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The Scoggins Report! by Jason Scoggins & Landon Rohwedder! November 4, 2013!

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October 2013 ! Spec Market Roundup!

That odd sound you may have heard at the end of last week was a collective sigh of relief as the Spec Market nally posted some big, 2011/2012-style numbers. We tracked 37 new spec scripts, the highest number since October 2012, and 15 total sales, which is tied for the biggest month of 2013 (with February). Thats also the most in a single month since October 2011s monster number (which you can see below).!

! And have we mentioned that total spec sales for 2013 broke into triple digits?! ! Theres a lot to like in the following pages, but here are our favorite highlights:! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Four new buyers entered the market last month, including a couple of names weve been waiting to hear all year (Columbia and Legendary). Plus, one of the other more-or-less absent studio buyers, Paramount, picked up two.! UTA extended its rst place lead over 2nd place WME to seven; its 4 spec sales in October is the agencys best month since June 2012.! Brooklyn Weavers Energy continued its 2013 dominant hot streak, adding two additional specs sales for a total of 14 so far this year.!

Things are bound to slow down a bit in November, but we should still end up with good numbers: Since Thanksgiving falls quite late in the month this year, we should see spec market activity through the 19th. And weve already tracked two sales so far in November.! Octobers raw numbers are below, followed by the usual weekly breakdowns and the details of each sale.!

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New Specs Specs Sold1 Percent Sold2

Year-Over-Year Breakdown!
2013 37 15 41% 3 Action! 3 Comedy! 2 Drama! 1 Horror! 3 Sci-! 3 Thriller 2012 55 8 14% 2011 2010 2009 53 42 46 20 5 5 38% 12% 11% 2 Action/ Adventure! 1 Action/ 2 Action/ 5 Comedy! Adventure! 1 Comedy! Adventure! 5 Drama! 1 Comedy! 2 Sci-! 2 Comedy! 1 Horror! 2 Drama! 5 Thriller 1 Thriller 3 Sci-! 1 Thriller 4 Thriller

Genres Sold

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1 Total sales in October!

2 Sales percentage of scripts that came out and sold in October!

Genre Breakdown!
Genre Action/Adventure Comedy Drama Horror Sci- Thriller Total Sold % Sold 5 3 60% 11 3 27% 3 2 66% 2 1 50% 6 3 50% 9 3 33%

! The above percentages reect just those that came out and sold in October.! ! ! ! Weekly Activity Breakdown! !
Week of September 30:! 10 new specs hit the tracking boards, one of which has sold so far! Section 6 (10/14)! 1 additional spec sale was announced:! The Unsacred (10/3)!

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Week of October 7:! 5 new specs hit the tracking boards, none of which has yet sold! 1 additional spec sale was announced:! White Rush (10/9)! Week of October 14:! 4 new specs hit the boards, one of which has sold! Patient Zero fka Patient Z (10/28)! 3 additional spec sales were announced:! Reminiscence (10/14)! The Strategist (10/14)! Untitled Cantwell/Rogers/Kosinski Project (10/14)! Week of October 21:! 3 new specs hit the tracking boards, none of which have yet sold! 2 additional spec sales were announced:! Attach (10/22)! The Drop (10/23)!

Week of October 28 (Halloween):! 3 new specs hit the tracking boards, none of which have yet sold! 6 additional spec sales were announced:! Bad Romance (10/31)! Dont Hang Up (10/30)! Fetch (10/30)! Little Black Dress (10/31)! Sister-in-law (10/30)! Unleash the Mules (10/31)!

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Spec Sales (alphabetical by title)!

Project titles in the report are linked to the corresponding Spec Scout page, so you can click to see which of the below weve covered and scored there.!

ATTACH!
Writer: Chris Gorak (The Darkest Hour)! Reps: UTA (Jason Burns)! Buyer: Paramount! Genre: Sci-! Attachments: Gorak is attached to direct. Adam Schroeder (Chronicle) will produce.! Notes: The spec went out with a visual test by Gorak that sparked a bidding war.! Logline: TBA, but said to have a big visual concept in the vein of Chronicle.!

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BAD ROMANCE!
Writer: Jonathan Levine (50/50, Warm Bodies)! Reps: CAA (Craig Gering)! Buyer: MGM! Genre: Comedy (we presume)! Attachments: Levine is also attached to direct. Channing Tatum is circling to star and will produce with his Iron Horse partner Reid Carolin. ! Logline: On the DL.!

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DONT HANG UP!

Writer: Joe Johnson! Reps: Energy Entertainment (Brooklyn Weaver)! Buyer: Romaine Phillipe Equity! Genre: Thriller! Attachments: Alexis Wajsbrot & Damien Mace are set to direct. Romaine Phillipe will produce with Brooklyn Weaver and Altitudes Will Clarke. Altitude is handling foreign sales.! Logline: Contained thriller in the vein of Hard Candy.!

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FETCH!
Writer: Kristen Vincent & Tim Moran! Reps: WME (Melissa Myers) and Mosaic! Buyer: Paramount Insurge! Genre: Comedy! Attachments: Space Floors Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec will produce with partners Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner.! Notes: Alison Small will oversee for the studio.! Logline: An offbeat buddy comedy involving a uniquely talented dog and his owner.!

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LITTLE BLACK DRESS!

Writers: David Chase (The Sopranos)! Reps: UTA (Peter Benedek, Andrew Cannava)! Buyer: Paramount! Genre: Drama! Logline: A female war veteran returns from Afghanistan grappling with a disability. While working a potentially lethal investigation at a post-war job, she gets involved with a superstitious NYPD detective who helps bring her back from a personal precipice.!

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PATIENT ZERO!
Writer: Mike Le (Dark Summer)! Reps: APA (David Saunders) and Hung Entertainment Group (Jonathan Hung)! Buyer: Screen Gems! Genre: Sci- action! Attachments: Vincent Newman (Were The Millers) will produce.! Notes: Clint Culpepper and Scott Strauss will oversee for the studio. Project went out under the title Patient Z.! Logline: In a post-apocalyptic world, a man with the ability to speak the language of the undead interrogates zombies with the hopes of nding Patient Zero and a cure for his infected wife. In the vein of Warm Bodies and The Walking Dead.!

REMINISCENCE!
Writer: Lisa Joy! Reps: UTA (Larry Salz)! Buyers: Legendary! Genre: Sci- thriller! Notes: Price tag was a reported $1.75 million. Alex Hedlund and Jennifer Preston Bosari will oversee for Legendary.! Logline: Kept under wraps.!

SECTION 6!
Writer: Aaron Berg! Reps: Verve (Aaron Hart) and Caliber Media (Adam Simpson-Marshall)! Buyer: Universal! Genre: Historical action thriller! Attachments: Grey Matter Productions Lawrence Grey will produce with SimpsonMarshall and Marc Platt Productions Adam Siegel and Marc Platt.! Notes: Price tag was reportedly seven gures. Jeffrey Kirschenbaum will oversee for Universal.! Logline: Revolves around the origin of MI6, the British intelligence agency that was founded during World War I..!

SISTER-IN-LAW!
Writer: Sarah Heyward (Girls)! Reps: UTA (Larry Salz)! Buyer: Good Universe! Genre: Comedy! Attachments: Hello Giggles Zooey Deschanel, Rivka Rossi and Molly McAleer will produce.! Notes: Audrey Chon will oversee for Good Universe.! Logline: A woman meets her boyfriends family for the rst time and must nd a way to get along with her eccentric future sister-in-law.!

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THE DROP!
Writer: Jeremy Drysdale! Reps: Independent Talent Group (U.K.) (Laura Rourke) and Sentient (Chris Tufn)! Buyer: The Solution! Genre: Action thriller! Attachments: Skip Woods is attached to direct and will produce with The Solutions Myles Nestel. Tufn will also produce with Sentient colleague Renee Tab.! Logline: Kept under wraps.!

THE STRATEGIST!
Writer: Inon Shampanier! Reps: Original Artists (Chris Sablan, Jordan Bayer)! Buyer: Millennium! Genre: Thriller! Attachments: Shampanier will also direct. Milleniums Mark Gill will produce with Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson and John Thompson.! Logline: A chess master CIA recruit is brought in to mastermind the takedown of a dangerous dictator. The adversary is himself a brilliant man with impenetrable security who must be outmaneuvered at every turn.!

THE UNSACRED!
Writer: Amanda Gusack! Reps: Paradigm (David Boxerbaum) and Zero Gravity (Eric Williams)! Buyer: Screen Gems! Genre: Horror thriller! Attachments: Father/son team Peter and Alan Riche will produce their Riche Productions.! Notes: Scott Strauss is overseeing for Screen Gems.! Logline: Kept under wraps.!

UNLEASH THE MULES!

Writer: Chris Parker (Heaven is for Real)! Reps: Gersh (Bayard Maybank, Devra Lieb) and Circle of Confusion (Noah Rosen)! Buyer: Columbia! Genre: Drama! Attachment: Joe Roth will produce through his eponymous production company with son Zack Roth and Dennis Stratton.! Notes: Devon Franklin will oversee for the studio.! Logline: A skeptical coach helps a blind high school student win the state wrestling championship.!

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UNTITLED CANTWELL/ROGERS/KOSINSKI PROJECT!

Writer: Christopher Cantwell & Christopher Rogers (The Knoll, Halt & Catch Fire)! Reps: Verve (Aaron Hart, Bill Weinstein) and Management 360 (Darin Friedman, Chris Huvane)! Buyer: MRC! Genre: Action thriller! Attachments: Joe Kosinski (Oblivion) hatched the idea and is attached to direct. Dylan Clark will produce.! Logline: Kept under wraps.!

WHITE RUSH!
Writer: John Schramm! Reps: CAA (Matt Martin) and Energy Entertainment (Brooklyn Weaver)! Buyer: Thunder Road! Genre: Action thriller! Attachments: Thunder Roads Basil Iwanyk will produce.! Logline: Contained action thriller in the vein of Point Break.!

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