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Big Beach, De Line Pictures Nabs Vera Herbert Black List Script ‘Don’t Make Me Go’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 3, 2013 @ 9:49am PDTTags: Big Beach, Big Deals Film, De Line Pictures, Don't Make Me Go, The Black List, Vera Herbert
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EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach and Donald De Line’s De Line Pictures have made a deal for Don’t Make Me Go, the script by Vera Herbert that made last year’s Black List. It tells the story of a single Dad who, after learning he has a serious illness, takes his teenage daughter on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before. In the process, he seizes his final opportunity to teach her essential life lessons.

De Line will produce with Big Beach’s Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf. Big Beach will finance the film. Leah Holzer of Big Beach and De Line’s Jacob Robinson will oversee development. READ MORE »

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Two More Black List Site Scribes Nab Rep Deals

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 15, 2013 @ 6:09pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, The Black List

A pair of writers have landed deals after being discovered on The Black List‘s online pay service for unrepresented screenwriters to have their work analyzed by industry pros. Benderspink has inked Bob Ingraham based on his script Possum, which … Read More »

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Black List 2012: By Managers

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday December 17, 2012 @ 1:45pm PSTTags: The Black List

Related:
The Black List 2012: Full Screenplay Roster
Black List 2012: By Agencies

MANAGERS – by number of scripts

Madhouse Entertainment 8
Kaplan/Perrone 8
Anonymous Content 4
Energy Entertainment 4
Underground 4
Circle of Confusion 3
Industry Entertainment 3
Management 360 3
MXN 3
The Arlook Group 2
Benderspink 2
DMG Entertainment 2
Fourth Floor Productions … Read More »

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Black List 2012: By Agencies

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday December 17, 2012 @ 12:55pm PSTTags: The Black List

Related: The Black List 2012: Screenplay Roster

AGENCIES – By number of scripts
WME 21
CAA 11.5
UTA 11
Gersh 8.5
ICM 7
Paradigm 7
Verve 6
APA 1

AGENCIES – By total votes
WME 276
UTA 205
CAA 179.5
Verve 160
Gersh 125.5
Paradigm 104
ICM 101
APA 6

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The Black List 2012: Screenplay Roster

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday December 17, 2012 @ 9:49am PSTTags: The Black List

Related:
Black List 2012: By Agencies
Black List 2012: By Managers

BREAKING… Once again, Deadline Hollywood is the first to post in its entirety The Black List, which for the uninitiated is film executive Franklin Leonard’s hot unproduced screenplay pecking order which he began in 2004. Compiled every year from the suggestions of hundreds of film executives, each contributes the names of up to 10 of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, the current year and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year. (This year, Leonard said more than 290 film executives voted). 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 and 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:

Refresh for latest…

The Black List was compiled from the suggestions over 290 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, 2012 and will not have completed principal photography during this calendar year.

This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on 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 2012 affiliations.

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.

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DRAFT DAY
Rajiv Joseph, Scott Rothman
On the day of the NFL Draft, Bills General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Buffalo when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he’s willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred.
Agency: Gersh, CAA
Agents: Lee Keele (Joseph), Chris Till, Bill Zotti (Rothman)
Management: Kaplan/Perrone (Joseph & Rothman)
Managers: Josh Goldenberg, Aaron Kaplan
Production: Montecito Pictures

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A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS
Sean Armstrong
Based on true events. Inspector Geoff Harper conducts a forty year search for the Beaumont Children, three siblings taken from an Australian beach in January of 1966.
Agency: Verve
Agents: Aaron Hart, Adam Levine, Rob Herting, Bill Weinstein
Management: Principato-Young Management
Managers: Peter Dealbert, Susan Solomon

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SEUSS
Eyal Podell, Jonathan Stewart
As a young man, Ted Geisel meets his future wife Helen, who encourages his fanciful drawings, and in the 1950s when Ted is struggling professionally, Helen helps inspire the children’s book that will become his first big hit, “The Cat in the Hat.”
Agency: Verve
Agents: Bryan Besser, Zach Carlisle, Rob Herting
Management: Industry Entertainment
Manager: Michael Botti, Jess Rosenthal

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RODHAM
Young Il Kim
During the height of the Watergate scandal, rising star Hillary Rodham is the youngest lawyer chosen for the House Judiciary Committee to Impeach Nixon, but she soon finds herself forced to choose between a destined path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for Bill Clinton, her former boyfriend who now teaches law in Arkansas.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Barbara Dreyfus, Jenny Maryasis
Management: The Arlook Group
Managers: Richard Arlook, Jason Hong
Production: The Arlook Group, Temple Hill Entertainment

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UPDATE: Black List Makes Its First Website Discovery – But He’s An Intern There; ‘McCarthy’ Screenwriter Signs With CAA

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday November 19, 2012 @ 4:28pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, The Black List

UPDATE: Not so fast… This latest revelation will surely re-ignite the long-running debate over whether Hollywood’s wannabe screenwriters can get ahead on their talent or just their connections. Deadline’s sharp-eyed commenters discovered from Justin Kremer’s Linked-In profile that he had been an intern at The Black List. “That’s not exactly the same thing as an over-the-transom success story,” one commenter rued. We’ve confirmed that Black List founder Franklin Leonard failed to disclose this very pertinent fact in his announcement today. Leonard just gave us this statement:

In a press release this morning announcing Justin Kremer’s recently signing with Creative Artists Agency after submitting his script to the new Black List website, I failed to mention that he had previously volunteered work to the Black List as an “intern.”

To clarify, from time to time, we put out calls for individuals to assist us with various tasks like transcribing interviews and alerting us to information about Black List scripts that comes up via the news. In exchange for such occasional assistance, we allow those individuals to call themselves interns though it is an “internship” in the loosest possible sense of the term.

Justin submitted his script without our knowledge. He paid to have his script hosted.  He paid to have it read.  It was read with no further information beyond its genre, as is the case with all of our screenplays.  It was evaluated and included in our emails based on that evaluation and was downloaded and subsequently rated highly based on the evaluations of individuals who had no knowledge of Justin beyond his screenplay and the fact of its high scores.

I personally only became aware of the screenplay when its evaluation was published to our site.

I cannot emphasize enough that the process his script experienced was in no way different than any other submitted script.  I have no tolerance for anything but a pure mathematical experience when it comes to the Black List, and we will continue to function in exactly that way.

If there was an error here, it was in my failure to include the information about our previous, tenuous relationship in the press release that announced his great success.

It is my sincere hope that this failure does not affect the view of Justin’s script. It shouldn’t. The path his script took did not and could not have been affected by his previous work.  The failure here is mine in failing to mention it when celebrating his good fortune.

PREVIOUS: Well maybe these things really do work. The Black List announced today the first success story from its month-old new online pay service for unrepresented screenwriters to have their work analyzed by industry professionals. Last week, Justin Kremer, formerly an assistant at Black Bear Pictures, signed with CAA based on his screenplay McCarthy chronicling the rise of Sen. Joe McCarthy’s anti-Communist fervor. Kremer uploaded his script to the site on October 19, four days after launch, and paid for a single read from a Black List reader. When the screenplay got a high score, it was included in the site’s weekly member email spotlighting its highest rated scripts. After dozens of downloads from Black List industry members and more ratings from those who read it, McCarthy became the site’s highest-rated uploaded script. Read More »

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WGA East Pacts With New Black List Subscription Site

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday November 5, 2012 @ 12:35pm PSTTags: The Black List, WGA East

New York, NY– The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) has announced a partnership with The Black List (www.blcklst.com), which produces an annual list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as chosen by industry executives. The partnership

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Black List To Host Amateur Screenplays And Recommend ‘Best Of’ To Film Professionals

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday October 15, 2012 @ 8:55am PDTTags: Screenwriters, The Black List

TOLDJA! Black List Launching Screenplay Services

LOS ANGELES (October 15, 2012) – The Black List founder Franklin Leonard and cofounder/CTO Dino Sijamic announced today the launch of a paid

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Black List Launching Screenplay Services: Uploading, Hosting, Reading, Evaluating

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday September 4, 2012 @ 5:05pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, The Black List

BREAKING… The Black List is film executive Franklin Leonard’s hot unproduced screenplay pecking order which he began in 2004 and releases annually every December. But since its inception, aspiring screenwriters have asked Leonard et al how to get discovered by Hollywood. And people in Hollywood have asked Leonard et … Read More »

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Warner Bros Sets Black List Top Scribe Graham Moore For ‘Devil In The White City’; Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Serial Killer

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday December 16, 2011 @ 6:01pm PSTTags: Graham Moore, Leonardo DiCaprio, The Black List, The Imitation Game, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic And Madness At The Fair That Changed America, the 2003 non-fiction book by Erik Larson. The studio has set Graham Moore to script the story of … Read More »

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Ken Furer’s Mock 2011 Wish List… Not To Be Confused With The 2011 Black List

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday December 6, 2011 @ 5:17pm PSTTags: Hollywood screenplays, The Black List

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So comedy writer Ken Furer delivers his mock Wish List a few days before the real 2011 Black List appears:

The 2011 Wish List is a compilation of the best unproduced, unwritten screenplays in Hollywood. The second annual list is determined based on a

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The Black List Launching Web Site That Tracks Most Popular Scripts In Real Time

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday October 12, 2011 @ 4:13pm PDTTags: Alan Turing, Hollywood writers, Screenwriters, Scripts, The Black List, The Imitation Game, Unproduced Scripts

EXCLUSIVE: Film executive Franklin Leonard has maintained The Black List for the past six years to champion hundreds of talented screenwriters and unproduced scripts. Well over 125 screenplays have been made into movies, and they’re responsible for 20 Oscars and roughly $10 … Read More »

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Black List Title ‘Point A’ Lands Deal For Scribe Chris Rubeo

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 18, 2011 @ 7:44am PDTTags: The Black List
Mike Fleming

The Black List continues to be a springboard for script sales. Darius Films has optioned Point A, a script by Chris Rubeo that made the 2010 Black List. Rubeo is set to direct his script, and Darius Films principal … Read More »

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2010′s The Black List Scripts Find Buyers

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 15, 2010 @ 4:00pm PSTTags: 2010 The Black List, 2010 The Black List Deals, Max Botkin, Movie Deals, Movies, Paramount Pictures, The Black List
Mike Fleming

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 … Read More »

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The Black List 2010: Manager Count

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday December 13, 2010 @ 10:13am PSTTags: 2010 The Black List, Managers, The Black List, The Black List Unproduced Scripts, Unproduced Scripts

The Black List 2010: Agency Count
The Black List 2010: Screenplay Roster

Some of these numbers may change as the list is made more accurate today:

Circle of Confusion: 7
Management 360: 6
Industry Entertainment: 5
Anonymous Content: 4
Gotham Group: … Read More »

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