Each December since 2004, studio executive Franklin Leonard has compiled the best unproduced screenplays of the year, as voted by hundreds of execs, agency guys, and high-level assistants. Titled The Black List, the compendium highlights both established screenwriters and up-and-comers, and has served as a launching pad in the past for projects like Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, and (500) Days of Summer. Last year’s list included Margin Call, Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Hunger Games, and Snow White and the Huntsman. It should be noted that the headline is somewhat misleading — some of these screenplays have already been acquired and are already in development, though according to Leonard none will have entered principal photography by December 31, 2011. Also worth pointing out is that, as in previous years, there have been rumors that some of the participants have been accused of using the Black List to promote their own clients or friends. Finally, as Leonard reminds us each time, “The Black List is not a ‘best of’ list. It is, at best, a ‘most liked’ list.” Regardless, we can always rely on the Black List to stir up conversation among both industry insiders and outside spectators alike, so without further ado, hit the jump for the complete 2011 list. 133 votes: by Graham Moore The story of British World War II cryptographer Alan Turing, who broke several German codes but in later life was prosecuted for being homosexual, which led to his suicide.
Agent: Creative Artists Agency — J.P. Evans, Jacqueline Sacerio Manager:The Safran Co. — Tom Drumm Producers: Ido Ostrowsky, Nora Grossman producing for Warner Bros. 84 votes: “When the Street Lights Go” by Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe In the early 1980s, a town suffers through the aftermath of the murder of a high school girl and a teacher. Agency: WME — Simon Faber, Sarah Self Manager: Tariq Merhab Management — Tariq Merhab Producers: Imagine Entertainment 59 votes: “Chewie” by Evan Susser, Van Robichaux A satirical, behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Stars Wars” through the eyes of Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca. Agency: WME — Mike Esola Manager: Industry Entertainment — Jess Rosenthal 53 votes: “The Outsider” by Andrew Baldwin In post-World War II Japan, an American former prisoner of war rises in the yakuza.
Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Jay Baker, John Garvey Manager: Anonymous Content — Bard Dorros, David Kanter Producers: Linson Entertainment for Warner Bros. 43 votes: by Matthew Aldrich A man goes on a three-state crime spree with an accomplice, his 11-year old daughter. Agency: Creative Artists Agency: John Garvey, Stuart Manashil Manager: Silent R Management: Jewerl Ross Producers: Pearl Street Productions production for Warner Bros. 33 votes: “In the Event of a Moon Disaster” by Mike Jones An alternate telling of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon that examines what might have happened if the astronauts had crash-landed there. Agency: Creative Artists Agency: David Kopple, JP Evans Manager: The Gotham Group: Lindsay Williams Producer: FilmNation 30 votes: by John Scott 3 As a “walking dead” virus spreads across the country, a farm family helps their eldest daughter come to terms with her infection as she slowly becomes a flesh-eating zombie.
Agency: Creative Artists Agency: Billy Hawkins, Dan Rabinow Manager: Trevor Kaufman Producer: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam 30 votes: “The Current War” by Michael Mitnick Based on the true story of the race between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to develop a practical system of electricity and sell their respective inventions to the country and the world. Agency: William Morris Endeavor — Simon Faber Manager: Fourth Floor Productions — Jeff Silver 28 votes: “The End” by Aron Eli Coleite Four people — a veteran broadcaster in London, a 16-year-old girl and her boyfriend in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a devoted family man in Shanghai — each try to make peace with their lives before an interstellar event ends the world in six hours. Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Matt Rosen Producer: Warner Bros.
27 votes: “Beyond the Pale” by Chad Feehan Based on William Gay’s novel “Twilight,” teenage siblings suspect they’ve been ripped off by the town undertaker, but what they discover is much more sinister. Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Matt Rosen, Jacqueline Sacerio Manager: Management 360 — Guymon Casady, Mary Lee Producers: Feehan’s The Fort producing for Vendome Pictures 27 votes: “Ezekiel Moss” by Keith Bunin A mysterious stranger who possibly has the power to channel the souls of the dead changes the lives of everyone in a small Nebraska town, especially a young widow and her 11-year-old son. Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Rowena Arguelles Manager: Kaplan/Perrone — Alex Lerner, Sean Perrone Producers: A Likely Story and Mandalay Pictures 24 votes: “Grace of Monaco” by Arash Amel Grace Kelly, age 33, has given up her acting career to focus on being a full-time princess. She uses her political maneuvering behind the scenes to save Monaco while French leader Charles De Gaulle and Monaco’s Prince Rainer III are at odds over Monaco’s standing as a tax haven. Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Rich Green, Matt Rosen Producer: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam 24 votes: by Lauryn Kahn A social media-savvy girl who is pessimistic about love finds the perfect guy and decides to use her Internet research skills to turn herself into his perfect match. Agency: William Morris Endeavor — Cliff Roberts Producer: Gary Sanchez producing for Fox 2000 23 votes: “Bethlehem” by Larry Brenner A group of people struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse make an alliance with a vampire, trading themselves as food in exchange for protection since zombies don’t eat vampires.
Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Martin Spencer, Jacqueline Sacerio Managers: Magnet Management — Mitch Solomon Producers: Roth Films 20 votes: “Powell” by Ed Whitworth Based on the true story of Colin Powell questioning the Bush administration leading up to his United Nations presentation where he made the case for going to war with Iraq. Agency: William Morris Endeavor — David Karp, Cliff Roberts, Dan Cohan Manager: Circle of Confusion — Ashley Berns Producers: Spirit Dance Entertainment 20 votes: by Michael Vukadinovich A prequel to the story of Pinocchio in which Geppetto endures a life of misfortune, war and adventure, all to be with Julia Moon, his true love.
Agency: International Creative Management– Ava Jamshidi Producers: Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps producing for Twentieth Century Fox 19 votes: “The Knoll” by Christopher Cantwell, Christopher Rogers A rookie cop and his potential flame witness John F. Kennedy gunned down from the grassy knoll on Nov. Within hours, they are on the run from the murderers who desperately need them silenced. Agency: ICM — Aaron Hart Manager: Management 360 — Jennifer Graham, Chris Huvane Producers: Management 360 17 votes: “A Many Splintered Thing” by Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair When a charming heartbreaker finally meets a girl he can’t have, he discovers the true meaning of love by living out other people’s love stories and writing his own. Agency: United Talent Agency — Jon Huddle, Max Michael Manager: Brillstein Entertainment Partners — Missy Malkin Producers: Wonderland Sound and Vision 17 votes: by Justin Malen Two brothers, raised to believe their biological father died, find out their mother slept with many powerful and famous men in the 1970s, and the siblings hit the road to find their real father. Agency: Verve — Bill Weinstein, Rob Herting Manager: H2F — Chris Fenton Producers: The Montecito Picture Co.
Producing for Paramount Pictures 17 votes: “Blood Mountain” by Jonathan Stokes After his team is ambushed and killed in Pakistan, a young Army Ranger must escort the world’s most wanted terrorist over dangerous terrain in order to bring him to justice. While being hunted by both of their enemies, they must find a way to work together in order to survive. Agency: UTA — Rames Ishak, Michael Sheresky, Geoff Morley Manager: Energy Entertainment — Brooklyn Weaver 17 votes: “Crazy for the Storm” by Will Fetters The true story of Norman Ollestad’s relationship with his father, who thrust the boy into the world of extreme surfing and competitive downhill skiing at the age of 3. But it was that experience that allowed an 11-year-old Norman to survive a plane crash amid a blizzard in the San Gabriel mountains. Agency: WME — Elia Infascelli-Smith Manager: 3 Arts Entertainment — Oliver Obst Producers: Billy Gerber producing for Warner Bros. 17 votes: “Desperate Hours” by E Nicolas Mariani A small town crippled by World War I and the Spanish flu finds itself facing major moral questions and a brutal invading force when a young girl shows up on a rancher’s doorstep covered in blood. Agency: UTA — Charles Ferraro, Jenny Maryasis Manager: Circle of Confusion — Britton Rizzio Producers: Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil producing for GK Films 17 votes: “Flarsky” by Daniel Sterling A political journalist courts his old babysitter, who is now the secretary of State.
Agency: UTA — Julien Thuan Producers: Point Grey Pictures 17 votes: “How to Disappear Completely” by Ed Solomon A child prodigy tries to take control of his life away from his demanding parents. Agency: CAA — Jay Baker, Todd Feldman, David O’Connor Producers: Escape Artists producing for Sony Pictures 16 votes: “The Slackfi Project” by Howard Overman A hapless and brokenhearted barista is visited by two soldiers from the future who tell him mankind is doomed, and he alone can save them. Agency: UTA — Julien Thuan Producers: Matt Tolmach Productions producing for Sony Pictures 14 votes: by Quentin Tarantino A freed slave named Django is trained as a bounty hunter by a German dentist named Schultz, and the two men set out to find Django’s enslaved wife. Agency: WME — Mike Simpson Producers: Weinstein Co. Producing for a co-release between Weinstein and Sony Pictures 14 votes: “St. Vincent de Van Nuys” by Ted Melfi When a 12-year-old in need of a babysitter moves in next door to a misanthropic aging retiree whose life mainly consists of gambling, hookers and drinking, the elder becomes an unlikely mentor to the boy. Agency: UTA –Ramses Ishak, Michael Sheresky Manager: Infinity Management International — Jon Karas Producers: Chernin Entertainment, Crescendo Productions producing for Fox 14 votes: “The Museum of Broken Relationships” by Natalie Krinsky Lucy, a 28-year-old junior curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is sleeping with her boss.
When he dumps her she begins a collection of “break up items” and starts a blog that goes viral. Agency: CAA — Jessica Matthews Manager: The Gotham Group — Jim Garavente, Jeremy Bell 13 votes: “Saving Mr. Banks” by Kelly Marcel The story of how Walt Disney got the rights to “Mary Poppins.” Agency: WME — Phil Raskind, David Karp Producer: Ruby Films 13 votes: “The Accountant” by Bill Duburque The Treasury Department pursues a brilliant, autistic accountant who doubles as an assassin and “problem solves” with precision in more ways than one.
Agency: Paradigm — Trevor Astbury Manager: Zero Gravity Management — Eric Williams Producers: Silverwood Films 12 votes: “Bridges on the Fort Point Channel” by Chuck Maclean An Irish family in the 1970s, dealing with the loss of their father and the busing of black kids into their white neighborhoods, decides to blow up all the bridges in Boston. Agency: CAA — Billy Hawkins Manager: Oasis Media Group — Allison Doyle, Ben Rowe 12 votes: by Brandon Willer A former FBI psychologist is called into investigate when a young girl goes missing after the apparent murder of her father and brother by two strangers in a small Oklahoma town. Agency: WME — Phil D’amecourt, Jeff Gorin Manager: Benderspink — Jake Weiner Producers: Charlize Theron’s Denver and Delilah Productions 12 votes: “Good Kids” by Chris McCoy Four overachieving high-school students in Cape Cod reinvent themselves during the summer after graduation.
Agency: WME — Simon Faber, Jeff Gorin, Sharon Jackson Manager: The Gotham Group — Shawn Simon Producers: Chris and Paul Weitz’s Depth of Field 12 votes — “The Big Stone Grid” by Craig Zahler A cop is pulled into an underworld organization that brutally murders people to extort money out of others. Agency: UTA — Julien Thuan, Emerson Davis Manager: Caliber Media — Dallas Sonnier Producers: Michael De Luca Productions producing for Sony Pictures 11 votes: “Dirty Grandpa” by John Phillips A young groom engaged to a demanding woman is forced to spend the week before his wedding with his half-blind, half-crazy, and wholly horny grandfather. Through his wild journey, his grandfather shows him how to live life to the fullest and lead with his heart. Agency: UTA — Jon Huddle Producers: Josephson Entertainment for Universal Pictures 11 votes: by Allen Bey, Brandon Bestenheider A family has to defend themselves from the Grims, strange creatures who attack Earth and kill thousands one night every year. Agency: Verve –Bryan Besser Producers: Marc Platt Productions, Unbroken Pictures for Universal Pictures 11 votes: “Hidden” by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer An elevated horror-thriller about a family hiding in a bomb shelter after escaping a mysterious outbreak. Agency: Paradigm — Chris Smith Manager: MXN — Mason Novick Producers: Mason Novick, Roy Lee and Lawrence Grey producing for Warner Bros.
11 votes: “Leaving Pete” by Ali Ali Waller, Morgan Murphy A recently divorced author is stunned when his ex writes a popular book about their breakup and he has to keep that fact secret from his new girlfriend, who works for the book’s publisher. Agency: CAA — Bill Zotti, Andy Elkins 10 votes: by Michael Diliberti A down-and-out brother and sister go to Miami to sell a duffel bag of cocaine that they found in the trunk of a Corvette left them by their dead father. Agency: WME — Phil Raskind, Simon Faber Manager: New School Media — Brian Levy Producer: Scott Aversano Productions 10 votes: by Kate Angelo When a married couple make a sex tape to spice up their relationship, it disappears, and they are frantic to get it back.
Agency: UTA — Jason Burns Producers: Escape Artists for Sony Pictures 10 votes — “The Flamingo Thief” by Mike Lesieur Grief-stricken over his wife leaving him, a man finds solace in an odd activity swiping figurines of flamingos. Agency: CAA — Rich Green, Adam Kanter Manager: Kaplan/Perrone — Sean Perrone Producers: Kaplan/Perrone, Red Hour 10 votes: “The Gun Eaters” by Alex Paraskevas, Jordan Goldberg Four hardened New York detectives race to apprehend a relentless spree-killer who’s executing victims from Queens to Southampton in the span of a single day. Agency: UTA — Rebecca Ewing, Keya Khayatian Manager: Oasis Media Group — Ben Rowe Producer: Oasis Media Group 10 votes: “Two Night Stand” by Mark Hammer After an extremely regrettable one-night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice. They’re now trapped together in a tiny apartment, forced to get to know each other ways more than any one-night stand should.
Agency: UTA — Carolyn Sivitz Manager: The Safran Co., Tom Drumm 10 votes: “Watch Roger Do His Thing” by Michael Starrbury A retired hit man gets roped back into the mob business to save his friend’s life and quickly finds himself caught in a struggle trying to finish the job, and get his family out Chicago alive at the same time. 9 votes: “Flashback” by Will Honley A former NASA pilot with amnesia — also the first person to travel the speed of light — realizes he has the ability to travel back in time and along the way rediscovers his love for his life. Agency: Adam Levine Manager: Nuclear Entertainment — Nick Fariabi, Jesse Silver 9 votes: “Friend of Bill” by Harper Dill After a humiliating episode in New York, a young woman returns to her hometown and tries to deal with her alcoholism. Agency: WME — Sarah Self, Jeff Gorin, Sharon Jackson Manager: Mike Dill Producers: Marc Platt Productions, Neda Armian 9 votes: “Jane Got a Gun” by Brian Duffield After her outlaw husband returns home barely alive with eight bullet wounds, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover whom she hasn’t seen in over 10 years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband’s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.
Agency: Gersh — Devra Lieb, Bob Hohman, Bayard Maybank Manager: Circle of Confusion — Zach Cox, Noah Rosen 9 votes: “Murders and Acquisitions” by Jonathan Stokes The world of high-stakes finance collides with that of high-priced hit men when an ousted chief executive decides to hire an assassin to kill the corporate raider who stole his company. Sin cara wwe song. Agency: UTA — Ramses Ishak, Michael Sheresky, Geoff Morley Manager: Energy Entertainment — Brooklyn Weaver Producers: KatzSmith Productions for Warner Bros.
9 votes: “The Last Drop” by Brandon Murphy, Phil Murphy A fully functioning alcoholic meets the girl of his dreams and soon discovers that there’s a lot more at stake than love if he doesn’t clean up his act. Agency: WME — Rich Cook Manager: Mosaic — Langley Perer Producers: Greg Shapiro and Mandate Pictures 9 votes: “The Last Witness” by Stefan Jaworski An FBI agent interrogates an amnesiac, sole survivor of a Boston bombing in order to prevent future terrorist attacks. Agency: Paradigm — Trevor Astbury, Valarie Phillips, Ida Ziniti Producers: Davis Entertainment for Fox 8 votes: “Bad Words” by Andrew Dodge The bastard child of the organizer of the national spelling bee gets his revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win the bee as an adult, only to find friendship in a young Indian contestant. Agency: UTA — Carolyn Sivitz Manager: Fourth Floor Productions — Jeff Silver Producers: MXN and Darko Productions 8 votes: “Dead of Winter” by Sarah Conradt A teenage girl heads to a remote cabin in the mountains with her father and new stepmother–an experience the father hopes will bond the two. But when a mysterious wounded park ranger shows up, family bonding will be the least of their concerns.
Agency: CAA — Jacqueline Sacerio Manager: Hopscotch Pictures — Sukee Chew Producers: Sherryl Clark, Hopscotch Pictures producing for Wind Dancer and Lionsgate 8 votes: “Gaslight” by Ian Fried Secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum, the infamous Jack the Ripper helps Scotland Yard investigators solve a series of grisly murders whose victims all share one thing in common: dual puncture wounds to the neck. Agency: WME — Dan Cohan, Mike Esola Manager: Prolific — Will Rowbotham 8 votes: “Home by Christmas — Bob Hope in Korea” by Ben Schwartz Young Larry Gelbart goes on tour with his idol Bob Hope in the middle of the Korean War and learns the true price of heroism. Agency: The Nethercott Agency — Gayla Nethercott Producer: Jon Shestack Productions 8 votes: “Jurassic Park” by Imran Zaidi A high school couple and two of their friends ditch school to catch a special preview screening of “Jurassic Park.” Agency: UTA — Jason Burns, Jenny Maryasis Manager: Management 360 — Darin Friedman 8 votes: “On a Clear Day” by Ryan Engle When a powerful and mysterious force invades an American city, a young father must traverse the battle-worn town in an effort to save his wounded wife and rescue their stranded children.
In the process, our hero becomes the target of an enemy who will stop at nothing to kill him. Agency: Original Artists — Chris Sablan, Matt Leipzig Manager: Mosaic — Michael Lasker, Langley Perer Producer: Ombra Films 8 votes: “The Pretty One” by Jenee LaMarque When a woman’s identical, “prettier” twin sister dies, the woman assumes her sister’s identity, moving into her apartment and the big city.
Agency: UTA — Carolyn Sivitz Manager: Management 360 — Mary Lee, Daniel Rappaport Producer: RCR Pictures, Steven J. Berger 7 votes: by David Matthews Two stories from 1974 are linked together — the unsolved murder of an Los Angeles Police Department officer and the nationally televised shootout in South Los Angeles between the members of the Symbionese Liberation Army and the LAPD in which 50,000 rounds of gunfire were exchanged. The events will be seen through the eyes of a pair of police partners, one black and one white. Agency: WME — Roger Green, Elia Infascelli-Smith Manager: The Schiff Co. — Nicole Romano Producer: Wolf Films 7 votes: “Christo” by Ian Shorr A man is unlawfully sentenced to an infamous prison and escapes, then transforms himself into the mysterious Christo and systematically destroys the men who manipulated and enslaved him. Agency: UTA — Charles Ferraro, Jason Burns Manager: Mosaic — Langley Perer Producer: Bellevue Productions and Langley Park Pictures producing for Warner Bros.
7 votes: by F. Scott Frazier After a military coup takes out the executive branch of government, the country’s survival depends on a Navy SEAL sniper extraction team getting the speaker of the House from Washington to New York. Agency: WME — Dan Cohan Mike Esola Manager: H2F — Chris Fenton, Chris Cowles Producer: Silver Pictures producing for Warner Bros.
7 votes: by Bryan Fuller A new adaptation of the story of the famous wooden puppet Pinocchio, who dreams of becoming a real boy. Agency: WME — Phil D’amecourt Producer: Dan Jinks Co.
Producing for Warner Bros. 7 votes: “Subject Zero” by Dave Cohen A Frankenstein-like tale of a scientist who develops a powerful new drug that brings his son back to life after he dies in a car accident. Unfortunately, the desperate experiment of a loving father leads to the creation of a flesh-eating zombie epidemic with horrific consequences. Agency: ICM — Kathleen Remingon, Emile Gladstone Manager: Generate — Jeremy Platt 7 votes: “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” by Tom O’Connor The world’s best bodyguard must protect his arch nemesis, the world’s top assassin, so he can testify against a brutal dictator and save his wife. Agency: UTA — Charles Ferraro, Barbara Dreyfus, Emerson Davis Manager: Industry Entertainment — Andrew Deane, Jess Rosenthal.
Producer: Skydance Productions 7 votes: “The Wedding” by Andrew Goldberg A group of couples deal with their respective issues as they attend a wedding. Agency: WME — Rich Cook Manager: Underground Films and Management — Josh Turner Maguire Producer: CBS Films 7 votes: “Untitled Hlavin Heist” by John Hlavin An American thief living in Paris is coerced into pulling of a complex heist in order to save his kidnapped wife. Agency — UTA — Jason Burns Producer: Film Rites producing for Dreamworks 6 votes: “Before I Fall” by Maria Maggenti When a popular teen girl is killed in a car crash, she relives the crucial day seven times and makes changes in an attempt to affect the outcome; in the process, she herself changes as she tries to make up for previous heartless, self-absorbed behavior and gains a better understanding of herself and others. She makes the connections necessary to save a bullied, depressed girl’s life and comes to accept her own fate. Agency: Paradigm — David Boxerbaum Manager: Madhouse Entertainment — Robyn Meisinger Producer: Jon Shestack Productions producing for Fox 2000 6 votes: “Breyton Ave” by J. Daniel Shaffer A group of teens living without adults and under their own social order in a small fenced-in neighborhood are forced to face what they fear is the inevitable physical danger beyond the fence.
Agency: Verve — Bryan Besser, Rob Herting Manager: Management 360 — Mary Lee, Jill McElroy Producer: Unbroken Films 6 votes: “El Fuego Caliente” by Ben Schwartz A remake of “Soapdish,” a desperate telenovela star dreaming of Hollywood stardom has her life implode, making her real life crazier than the insane show she made famous. Agency: WME — Rich Cook Manager: Tom Sawyer Entertainment — Jesse Hara, Rachel Miller Producer: Reiner-Greisman producing for Paramount Pictures 6 votes: “Guys Night” by Christopher Baldi Sick of brunches, bosses and light beer, four co-workers set out on the mother of all guys’ nights in an attempt to rediscover their manhood. Agency: CAA — Bill Zotti Manager: New Wave — Mike Goldberg, Josh Adler Producer: Jim Valdez, Matt Bass producing for Millennium Films 6 votes: “Hyperdrive” by Alex Ankeles, Morgan Jurgenson When a tough cop recruits a geeky sci-fi author to help him track down a mysterious murder witness, they find themselves in the middle of a space opera playing out here on Earth. Agency: CAA/APA: Bill Zotti (Ankeles), Ryan Saul (Jurgenson) Manager: Kaplan/Perrone (Ankeles) Producer: Disruption Entertainment producing for Paramount Pictures 6 votes: “Self/Less” by Alex Pastor, David Pastor An extremely wealthy, elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man, but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.
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UPDATED WITH VOTES, LOGLINES & REPS: The annual today revealed the best unproduced screenplays of the year, as voted on by over 250 film execs. A total of 72 scripts made the cut in the 2013 edition of the yearly ranking compiled since 2004 by Franklin Leonard, with Andrew Sodroski’s Holland, Michigan receiving the most votes of all. As usual there are plenty of familiar names on this list, including Jason Fuchs for his Pan screenplay that’s set up at Warner Bros with Joe Wright aboard to direct, and Jason Dean Hall’s American Sniper, another Warners project. Black List alumni that have gone on to Oscar and box office glory include Argo, The King’s Speech, and Slumdog Millionaire. This year 33.3 percent of Black List entries have financiers attached; 68 percent have producers attached; and 5 writers or writing teams don’t have agents. Here is the list by votes, with votes by agency and manager reps.
More complete info as it comes. Related: 2013 Black List Screenplays 46 HOLLAND, MICHIGAN Andrew Sodroski When a traditional Midwestern woman suspects her husband of infidelity, an amateur investigation unravels. Agency: CAA Agents: Jon Cassir, John Garvey, Ali Trustman Management: Principato-Young Entertainment Manager: Peter Dealbert Production: Le Grisbi Productions 44 SECTION 6 Aaron Berg An exploration of the formation of Great Britian’s secret intelligence agency, Military Intelligence, Section 6, known as MI6. Agency: Verve Agents: Bryan Besser, Adam Levine Management: Caliber Media Manager: Adam Marshall Financier: Universal Producers: Grey Matter Productions, Marc Platt Productions 39 FRISCO Simon Stephenson A forty-something pediatric allergist, who specializes in hazelnut and is facing a divorce, learns lessons in living from a wise-beyond-her-years terminally ill 15-year-old patient when she crashes his weekend trip to a conference in San Francisco. Agency: UTA Agents: Peter Dodd, Geoff Morley, Julien Thuan Producer: Tom McNulty 27 A MONSTER CALLS Patrick Ness An adolescent boy with a terminally ill single mother begins having visions of a tree monster, who tells him the truths about life in the form of three stories, helping him to eventually cope with his emotions over his dying mom. Agency: Michelle Kass Associates Agents: Michelle Kass 25 THE SPECIAL PROGRAM Debora Cahn The true story of Jack Goldsmith, a young attorney who took charge of the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel, then courageously took on Vice President Cheney and his powerful inner circle when he discovered they were running a number of illegal activities through their so-called “Special Program”.
Agency: CAA Agent: Craig Brody Financier: The Weinstein Company Producer: Spring Creek 24 HOT SUMMER NIGHTS Elijah Bynum A teenager’s life spirals out of control when he befriends the town’s rebel, falls in love, and gets entangled in selling drugs over one summer in Cape Cod. Agency: Verve Agents: Zach Carlisle, Tanya Cohen, Aaron Hart, Adam Levine, Melissa Solomon Management: Kaplan/Perrone Managers: Josh Goldenberg, Alex Lerner, Sean Perrone SOVEREIGN Geoff Tock, Greg Weidman A man goes to space to destroy the ship that, upon going sentient, killed his wife.
Agency: WME Agents: Daniel Cohan, Solco Schuit Management: Fourth Floor Productions Managers: Chris Goble, Jeff Silver Production: 21 Laps Entertainment 22 SHOVEL BUDDIES Jason Mark Hellerman Over 24 hours, four teenage friends try to complete the “Shovel List” (a will/bucket list) left for them by their best friend before he died of Leukemia. Agency: CAA Agents: John Garvey, Ali Trustman Management: Management 360 Managers: Ali Itri, Dean Schnider 20 POX AMERICANA Frank John Hughes In the Old West, a group of soldiers go on a mission to slaughter a peaceful tribe in retaliation for another tribe’s attack on a white settlement, only to suffer at the hands of a devastating disease. Agency: UTA Agents: Peter Dodd, Charles Ferraro Financier: Code Entertainment Producer: Code Entertainment REMINISCENCE Lisa Joy Nolan An “archeologist” whose technology allows you to relive your past finds himself abusing his own science to find the missing love of his life. Agency: UTA Agents: Kassie Evashevski, Keya Khayatian, Julien Thuan Financier: Legendary Entertainment THE INDEPENDENT Evan Parter With America’s first viable independent Presidential Candidate poised for victory, an idealistic young journalist uncovers a conspiracy, which places the fate of the election, and the country, in his hands. Agency: Paradigm Agent: Ida Ziniti Management: Madhouse Entertainment Manager: Ryan Cunningham 19 BEAST Zach Dean With the hope of starting over, a reformed criminal with an ultra-violent past returns home, but when he finds his own family leading his teenaged son down the same path of destruction, he will stop at nothing to save his child.
Agency: UTA Agent: Charles Ferraro Management: Madhouse Entertainment Manager: Adam Kolbrenner THE GOLDEN RECORD Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell The true story of how Carl Sagan fell in love while leading the wildest mission in NASA history: a golden record to encapsulate the experience of life on earth for advanced extraterrestrial life. Agency: Verve Agents: Tanya Cohen, Rob Hertling, Adam Levine Management: Hopscotch Pictures Manager: Sukee Chew Producer: Hopscotch Pictures 18 FAULTS Riley Stearns An expert on cults is hired by a mother and father to kidnap and deprogram their brainwashed daughter. He soon begins to suspect the parents may be more destructive than the cult he’s been hired to save her from.
Agency: WME Agent: Warren Zavala Management: Oasis Management Group Manager: Ben Rowe SWEETHEART Jack Stanley A young hitwoman tries to escape the business but finds herself in more danger after a high school reunion and a one-night stand. Agency: CAA Agents: Jon Cassir, John Garvey, Stuart Marshall Management: Silent R Management Manager: Jewerl Ross Producers: Cota Films, Silent R Management 17 SUPERBRAT Eric Slovin, Leo Allen Temperamental tennis champion John McEnroe is sucked into a dangerous and ludicrous law enforcement sting during Wimbledon in 1980. Agency: CAA Agents: Greg Cavic, Matt Martin, Gregory McKnight Management: Generate Manager: Kara Welker Producer: Ruby Films 16 DOGFIGHT Nicole Riegel A 15-year-old boy discovers that his kidnapped older brother has been living in a hidden, meth-producing compound, and infiltrates the camp in hopes of helping his brother escape. Agency: CAA Agents: Matt Martin, Matt Rosen Management: Anonymous Content Manager: Nicole Romano THE CIVILIAN Rachel Long, Brian Pittman After an American doctor has his identity stolen by a covert operative, he must assume the dangerous mission of the one who stole it in order to clear his name. Agency: UTA Agents: Rames Ishak, Michael Sheresky Management: Management 360 Manager: Scott Carr Financier: Millennium Films 15 BURN SITE Doug Simon After a young teenage girl is murdered, her stepfather falls back on his dark and violent past to find her killer. Agency: Verve Agents: Aaron Hart, Rob Hertling, Chris Noriega, Melissa Solomon Management: Generate Manager: Chris Pollack Producer: Generate, Sourian Productions QUEEN OF HEARTS Stephanie Shannon Oxford instructor Charles Dodgson (Louis Carroll) tells stories to the dean’s daughter Alice, and her sisters, while falling in love with the dean’s wife. Agency: CAA Agents: JP Evans, Matt Rosen Management: Brillstein Entertainment Partners Manager: David McIlvain Financier/producer: Odd Lot Entertainment 14 BROKEN COVE Declan O’Dwyer After his brother is found brutally murdered, a man hellbent on revenge returns to his decrepit Irish fishing village home armed only with a mysterious list of names his brother left behind.
Agency: WME Agents: Chris Donnelly, James Farrell, David Karp, Solco Schuit Management: Energy Entertainment Manager: Brooklyn Weaver Producer: Energy Entertainment, Thunder Road Productions GAY KID AND FAT CHICK Bo Burnham Two high school misfits become costumed vigilantes and take out their frustrations on the students who have bullied them throughout high school. Agency: CAA Agents: Jason Heyman, Greg McKnight Management: 3 Arts Entertainment Manager: Dave Becky Financier: Paramount Insurge 13 1969: A SPACE ODYSSEY OR HOW KUBRICK LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LAND ON THE MOON Stephany Folsom With NASA’s Apollo program in trouble and the Soviets threatening nuclear war, a female PR operative conspires with NASA’s Public Affairs Office to stage a fake moon landing in case Armstrong and Aldren fail, the goal being to generate public excitement that will aid the U.S.
In winning the Cold War. But the op is faced with the biggest challenge of all: Filming the fake lunar landing with temperamental Stanley Kubrick. Management: Kaplan/Perrone Manager: Aaron Kaplan AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE Richard Naing, Ian Goldberg A father/son mortician team try to uncover the cause of death on a Jane Doe. The more they uncover, the more mysterious and terrifying their world becomes. Agencies: APA (Naing), CAA (Goldberg) Agents: Mike Goldberg (Niang), Matt Rosen (Goldberg) Management: New Wave Entertainment Manager: Josh Adler Financier: Goldcrest Films International Producers: 42, Imposter Pictures THE MAYOR OF SHARK CITY Nick Creature, Michael Sweeney When a difficult film shoot spirals hopelessly out of control into a living nightmare, an ambitious young director must face his greatest fears to turn a troubled production into the biggest movie of all time. Set on Martha’s Vineyard during the summer of 1974, this is the untold story of the making of Jaws. Agency: Rothman Brecher Agent: Jim Ehrich Management: Heroes and Villains Entertainment Managers: Markus Georg, Mikhail Nayfeld WHERE ANGELS DIE Alexander Felix A street-tough, white social worker in the slums of Detroit acts on a dangerous and violent personal vendetta when he protects a young girl and her mother from her recently incarcerated, AIDS-infected boyfriend, after he abruptly massacres a seedy strip club in a rage.
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Agency: CAA Agents: Matt Martin, Ali Trustman Management: Energy Entertainment Managers: Tom Carter, Brooklyn Weaver Producer: Vertigo Entertainment 12 A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD Alexis C. Jolly Set in 1950s Manhattan, Fred Rogers journeys from a naive young man working for a NBC to the host of the beloved children’s TV show, Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood. Agency: APA Agents: Adam Perry, Chris Ridenhour Management: Echo Lake Entertainment Managers: Zadoc Angell, Dave Brown, James Engle, Amotz Zakai Financier/producer: Treehouse Pictures INK AND BONE Zak Olkewicz When a female book editor visits the home of a horror writer so he can complete his novel, she finds that all of his creations are holding him hostage. Agency: WME Agent: Daniel Cohan Management: Caliber Media Manager: Will Rowbotham Financier: Dimension Films Producer: Prolific 11 THE BOY AND HIS TIGER Dan Dollar The true story of Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin & Hobbes.
Agency: CAA Agents: Jon Cassir, Ali Trustman Management: Industry Entertainment Manager: Michael Botti Financier: Warner Bros Producers: Appian Way Productions, Vertigo Entertainment, Romark Entertainment THE KILLING FLOOR Bac Delorme, Stephen Clarke A war veteran slaughterhouse worker and his friend discover a small fortune in heroin hidden inside a processed cow and maneuver to hold onto their find and cash out to save his grandfather’s house as the bad guys come looking for their wayward stash. Agency: WME Agent: David Karp Management: Fourth Floor Productions Manager: Jeff Silver Producer: Le Grisbi Productions 10 I’M PROUD OF YOU Noah Harpster, Micah Fitzerman-Blue Based on Tim Madigan’s autobiographical novel of the same name. A journalist looking for a story about television’s role in the Columbine tragedy interviews TV’s Mr Rogers and, as a friendship develops between the two, he finds himself confronting his own issues at home.
Agency: UTA Agents: Jon Huddle, Keya Khayatian Management: Kaplan/Perrone Manager: Alex Lerner Financier: Big Beach Productions Producer: Youree Henley SEED Christina Hodson After suffering a devastating miscarriage a young woman and her fiance travel to Italy where she meets his family for the first time, but her grief turns to shock when the local doctor declares that she’s still pregnant. And while her fiance and his family seem delighted by the news, she begins to suspect their true motives are quiet sinister.
Agency: CAA Agents: Jay Baker, Matt Rosen Management: Kaplan/Perrone Manager: Tobin Babst Producer: The Safran Company, Temple Hill Entertainment THE COMPANY MAN Andrew Cypiot Based on true events. CIA agent Edwin Wilson went behind enemy lines to secure weapons contracts and report information back to the CIA shortly after the Cold War. He had a meteoric rise until company policies changed and he was unceremoniously fired, but he continued to operate as a man without a country and became public enemy number one in the U.S. Attorney’s office. Agency: Verve Agents: Rob Herting, Adam Weinstein Producers: Sourian Productions, Josh Kazdan THE SHARK IS NOT WORKING Richard Cordiner When his big break finally arrives, an idealistic young movie director, Steven Spielberg, risks failing to complete the movie Jaws when his 25-foot mechanical shark stops working. Agency: Verve Agents: Rob Herting, Adam Weinstein Management: Kaplan/Perrone Manager: Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone 9 THE CROWN Max Hurwitz In exchange for a lighter prison sentence, a young hacker goes undercover for the FBI in a sting operation to find and steal a super computer virus with the help of a team of unsuspecting hacker. Agency: CAA Agents: Jon Cassir, Jacqueline Sacerio Management: Fourth Floor Productions Manager: Jeff Silver Financier/producer: Start Motion Pictures DIABLO RUN Shea Mirzai, Evan Mirzai While on a road trip to Mexico, two best friends are forced to enter a thousand-mile death race with no rules.
Agency: Resolution Agents: Remington Franklin, Martin Spencer Producer: Atmosphere Entertainment RANDLE IS BENIGN Damien Ober Follows a woman in the ’80s who works at an IBM-like company and is at the forefront of national intelligence research. When her project (named RANDLE) hits a major milestone indicating that she may have actually achieved AI, it is unexpectedly hijacked by the agenda of the company’s mysterious CEO. As she dives deeper into the corporate agenda, she learns that there may be a connection between her project and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Agency: WME Agents: Simon Faber, Solco Schuit Management: Echo Lake Entertainment Manager: Zadoc Angell, Dave Brown, James Engle Financier/producer: Echo Lake Entertainment TCHAIKOVSKY’S REQUIEM Jonathan Stokes A conductor investigates the great composer’s seemingly unnatural death and unlocks the mysteries of the man himself while preparing to debut Tchaikovsky’s final symphony.
Agency: UTA Agents: Ramses Ishak, Geoff Morely, Michael Sheresky Management: Management SGC Manager: Scott Carr 8 LINE OF DUTY Cory Miller Macbeth meets The Departed in the modern retelling of Shakespeare’s play, focusing on the tragic rise and fall of NYPD officer Sean Stewart, a heroic narcotics detective pushed to the dark side of police corruption by his scheming wife and a well-timed prophecy. Agency: APA Agents: Adam Perry, Chris Ridenhour Management: Luber Roklin Management Manager: Bryan Brucks Financier: Lotus Entertainment Producers: Bedford Falls, Jim Belushi, Luber Roklin Entertainment INQUEST Josh Simon After the death of Princess Diana, a reluctant investigator is hired to ascertain whether her death was premeditated. And in the process, he begins to uncover a conspiracy that compromises his own safely. Agency: WME Agents: Mike Esola Management: Apostle Pictures Manager: George Heller Financer/producer: Start Motion Pictures CAPSULE Ian Shorr A young man’s life is turned upside down when he mysteriously begins to receive metallic capsules containing messages from his future self. Agency: UTA Agents: Charles Ferraro Management: Mosaic Manager: Langley Perer Financier: Fox Producer: Hutch Parker Entertainment FULLY WRECKED Jake Morse, Scott Wolman An R-rated talking car from the ’80s is brought back into service and teamed up with the son of his former partner, a befuddled cop looking to earn his stripes. Management: Kaplan/Perrone Manager: Josh Goldenberg Producer: Hurwitz & Schlossberg Productions SPOTLIGHT Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy The true-life account of the Boston Globe’s breaking of the Catholic priest scandal in 2003. Agencies: Gersh (McCarthy), WME (Singer) Agents: Rhonda Price (McCarthy), Ari Greenberg (Singer) Management: Anonymous Content (Singer) Manager: Michael Sugar (Singer) Producer: Anonymous Content EXTINCTION Spenser Cohen A man must do everything he can to save his family from an alien invasion.
Agency: WME Agent: Solco Schuit Management: Energy Entertainment Manager: Brooklyn Weaver Financier: Good Universe Producer: Mandeville Films REVELATION Hernany Perla A prison psychiatrist meets a death row inmate on the verge of his execution who claims to be the only thing stopping the end of the world. As she begins to investigate his predictions, she finds them to be eerily accurate, and that she may be a central figure in the events to come. Agency: Original Artists Agent: Chris Sablan Management: Madhouse Entertainment Manager: Ryan Cunningham Financier: Lotus Entertainment Producer: Circle Of Confusion ELSEWHERE Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis After his girlfriend dies in a car accident, a man finds his true soulmate, only to wake from a coma to learn his perfect life was just a dream — one he is determined to make real. Agency: Paradigm Agent: David Boxerbaum Management: Madhouse Entertainment Manager: Adam Kolbrenner Producer: Madhouse Entertainment CLARITY Ryan Belenzon, Jeffrey Gelber What if a world woke up tomorrow to scientific proof of the afterlife? Agency: Paradigm Agents: Nick LoPiccolo, Ida Ziniti Management: Fourth Floor Productions Manager: Jeff Silver Producer: Bona Fide Productions THE POLITICIAN Matthew Bass, Theodore Bressman A disgraced governor and his underachieving accomplice go on the run from the FBI, U.S.
Marshals and a gang of hardened drug dealers. Agency: WME Agents: Rich Cook, Solco Schuit Management: Circle of Confusion (Bass), Principato-Young Entertainment (Bressman) Manager: Julian Rosenberg (Bass), Peter Principato (Bressman) Financier: Sony Producer: The Mark Gordon Company, Point Grey Pictures AMERICAN SNIPER Jason Dean Hall Based on Chris Kyle’s autobiography American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper In U.S. Military History. Agency: CAA Agent: Jay Baker Management: Management 360 Manager: Dan Friedman Financier: Warner Bros Producer: 22nd & Indiana, Mad Chance Productions THE LINE Sang Kyu Kim A corrupt bordercrossing agent must decide what is more important — saving his soul or inflating his bank account — when he discovers a young illegal boy who escaped a cartel hit on the border between the U.S. Agency: CAA Agent: Matt Rosen Producer: 42 HALF HEARD IN THE STILLNESS David Weil A young man, who is inadvertently rescued after living 10 years in the basement of the child predator who abducted him, struggles to reunite with his family, while the detective in charge of his case investigates the link between his discovery and the recent disappearance of another local boy. Agency: Gersh Agent: Carlos Gonzalez Management: Unified Management Manager: Jesse Moresco Producer: Rebecca Eskreis TIME & TEMPERATURE Nick Santora Based on a true story, Dale Julin (a low-level Fresno affiliate morning show host) stumbles upon the biggest story of his life — and though he has reached the midpoint of his career without ever being a “real journalist” — risks his safety and his marriage to uncover the truth that a small atomic bomb exploded in Central Valley, California, during the Korean War — a secret that has been hidden for decades. Agency: WME Agent: Jason Spitz Management: The Gotham Group Managers: Jeremy Bell, Stephan Iwanyk, Lindsay Williams CAKE Patrick Tobin A woman who’s been suffering from chronic pain since the car accident that cost the life of her child finds the will to go on from the most unexpected places.
Agency: WME Agents: Adriana Alberghetti, Kimberly Bialek Producer: Ben Barnz 7 PURE O Kate Trefry In order to overcome violent visions brought on by OCD, a promising young writer is urged by family and friends to step outside her comfort zone to experience the excitement and vulnerability of truly living. Management: Caliber Media Manager: Lee Stobby THE END OF THE TOUR Donald Margulies Upon hearing of David Foster Wallace’s suicide, writer David Lipsky recalls his 1996 interview with him. Agency: WME Agents: Kimberly Bialek, David Lubliner Management: Anonymous Content Manager: David Kanter Producer: Anonymous Content NICHOLAS Leo Sardarian With the Roman Empire on the brink of collapse, a fourth century bishop takes up arms to lead the armies of Constantine the Great into battle against the ruthless emperor, changing the face of Rome and begetting one of the greatest legends in history. Agency: APA Agents: Adam Perry, Chris Ridenhour Management: Management 360 Managers: Ali Itri, Adam Riback Producer: Level 1 Entertainment MAN OF SORROW Neville Kiser Based on true events, the story centers on Oscar Wilde who goes from renowned playwright to losing everything personally and professionally. Management: Principato-Young Entertainment Manager: Peter Dealbert DIG Adam Barker After his villainous father-in-law kidnaps his daughters, Sol, a tough-as-nails mountain man, travels across the frigid Appalachian mountains seeking vengeance. Agency: ICM Agent: Lars Theriot Management: Industry Entertainment Manager: Michael Botti Producer: Industry Entertainment THE FIXER Bill Kennedy A man who works in wealth management, and also has his hands in a number of less than ethical enterprises, begins collaborating with a Los Angeles-based drug dealer.
The dealer just so happens to have the man’s son as one of his runners in the drug-fueled LA nightlife. Agency: WME Agent: Daniel Cohan Management: Kaplan/Perrone Manager: Josh Goldenberg SUGAR IN MY VEINS Barbara Stepansky A 14-year-old female prodigy finds companionship for the first time when she befriends a handsome older man. Agency: ICM Agents: Cullen Conly, Kathleen Remington Management: HertzbergMedia Manager: Alex Hertzberg SEA OF TREES Chris Sparling An American man takes a journey into the infamous “Suicide Forest” at the foothills of Mount Fuji with the intention of taking his own life. When he is interrupted by a Japanese man who has had second thoughts about his own suicide, and is trying to find his way out of the forest, the two begin a journey of reflection and survival. Agency: UTA Agent: Charles Ferraro Management: Kaplan/Perrone Manager: Aaron Kaplan Producer: Gil Netter Productions MAKE A WISH Zach Frankel A 14-year-old boy with terminal cancer has one last wish — to lose his virginity — and convinces his reluctant football star Make-A-Wish partner to help him score. Agency: WME Agents: Ryan Feldman, Solco Schuit, Sarah Self Management: Untitled Entertainment Managers: Ben Curtis, Jason Newman, Jason Weinberg Producer: Inspire Entertainment, State Street Pictures 6 BURY THE LEAD Justin Kremer A desperate, attention-hungry journalist concocts a story that ironically proves to be true and finds himself engulfed in a dangerous underworld of murder and mayhem. Agency: CAA Agents: Jon Cassir, Matt Rosen, Ali Trustman Management: Madhouse Entertainment Manager: Adam Kolbrenner FROM HERE TO ALBION Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani A tragic accident in a coastal English town sets off a chain of violence when a malevolent assassin attempts to punish all involved, including a dirty cop who is intent on covering up the truth.
Agency: UTA Agents: Carolyn Sivitz, Melissa Wells Management: Oasis Media Group Manager: Ben Rowe Financier/producer: Participant Media FREE BYRD Jon Boyer After being diagnosed with dementia, a retired fiftysomething stunt motorcyclist sets out to perform one last jump. Agency: WME Agents: David Karp, Phil Raskind Management: Zero Gravity Manager: Eric Williams Producer: Gil Netter Productions BEAUTY QUEEN Annie Neal An unhappily married woman and her best friend go on a road trip to Las Vegas to compete in the Miss Married America competition.
Agency: Paradigm Agents: Chris Smith, Ida Ziniti Management: Benderspink Manager: Daniel Yang, Jake Wagner THE REMAINS Meaghan Oppenheimer Three former childhood friends with a complicated history get back together to spread the ashes of their friend who recently died. Agency: CAA Agents: Rowena Arguelles, Melissa Wells Management: Underground Manager: Evan Silverberg LAST MINUTE MAIDS Leo Nichols Two lovable losers run into trouble after they start a service cleaning up the stuff you don’t want your loved ones to find once you die. Management: Benderspink Manager: Jake Wagner PAN Jason Fuchs A prequel to JM Barrie’s Peter Pan. When an orphan is taken to the magical world of Neverland, he becomes a hero to the natives and leads a revolt against the evil pirates. Agency: WME Agents: Simon Farber, Phil Raskind Management: Brookside Artist Management Financier: Warner Bros Producer: Berlanti Productions DUDE Olivia Milch The story of four best girlfriends who must learn how to move forward without moving on, as they come down off their “high” of high school in this “Fast Times-esque” teenage comedy. Agency: ICM Agents: John Burnham, Brian Diperstein Management: Mosaic Managers: Jimmy Miller, Langley Perer PATIENT Z Michael Le In a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies, a man who speaks their language questions the undead in order to find a cure for his infected wife. Agency: APA Agent: David Saunders Management: Hung Entertainment Group Manager: Jonathan Hung Financier: Screen Gems Producer: Vincent Newman Entertainment MISSISSIPPI MUD Elijah Bynum In the middle of major financial problems, a down on his luck Southerner’s life begins to unravel when he accidentally runs over and kills a runaway girl.
Agency: Verve Agents: Zach Carlisle, Tanya Cohen, Aaron Hart, Adam Levine, Melissa Solomon Management: Kaplan/Perrone Manager: Josh Goldenberg, Alex Lerner, Sean Perrone Producer: Darko Entertainment Related.
Examples from the list BASTARDS by Justin Malen Two brothers, raised to believe their biological father died, find out their mother slept with many powerful and famous men in the 1970s, and the siblings hit the road to find their real father. CRAZY FOR THE STORM by Will Fetters The true story of Norman Ollestad’s relationship with his father, who thrust the boy into the world of extreme surfing and competitive downhill skiing at the age of three. But it was that experience that allowed an 11-year old Norman to survive a plane crash amidst a blizzard in the San Gabriel mountains. ST VINCENT DE VAN NUYS by Ted Melfi When a twelve year old boy in need of a babysitter moves in next door to a misanthropic aging retiree whose life mainly consists of gambling, hookers, and drinking, the elder becomes an unlikely mentor to the boy. BRIDGES ON THE FORT POINT CHANNEL by Chuck Maclean An Irish family in the 1970s, dealing with the loss of their father and the busing of black kids into white neighborhoods, decides to blow up all the bridges in Boston. FATHER DAUGHTER TIME: A TALE OF ARMED ROBBERY AND ESKIMO KISSES by Matthew Aldrich A man goes on a three state crime spree with an accomplice, his eleven year old daughter.
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A screenplay titled THE IMITATION GAME by Graham Moore, about British WWII cryptographer Alan Turing who cracked the German Enigma code and later poisoned himself after being criminally prosecuted for being a homosexual, tops 2011′s THE BLACK LIST. (I covered the screenplay sale here:.) Once again, Deadline Hollywood is first to post in its entirety THE BLACK LIST, which for the uninitiated is film executive Franklin Leonard’s hot unproduced screenplay which he began in 2004. Compiled every year from the suggestions of hundreds of film executives, each contributes the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2011 and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year. THE BLACK LIST does catapult dozens of scripts into production and screenwriters out of oblivion. Diablo Cody’s Juno, Nancy Oliver’s Lars And The Real Girl, Scott Neustader’s and Michael Weber’s 500 Days Of Summer, are just some of the screenplays which appeared on The Black List and then were made. I’ve noticed that it’s also a “big dick” measuring contest for the Hollywood agencies and their motion picture lit departments. Problem is, some screenwriters think this list isn’t on the up-and-up and accuse junior studio execs and assistants along with self-interested agents and managers of getting together to push their own clients on projects even if already abandoned.
Also, if you spot inaccuracies, take it up with Leonard: I do not alter his list. Anyway, climb off the ledge if you’re not on THE BLACK LIST. And, if you did make the cut, then congratulations: The Black List was compiled from the suggestions of over 300 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2011 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year. This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the The Black List. All reasonable effort has been made to confirm the information contained herein. The Black List apologizes for all misspellings, misattributions, incorrect representation identification, and questionable 2011 affiliations.
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It has been said many times, but it’s worth repeating: The Black List is not a “best of “ list. It is, at best, a “most liked” list. 133 THE IMITATION GAME by Graham Moore The story of British WWII cryptographer Alan Turing, who cracked the German Enigma code and later poisoned himself after being criminally pros¬ecuted for being a homosexual.
AGENCY: CAA AGENT: JP Evans, Jacqueline Sacerio MANAGEMENT: The Safran Company MANAGER: Tom Drumm FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Ido Ostrowsky, Nora Grossman 84 WHEN THE STREET LIGHTS GO ON by Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe In the early 1980s, a town suffers through the aftermath of a brutal murder of a high school girl and a teacher. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Simon Faber, Sarah Self MANAGEMENT: Tariq Merhab Management MANAGER: Tariq Merhab PRODUCER: Imagine Entertainment 59 CHEWIE by Evan Susser, Van Robichaux A satirical behind the scenes look at the making of Star Wars through the eyes of Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Mike Esola MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment MANAGER: Jess Rosenthal 53 THE OUTSIDER by Andrew Baldwin In post World War II Japan, an American former prisoner-of-war rises in the yakuza. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Jay Baker, John Garvey MANAGEMENT: Anonymous Content MANAGER: Bard Dorros, David Kanter FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Linson Entertainment 43 FATHER DAUGHTER TIME: A TALE OF ARMED ROBBERY AND ESKIMO KISSES by Matthew Aldrich A man goes on a three state crime spree with an accomplice, his eleven year old daughter. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: John Garvey, Stuart Manashil MANAGEMENT: Silent R Management MANAGER: Jewerl Ross FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Pearl Street Productions 33 IN THE EVENT OF A MOON DISASTER by Mike Jones An alternate telling of the historic APOLLO 11 mission to land on the moon that examines what might have happened if the astronauts had crash landed there.
AGENCY: CAA AGENT: David Kopple, JP Evans, Matt Rosen MANAGEMENT: The Gotham Group MANAGER: Lindsay Williams PRODUCER: FilmNation 30 MAGGIE by John Scott 3 As a “walking dead” virus spreads across the country, a farm family helps their eldest daughter come to terms with her infection as she slowly becomes a flesh-eating zombie. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Billy Hawkins, Dan Rabinow MANAGEMENT: Sly Predator MANAGER: Trevor Kaufman FINANCIER: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam PRODUCER: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Trevor Kaufman, Matthew Baer 30 THE CURRENT WAR by Michael Mitnick Based on the true story of the race between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to develop a practical system of electricity and sell their respective inventions to the country and the world.
AGENCY: WME AGENT: Simon Faber MANAGEMENT: Fourth Floor Productions MANAGER: Jeff Silver 28 THE END by Aron Eli Coleite Four people – a veteran broadcaster in London, a sixteen year old girl and her boyfriend in Ann Arbor, and a devoted family man in Shanghai – each try to make peace with their lives before an interstellar event ends the world in six hours. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Matt Rosen, Martin Spencer FINANCIER: Warner Brothers 27 BEYOND THE PALE by Chad Feehan Teenage siblings suspect they’ve been ripped off by the town undertaker, but what they discover is much more sinister than either imagined. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Matt Rosen, Jacqueline Sacerio MANAGEMENT: Management 360 MANAGER: Guymon Casady, Mary Lee FINANCIER: Vendome Pictures PRODUCER: The Fort 27 EZEKIEL MOSS by Keith Bunin A mysterious stranger who possibly has the power to channel the souls of the dead changes the lives of everyone in a small Nebraska town, especially a young widow and her 11-year-old son. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Rowena Arguelles MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone MANAGER: Alex Lerner, Sean Perrone PRODUCER: A Likely Story, Mandalay Pictures 24 GRACE OF MONACO by Arash Amel Grace Kelly, age 33 and having given up her acting career to focus on being a full time princess, uses her political maneuvering behind the scenes to save Monaco while French Leader Charles de Gaulle and Monaco’s Prince Rainier III are at odds over the princi¬pality’s standing as a tax haven.
AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Rich Green, Matt Rosen FINANCIER: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam PRODUCER: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam 24 HE’S FUCKIN’ PERFECT by Lauryn Kahn A social media savvy girl who is pessimistic about love finds the perfect guy and decides to use her internet research skills to turn herself into his perfect match. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Cliff Roberts FINANCIER: Fox 2000 PRODUCER: Gary Sanchez 23 BETHLEHEM by Larry Brenner A group of people struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse make an alliance with a vampire, trading themselves as food in exchange for protection since zombies don’t eat vampire. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Martin Spencer, Jacqueline Sacerio MANAGEMENT: Magnet Management MANAGER: Mitch Solomon PRODUCER: Roth Films 20 THE THREE MISFORTUNES OF GEPPETTO: by Michael Vukadinovich A prequel to the story of Pinocchio in which Geppetto endures a life of misfortune, war, and ad¬venture, all to be with Julia Moon, his true love. AGENCY: ICM AGENT: Ava Jamshidi FINANCIER: Fox PRODUCER: 21 Laps Entertainment 20 POWELL by Ed Whitworth Based on the true story of Colin Powell questioning the Bush administration leading up to his United Nations presentation where he made the case for going to war with Iraq. AGENCY: WME AGENT: David Karp, Cliff Roberts, Dan Cohan MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion MANAGER: Ashley Berns PRODUCER: Spirit Dance Entertainment 19 THE KNOLL: by Christopher Cantwell, Christopher Rogers A rookie cop and his potential flame witness JFK gunned down from the grassy knoll on November 22, 1963. Within hours, they’re on the run from the murderers who desperately need them silenced.
AGENCY: ICM AGENT: Aaron Hart MANAGEMENT: Management 360 MANAGER: Jennifer Graham, Chris Huvane PRODUCER: Management 360 17 HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY: by Ed Solomon A child prodigy tries to take control of his life away from his demanding parents. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Jay Baker, Todd Feldman, David O’Connor FINANCIER: Sony PRODUCER: Escape Artists 17 DESPERATE HOURS by E Nicholas Mariani A small town crippled by WWI and the Spanish flu finds itself facing major moral questions and a brutal invading force when a young girl shows up on a rancher’s doorstep covered in blood.
AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Charles Ferraro, Jenny Maryasis MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion MANAGER: Britton Rizzio FINANCIER: GK Films PRODUCER: Infinitum Nihil 17 A MANY SPLINTERED THING by Chris Shafer, Paul Vicknair When a charming heartbreaker finally meets a girl he can’t have, he discovers the true meaning of love by living out other people’s love stories and writing his own. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Jon Huddle, Jason Burns, Max Michael MANAGEMENT: Brillstein Entertainment Partners MANAGER: Missy Malkin PRODUCER: Wonderland Sound and Vision 17 FLARSKY by Daniel Sterling A political journalist courts his old babysitter, who is now the United States secretary of state.
AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Julien Thuan PRODUCER: Point Grey Pictures 17 BLOOD MOUNTAIN by Jonathan Stokes After his team is ambushed and killed in Pakistan, a young army ranger must escort the world’s most wanted terrorist over dangerous terrain in order to bring him to justice. While being hunted by both of their enemies, they must find a way to work together in order to survive. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Ramses Ishak, Michael Sheresky, Geoff Morley MANAGEMENT: Energy Entertainment MANAGER: Brooklyn Weaver 17 BASTARDS by Justin Malen Two brothers, raised to believe their biological father died, find out their mother slept with many powerful and famous men in the 1970s, and the siblings hit the road to find their real father. AGENCY: Verve AGENT: Bill Weinstein, Rob Herting MANAGEMENT: H2F MANAGER: Chris Fenton FINANCIER: Paramount PRODUCER: The Montecito Picture Company 17 CRAZY FOR THE STORM by Will Fetters The true story of Norman Ollestad’s relationship with his father, who thrust the boy into the world of extreme surfing and competitive downhill skiing at the age of three.
But it was that experience that allowed an 11-year old Norman to survive a plane crash amidst a blizzard in the San Gabriel mountains. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Elia Infascelli-Smith MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment MANAGER: Oliver Obst FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Billy Gerber 16 THE SLACKFI PROJECT by Howard Overman A hapless and broken hearted barista is visited by two bad-ass soldiers from the future who tell him mankind is doomed, and he alone can save them. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Julien Thuan FINANCIER: Sony PRODUCER: Matt Tolmach Productions 14 THE MUSEUM OF BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS by Natalie Krinsky Lucy, a twenty-eight year old junior curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, is sleeping with her boss. When he dumps her she begins a collection of “break up items” and starts a blog which goes viral. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Jessica Matthews MANAGEMENT: The Gotham Group MANAGER: Jim Garavente, Jeremy Bell 14 ST VINCENT DE VAN NUYS by Ted Melfi When a twelve year old boy in need of a babysitter moves in next door to a misanthropic aging retiree whose life mainly consists of gambling, hookers, and drinking, the elder becomes an unlikely mentor to the boy. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Ramses Ishak, Michael Sheresky MANAGEMENT: Infinity Management International MANAGER: Jon Karas FINANCIER: Fox PRODUCER: Chernin Entertainment, Crescendo Productions 14 DJANGO UNCHAINED by Quentin Tarantino A freed slave named Django is trained as a bounty hunter by a German dentist named Schultz, and the two men set out to find Django’s enslaved wife.
AGENCY: WME AGENT: Mike Simpson FINANCIER: The Weinstein Company, Sony PRODUCER: Double Feature Films, The Weinstein Company 13 THE ACCOUNTANT by Bill Dubuque The Treasury Department pursues a brilliant, autistic accountant who doubles as an assassin and “problem-solves” with precision in more ways than one. AGENCY: Paradigm AGENT: Trevor Astbury MANAGEMENT: Zero Gravity Management MANAGER: Eric Williams PRODUCER: Silverwood Films 13 SAVING MR. BANKS by Kelly Marcel The story of how Walt Disney got the rights for Mary Poppins.
AGENCY: WME AGENT: Phil Raskind, David Karp PRODUCER: Ruby Films 12 BRIDGES ON THE FORT POINT CHANNEL by Chuck Maclean An Irish family in the 1970s, dealing with the loss of their father and the busing of black kids into white neighbor-hoods, decides to blow up all the bridges in Boston. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Billy Hawkins MANAGEMENT: Oasis Media Group MANAGER: Allison Doyle, Ben Rowe 12 THE BIG STONE GRID by Craig Zahler A cop is pulled into an underworld organization that brutally murders people to extort money out of others. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Julien Thuan, Emerson Davis MANAGEMENT: Caliber Media MANAGER: Dallas Sonnier FINANCIER: Sony PRODUCER: Michael De Luca Productions 12 CITIES OF REFUGE by Brandon Willer A former FBI psychologist is called in to investigate when a young girl goes missing after the apparent murder of her father and brother by two strangers in a small Oklahoma town. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Phil D’amecourt, Jeff Gorin MANAGEMENT: Benderspink MANAGER: Jake Weiner PRODUCER: Tower Hill, Benderspink, Charlize Theron 12 GOOD KIDS by Chris McCoy Four overachieving high school students in Cape Cod reinvent themselves during the summer after graduation. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Simon Faber, Jeff Gorin, Sharon Jackson MANAGEMENT: The Gotham Group MANAGER: Shawn Simon PRODUCER: Depth of Field 11 LEAVING PETE by Ali Waller, Morgan Murphy A recently divorced author is stunned when his ex writes a popular book about their breakup, and he has to keep that fact secret from his new girlfriend, who works for the book’s publisher.
AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Bill Zotti, Andy Elkin 11 HIDDEN by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer An elevated horror-thriller about a family hiding in a bomb shelter after escaping a mysterious outbreak. AGENCY: Paradigm AGENT: Chris Smith MANAGEMENT: MXN MANAGER: Mason Novick FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Mason Novick, Roy Lee, Lawrence Grey 11 DIRTY GRANDPA by John Phillips A young groom engaged to a demanding woman is forced to spend the week before his wedding with his half-blind, half-crazy, and wholly horny grandfather. Through this wild journey, his grandfather shows him how to take life by the balls and lead with his heart. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Jon Huddle, Steven Fisher FINANCIER: Universal PRODUCER: Josephson Entertainment 11 GRIM NIGHT by Allen Bey, Brandon Bestenheider A family has to defend themselves from the Grims, strange creatures who attack Earth and kill thousands one night every year.
AGENCY: Verve AGENT: Bryan Besser FINANCIER: Universal PRODUCER: Marc Platt Productions, Unbroken Pictures 10 WATCH ROGER DO HIS THING by Michael Starrbury A retired hitman gets roped back into his old trade in order to save his friend’s life and quickly finds himself caught in a struggle trying to finish the job, and get his family out of Chicago alive at the same time. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Bill Zotti, Dan Rabinow MANAGEMENT: Caliber Media MANAGER: Dallas Sonnier, Julian Rosenberg PRODUCER: Tripp Vinson, One Race Films 10 THE FLAMINGO THIEF by Mike Lesieur Grief stricken over his wife leaving him, a man finds solace in an odd activity swiping figurines of flamingos. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Rich Green, Adam Kanter MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone MANAGER: Sean Perrone PRODUCER: Kaplan/Perrone, Red Hour 10 TWO NIGHT STAND by Mark Hammer After an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice.
They’re now trapped together in a tiny apartment, forced to get to know each other way more than any one night stand should. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Carolyn Sivitz MANAGEMENT: The Safran Company MANAGER: Tom Drumm 10 SEX TAPE by Kate Angelo When a married couple make a sex tape to spice up their relationship, it disappears, and they are frantic to get it back. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Jason Burns FINANCIER: Sony PRODUCER: Escape Artists 10 THE GUN EATERS by Alex Paraskevas, Jordan Goldberg Four hardened New York detectives race to apprehend a relentless spree-killer who’s executing victims from Queens to Southampton in the span of a single day. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Rebecca Ewing, Keya Khayatian MANAGEMENT: Oasis Media Group MANAGER: Ben Rowe PRODUCER: Oasis Media Group 10 LITTLE WHITE CORVETTE by Michael Diliberti A down and out brother and sister go to Miami to sell a duffel bag of cocaine that they found in the trunk of a corvette left them by their dead father. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Phil Raskind, Simon Faber MANAGEMENT: New School Media MANAGER: Brian Levy PRODUCER: Scott Aversano Productions 9 JANE GOT A GUN by Brian Duffield After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn’t seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband’s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job. AGENCY: Gersh AGENT: Devra Lieb, Bob Hohman, Bayard Maybank MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion MANAGER: Zach Cox, Noah Rosen 9 THE LAST WITNESS by Stefan Jaworski An FBI Agent interrogates an amnesiac, sole survivor of a Boston bombing in order to prevent future terrorist attacks. AGENCY: Paradigm AGENT: Trevor Astbury, Valarie Phillips, Ida Ziniti FINANCIER: Fox PRODUCER: Davis Entertainment 9 MURDERS & ACQUISITIONS by Jonathan Stokes The world of high-stakes finance collides with that of high-priced hitmen when an ousted CEO decides to hire an assassin to kill the corporate raider who stole his company.
AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Ramses Ishak, Michael Sheresky, Geoff Morley MANAGEMENT: Energy Entertainment MANAGER: Brooklyn Weaver FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: KatzSmith Productions 9 FLASHBACK by Will Honley A former NASA pilot with amnesia — also the first person to travel the speed of light — realizes he has the ability to travel back in time and along the way rediscovers his love for his wife. AGENCY: Verve AGENT: Adam Levine MANAGEMENT: Nuclear Entertainment MANAGER: Nick Fariabi, Jesse Silver 9 THE LAST DROP by Brandon Murphy, Phil Murphy A fully functioning alcoholic meets the girl of his dreams and soon discovers that there’s a lot more at stake than love if he doesn’t clean up his act. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Rich Cook MANAGEMENT: Mosaic MANAGER: Langley Perer FINANCIER: Mandate Pictures PRODUCER: Greg Shapiro 9 FRIEND OF BILL by Harper Dill After a humiliating episode in New York, a young woman returns to her hometown and tries to deal with her alcoholism. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Sarah Self, Jeff Gorin, Sharon Jackson MANAGER: Mike Dill PRODUCER: Marc Platt Productions, Neda Armian 8 DEAD OF WINTER by Sarah Conradt A teenage girl heads to a remote cabin in the moun¬tains with her father and new stepmother – an experience the father hopes will bond the two ladies. But when a mysterious wounded Park Ranger shows up, family bonding will be the least of their concerns. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Jacqueline Sacerio MANAGEMENT: Hopscotch Pictures MANAGER: Sukee Chew FINANCIER: Lionsgate (distrib), Wind Dancer (financing) PRODUCER: Sherryl Clark, Hopscotch Pictures 8 ON A CLEAR DAY by Ryan Engle When a powerful and mysterious force invades an American city, a young father must traverse the battle-torn city in an effort to save his wounded wife and rescue their stranded children.
In the process, our hero becomes the target of an enemy who will stop at nothing to kill him. AGENCY: Original Artists AGENT: Chris Sablan, Matt Leipzig MANAGEMENT: Mosaic MANAGER: Michael Lasker, Langley Perer PRODUCER: Ombra Films 8 HOME BY CHRISTMAS – BOB HOPE IN KOREA by Ben Schwartz Young Larry Gelbart goes on tour with his idol Bob Hope in the middle of the Korean War and learns the true price of patriotism. AGENCY: The Nethercott Agency AGENT: Gayla Nethercott PRODUCER: Jon Shestack Productions, Pink Slip Productions 8 THE PRETTY ONE by Jenee LaMarque When a woman’s identical “prettier” twin sister dies, the woman assumes her sister’s identity, moving into her apartment and the big city. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Carolyn Sivitz MANAGEMENT: Management 360 MANAGER: Mary Lee, Daniel Rappaport PRODUCER: RCR Pictures, Steven J Berger 8 BAD WORDS by Andrew Dodge The bastard child of the organizer of the national spelling bee gets his revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win the bee as an adult, only to find friendship in a young Indian contestant. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Carolyn Sivitz MANAGEMENT: Fourth Floor Productions MANAGER: Jeff Silver FINANCIER: Darko PRODUCER: MXN 8 JURASSIC PARK by Imran Zaidi A high school couple and two of their friends ditch school to catch a special preview screening of JURASSIC PARK. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Jason Burns, Jenny Maryasis MANAGEMENT: Management 360 MANAGER: Darin Friedman 8 GASLIGHT by Ian Fried Secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum, the infamous Jack the Ripper helps Scotland Yard investigators solve a series of grisly murders whose victims all share one thing in common: dual puncture wounds to the neck.
AGENCY: WME AGENT: Dan Cohan, Mike Esola MANAGEMENT: Prolific MANAGER: Will Rowbotham 7 SUBJECT ZERO by Dave Cohen A Frankenstein-like tale of a scientist who develops a powerful new drug that brings his son back to life after he dies in a terrible car accident. Unfortunately, the desperate experiment of a loving father leads to the creation of a flesh-eating zombie epidemic with horrific consequences. AGENCY: ICM AGENT: Kathleen Remington, Emile Gladstone MANAGEMENT: Generate MANAGER: Jeremy Platt 7 THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD by Tom O’Connor The world’s best bodyguard must protect his arch nemesis, the world’s top assassinso he can testify against a brutal dictator and save his wife. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Charles Ferraro, Barbara Dreyfus, Emerson Davis MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment MANAGER: Andrew Deane, Jess Rosenthal PRODUCER: Skydance Productions 7 CRISTO by Ian Shorr A man is unlawfully sentenced to an infamous prison and escapes, then transforms himself into the mysterious Cristo and systematically destroys the men who manipulated and enslaved him. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Charles Ferraro, Jason Burns MANAGEMENT: Mosaic MANAGER: Langley Perer FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Bellevue Productions, Langley Park Pictures 7 UNTITLED HLAVIN HEIST by John Hlavin An American thief living in Paris is coerced into pulling off a complex heist in order to save his kidnapped wife. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Jason Burns FINANCIER: DreamWorks PRODUCER: Film Rites 7 LINE OF SIGHT by F Scott Frazier After a military coup takes out the executive branch of government, the country’s survival depends on a Navy Seal sniper extraction team getting the Speaker of the House from Washington DC to New York. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Dan Cohan, Mike Esola MANAGEMENT: H2F MANAGER: Chris Fenton, Chris Cowles FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Silver Pictures 7 PINOCCHIO by Bryan Fuller A wooden puppet, Pinocchio, dreams of becoming a real boy.
AGENCY: WME AGENT: Phil D’amecourt FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Dan Jinks Company 7 THE WEDDING by Andrew Goldberg A group of couples deal with their respective issues as they attend a wedding. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Rich Cook MANAGEMENT: Underground Films and Management MANAGER: Josh Turner Maguire FINANCIER: CBS Films 7 77 by David Matthews Two stories from 1974 are linked together – the unsolved murder of an LAPD officer and the nationally televised shootout in South Central Los Angeles between the Symbionese Liberation Army and the LAPD where 50,000 rounds of gunfire was exchanged. The events will be seen through the eyes of a pair of police partners, one black and one white. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Roger Green, Elia Infascelli-Smith MANAGEMENT: The Schiff Company MANAGER: Nicole Romano PRODUCER: Wolf Films 6 GUYS NIGHT by Christopher Baldi Sick of brunches, bosses, and light beer, four co-workers set out on the mother of all guys nights in an attempt to rediscover their manhood. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Bill Zotti MANAGEMENT: New Wave MANAGER: Mike Goldberg, Josh Adler FINANCIER: Millenium Films PRODUCER: Jim Valdez, Matt Bass 6 SELF/LESS by Alex Pastor, David Pastor An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.
AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Stuart Manashil, John Garvey MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone MANAGER: Alex Lerner FINANCIER: FilmDistrict (distrib), Endgame Entertainment (financing) PRODUCER: Ram Bergman 6 HYPERDRIVE by Alex Ankeles, Morgan Jurgenson When a tough cop recruits a geeky sci-fi author to help him track down a mysterious murder witness, they find themselves in the middle of a space opera playing out here on Earth. AGENCY: CAA/APA AGENT: Bill Zotti (Ankeles), Ryan Saul (Jurgenson) MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone (Ankeles) MANAGER: Aaron Kaplan (Ankeles), Jonathan Hung (Jurgenson) FINANCIER: Paramount PRODUCER: Disruption Entertainment 6 BEFORE I FALL by Maria Maggenti When a popular teen girl is killed in a car crash, she relives the critical day seven times and makes changes in an attempt to affect the outcome; in the process, she herself changes as she tries to make up for previous heartless, self-absorbed behavior and gains a better understanding of herself and others. As she evolves and makes the connections necessary to save a bullied, depressed girl’s life, she comes to accept her own fate. AGENCY: Paradigm AGENT: David Boxerbaum MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment MANAGER: Robyn Meisinger FINANCIER: Fox 2000 PRODUCER: Jon Shestack Productions 6 BREYTON AVE by J Daniel Shaffer A group of teens living without adults and under their own social order in a small fenced-in neighborhood are forced to face what they fear is the inevitable physical danger beyond the fence. AGENCY: Verve AGENT: Bryan Besser, Rob Herting MANAGEMENT: Management 360 MANAGER: Mary Lee, Jill McElroy PRODUCER: Unbroken Films 6 EL FUEGO CALIENTE by Ben Schwartz A remake of SOAPDISH, a desperate telenovela star dreaming of Hollywood stardom has her life implode, making her real life crazier than the insane show she made famous.