The Scoggins Report: September 2011 Scorecard
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 September 17
The fall selling season is finally in top gear -- as of this writing, nine new specs hit the market after a slow first half of September, as you can see from the first grid, below. There hasn’t been a ton of sales activity since the last edition of The Scoggins Report, but here are the highlights:
- Buyers have been snapping up Thrillers at an unusual pace this year: They now make up over 41% of spec sales in 2011, well ahead of comedies (27%) and action/adventure (18%). In each of the last two years, thrillers and comedies ran neck and neck.
- The agency rankings have shuffled in the past month. Previously, CAA was tied for 2nd with UTA (9 sales each) behind WME (10). As you’ll see from the sellers’ grids, below, CAA has edged into the lead, and ICM’s three sales in the past month have put it back in the hunt as well.
Speaking of rankings, earlier this week we gave a sneak peak of our long-awaited PowerGrid project to attendees of TheGrill, TheWrap’s annual media conference. Here’s a link to TheWrap’s coverage of the presentation. The PowerGrid will debut as an invite-only beta site in a couple of weeks. Scoggins Report subscribers will get first crack, naturally.
Talk to you in a couple of weeks. And happy new year, everyone.
2011 Overall Spec Numbers (through Sept 17) 1,2:
1 Tallies sales of scripts in the month they originally went out. All other grids in this report are straight tallies of each month’s sales.
2 Feb, Apr, July and Aug numbers do not include the sale of a script that went out prior to 2011. March numbers do not include two sold specs 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
Anonymous Content
Aversano Films
After Dark
Appian Way
Alliance Films
Automatik Entertainment
Big Kid Pictures
Benderspink
Berlanti Productions
Chernin Entertainment
Contrafilm
Davis Entertainment
Disruption Entertainment (2)
EMJAG
Escape Artists
IDW
FilmEngine
Furst Films
Genre Films
Hollywood Gang (2)
Ixtlan
Josephson Entertainment
Katsmith Productions
Langley Park (2)
Leverage Management
Linson Entertainment
Marc Platt Productions
Mandeville Films
Matt Tolmach Productions
Michael De Luca Productions
Montecito (2)
Original Film
Panay Films
Pearl Street
Platinum Dunes
Nick Wechsler Productions
Radar Pictures
Silver Pictures
Stuber Pictures
Temple Hill
Top Cow
Wigram Productions
Valhalla
WideAwake
Yorn Company
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.
Details on every person, project and company covered by the Report can also be found at www.ItsontheGrid.com, a proud division of The Wrap News, Inc. IOTG is the only place mere mortals can find listings of Hollywood’s active open writing and directing assignments, not to mention comprehensive spec market data; active film development information and relevant credits for released movies going back to 1988.
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