritan Logline: Centers on an up-and-coming assistant D.A. prosecuting a fatal hit-and-run case with inconclusive evidence. Writer: Peter Dowling Genre: Legal Drama Agency: APA Studio: Paradox Date: 3/13/12

24. Title: Swindle Logline: N/A Writers: Enzo Mileti & Scott Wilson Genre: Action Heist Agency: ICM Studio: Paramount Date: 3/15/12

25. Title: Lauren Pemberton Is No Longer In A Relationship Logline: A young professional’s life is turned upside down when he reads the new Facebook relationship status of his childhood tutor, who broke his heart as a teenager. He decides to try and win her back. Writers: Issac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger Genre: Comedy Agency: Verve Management: Aptaker [Management 360], Berger [Industry Entertainment] Studio: Millennium Date: 3/15/12

26. Title: Black River Logline: Follows a small-town girl who has been haunted by a dead girl’s spirit ever since her own near-fatal accident. When she goes off to college and her friends begin to die, she must uncover the dark secret of the dead girl’s fate. Writer: Ransom Reed Genre: Psychological Thriller Agency: Paradigm Management: Heroes and Villains Prod Co: Black Forest Film Group Date: 3/19/12

27. Title: Slayer Logline: Described as a modern-day story about a young doctor whose estranged father dies and he finds out the old man was a dragon and creature slayer. The doctor must become a slayer too. Writer: Martin Helgeland Genre: Action Fantasy Agency: WME Prod Co: Legendary Pictures Date: 3/20/12

28. Title: Huck Logline: The project is described as a re-imagining in the vein of Snow White and the Huntsman, focusing on Sawyer and Finn as adults. There also are supernatural elements to the script. Period action drama about the continuing adventures of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher. In this latest version of Mark Twain’s legendary characters, however, the trio are now hot and in their late 20s.Writer: Andy Burg Genre: Adventure Drama Supernatural Agency: ICM Management: Bruck Entertainment Studio: Paramount Date: 3/20/12

29. Title: Mojave Logline: N/A Writer: William Monahan Genre: Crime Thriller Agency: WME Prod Co: Allied International Date: 3/22/12

30. Title: Manhattan Undying Logline: A beautiful vampire commissions an artist to paint her so she can see herself for the first time. She is unaware that the artist is dying and desperately working to create his last masterpiece that will give him artistic immortality. Writer: Matt Deller Genre: Vampire Drama Management: Empirical Management Prod Cos: Sobini Films / Payam Films Date: 3/26/12. Note: First-timer [Assistant Principal at SoCal HS].

31. Title: N/A Logline: Female buddy cop action project. Writer: Katie Dippold Genre: Action Comedy Agency: WME Management: 3 Arts Prod Co: Chernin Entertainment Date: 3/28/12

32. Title: Garden District Logline: A low-budget horror thriller about a trio of self-declared mythbusters who get in over their heads while investigating what they think is just another hoax. Writers: Tony Jaswinski & Luke Goltz Genre: Horror Thriller Management: Circle of Confusion Studio: Dimension Films Date: 3/29/12. Notes: Mid-six to seven figures.

33. Title: White House Down Logline: Described as “Die Hard” meets “Air Force One.” Writer: James Vanderbilt Genre: Action Agent: WME Management: UFUSE Management Studio: Sony Date: 3/29/12. Note: Bidding war between Sony and Paramount.

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