The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan September 24, 2012

September 2012 Pitch Sales Roundup

This is another one of those weeks where we have to publish our Pitch Sales Roundup a few days earlier than wed like. Its probably sixes, though -- since Yom Kippur falls mid-week this week, the smart money says any pending pitch sale announcements will be held until next week anyway. The raw pitch sale numbers through September 22 are below, along with the usual weekly breakdowns and project details. Enjoy.

Pitch Sales Genres Sold

September 2012 4 2 Comedy 1 Drama 1 Sci-Fi

September 2011 5 1 Action/Adventure 2 Comedy 2 Drama

Weekly Activity Breakdown

Week of August 27 (run-up to Labor Day): No pitch sales were announced Week of September 3 (Labor Day, TIFF): 1 pitch sale was announced (Untitled Pally/Ozeri Comedy) Week of September 10 (TIFF): 2 pitch sales were announced (Abandonment Issues and Metro 2033) Week of September 17 (Rosh Hashana): 1 pitch sale was announced (Spy Guys)

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Pitch Sales (alphabetical by title)

Abandonment Issues
Writers: Mara Brock Akil Reps: ICM (Andrea Nelson-Meigs, Chris Von Goetz) Buyer: Paramount Genre: Drama Attachments: Akil will produce through Akil Productions with partner Salim Akil, who will also direct. Logline: Under wraps

Metro 2033
Writer: F. Scott Frazier Reps: WME (Daniel Cohan, Mike Esola) and H2F (Chris Fenton) Buyer: MGM Genre: Sci- action Attachments: Mark Johnson will produce through his Gran Via along with Eugene Efuni and Marina Hall. Notes: Mark Ceryak will oversee for Gran Via. Based on the 2005 Russian sci- novel by Dmitri Glukhovsky. Logline: Set in 2033 after a nuclear holocaust devastates Moscow and survivors head underground. A young survivor is forced to go on a journey that will see him deal with mutants, soldiers of a Fourth Reich and political factions of various metro stations in order to reach the surface.

Untitled Pally/Ozeri Comedy

Writers: Adam Pally & Gil Ozeri Reps: CAA (Dianne McGunigle, Susie Fox), 3 Arts (Greg Walter, Josh Lieberman) and Mosaic (Molly Mandel) Buyer: Disney Genre: Comedy Attachments: Gary Sanchezs Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, Chris Henchy and Kevin Messick will produce. Notes: Kristin Burr will oversee for Disney. Logline: Under wraps.

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Spy Guys
Writer: Adam Sztykiel Reps: UTA (Allan Haldeman, Charlie Ferraro, Tim Phillips) and Kaplan/Perrone (Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone) Buyer: New Line Genre: Action comedy Attachments: Jorma Taccone (MacGruber) will direct; John Rickard will produce through his Rickard Pictures. Logline: While attending a friends wedding in Europe, a CIA operative is framed and becomes an enemy of the state. Now on his own, hes forced to reveal his true identity to and enlist the help of his Average Joe buddies to clear his name.

About The Scoggins Report: The Scoggins Report, is a terribly unscientic analysis of the feature lm development business based on information assembled from a variety of public and non-public sources. The numbers in the reports are by no means ofcial statistics. Caveat emptor. Moln lab.

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