Spec Script Deal: “Singles Day”

New Line Cinema acquires romantic comedy spec script “Singles Day” written by Lillian Yu. From Deadline:

It centers around an actual long-held Chinese holiday that falls on November 11 (its 11.11 digits signify being alone) in which celebrants take pride in being unattached. It is considered the anti-Valentine’s Day and is embraced by young people. It is a huge celebration in China, where e-commerce giant Alibaba last fall reported record Singles Day shopping sales splurges that reached $25 billion. While romantic comedies have had a tough time in Hollywood, they are a hot commodity in China.

Isn’t that interesting this spec script sold on the very weekend Crazy Rich Asians, a rom-com featuring an Asian cast, had a strong opening weekend at the box office? It’s almost as if the writer’s reps planned to go out with it so the script could draft off the heat of the movie.

And that’s EXACTLY what they did!

Yu is repped by UTA and Management 360.

By my count, this is the 28th spec script deal in 2018.

There were 40 spec script deals year-to-date in 2017.