This is a little outside the scope of the IOTG blog, but I'm such an LOTR/Hobbit fanboy I can't resist. The below is a video set visit with Peter Jackson as he preps to start shooting THE HOBBIT. Enjoy.
New spec script: CITIES OF REFUGE, by Brandon Willer
April 13, 2011
Brandon Willer's screenplay CITIES OF REFUGE is out from Jake Weiner at Benderspink.
Click through the above links to www.itsonthegrid.com.
New spec script: ONE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Stacey Attanasio-Gonsalves and Michael Hawley
April 13, 2011
Caren Bohrman at The Bohrman Agency is out with a family holiday screenplay ONE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Stacey Attanaasio-Gonsalves and Michael Hawley.
Click through the above links to www.itsonthegrid.com.
New spec script: THE ZONE, by Bryan Croes
April 7, 2011
Harley Copen and Sophy Holodnik at ICM and Ryan Cunningham and Chris Cook at Madhouse, took out Bryan Croes' action thriller THE ZONE.
Click through the above links to www.itsonthegrid.com.
Russell Crowe in talks for THE BOYS
March 28, 2011
Russell Crowe has been in discussions with director Adam McKay regarding a role in the comic book adaptation THE BOYS, which Columbia Pictures has in development along with Original Film and Kickstart.
According to previous public statements by McKay, Simon Pegg would play Hughie and - in this possible incarnation of the film - co-star opposite Crowe's Billy Butcher.
McKay is currently working on a draft of the script.
SCAVENGERS Set at Fox
March 10, 2011
Chris Baldi's script SCAVENGERS (fka BROTHERHOOD OF SCAVENGERS) was set up at Fox for Thor Freudenthal to direct. CAA's Bill Zotti reps Baldi along with ROAR's Mike Goldberg and Josh Adler. Goldberg and Adler will exec produce. Shawn Levy's 21 Laps will produce with Alexandra Milchan's Emjag Productions.
New spec script: BREAKING UP WITH THE BERTNERS by Fax Bahr and Adam Small
February 28, 2011
CAA's Bill Zotti is out with a screenplay, BREAKING UP WITH THE BERTNERS, by Fax Bahr and Adam Small.
Click through the above links to www.itsonthegrid.com.
Dave McNary, Pamela McClintock (Variety): Paramount buys fashion pitch from Emily Meyer and Amy Andelson
December 7, 2010
We'll have this on the grid shortly if it's not there already…
Paramount has its eye on world of fashion, snapping up an untitled pitch from Emily Meyer and Amy Andelson and setting it up with Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot of Offspring Entertainment.
Logline's being kept under wraps other than that it revolves around a Cinderella-type character in the fashion world. Matt Smith of Offspring will exec produce.
via www.variety.com
Film Rights: Rubik’s Cube
November 9, 2010
Click through the above links to itsonthegrid.com or click here for the tracking-board.com post.
Spec Market Scorecard - October 2010
October 22, 2010
Just published the most recent Spec Market Scorecard to my mailing list. The intro is below — if you want the document itself, sign up for the Scoggins Report using the form to the right. You'll get a link to the Scorecard as soon as you confirm your sign up.
Have a great weekend.
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We’re getting to that point in the year where the spec market numbers start to speak for themselves, so I’ll keep this week’s intro short. The biggest change since the last edition of [the] Scorecard (mid-September) is how aggressive Warner Bros. has been: The studio single-handedly revived the market with 6 spec purchases in as many weeks (including one this week that missed the cutoff for [the] report).
Warners and Relativity (which also bought a spec this week after the cutoff) are the only studios to have exceeded their 2009 spec purchase numbers. The rest remain woefully behind, most notably Sony and Universal, each of which has bought four fewer specs in 2010 than 2009. There’s still a month left in the Fall selling season, and rumor has it that Sony finally has development dollars to spend (after over a year of being out of money), so I’m hoping for a big finish for 2010 even though the overall year-end numbers will be significantly lower than 2009. Watch this space…
