For last week's BOSI newsletter, I updated the OWA Scorecard Overview Grids to show the activity between the beginning of December and the beginning of February. The article is below. FYI, this is the last OWA Scorecard article I plan to write for the public until this summer, since I'll be focusing on the spec market between now and then. As always, though, we keep up with OWA developments on a daily basis at www.itsonthegrid.com -- you haven't already, you should consider subscribing. All the cool kids are doing it...
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The
Scoggins Report
By Jason Scoggins
February 24, 2010
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the www.itsonthegrid.com
blog lately, you know there’s been quite a
bit of positive activity in the spec market already this month, including
several sales. While it’s far too
early to tell how this buying season will compare to the first half of 2009,
I’m optimistic, and I’m looking forward to writing my first Spec Market Roundup
of 2010 next week.
In the meantime, I thought it would be instructive to update the OWA Scorecard
summary grids from my last article in this space. The below grids are a comparison of that same big agency’s
OWA Grid from early December 2009 to early February 2010. If you’re interested in my methodology,
read the introduction to the first installment of the 2009 OWA Scorecard here.
This will be the last OWA-oriented article in this space until mid-year when
the Spec Market goes on hiatus for the summer. The full 2009 OWA Scorecard will remain available for
another few weeks to anyone who signs up to receive it at http://blog.itsonthegrid.com.
OWA Scorecard Overview – December
2009 vs February 2010
As you review the below numbers, keep in mind they are based solely on
snapshots of one big agency’s OWA grid.
As with the full 2009 OWA Scorecard, what’s most interesting here (to
me, at least) is the scale of the numbers and the comparison between the
companies, as opposed to the raw numbers themselves.
|
MAJOR
STUDIOS |
On in Dec |
Added |
Closed |
On in Feb |
|
Columbia |
24 |
5 |
5 |
24 |
|
Disney |
15 |
1 |
5 |
11 |
|
Fox |
17 |
3 |
9 |
11 |
|
Paramount |
38 |
9 |
17 |
30 |
|
Universal |
63 |
14 |
8 |
69 |
|
Warner Bros. |
91 |
17 |
11 |
97 |
|
TOTALS |
248 |
49 |
55 |
242 |
|
MINI-MAJORS
& STUDIOS’ LABELS |
On in Dec |
Added |
Closed |
On in Feb |
|
CBS Films |
6 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
|
Dimension |
7 |
2 |
0 |
9 |
|
DreamWorks |
5 |
3 |
1 |
7 |
|
DreamWorks Animation |
5 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
|
Focus Features |
10 |
3 |
4 |
9 |
|
Fox 2000 |
5 |
5 |
2 |
8 |
|
Fox Animation |
4 |
2 |
0 |
6 |
|
Fox Searchlight |
8 |
0 |
2 |
6 |
|
Lionsgate |
6 |
3 |
2 |
7 |
|
Mandate Pictures |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
|
MGM |
5 |
x |
x |
n/a |
|
Miramax |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
|
New Line |
6 |
5 |
1 |
10 |
|
New Regency |
10 |
1 |
6 |
5 |
|
Screen Gems |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Sony Pictures – Stage 6 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
Sony Pictures Animation |
4 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
Summit |
3 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
|
The Weinstein Co. |
7 |
2 |
0 |
9 |
|
TOTALS |
97 |
32 |
26 |
98 |
Obviously, the above totals don’t add up because MGM fell off the grid between
December and February, which I think says a lot about what the community thinks
of that studio’s fate.
Interestingly, Miramax is not in the same category despite being on the
block at Disney. The agency even
added a project to the grid by February (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency).
|
OTHER
BUYERS |
On in Dec |
Added |
Closed |
On in Feb |
|
Cartoon Network Movies |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
Film Dept. |
4 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
Gold Circle Films |
3 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
|
Illumination Entertainment |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Millennium Films/Nu Image |
2 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
|
Overture |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
Participant |
6 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
|
Relativity |
2 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
|
Spitfire |
4 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
|
Spyglass |
2 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
|
Walden Media |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
TOTALS |
30 |
12 |
10 |
34 |
Millennium Films/Nu Image didn’t have any OWA activity on the grids in 2009
until very late in the year (Bangkok 8 and the remake of Conan the Barbarian
popped up in October), which is why the company didn’t appear previously on the
2009 OWA Scorecard Overview. The
addition of their numbers and the subtraction of MGM’s accounts for the
discrepancy in the totals, below.
|
TOTALS |
On in Dec |
Added |
Closed |
On in Feb |
|
Major Studios |
248 |
49 |
55 |
242 |
|
Mini-Majors and Studios’ Labels |
97 |
32 |
26 |
98 |
|
Other Buyers |
30 |
12 |
10 |
34 |
|
TOTALS |
375 |
93 |
91 |
374 |
About The Scoggins Reports:
The Scoggins Reports are terribly unscientific analyses of the feature film development business (in particular, spec script and open writing assignment activity) based on information assembled from a variety of public and non-public sources. The numbers in the reports are by no means official statistics and should not be relied upon as such. Past editions of The Scoggins Reports can be found in the archives of The Business of Show Institute (http://bit.ly/2HRZ67) as well as on Jason Scoggins’ website: http://www.lifeonthebubble.com.
Details on each person, project and company in the Reports can also be found at www.itsonthegrid.com, a database of feature film development information [subscription required] including active open writing and directing assignments in Hollywood. Click here to explore the IOTG blog, which includes daily posts of new and updated spec script, OWA, ODA and other film development information.
About Scoggins:
Jason Scoggins is a partner at Protocol, a literary management and production company. He manages writers, directors and producers of film and TV alongside Protocol’s founding partners Brian Inerfeld and John Ufland. Follow him here: http://twitter.com/itsonthegrid.
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