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Netflix, RLJE Films Acquire David Oyelowo’s Directorial Debut The Water ManFebruary 23, 2021 at 2:10 PM  Tags: Movies, Chicago, Netflix, Showtime, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Black List, Jo, Oyelowo, Ann Dowd, Alfred Molina, Maria Bello, Movie News, RLJE Films, Needell, Rosario Dawson Luke Cage Lonnie Chavis 132 people like this. Like Here’s the 2020 “Black List” of the Year’s Best Unproduced ScreenplaysDecember 14, 2020 at 3:00 PM  Tags: Featured Stories Sidebar, Screenwriting, The-Black-List, 2020 Black List 127 people like this. Like The Black List’s Franklin Leonard on why picking winners doesn’t mean making losersSeptember 14, 2020 at 5:09 PM Tech and Hollywood don’t cross-pollinate that often, but when it comes to Franklin Leonard’s way of looking at things, maybe they should.
Leonard is best known as the creator of the Black List, a curated collection of the most underrated screenplays of the year. What began as a side project in 2005 is now a full-fledged hit-making machine. Four of the last 13 Best Picture winners came from the list. Overall, 54 movies from the Black List went on to win Oscars and over 300 have been nominated. An...Tags: TC, Hollywood, Tech, Miami, Caa, Nea, Black List, Leonard, Franklin Leonard, Triller, Disrupt 2020, Black List Leonard 42 people like this. Like ‘Coffee & Kareem’ Trailer: Ed Helms’ New Raunchy Buddy Cop Comedy is No ‘Cop and a Half’March 24, 2020 at 8:30 PM  Tags: Comedy, Hollywood, Movies, Netflix, Movie Trailers, Detroit, Kevin Smith, Taraji P Henson, Black List, Ed Helms, Kareem, Helms, David Alan Grier, Red Band Movie Trailer, Michael Dowse, James Coffee 64 people like this. Like Noomi Rapace Breathes Life Into Black List Thriller ‘O2,’ Franck Khalfoun Set to DirectFebruary 17, 2020 at 8:30 PM  Tags: Hollywood, Movies, Casting, Berlin, Thriller, O2, European Film Market, Black List, Charlie, LeBlanc, Amityville, Aja, Alexandre-Aja, Franck Khalfoun, Noomi Rapace, The Black List 76 people like this. Like Screenplay About Barron Trump Sabotaging Dad’s 2016 Presidential Campaign Makes Annual Black ListDecember 16, 2019 at 6:02 PM Barron Trump could be coming to the big screen soon, in a wild scripted ride that imagines President Donald Trump’s 10-year-old son attempting to thwart his presidential ambitions. “Barron: A Tale of Love, Loss & Legacy” by screenwriter Nicolas Curcio has rated on the annual Black List, a ranking of Hollywood’s best unproduced scripts, which […]Tags: Hollywood, News, Donald Trump, Black List, Barron Trump, Nicolas Curcio, Barron: A Tale of Love Loss & Legacy 48 people like this. Like ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Might Not Have Been Made If Taika Waititi Said No to Playing HitlerOctober 16, 2019 at 7:00 PM  Tags: Comedy, Movies, Germany, Hitler, Fox Searchlight, Adolf Hitler, Black List, Taika-Waititi, Waititi, Adolf, Jojo Rabbit, Christine Leunens, Leunens 52 people like this. Like Zach Braff To Direct The Secret Ingredients of Rocket ColaMarch 22, 2019 at 1:59 PM  Tags: Movies, Zach Braff, Showtime, Johnson, Hulu, Natalie Portman, Kate Hudson, Joey King, Chris Pine, Black List, Dwayne, Pugh, Morgan Freeman Michael Caine, Braff, ComingSoon, The Secret Ingredients of Rocket Cola 52 people like this. Like ‘Hidden Figures’ Director Heads to ‘Harry’s All Night Hamburgers’ to Direct a Universe-Hopping RomanceJanuary 31, 2019 at 1:30 PM  Tags: Movies, Romance, Sci-fi, Harry, St Vincent, Warner Brothers, Piper, Andy, Black List, Melfi, Theodore Melfi, Ted Melfi, Steve Desmond, Harry's All Night Hamburgers, Lawrence Watt Evans, Michael Anthony Sherman 74 people like this. Like Macro and Black List Unveil Episodic Lab Contest WinnersJanuary 26, 2019 at 1:00 PM An Iranian-American filmmaker from Los Angeles and a screenwriter from Oakland are the winners of the first grants from the Macro Episodic Lab Powered by the Black List designed to nurture the careers of storytellers of color. Sahar Jahani and K.C. Scott will each receive development support and a budget of up to $30,000 for […]Tags: News, Los Angeles, Oakland, Macro, Black List, Scott, Black List Unveil Episodic Lab Contest Winners, Sahar Jahani 23 people like this. Like Film News Roundup: ‘M. Night Shyamalanathon’ Screenings Set for ‘Unbreakable,’ ‘Split,’ ‘Glass’January 4, 2019 at 8:39 PM In today’s film news roundup, the M. Night Shyamalanathon is unveiled, Black List founder Franklin Leonard is honored, and “Brown’s Canyon” gets a release. SCREENINGS Alamo Drafthouse and Universal Pictures are launching the M. Night Shyamalanathon, the first-ever marathon screening of the filmmaker’s trilogy of “Unbreakable,” “Split,” and “Glass.” The screenings will take place at […]Tags: News, Glass, M. Night Shyamalan, Split, Universal Pictures, Unbreakable, Black List, Brown, Franklin Leonard 41 people like this. Like Black List 2018 Scripts Include Films Based on Pat Tillman and Bob RossDecember 18, 2018 at 9:16 AM  Tags: Europe, Florida, Isis, Hollywood, Movies, Mississippi, La, Stanford, China, Iraq, New York City, US, NFL, America, San Francisco, Syria 68 people like this. Like Scriptnotes, Ep 377: The Second Draft — TranscriptDecember 11, 2018 at 2:23 PM The original post for this episode can be found here.
John August: Hello and welcome. My name is John August and this is Episode 377 of Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.
Craig is out sick today, but luckily we have two remarkable screenwriters to take his place. And today on the show we’re going to be talking about the second draft, and hopefully offering some practical tips for your first big rewrite on a project. Then we’ll be diggin...Tags: Hollywood, London, Nbc, Australia, Germany, New York City, US, Los Angeles, Netflix, Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Tina Fey, John, John August, Phil Lord, Chris Miller 36 people like this. Like Scriptnotes, Ep 369: What Is a Movie, Anyway? — TranscriptSeptember 28, 2018 at 4:23 PM The original post for this episode can be found here.
John August: Hello and welcome. My name is John August.
Craig Mazin: Hi. My name is Craig Mazin.
John: And this is Episode 369 of Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.
Today on the program we’ll be answering a fundamental question: what is a movie? We’ll also be talking about award season and other stuff. We’re going to do follow up from five years ago. It’s going to be a big show. An...Tags: Apple, Amazon, Hbo, Hollywood, Instagram, Abc, Disney, Toronto, Los Angeles, Fox, Netflix, Harvey Weinstein, Alfonso Cuarón, Showtime, James Bond, John Five Upcoming Movies Based on Black List ScriptsAugust 25, 2018 at 12:04 PM  Tags: Post, New York, Movies, Nbc, Matthew Mcconaughey, America, Spain, Fbi, Netflix, Sandra Bullock, Cbs, Oscars, Seth Rogen, Academy Awards, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Armie Hammer 66 people like this. Like Locarno StepIn Tackles Shifts in Storytelling NormsJuly 25, 2018 at 4:53 PM Having disrupted film financing and distribution models, global streaming platforms are now subverting storytelling preconceptions. That, in short, is latest shakeup prompted by the ongoing seismic shift and one of challenges that European indie-film industry executives will be thrashing out during this year’s StepIn think tank, titled Brave New World, Aug. 2 at the Locarno […]Tags: Festivals, European Film Market, Black List, Locarno, Locarno StepIn 45 people like this. Like Lena Waithe, Eva Longoria, Macro, and Black List Set Contest for Writers of ColorJune 6, 2018 at 12:00 PM Lena Waithe and Eva Longoria have teamed with Charles King’s Macro and Franklin Leonard’s the Black List to launch a script development contest for writers of color. The Macro Episodic Lab Powered by the Black List invites writers of color to submit “ideas for review” by Macro executives and the Black List team. The Black […]Tags: News, Eva Longoria, Macro, Black List, Charles King, Lena Waithe, Franklin Leonard, Lena Waithe Eva Longoria Macro, Black List Set Contest for Writers of Color 20 people like this. Like Marvel Studios Hires Two Promising Writers for ‘Eternals’ MovieMay 16, 2018 at 10:30 AM  Tags: Movies, Avengers, Marvel Studios, Jack Kirby, Matthew, Black List, Gal Gadot, Kevin Feige, Athena, MCU, Comic Book/Superhero, Marc Butan, Eternals, Inhumans, Marvel Marvel, Ryan Firpo 99 people like this. Like The Black List, the humble origins of a Hollywood kingmakerSeptember 23, 2017 at 8:10 PM For Vox, Phil Edwards profiled The Black List, an annual listing of the best Hollywood scripts that have yet to be produced.
Phil Edwards has a chat with Franklin Leonard, the creator of The Black List, Hollywoods’ famous anonymous survey of unproduced screenplays. The Black List isn’t a guarantee that a script will be produced, however, it does give overlooked scripts a second shot of getting on the big screen. A handful of academy award- winning-films found their second chance on the Blac...Tags: Hollywood, Mel Gibson, Jason Kottke, Black List, Tinseltown, Phil Edwards, Franklin Leonard, The Black List, Vox Phil Edwards, The Black List Hollywoods 22 people like this. Like The Black List, the humble origins of a Hollywood kingmakerSeptember 18, 2017 at 8:10 PM For Vox, Phil Edwards profiled The Black List, an annual listing of the best Hollywood scripts that have yet to be produced.
Phil Edwards has a chat with Franklin Leonard, the creator of The Black List, Hollywoods’ famous anonymous survey of unproduced screenplays. The Black List isn’t a guarantee that a script will be produced, however, it does give overlooked scripts a second shot of getting on the big screen. A handful of academy award- winning-films found their second chance on the Blac...Tags: Hollywood, Mel Gibson, Jason Kottke, Black List, Tinseltown, Phil Edwards, Franklin Leonard, The Black List, Vox Phil Edwards, The Black List Hollywoods 33 people like this. Like Dev Patel and Ben Stiller to Star in ‘Chippendales’ Movie About the Famous Male Strip ClubJuly 19, 2017 at 7:30 PM  Tags: Hollywood, Movies, Drama, Casting, California, Magic Mike, Thor, Ben-Stiller, Michael Jackson, Dev Patel, True Story, Black List, Stiller, Patel, Tony Scott, Taika Waititi 85 people like this. Like Broadway, Take Note: These Female Playwrights of Color Should Be on Your RadarJune 23, 2017 at 2:56 PM The 2017 edition of The List, the index of underproduced female-written plays reported annually by the playwrights collective known as the Kilroys, focuses for the first time this year on plays by women and trans writers of color, tapping some 37 titles by scribes ranging from Lauren Yee (“King of the Yees”) to Heather Raffo... Read more »Tags: News, Legit, Black List, The List, This Is Us, The Kilroys, Kilroys, Lauren Yee King, Heather Raffo Read 11 people like this. Like Like A Prayer (Or Not), A Madonna Biopic Is On The HorizonApril 25, 2017 at 12:14 PM function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReady...Tags: New York, Hollywood, News, Mtv, Madonna, Detroit, Huffington Post, Universal Pictures, Black List, Alvin Ailey, Matthew Jacobs, Brett Ratner, Michael De Luca, Elyse Hollander, Hollywood Reporter Blond Ambition, John Jellybean Benitez 13 people like this. Like Madonna Biopic ‘Blonde Ambition’ in the Works at UniversalApril 24, 2017 at 7:28 PM Universal is developing Madonna biopic “Blonde Ambition,” picking up rights to Elyse Hollander’s “Blonde Ambition” screenplay about Madonna’s first album. “Blonde Ambition” led the 2016 version of the Black List — an annual ranking of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Hollander’s script received 49 votes among the 250 executives voting. The project details Madonna’s efforts... Read more »Tags: News, Film, Madonna, Black List, Blonde Ambition, Elyse Hollander, Hollywood Hollander Black List, James Schamus Announce Winner of Emerging Screenwriter Talent Search (EXCLUSIVE)March 8, 2017 at 10:11 AM The Black List and James Schamus’ Symbolic Exchange have selected Canadian Jason Young as the winner of their partnership to find an emerging screenwriter to write an original thriller. Schamus and the Black List announced last May that they were teaming up on the initiative for a project that would fall within the Writers Guild... Read more »Tags: News, Film, James Schamus, Black List, Jason Young, Schamus, James Schamus Symbolic Exchange 34 people like this. Like ‘Passengers’ Trailer: Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt Are Stranded in SpaceNovember 23, 2016 at 2:30 PM  Tags: Jennifer Lawrence, Movies, Romance, Sci-fi, Sony, Movie Trailers, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Morten Tyldum, Passengers, Black List, Lawrence, Aurora, Jim, Pratt, Jon Spaihts 135 people like this. Like Amazon Developing Ida Tarbell-John D. Rockefeller MovieAugust 15, 2016 at 9:24 PM Amazon Studios is developing a movie about pioneering investigative journalist Ida Tarbell and her battle against industrial magnate John D. Rockefeller. Amazon has acquired movie rights to Mark McDevitt’s “Ida Tarbell,” which was named to the 2015 Black List, and set it up with Tom Drumm of Think Tank Management & Production. Think Tank manager... Read more »Tags: Amazon, News, Film, Black List, Amazon Studios, Ida Tarbell 49 people like this. Like Winners of Inaugural ATX-Black List Script Competition Announced (EXCLUSIVE)June 9, 2016 at 1:00 PM ATX and The Black List partnered with Bad Robot, Carlton Cuse Productions, FX, Sony and USA Network on a new writing program, designed to find TV writers for staffing consideration across participating networks, studios and production companies. The contest, which was announced this January, drew over 1,000 applicants. 16 winning scribes have been selected. To... Read more »Tags: TV, News, Atx, Usa Network, Black List, ATX Festival, The Black List 7 people like this. Like James Schamus Partners with Black List to Discover Horror ScreenwriterMay 4, 2016 at 9:00 AM James Schamus’ Symbolic Exchange and the Black List are partnering to find an emerging screenwriter who would write an original horror film, Variety has learned exclusively. The project would fall within the Writers Guild of America’s low-budget guidelines. The Black List has similar partnerships with The Picture Company and Studiocanal, Warner Bros., Disney and the... Read more »Tags: News, Film, James Schamus, Writers Guild Of America, Black List, Picture Company, The Black List, James Schamus Symbolic Exchange, Symbolic Exchange, James Schamus Partners, Studiocanal Warner Bros Disney 26 people like this. Like Google's Offering Money for the Best Scripts About Computer ScienceApril 20, 2016 at 4:54 PM  Tags: Google, Television, Movies, Black List 71 people like this. Like |
