Scoggins Report, by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan 2011 Year-End Scorecard –January 13, 2011 Licensed Under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License
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2011 Year-End Spec Market Scorecard So this is it: Our official, unabridged, 2011 Year-End Spec Market Scorecard. In addition to combing through TheGrid since the mid-December Scorecard to make sure our numbers are complete, over the past couple of weeks we surveyed dozens of agencies and management companies to confirm that our records matched their own. It’s a good thing we did -- we captured an additional dozen or so “secret” spec sales that hadn’t shown up on tracking boards or been reported in the trades throughout the year. All in, a total of 132 spec scripts sold during 2011, a staggering number compared to 2010‘s total (62), even assuming we missed some number of unreported sales last year. Since we’re all about rankings these days (wait ‘til you get a load of the PowerGrid next month), let’s get straight to the lists of the Top 5 Buyers and Sellers. The number of sales for each company or person is to the right of their names. Top 5 Studio Buyers Top 5 Agencies 1. Warner Bros. - 17 1. CAA - 26 2. Fox - 8 2. WME - 22 3. Columbia - 7 (tie) 3. UTA - 17 3. Universal - 7 (tie) 4. ICM - 13 5. Paramount - 5 5. Paradigm - 10 Top 5 Other Buyers Top “5” Agents 1. Gold Circle - 4 1. Charlie Ferraro (UTA) - 6 2. Mandate - 3 (tie) 2. Daniel Cohan (WME) - 5 2. Millennium/Nu Image - 3 (tie) 3. 16-way tie - 4 (see full list below) 2. Sidney Kimmel - 3 (tie) 2. Voltage - 3 (tie) The Scoggins Report, by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan 2011 Year-End Scorecard –January 13, 2011 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Page 1 of 39 Top “5” Management Companies Top “5” Managers 1. Energy - 7 (tie) 1. Josh Adler & Mike Goldberg 1. New Wave - 7 (tie) (ROAR and New Wave) - 11 (team) 1. H2F - 7 (tie) 2. Brooklyn Weaver (Energy) - 7 (tie) 4. Benderspink - 5 (tie) 2. Chris Fenton (H2F) - 7 (tie) 4. Circle of Confusion - 5 (tie) 4. Aaron Kaplan & Sean Perrone 4. Kaplan/Perrone - 5 (tie) (Kaplan/Perrone) - 3 (tie; team) 4. Adam Kolbrenner (Madhouse) - 3 (tie) 4. Jill McElroy (Benderspink and Management 360) - 3 (tie) Sharp-eyed readers will notice a couple of discrepancies between the above and the story that appeared on our sister site, TheWrap.com, earlier this week. We got word of a couple of additional sales after that story published and updated our grids accordingly. The full grids are below, along with an alphabetical list of all 132 projects that sold last year, complete with links to each one’s page within ItsontheGrid.com. You’re welcome, Hollywood. 2011 Overall Spec Numbers The below grid shows sales of scripts in the month they originally went out. In addition to the below, 13 scripts sold that originally went out prior to 2011. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total Specs 17 38 34 39 31 42 21 15 28 53 30 23 370 Sales 3 13 15 9 7 13 10 5 7 20 8 10 119 Percent 17.6 34.2 44.1 23.1 22.6 31.0 47.6 33.3 25.0 37.7 26.7 43.4 32.2 For comparison, 62 of the 360 scripts that went to market in 2010 sold; in 2009, the ratio was 73 out of 437. The Scoggins Report, by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan 2011 Year-End Scorecard –January 13, 2011 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Page 2 of 39 Spec Sales By Genre (sold/total) Sold/ % of Genre Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2011Sales Action/Adventure 0/1 1/4 1/4 2/6 1/5 2/4 1/1 2/2 3/7 2/9 3/9 2/3 20/55 15.2% Comedy 0/6 2/11 5/8 2/12 2/12 4/16 2/7 0/1 1/11 5/17 4/12 1/7 28/120 21.2% Drama 1/1 0/2 0/1 2/3 1/2 0/3 1/2 2/3 1/2 5/6 0/1 1/1 14/27 10.6% Fantasy 0/1 0/2 0/2 0/2 0/7 0% Horror 0/1 2/3 1/2 0/2 2/2 1/1 0/2 1/3 1/1 8/17 6.1% Sci-Fi 0/1 1/4 3/5 1/2 1/2 4/4 1/2 1/2 3/4 0/2 0/3 15/31 11.4% Thriller 1/6 5/11 6/14 2/11 3/10 2/9 1/5 3/9 2/4 4/14 3/9 5/7 37/109 28.0% Western 1/2 1/1 1/1 3/4 2.3% Spec Sales By Buyer - Studios: Buyers (Studios) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2010 2009 CBS Films 1 1 1 3 0 2 Columbia 1 3 2 1 7 1 5 Dimension 1 1 0 1 Disney 1 1 2 2 2 DreamWorks 1 1 2 1 4 Fox 2 1 1 1 2 1 8 2 3 Fox 2000 1 1 2 0 Fox Searchlight 1 1 1 1 Lionsgate 2 2 1 3 New Line 1 2 1 4 0 0 Paramount 1 2 1 1 5 4 5 Relativity 1 1 2 6 3 Summit 1 1 2 3 2 Universal 2 1 2 2 7 2 6 Warner Bros. 2 1 1 2 3 2 4 1 1 17 9 6 The Scoggins Report, by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan 2011 Year-End Scorecard –January 13, 2011 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Page 3 of 39 Spec Sales By Buyer - Other Buyers: Buyers (Other) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2010 2009 1984 Films 1 1 0 0 24/7 1 1 0 0 After Dark 1 1 0 0 Alcon 1 1 0 1 Animation 1 1 0 0 Picture Co. Arclight 1 1 1 0 Atmosphere 1 1 0 0 Between the 1 1 0 0 Eyes Bold Films 1 1 1 0 Boss Media 1 1 0 0 Caliber Media 1 1 2 1 0 Cargo 1 1 0 0 Chernin 1 1 0 0 Code Ent. 1 1 0 0 Convergence 1 1 0 0 Crime Scene 1 1 2 0 0 Dark Castle 1 1 2 1 0 Davis Ent. 1 1 0 0 Echo Lake 1 1 1 0 Emmett/Furla 1 1 0 0 Endgame 1 1 2 0 Essential 1 1 0 0 FilmNation 1 1 0 0 Freeman and 1 1 0 0 Grossman GK Films 1 1 0 0 Gold Circle 1 1 1 1 4 2 1 Gracie Films 1 1 0 0 Hannibal 2 2 0 0 The Scoggins Report, by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan 2011 Year-End Scorecard –January 13, 2011 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Page 4 of 39 Buyers (Other) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2010 2009 IM Global 1 1 0 0 Inferno 1 1 2 0 0 Intrepid 1 1 0 3 Intrinsic Value 1 1 0 0 Mandate 1 1 1 3 2 1 Millennium/ 1 1 1 3 0 0 Nu Image Montecito 1 1 2 0 0 Motts9 1 1 0 0 MPCA 1 1 0 0 Nasser Ent. 1 1 2 1 0 One Race 1 1 0 0 Paradox 1 1 0 0 Patriot 1 1 0 0 Pierre-Ange 1 1 2 0 0 Le Pogam Radar 1 1 2 0 RCR 1 1 0 0 Route One 1 1 2 1 0 Safady 1 1 0 0 Shadowland 1 1 0 0 Sidney Kimmel 1 1 1 3 0 1 Skydance 1 1 0 0 Stone Village 1 1 0 0 Ten Thirty-One 1 1 0 0 Valhalla 1 1 0 0 Versus 1 1 0 0 Voltage 1 1 1 3 0 0 Vuguru 1 1 0 0 Wendy 1 1 0 0 Finerman The Scoggins Report, by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan 2011 Year-End Scorecard –January 13, 2011 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Page 5 of 39 Each of the following production companies was attached to at least one spec sale in 2011. Companies in bold are new since the last scorecard. 1st Degree Productions Hollywood Gang (2) 21 Laps (2) Hunting Lane Abishag IDW After Dark Infinitum Nihil Anonymous Content Ixtlan Appian Way Jon Shestack Productions Arcana Studio Josephson Entertainment Automatik Entertainment Katsmith Productions (2) Aversano Films Langley Park (2) Bellevue Productions Lawrence Gordon Productions Benderspink (3) LBI Entertainment (fka Yorn) Berlanti Productions Leverage Management Big Kid Pictures Linson Entertainment Blumhouse Marc Platt Productions (4) Branded Films Mandeville Broken Road Matt Tolmach Productions Centropolis Mayhem Chernin Entertainment Michael De Luca Productions Collider Entertainment MM Productions Contrafilm Momentum Crescendo Montecito (2) Dan Jinks Co. Movie Package Company Davis Entertainment Nick Wechsler Productions Di Bonaventura Original Film Disruption (3) Panay Films EMJAG (2) Pearl Street (2) Escape Artists Pink Slip Essential Entertainment Platinum Dunes (2) Film 360 Protozoa FilmEngine R.L. Entertainment Furst Films Red Hour Gary Sanchez Productions Salvatore/Ornston Productions Genre Films (3) Scott Free The Scoggins Report, by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan 2011 Year-End Scorecard –January 13, 2011 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.