Preliminary 2009 spec script market overview — from Jason Scoggins

Jason Scoggins hits the big time today on Deadline Hollywood as Nikki passes along some of Jason’s initial analysis of spec script sales in 2009:

Here are some talking points for this weekend’s holiday parties. Jason Scoggins, a partner at the literary management and production company Protocol, has compiled what he readily admits is a “terribly unscientific” but which I find very interesting compilation of the 2009 feature film spec script market based on information culled from public and non-public sources. The numbers do not include pitch sales or the film rights to underlying material. He found that:

• 436 spec scripts came out in 2009, of which 72 sold (17%).

• 373 specs went out wide in 2009, of which 19 sold (5%). Of those 19, only 3 sold after April 30th, out of 178 attempts during the period (1.7%).

• As for spec sals by genre, comedies led with 32% of sales, thrillers 29%, action adventures 21%, while dramas and sci-fi/fantasies tied with 10%.

Go read the rest of Nikki’s post for more. I’ve been in discussions with Jason where I’ll be handling part of the 2009 spec script postmortem here on GITS. Look for that the first week of January 2010.

H/T to Josh James for the link

UPDATE: For a much more comprehensive analysis, go to Jason’s website Life on the Bubble here.

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