Recent script sales #30
Want to know what Hollywood has been buying in the last week or so? Below are some recent script sales. Info on sales price and loglines are included as available.
Sci-Fi
A group of aliens and humans with various abilities who are brought together to save Earth.
Buyer: Twentieth Century Fox Studios
Writer: Shane Salerno
Notes: This spec sale was for seven figures
The Outsider
Drama
Based on a book by Richard Wright - it takes a look at racism in America.
Buyer: GOOD Worldwide
Chasing Harry Winston
Drama
Based on a book - a woman vows to change her entire life for the better in the course of the next year.
Buyers: Universal Pictures, Mandalay Pictures
Writer: Gina Wendkos
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
Based on a live-action kids series from the 1970s.
Buyers: Universal Pictures, Mosaic Media Group
Writer: Dana Gould
Water for Elephants
Drama
Based on the best-selling book.
Buyer: Fox 2000
Writer: Richard LaGravenese
Notes: There was a bidding war for this project. It has been fast-tracked by Fox 2000.
Northline
Independent
Based on a book that centers on a woman who flees Las Vegas and a troubled life with her boyfriend for a new start in Reno and begins to seek comfort via imaginary conversations with Paul Newman.
Buyer: Sharp Independent
Writer: Courtney Hunt
How to Be Single
Romantic Comedy
Based on a book about modern dating and relationships.
Buyers: New Line Cinema, Flower Films, Inc., Nancy Juvonen, Drew Barrymore
Writers: Marc Silverstein, Abby Kohn
Untitled Steven Soderbergh Liberace Biopic
Biopic
A look at the life of Liberace.
Buyer: Warner Bros. Pictures
Notes: To star Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as his lover.
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