Recent script sales update #3
Want to know what Hollywood has been buying in the last week or so? Below are recent script sales since April 25, 2008. Info on sales price and loglines are included as available.
The Transitional Guy
Romantic Comedy
A writer becomes known as the perfect ‘transitional guy’ for women just leaving relationships.
The Debt – remake
Thriller
Mossad agents learn that a Nazi war criminal is still alive and pursue him across Europe.
Q – based on a novel
Thriller
The U.S. government goes into lockdown when an epidemic breaks out.
The Art of Making Money – based on magazine article
Drama
A counterfeiter prints up over $10 million in fake bills.
Dumped spec sale
Comedy
Two friends experience a difficult breakup.
Sales Price: Low-six figures
Resurrection – based on comic book series
Thriller
A group of survivors try to take back control of the planet after an apocalyptic invasion.
Extract
Comedy
A flower extract plant owner deals with workplace issues and a stream of bad luck.
Arena – spec sale
Action, Sci-Fi
Modern day soldiers are suddenly transported from battle to a terrain-shifting landscape where they must fight the best warriors from different eras and histories.
Untitled by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer Project
Comedy
The Girlfriend Experience
Drama, Indie
Wealthy men pay for a woman who will play the role of a perfect girlfriend.
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
Drama
Based on two memoirs about drug addiction.
Untitled by Joel Surnow and Michael Loceff
Thriller
Spy thriller.
The Great Gilly Hopkins – based on book
Family
An unruly 11-year-old girl is bounces between foster families before ending with the Trotters.
Dusty Springfield Biography
Biography
Biography of singer Dusty Springfield.
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X – based on a book
Action, Adventure
A teen battles alien outlaws who threaten life on Earth and seeks to learn more about himself.
The Hungry Ghosts
Drama, Indie
Divorcees try to keep their troubled son off the streets.
Brigadier Gerard
Comedy
Based on a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle.
In the Loop
Satire
An unofficial adaption of the BBC series ‘The Thick of It.’
An Invisible Sign of My Own
Drama
A child turns to math for salvation after her father becomes ill. Based on a book.
Dan Mintner: Badass for Hire – spec sale
Comedy, Spoof
Action spoof about the baddest dude in the world.
Sales Price: $500,000 against $1 million
Executive VP, David M. Murch’s Adventures in the Land of Zametherea – spec sale
Comedy, Fantasy
A boy is committed after talking about his adventures in another land. As an adult, he gets the call to return to the magical land and has to get help from his estranged son to save the land.
Sales Price: $850,000 against $1.35 million
Ninja Assassin
Action
A man is raised in an orphanage that is as a ninja training camp.
Clock Tower – based on a video game
Horror
A woman uncovers a terrible supernatural truth from her past.
Previous script sales updates:
Recent script sales through 4/25
Recent script sales this week
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