I know #17 was produced as OVER HER DEAD BODY. Anyone spot others that underwent title changes before release?

I make that 14 female writers on 89 projects. I haven't been specifically monitoring the gender of writers so far, but that feels like more than usual...

I'd say the Adam Sandler vehicle #56 Click was pretty notable with its 1.75 million sale.

Note: #25 "Revolver" eventually made, released as "The Return" starring Sarah Michelle Gellar.

What does it mean when the price is listed as something like '$500,000 against 1 Mill'?

#1 was produced as SOMETHING NEW f/Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker. The original title originated from a stat at that time about unmarried African-American women.

I think #16 MADE OF HONOR is the same one as the Patrick Dempsey movie. #11 Lakeview Terrace starred Sam Jackson. #74 DAN IN REAL LIFE was a modest hit & pretty good Rom Com.

Liz, the first figure is the upfront purchase price for the script, typically a certain amount to secure the property, the rest payment for subsequent writing services on the script per studio feedback. That money is guaranteed. The second figure is the total amount of money a writer could get depending upon two things: (1) Commencement of principal photography, that is the movie actually moves into production. That triggers this second figure known as a "production bonus." (2) That figure is dependent upon the writer's credit for the project. If they get sole credit, they get 100% of the production bonus. If they split the credit with one other writer, the production bonus is reduced by half. If they split the credit with two other writers, the production bonus is 33% of the original total. So let's assume Liz Sayle sells a spec script for $1M against $1.75M. And let's say the movie goes into production. And let's also say you get sole credit. You get $1M for the acquisition of the script and writing services. And upon commencement of principal photography, you get a production bonus of $750K. FYI, people routinely use the second figure when talking about script deals which can be somewhat inauthentic until the movie goes into production. So if a writer says, "I sold a million dollar spec," and the deal was for $600K against $1M, but the movie never got made, the deal actually ended up being for $600K, not a million dollars.

Is it just my imagination, or does it seem like this year there were more movies produced than in previous years? BTW once I post all the years and we have all the scripts up, we will make a concerted effort to figure out which scripts got produced. Everyone who has posted so far with their information, that is really helpful in this regard, and I super appreciate it.

#1 42.4 was produced as SOMETHING NEW starring Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker.

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