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A screenplays on The Black List can mean some green. Days after the new list was revealed by Deadline, two scripts have found homes;
Vendome Pictures has just committed to finance What Happened To Monday?, a futuristic thriller by Max Botkin that was developed by Raffaella Productions. The script follows the story of identical septuplet brothers who struggle to stay alive in an overpopulated world where a “one child” policy outlaws siblings. Raffaella De Laurentiis and Vendome’s Philippe Rousselet are producing. Vendome financed the Summit release Source Code and the Tom Hanks-directed Larry Crowne, which gets released by Universal July 1, 2011 with Hanks, Julia Roberts and Bryan Cranston starring. CAA and EML Entertainment rep Botkin.
Paramount Pictures has acquired Boy Scouts Vs. Zombies, a Black List script by Carrie Evans & Emi Mochizuki, two graduates of the Disney Writing Program who also scripted College Road Trip. The film is being produced by Todd Garner’s Broken Road, Oops Doughnuts partners Andy Fickman and Betsy Sullenger, and Bryan Brucks’ Brucks Entertainment. The script is in the vein of Goonies, and is about a local boy scout troop that must save the local girl scout troop from a zombie outbreak on an overnight camping trip. Devra Lieb reps the scribes and Brucks manages them. Sean Robins will be exec producer.
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Lonely Executive reaches page thirty then throws down Script A proclaiming, “This is terrible!”
A bunch of other people read it and vote for it.
Lonely Executive, flush with the pride of democracy, turns around and says, “I’ll buy it!”
Who says the Amazon crowdsourcing model won’t work?
I don’t get it.
Vendome has been negotiating to finance for months. Black List is irrelevant.
Boy Scouts vs. Zombies was an awesome script.
Glad to see that Oops Doughnuts is getting it made. Betsy and Andy are two of the nicest people in the business.
Can you really say Betsy and Andy are two of the nicest people in the business? How can anyone say who is the nicest without knowing every single person in the business? For all you know, there could be a CAA exec who gives blowjobs for a nickel…and maybe she has a friend who hands out nickels. Wouldn’t they have to be the nicest people in the business?
Oh, awesome, another Todd Garner movie! (Yes, this is sarcasm.)
CAS,
There are very very few producers who actually are the first to like something and see it through. One of them is Wendy Finerman who produced Forrest Gump.
Nikki, would love to see an interview with a producer like Wendy Finerman. This is a person who found a piece of material, nobody was interested and I mean nobody. They passed two times over. And somehow through her intelligence (Wharton) and her pure desire and passion proved them all wrong. This was also a time when woman were not considered producers.
What I love about this is today we have the PRODUCERS, and if you look at them they have more lemmings following them because they themselves are lemmings. Every now and then we get a great one. We need you to out the great ones because the rest don’t deserve it.
If you look at the producers, writers etc., the deals today and dissect the deal and the lineage of the deal there is almost always some sort of safety net where if it doesn’t work out they can blame someone. But the few who take a chance when there is nobody around deserve real recognition. In addition, there are filmmakers like this, actors, writers etc.. But look closely at many of your announcements. Would love to see some real journalistic integrity in researching the stories behind these deals.
Hey no disrespect to Wendy, but, there were many hands on that movie – Tisch, etc. Having been on a number of projects no one producer is responsible for a project. It’s also a little laughable for you to say going to any one specific school denotes intelligence. You’re POV is laughable.
Yeah, was about to say the same re: Eric.
Group think gets it done in Hollywood.
nobody wants “College Republicans” the karl rove picture?
What do mean irrelevant? I use it predict box office bombs each year and it works like a charm.
THOSE are the ones that got bought?
Well, nice to see the blacklist is good for something.
happy for anyone who sells a script…yay for the writers…but seriously Hollywood..,enough with the vampires and zombies and vampire hunters and zombie hunters. It is over already and both features and tv have overdone it. Even the spoofs feel dated. It’s true blood it’s vampire diaries, it’s jane austen hunting zombies and Abe hunting vampires..and buffy redux. I applaud the zombie gg nominee tv show (cant remember its name) I enjoyed zombieland, Fan of romero…. But ENOUGH! It’s like the “die Hard” in a mall , in a school, etc. Phase of old. You zombie core folk keep doing your thing. Those riding a trend…stop or you’ll kill it fir everyone. It’s already overkill.
The Boy Scouts save the Girl Scouts.
That’s so 1961 of them.
Is Zombie Fred MacMurray attached to this?
That’s what I thought when I read the synopsis,
but you wrote it better.
But also there’s no way that they “just” bought it based on the list. Business Affairs take FOREVER, I am positive the deal has been pending and they used the release of the list to get more press.
I wonder how many agents/managers are now going to bust their ass to get their clients’ scripts on the Blacklist next year. Oh brother… more corruption and nepotism.
Say goodbye to any legitimacy the Blacklist had, if it had any at all.
Are you kidding? Managers will NOW try to get scripts on the blacklist???
Sounds like manager Brian Brucks just needed some ammo to sell a script to his wife at Paramount, Ashley Brucks. The Black List was that ammo.
I haven’t read the script, though. So if it’s fantastic and there’s some other reason Paramount didn’t buy this the first time around, I’d love to hear it…
Let me sum this up for you. I’ve been a professional writer for 10 years now. Steadily working the entire time. Every general meeting I ever go on, I ask these questions:
1) Did you study literature, creative writing, ANY thing even semi-writing related?
2) Have you ever written anything?
Conservatively, I would say 95% of the people I’ve asked said NO to both questions.
Think about that. You are buying things based on their merit, you are giving notes on things, etc. You are doing this with:
a) ZERO real training. (no being briefed on buzz words by other execs/producers that have never been properly trained does not count.
b) ZERO practical experience. You’ve never done it. Ever. “Oh, but I watched a lot of movies.” Great, I love cars, look at car magazines, go to car shows.
I DON’T KNOW WHICH ONES I SHOULD BUY!!!!
And I certainly don’t know HOW TO FIX ONE!!!
I’ve never seen another industry where NONE of the people in charge have every done the job they are in charge of — it’s absolutely retarded.
Very good points. Truth is most creative/development execs would be writing and/or directing if they could. Same goes for most of the reps, and the 98% of the industry who make their living off the 2% who actually make movies.
I mean, why do people get in this business in the first place? To negotiate contracts and deals? To lift a finger to the wind and follow the herd? To spend all day on the phone lying to people and getting lied at?
No, most people get into it because they love movies, but are unable to actually CREATE anything themselves. So they become part of the staggeringly huge amount of machinery/personnel/infrastructure that is built up and around the movie business, but has nothing to do with (or is only tangentially connected to) actually making movies.
Agents/managers/PR flacks/development execs/MBA execs etc…etc…etc…I mean the amount of money and resources that is gobbled up by The Beast that is people who don’t make movies but make their living off people who do is staggering.
Do you actually think the vps and execs at auto companies know how to fix cars?
Boy Scouts vs. Zombies was bought way before the Black List came out people.
Lem,
Let me tell you since my uncle is a VP at an auto company. What they do NOT do is tell the engineers HOW to make the car go faster. They don’t go down to the design department and take the clay design and start molding it themselves.
They let the experts DO THEIR JOBS.
That’s the true idiocy of Hollywood. Writers have to actually listen to execs. When it should be the other way around. When a writer says this is what works best — the exec should say, “Well, you’re the writer — you know how to actually do this so I’m gonna STFU.”
But they don’t.
When my car breaks down and they tell me I need new spark plugs, I don’t look at them and say, “Naw, instead, I think you should change the battery.” You know why I don’t do that — BECAUSE I’M NOT AN AUTO MECHANIC!!!
Problem with any art is that it’s subjective. But stupid people think they can intellectualize it. YOU CAN’T. So, please execs — get the F out of the way, pipe down and let the writers write.
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