The Scoggins Report: Scorecard Through November 2011
The Scoggins Report is a compilation of spec sales and trends in the industry. Archive editions of The Scoggins Report can be found at The Business of Show Institute and on www.thewrap.com. Details on every person, project, and company covered by the Report can also be found at www.ItsontheGrid.com. The Report is reprinted at Scriptmag.com by permission of the authors.
2011 Spec Market Scorecard as of November 11
With the end of the fall selling season at hand and impressive year-over-year numbers to analyze, it’s incredibly tempting to do a year-end review based on this month’s Scorecard. We’re going to exercise a little self-discipline, though, and hold off until next month. For now we’ll limit ourselves to our favorite highlights:
- 2011’s total number of spec sales will almost certainly exceed 100. By our count, 90 scripts that came out this year have sold so far, plus another 9 that originally went out in previous years. Any way you slice it, this year’s spec market is up more than 50% over 2010.
- Universal is in the midst of a fourth quarter comeback: The studio’s 3 spec purchases in October and November jumped it into a tie for third place with Fox, each of which has picked up a total of 6 so far this year. Hopefully one (or both) of them will surge ahead of second place Columbia’s 7 between now and the end of the year. Warner Bros. remains dominant -- its 4 purchases in October put it at 14 for the year.
- CAA has taken a commanding lead among the agencies. Its 8 recent spec sales (an astounding 7 in October plus one so far in November) put its total at 22 for the year, well ahead of second place WME’s 17. UTA and ICM are still jockeying for third place, with 13 and 11 sales respectively. Fifth place remains up for grabs between APA (5), Gersh (5) and Paradigm (6).
- The race for top management company still isn’t over. To be sure, Josh Adler and Mike Goldberg are in a class by themselves with 8 sales this year across two different companies (ROAR and New Wave). But below them, Benderspink has 5 sales, and four other companies have 4 each: Circle of Confusion, Energy, H2F and Kaplan/Perrone. As of this writing, we’re hearing H2F is about to join Benderspink with its fifth sale as well.
Have a great holiday, everyone.
2011 Overall Spec Numbers (through Nov 11):
The below grid shows sales of scripts in the month they originally went out. In addition to the below, there have been nine sales of scripts that originally went out prior to 2011.
Spec Sales By Genre (sold/total):
Spec Sales By Buyer - Studios:
Spec Sales By Buyer - Other Buyers:
Each of the following production companies has been attached to at least one spec sale so far this year. Companies in bold are new since the last scorecard.
1st Degree Productions
21 Laps (2)
Anonymous Content
Aversano Films
After Dark
Appian Way
Alliance Films
Automatik Entertainment
Big Kid Pictures
Benderspink
Berlanti Productions
Broken Road
Chernin Entertainment
Collider Entertainment
Contrafilm
Davis Entertainment
Disruption Entertainment (2)
EMJAG
Escape Artists
IDW
FilmEngine
Furst Films
Gary Sanchez Productions
Genre Films
Hollywood Gang (2)
Ixtlan
Josephson Entertainment
Katsmith Productions (2)
Langley Park (2)
Lawrence Gordon Productions
LBI Entertainment (fka Yorn Company)
Leverage Management
Linson Entertainment
Marc Platt Productions (2)
Mandeville Films
Matt Tolmach Productions
Michael De Luca Productions
Montecito (2)
Original Film
Panay Films
Pearl Street
Platinum Dunes
Nick Wechsler Productions
Protozoa Pictures
Radar Pictures
Red Hour
Safady Entertainment
Silver Pictures (2)
Stuber Pictures
Temple Hill (2)
Top Cow
Unbroken Pictures
Valhalla
Wigram Productions
WideAwake
Spec Sales by Seller - Agencies (sold/total):
1 Includes a script not counted toward the company’s 2011 efficiency rating because it originally went out prior to 2011.
Spec Sales by Seller - Management Companies (sold/total):
1 Includes a script not counted toward the company’s 2011 efficiency rating because it originally went out prior to 2011.
About The Scoggins Report:
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. Past editions of The Scoggins Report can be found in the archives of The Business of Show Institute (http://bit.ly/2HRZ67) and now have a beautiful new home on www.theWrap.com.
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