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Here are some script sales from September. Here's the promising one:

Title: Coraline
Log line: A young girl discovers an alternate version of her life after walking through a secret door in her new home. When her counterfeit parents try to keep her forever, Coraline reveals her heroic qualities.
Writer: Henry Selick
Agent: Jon Levin of CAA
Buyer: Vinton Studios
Price: n/a
Genre: Children’s
Logged: 9/23/04
More: Based on the children’s book by Neil Gaiman. Bill Mechanic's Pandemonium Films will produce. Henry Selick will direct. This will be an animated film.

Here are the not-so-promising ones:

Title: Dinner for Schmucks
Log line: A man possesses such "extraordinary schmuckiness" that he's capable of ruining the life of anyone who spends more than a few minutes in his presence.
Writer: Jon Vitti
Agent: Rob Rothman of Rothman Brecher Agency
Buyer: DreamWorks
Price: n/a
Genre: Comedy
Logged: 9/29/04
More: Remake of the French film “Le Diner de cons. Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald will produce. Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Ali G, will star.

Title: Starship Dave
Log line: A massive fireball from space hits New York's Central Park and an ordinary man emerges unscathed. The man turns out to be a spaceship operated by 100 human-looking aliens who are one-quarter inch tall and seeking a way to save their planet; complications ensue when their captain falls in love with an Earth woman who's always picked losers for previous romances.
Writer: Rob Greenberg and Bill Corbett
Agent: Sylvie Rabineau of Rabineau Wachter and Sanford (Greenberg)
Buyer: Paramount Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Comedy Science Fiction
Logged: 9/28/04
More: Spec script. Guy Walks Into A Bar's Jon Berg & Todd Komarnicki and Deep River Productions' David Friendly & Marc Turtletaub will produce.

Title: Untitled Dax Shepard and Al Shearer Project
Log line: Two guys from different racial backgrounds find out that they are actually brothers and must compete against each other for an inheritance.
Writer: Chris Pappas and Mike Bernier
Agent: Nick Yellen at Nick Yellen Creative Agency and atty. Peter Grossman
Buyer: Fox Searchlight
Price: n/a
Genre: Comedy
Logged: 9/27/04
More: Based on an idea by Dax Shepard and Al Shearer. Chris Pappas and Mike Bernier may also direct. Dax Shepard and Al Shearer will star.

Title: The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3-D
Log line: A 10-year-old outcast is shunned by his classmates and forced to spend summer vacation alone. With his two imaginary friends, he goes on a mission to prove dreams can become reality.
Writer: Robert Rodriguez
Agent: Robert Newman of ICM
Buyer: Dimension
Price: n/a
Genre: Family
Logged: 9/22/04
More: Troublemaker Studios' Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan will produce. Robert Rodriguez will direct. George Lopez will star.

Title: Alvin and the Chipmunks
Log line: Three chipmunk brothers, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are adopted by a man named Dave.
Writer: n/a
Agent: n/a
Buyer: Fox 2000 and 20th Century Fox Animation
Price: n/a
Genre: Family
Logged: 9/15/04
More: To be based on the 1950s and '60s characters. This will be a live-action/CGI feature. Bagdasarian Productions' Janice Karman and Ross Bagdasarian Jr. will produce. No writer or director is attached as yet.

Title: Revenge of the Nerds
Log line: A college fraternity that houses the school's socially awkward, thick-glasses-sporting set decides to exact their revenge on the football players who've repeatedly humiliated them.
Writer: Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah
Agent: Dan Brecher of Rothman Brecher Agency
Buyer: Fox Searchlight
Price: n/a
Genre: Comedy
Logged: 9/14/04
More: Remake of the 1984 film. Wonderland's McG and Stephanie Savage will produce. Adam Brody and Brett Harrison will co-produce.

Title: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Log Line: A 16 year old girl moves in with her aunts and discovers that they and she are all witches.
Writer: n/a
Agent: n/a
Buyer: Paramount Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Fantasy Adventure
Logged: 9/13/04
More: Rights acquired to comic book character from Archie Comics Entertainment. Archie Comics Entertainment's Allan Grafman and Chuck Grimes will produce. Archie Comics Publications' Michael Silberkleit and Richard Goldwater will executive produce. Sarah Michelle Gellar will star.

Title: Hawaii Five-O
Log line: A specialty unit of the Hawaii State Police is tapped by the governor to take on organized crime.
Writer: George Nolfi
Agent: Mike Simpson of William Morris Agency
Buyer: Warner Bros. Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Action-Drama
Logged: 9/9/04
More: Based on the popular TV show. George Litto will produce. Andria Litto will executive produce. No director or actors are attached as yet.

Title: Untitled Addario-Syracuse Pitch
Log line: Two intensely competitive rivals on the women's beach volleyball tour must learn to combine their vastly different playing styles to win back their honor.
Writer: Lisa Addario and Joey Syracuse
Agent: Sandra Lucchesi of The Gersh Agency
Buyer: Paramount Pictures
Price: Mid-six figures
Genre: Sports Drama
Logged: 9/9/04
More: Pitch. Preemptive buy. Vincent Newman Entertainment will produce.

Title: Nappily Ever After
Log Line: An African American advertising executive tired of fussing with her long and processed straight hair -- shaves it off and kicks out her commitment-phobic boyfriend. Discovering a newfound freedom, she is unprepared for how friends and co-workers react to her new hairdo and subsequent new life.
Writer: Lisa Loomer
Agent: ICM
Buyer: Universal Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Drama Comedy
Logged: 9/8/04
More: Rewrite. Tina Chism wrote a draft of the script, which was based on Trisha Thomas' novel. Halle Berry, Vincent Cirrincione (Berry's manager), Angela DeJoseph, and Marc Platt Productions' Marc Platt will produce. Patricia Cardoso will direct. Halle Berry to star.

Title: Igor
Log line: A hunchbacked lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a mad scientist and winning the first place prize at the annual Evil Science Fair.
Writer: Chris McKenna
Agent: Matt Rice of UTA
Buyer: Exodus Film
Price: n/a
Genre: Comedy
Logged: 9/7/04
More: Max Howard will executive produce. This will be an animated film.

(OK, that one could turn out allright)