The Scoggins Report: 2012 Spec Market Scorecard – February 17, 2012

This week’s edition of The Scoggins Report is our first Spec Market Scorecard of 2012, with numbers from January 1 through February 17. As we started to do with last week’s Pitch Sales Scorecard, we’re now including combined spec and pitch sales tallies throughout, along with more detailed year-over-year comparisons than previously.

Rather than droning on and on about how WME keeps lapping the field, here are a few other tidbits worth noting in the below grids:

Enjoy the grids.

The below grid shows sales of scripts that originally came out this year. In addition to the below, 7 scripts have sold this year that originally went out prior to 2012. Here are the spec sales numbers through February 17 on their own...

...and here are combined total spec and pitch sales numbers for the same period.

Each cell in the below grid shows the number of specs in each genre that came out and/or sold that month, plus the number that sold that month that came out previously. The percentage column on the right is that genre’s percentage of total 2012 spec sales.

Sharp-eyed readers might notice we previously had Disney buying a spec in January. We’d incorrectly tagged the Untitled Max Landis Space Adventure as a spec (it was a pitch). Disney’s February purchase is Kelly Marcel’s 2011 Black List script Saving Mr. Banks.

Here are the combined pitch and spec purchase numbers for the studios that have bought at least one of each:

Each of the following production companies has been attached to at least one spec sale so far this year.

Each cell in the below grid shows the number of specs each agency took out and/or sold that month, plus the number it sold that month that it took out previously. The efficiency rating shows the percentage of scripts taken out this year that have sold -- it’ll be more meaningful as the year wears on.

Here are the combined spec and pitch sales numbers for the agencies that have sold at least one of each: 

The following 16 agents have been involved with at least one spec sale in 2012:

Four:

Two:

One:

Each cell in the below grid shows the number of specs each management company took out and/or sold that month, plus the number it sold that month that it took out previously. The efficiency rating shows the percentage of scripts taken out this year that have sold -- it’ll be more meaningful as the year wears on.

No management company has sold both a pitch and a spec yet this year.

The following managers have been attached to at least one spec sale:

Three:

One:

The Scoggins Report is a terribly unscientific analysis of the feature film development business based on information assembled from a variety of public and non-public sources. The numbers in the reports are by no means official statistics. Caveat emptor. Mol??n labé.

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