Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in on projects to potentially anticipate, but first, to kickstart Hollywood on bringing them to screen. Today we have this year’s edition, as voted on by over 300 film executives.
Topping the 2022 edition is Catherine Schetina’s Pure, with a logline as follows: “Obsessed with food purity, Hannah’s trip to her sister’s destination wedding descends into madness when she contracts a mysterious foodborne illness that threatens to destroy her from within.”
Other scripts feature a look at the employees of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020, the makings of It’s a Wonderful Life and the Madden videogame, a dark comedy about the Hindenburg Disaster, biopics on Dolly Parton, Michael Phelps, and Jerry Springer, and quite a heaping of sci-fi stories.
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Topping the 2022 edition is Catherine Schetina’s Pure, with a logline as follows: “Obsessed with food purity, Hannah’s trip to her sister’s destination wedding descends into madness when she contracts a mysterious foodborne illness that threatens to destroy her from within.”
Other scripts feature a look at the employees of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020, the makings of It’s a Wonderful Life and the Madden videogame, a dark comedy about the Hindenburg Disaster, biopics on Dolly Parton, Michael Phelps, and Jerry Springer, and quite a heaping of sci-fi stories.
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- 12/13/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Black List, an annual ranking of the most popular unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, has released its 2022 rankings — a list crawling with juicy biopics about superstar singers and sports world redemption tales.
Founded by Franklin Leonard, the list surveys 300 studio executives who weigh in with the strongest screenplays to have crossed their desks over the year. An individual script must be mentioned at least six times to warrant inclusion. The year’s most popular is “Pure,” a psychological thriller that would set Gwyneth Paltrow on edge.
“Obsessed with food purity, Hannah’s trip to her sister’s destination wedding descends into madness when she contracts a mysterious foodborne illness that threatens to destroy her from within,” reads the official longline.
Other notable projects include: “Dumb Blonde,” an origin story of Dolly Parton’s rise in the male-dominated country music landscape of the ’60s, by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe; “Resurfaced,...
Founded by Franklin Leonard, the list surveys 300 studio executives who weigh in with the strongest screenplays to have crossed their desks over the year. An individual script must be mentioned at least six times to warrant inclusion. The year’s most popular is “Pure,” a psychological thriller that would set Gwyneth Paltrow on edge.
“Obsessed with food purity, Hannah’s trip to her sister’s destination wedding descends into madness when she contracts a mysterious foodborne illness that threatens to destroy her from within,” reads the official longline.
Other notable projects include: “Dumb Blonde,” an origin story of Dolly Parton’s rise in the male-dominated country music landscape of the ’60s, by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe; “Resurfaced,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
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Scripts about Dolly Parton’s rise to fame (Todd Bartels & Lou Howe’s Dumb Blonde) and a musical drama about the life of Britney Spears (Cerina Aragones’ It’s Britney, Bitch) are among the 2022 Black List of Hollywood’s most liked unproduced screenplays.
This year’s Black List was compiled from the suggestions of more than 300 film executives, contributing the names of up to ten favorite feature film screenplays that were written in. Scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included.
The most voted-for script is Pure from The Bear writer Catherine Schetina, with other top-voted scripts including Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier. Other entries include features about Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the small business made famous after the 2020 presidential election, the making of the holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life, and the post-Olympics life of swimmer Michael Phelps.
Scripts about Dolly Parton’s rise to fame (Todd Bartels & Lou Howe’s Dumb Blonde) and a musical drama about the life of Britney Spears (Cerina Aragones’ It’s Britney, Bitch) are among the 2022 Black List of Hollywood’s most liked unproduced screenplays.
This year’s Black List was compiled from the suggestions of more than 300 film executives, contributing the names of up to ten favorite feature film screenplays that were written in. Scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included.
The most voted-for script is Pure from The Bear writer Catherine Schetina, with other top-voted scripts including Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier. Other entries include features about Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the small business made famous after the 2020 presidential election, the making of the holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life, and the post-Olympics life of swimmer Michael Phelps.
- 12/12/2022
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Black List revealed its annual list of the best unproduced screenplays on Monday, honoring 74 feature film screenplays by a total of 80 writers that have spent the year circulating through Hollywood. Scripts were voted on by a jury of over 300 top film executives.
“It is absolutely staggering that this is my 18th December asking people about their favorite unproduced screenplays, but the success of Black List scripts and the writers we’ve spotlit speaks for itself, I think,” Black List founder Franklin Leonard said in a statement. “However unacknowledged, the life blood of this industry has always been great stories well-told, and that begins with great writers writing. No one can do anything else until they do what they do. It remains an absolute nerdy joy to build a metal detector that finds needles in a near infinite field of haystacks and to serve those folks who do exceptional work.
“It is absolutely staggering that this is my 18th December asking people about their favorite unproduced screenplays, but the success of Black List scripts and the writers we’ve spotlit speaks for itself, I think,” Black List founder Franklin Leonard said in a statement. “However unacknowledged, the life blood of this industry has always been great stories well-told, and that begins with great writers writing. No one can do anything else until they do what they do. It remains an absolute nerdy joy to build a metal detector that finds needles in a near infinite field of haystacks and to serve those folks who do exceptional work.
- 12/12/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in on projects to potentially anticipate, but first, to kickstart Hollywood on bringing them to screen. Today we have this year’s edition, as voted on by 375 film executives.
Topping the 2021 edition is Daniel Jackon’s Cauliflower, which follows the tale of a high school wrestler battling a bizarre infection in his ear. Coming in second was Lily Hollander’s See How They Run, following a blind mother who moves into a remote farmhouse with her young daughter as the mystery surrounding the previous inhabitants grows.
Other scripts feature the true stories of Kanye West’s creation of The College Dropout, Martin Shkreli, Rocky Aoki, Nike and Michael Jordan’s endorsement deal (not to be confused with Dennis Rodman’s 48 Hours in Vegas), Michael Bay,...
Topping the 2021 edition is Daniel Jackon’s Cauliflower, which follows the tale of a high school wrestler battling a bizarre infection in his ear. Coming in second was Lily Hollander’s See How They Run, following a blind mother who moves into a remote farmhouse with her young daughter as the mystery surrounding the previous inhabitants grows.
Other scripts feature the true stories of Kanye West’s creation of The College Dropout, Martin Shkreli, Rocky Aoki, Nike and Michael Jordan’s endorsement deal (not to be confused with Dennis Rodman’s 48 Hours in Vegas), Michael Bay,...
- 12/14/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Producers, take note: Your next Best Picture winner could be here.
The Black List unveiled its annual list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year December 13, as decided by a group of industry peers totaling 375 executives. The announcement came via four videos emceed by Ashley Nicole Black and Gabrielle Dennis of “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” and including appearances from Oscar-winning screenwriters Florian Zeller (“The Father”) and Emerald Fennell (“Promising You Woman”). Also joining the guests was “King Richard” screenwriter Zach Baylin. Both “Richard” and “Promising” were ranked high on the 2018 Black List.
The Black List has included four scripts that went on to win Best Picture Oscars, including “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Argo,” “Spotlight,” and “The King’s Speech.”
At least seven of the jurying executives had to list a script as one of their 10 favorite unproduced screenplays of the year in order for a script to make the list. Altogether,...
The Black List unveiled its annual list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year December 13, as decided by a group of industry peers totaling 375 executives. The announcement came via four videos emceed by Ashley Nicole Black and Gabrielle Dennis of “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” and including appearances from Oscar-winning screenwriters Florian Zeller (“The Father”) and Emerald Fennell (“Promising You Woman”). Also joining the guests was “King Richard” screenwriter Zach Baylin. Both “Richard” and “Promising” were ranked high on the 2018 Black List.
The Black List has included four scripts that went on to win Best Picture Oscars, including “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Argo,” “Spotlight,” and “The King’s Speech.”
At least seven of the jurying executives had to list a script as one of their 10 favorite unproduced screenplays of the year in order for a script to make the list. Altogether,...
- 12/13/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Some people are using the Covid-19 quarantine as an opportunity to better themselves physically and mentally, while others have seen fit to bring our nightmares to life. Rumours emerged several weeks ago that there existed a secret cut of Cats, Tom Hooper's feature-film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's acclaimed musical, which was full of buttholes. Yep, buttholes. [Seemore] A Twitter exchange between Ben Mekler and Jack Waz first brought up the existence of the butthole…...
- 4/1/2020
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Cats, the 2019 CGI-laden live-action film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical, may have set its paws in the cement of notoriety for a variety of reasons, but it seems that it just provided a freaked, cabin-fever-afflicted world something of timely and intangible value: a cause. This one, however, is centered on the digital buttholes of anthropomorphic singing cats. Do we have your attention yet?
In a welcome distraction, this week’s digital release of Cats has facilitated a rumor from writer Jack Waz, who, citing word-of-mouth sources, claims that the extensive process of finalizing the feline features of its (undoubtedly regretful) star-studded cast involved a visual effects position dedicated to the removal of “CGI buttholes” (to maintain fidelity to his parlance) of the cat-cast.
Finding this cut is my white whale #ReleaseTheButtholeCut
— Jack Waz (@jackwaz) March 18, 2020
The tweets with which Waz fueled this fervor have, understandably, gone viral,...
In a welcome distraction, this week’s digital release of Cats has facilitated a rumor from writer Jack Waz, who, citing word-of-mouth sources, claims that the extensive process of finalizing the feline features of its (undoubtedly regretful) star-studded cast involved a visual effects position dedicated to the removal of “CGI buttholes” (to maintain fidelity to his parlance) of the cat-cast.
Finding this cut is my white whale #ReleaseTheButtholeCut
— Jack Waz (@jackwaz) March 18, 2020
The tweets with which Waz fueled this fervor have, understandably, gone viral,...
- 3/18/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
Like an act of divine intervention, Tom Hooper’s big-budget bomb “Cats” was made available for digital rental on Tuesday while the world is home alone and self-isolated, and thankfully, Seth Rogen took to Twitter to entertain us all by live-tweeting his surreal and “trippy” experience watching it.
Rogen on Tuesday night said he got high and watched “Cats” for the first time, and no, he still doesn’t know what a “jellicle” is or does.
“I’m pretty stoned and watching ‘Cats.’ I’ve never seen the broadway show. It is truly trippy. Am I supposed to know what a Jellicle is? They’ve said it 200,000 times but I don’t know what’s happening haha,” Rogen said to kick off his 27-tweet thread. “How many times they say the word ‘cat’ in a this?”...
Rogen on Tuesday night said he got high and watched “Cats” for the first time, and no, he still doesn’t know what a “jellicle” is or does.
“I’m pretty stoned and watching ‘Cats.’ I’ve never seen the broadway show. It is truly trippy. Am I supposed to know what a Jellicle is? They’ve said it 200,000 times but I don’t know what’s happening haha,” Rogen said to kick off his 27-tweet thread. “How many times they say the word ‘cat’ in a this?”...
- 3/18/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Some day, perhaps in the not too distant future, we’ll be huddled around a burning trashcan telling stories of the ‘before-times.’ One I’ll love to tell the youngsters is how Universal Pictures spent $100 million on a film adaptation of Cats, populated it with nightmarish, cockroach-eating human/cat hybrids and released it to a baffled and terrified public. And now, with the Blu-ray release of the pic imminent, there’s another twist to this feline tale.
I’m talking buttholes. The internet, hungry for anything to distract itself from the Coronavirus, has seized upon a post by L.A.-based writer Jack Waz, where he claims that:
“A VFX producer friend of a friend was hired in November to finish some of the 400 effects shots in @catsmovie. His entire job was to remove CGI buttholes that had been inserted a few months before. Which means that, somewhere out there,...
I’m talking buttholes. The internet, hungry for anything to distract itself from the Coronavirus, has seized upon a post by L.A.-based writer Jack Waz, where he claims that:
“A VFX producer friend of a friend was hired in November to finish some of the 400 effects shots in @catsmovie. His entire job was to remove CGI buttholes that had been inserted a few months before. Which means that, somewhere out there,...
- 3/18/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in on projects to potentially anticipate, but first, to kickstart Hollywood on bringing them to screen. Last year’s chart-topper, the post-wwii drama Ruin by Matthew Firpo and Ryan Firpo, secured Margot Robbie to star with direction by Macbeth and Snowtown‘s Justin Kurzel. Today we have this year’s edition.
Topping the 2018 edition is Frat Boy Genius by Elissa Karasik, which tells the story of Snapchat with a unique perspective. The technology and media world seems to be wholly represented with the rest of the list as well, including films on Matt Drudge, Cambridge Analytica, Gawker Media, and more.
As an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a look at the top 15 scripts below, followed...
Topping the 2018 edition is Frat Boy Genius by Elissa Karasik, which tells the story of Snapchat with a unique perspective. The technology and media world seems to be wholly represented with the rest of the list as well, including films on Matt Drudge, Cambridge Analytica, Gawker Media, and more.
As an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a look at the top 15 scripts below, followed...
- 12/17/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The 13th edition of the Black List has been unveiled, and it might include a future Best Picture winner: Four of the 10 most recent winners of the Academy’s biggest prize were featured on the list, as were 10 of the last 22 Best Screenplay winners. More than 300 executives and financiers vote on the list, which is compiled by Franklin Leonard.
Scripts had to receive at least seven mentions to be included. This year’s edition features the highest proportion of screenplays by and/or about women since the Black List’s inception.
36 Votes:
“Frat Boy Genius” by Elissa Karasik
A disgruntled employee of Snapchat tells the rise of her former Stanford classmate, preeminent douchebag and current boss Evan Spiegel.
35 Votes:
“King Richard” by Zach Baylin
The true story of Richard Williams, the hard-nosed and uncompromising father of tennis prodigies turned superstars, Venus and Serena Williams.
34 Votes:
“Get Home Safe” by Christy Hall...
Scripts had to receive at least seven mentions to be included. This year’s edition features the highest proportion of screenplays by and/or about women since the Black List’s inception.
36 Votes:
“Frat Boy Genius” by Elissa Karasik
A disgruntled employee of Snapchat tells the rise of her former Stanford classmate, preeminent douchebag and current boss Evan Spiegel.
35 Votes:
“King Richard” by Zach Baylin
The true story of Richard Williams, the hard-nosed and uncompromising father of tennis prodigies turned superstars, Venus and Serena Williams.
34 Votes:
“Get Home Safe” by Christy Hall...
- 12/17/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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