The Scoggins Report: October 2013 Pitch Market Scorecard
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by Jason Scoggins & Landon Rohwedder
October 14, 2013
October 2013
Pitch Market Scorecard
A
couple of weeks ago in the September Pitch Roundup, we noted there had
been three months in a row of as-good-or-better year-over-year pitch
sales numbers. Make that “four months in a row” — October’s only half over, but it’s already tied with last year (in addition to the 4 noted in the grid below, we captured two additional pitch sales after today’s cutoff).If the rest of October is as strong and November follows suit we’ll still have a chance of matching last year’s numbers (which were admittedly pretty weak compared to 2011’s). The biggest targets of opportunity are unchanged from those we’ve noted over the past couple of months:
- Disney, which picked up its second pitch of the year recently but is nowhere near the 9 it purchased in each of the last two years;
- Sony, which bought its third pitch last month but must have a few development dollars stashed away since it hasn’t purchased a single spec script all year; and
- Paramount, for almost the exact same reason (it’s bought 3 pitches and 1 spec so far this year, compared to a combined 20 and 17 projects in 2012 and 2011, respectively).
Overall Pitch Numbers
Here are basic pitch sales numbers through October 14 on their own, with year-over-year monthly comparisons…
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
Total
| |
| 2013 |
3
|
10
|
8
|
10
|
6
|
5
|
8
|
4
|
5
|
4
|
63
| ||
| 2012 |
8
|
7
|
8
|
14
|
4
|
7
|
8
|
3
|
4
|
6
|
3
|
9
|
81
|
| 2011 |
4
|
8
|
13
|
7
|
8
|
15
|
10
|
4
|
5
|
10
|
8
|
14
|
106
|
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
Total
|
2012
|
2011
| |
| Specs |
8
|
8
|
10
|
15
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
6
|
9
|
5
|
91
|
132
|
132
| ||
| Pitches |
3
|
10
|
8
|
10
|
6
|
5
|
8
|
4
|
5
|
4
|
63
|
81
|
106
| ||
| Totals |
11
|
18
|
18
|
25
|
15
|
15
|
19
|
10
|
14
|
9
|
154
|
213
|
238
| ||
| 2012 Total |
20
|
20
|
22
|
26
|
16
|
22
|
13
|
16
|
13
|
19
|
10
|
15
| |||
| 2011 Total |
7
|
21
|
28
|
16
|
15
|
28
|
20
|
9
|
12
|
30
|
16
|
24
|
Pitch Sales By Genre
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
Total
|
%
| |
| Action/Adventure |
1
|
4
|
1
|
4
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
18
|
32%
| ||||
| Comedy |
1
|
2
|
4
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
15
|
26%
| ||||
| Drama |
1
|
4
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
9
|
16%
| |||||||
| Fantasy |
1
|
1
|
2%
| |||||||||||
| Horror |
1
|
1
|
2%
| |||||||||||
| Sci-fi |
1
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
4
|
1
|
2
|
12
|
21%
| |||||
| Thriller |
1
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
7
|
12%
|
Pitch Sales By Month – Studios
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
2013
|
2012
|
2011
| |
| Columbia |
1
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
7
|
9
| |||||||||
| Disney |
1
|
1
|
9
|
9
| |||||||||||
| DreamWorks |
3
|
1
|
1
|
5
|
1
|
2
| |||||||||
| DreamWorks Animation |
1
|
1
|
0
|
0
| |||||||||||
| Fox |
1
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
7
|
6
|
8
| |||||||
| Fox 2000 |
1
|
1
|
0
|
2
| |||||||||||
| Fox Searchlight |
1
|
1
|
2
|
1
|
0
| ||||||||||
| Lionsgate* |
1
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
2
| |||||||||
| MGM |
1
|
1
|
1
|
0
| |||||||||||
| New Line |
2
|
1
|
2
|
5
|
5
|
4
| |||||||||
| Nickelodeon |
1
|
1
|
0
|
0
| |||||||||||
| Paramount |
1
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
9
|
12
| |||||||||
| Relativity |
1
|
1
|
0
|
0
| |||||||||||
| Universal |
1
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
10
|
11
|
12
| ||||||
| Warner Bros. |
1
|
1
|
2
|
1
|
5
|
11
|
13
| ||||||||
| Totals: Studios |
1
|
9
|
6
|
10
|
3
|
3
|
5
|
4
|
4
|
4
|
49
|
62
|
73
|
Pitch Purchases by Genre – Studios
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