Not all specs sell opening weekend…
TRANSIT, first reported here back on April 24th has sold to production outfit Thousand Words.  Written by Michael Gilvary, project is an action thriller about a family chased through the desert by criminals who have stashed stolen money in the family’s car.  ICM’s Harley Copen pushed it till it sold… congrats.
Epic spoof, [...]

ADRENALINE
Representation: Charlie Ferraro (UTA)
Written by: Robert Lynn & David Alford
Lynn attached to direct.  Car thriller.  A father struggles to foil a terrorist who has taken his son hostage and is using the man’s car monitoring system to get him to commit acts of terrorism.

We are hearing that director Zak Penn will now be repped by CAA.  He was repped at Endeavor, who helped raise financing for his quirky poker film, THE GRAND.   

KEPT MEN
Representation: Susan Solomon (Endeavor)
Written by: Amy Snow.
Amy is a winner of the prestigious Disney/ABC Writing Fellowship.

FRAT BOY out from Chris Till at Paradigm has sold to Warner Independent Pictures.  First reported here, story concerns a man raised by fraternity brothers who is reunited with his Martha Stewart-esque mother and unleashed upon the world.  Scott Rothman scripted.  It was pitched as ELF meets OLD SCHOOL.

RUMSPRINGA BREAK
Representation: Ryan Saul (MTA)
Written by: Alan Aymie, David Tull, & Kyle Bornheimer
KINGPIN meets AMERICAN PIE.  Three college kids go in search of an alternative Spring Break in Florida and find themselves in Lancaster, PA in the middle of an Amish Rumspringa… they somehow manage to find drugs, women, and a whole lot of trouble.

On the great Tuesday spec hunt, we’ve finally got one…
THE YOUNG EXPLORERS AND THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TREASURE HUNT
Representation: Bethany Stirdivant
Written by: Aaron Pfeffer & Paul Feinstein
Title says it all.  Saturn Films attached to produce.  Into buyers today.

Not much will be going out this week or next with the 4th of July just around the corner.  The official list has most agencies and studios closing for a half day on July 3rd and a full day July 4th, but things promise to be pretty quiet this week and next.   I’ve been [...]

EXEMPT, a spec out from Benderspink, first reported here last week, has sold to Overture with Bryan Furst shepherding the project.  Benderspink will produce the project from young USC grad Ian Shorr, who was repped by BS in the deal.  Story follows a teen who gets in big trouble when he starts hanging out with [...]

We don’t know if this is real or a parody of a parody, but found it sufficiently interesting to put up… Making the rounds today is a supposed e-mail correspondence between Tom Strickler, head of Endeavor lit & Richard Saperstein, President of Production of Dimension Films in regards to a recent spec tracked all the way [...]

MEN AT ARMS
Representation: David Kopple (The Gersh Agency)
Written by: J.D. Zeik
From the writer who adapted the hip novel A COOL BREEZE ON THE UNDERGROUND.

It looks like Paramount has taken the sought after DUBAI package off the table.  Lorenzo di Bonaventura is attached to produce the project which was being pitched as DIE HARD WITH A SPREAD SHEET.  Eric Bana attached to star and executive produce and play an economist who is used by foreign operatives to help bring down [...]