Latest in spec script

Focus Features has picked up an untitled feature spec by Amy Welsh, who most recently was supervising producer on the ABC Family series Bunheads, and who has written on sitcoms from Roseanne to It's Like You Know and Men Behaving Badly. They are keeping the logline under wraps. JC Spink, Jake Weiner, and Chris Bender…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Burke and Kevin Oestenstad’s spec script Stolen has found a home with 1984 Private Defense Contractors, the indie production outfit founded by Adi Shankar and Spencer Silna. The script from newcomers Burke and Oestenstad follows a young couple from the city, Josh and Allison, whose short trip turns into…

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium has just closed a deal to acquire Olympus Has Fallen, a Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt spec script  for a big action movie that’s set in the White House. The scribes were repped by Devra Lieb and Dan Vantresca, and they are managed by Kaplan/Perrone…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has acquired the spec From Mia With Love, a John Hughes-style comedy written by Seth Grahame-Smith, David Katzenberg, Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley. Katzenberg will direct, and he and Grahame-Smith will produce under their Katsmith Productions banner. Grahame-Smith adapted his novel Abraha…

Dimension Films has preemptively purchased the spec script The Greys, a sci-fi thriller by scribe Adam Cohen that Before the Fall helmer F. Javier Gutierrez will direct. Sean and Bryan Furst are producing. Logline’s being kept under wraps…

Universal Pictures has acquired the John Phillips spec script Dirty Grandpa, for Barry Josephson to produce. ICM made the deal for Phillips, a young writer out of New York. Script’s about a recently widowed older man who gets to know his grandson who is about to marry a girl who is not right for…