It might be a little early to pronounce a script “most expensive spec of the year,” given that it’s barely April. And yet it’s hard to believe we’ll see more than one screenplay sell for $3 million this year. That’s right - James Vanderbilt’s WHITE HOUSE DOWN sold for $3 million last week.
It would have been enough for us if the number of sales simply maintained last year’s steady pace. [As some of us will be saying at our Passover Seders later this week: Dayenu.] But now, not only have 2012′s spec sales numbers surged back ahead of 2011′s, buyers are willing to pony up megabucks for them.
We’ll have year-to-date tallies next week in our Pitch Sales Scorecard. In the meantime, check out the list of March sales in the below Spec Market Roundup for March, complete with loglines. And here’s a link to download the PDF, too:
March 2012 Spec Market Roundup
Enjoy.
