CAA and Untitled Entertainment had probably the most scripts within the twentieth version of The Black List, the annual compilation of Hollywood’s best-liked unproduced screenplays.
CAA scored 15 govt mentions, main on the company facet for the fourth 12 months in a row, with Untitled touchdown 9. Leading the pack with by far probably the most mentions, at 60, is Travis Braun‘s One Night Only, about two strangers who scramble to seek out somebody to sleep with on the one night time of the 12 months when premarital intercourse is authorized. UTA and Echo Lake rep the scribe, who additionally topped the 2023 record with Bad Boy. Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge is on board to provide.
Untitled’s highest ranked script, at 38 mentions, is Natan Dotan’s Alignment, the recent AI-themed piece that Fifth Season just lately secured in a seven-figure deal, with Makeready coming aboard to provide, as we had been first to report. Securing 37 mentions, CAA’s top-ranked script is Julia Cox’s Love of Your Life, which Amazon MGM received in an October bidding warfare, as we had been additionally first to inform you. The deal, within the $2M vary, is among the largest for a spec in current reminiscence.
In not-so-great information for producers in search of that subsequent nice unproduced script, these are simply two of 10 which have already been arrange at studios. Ross Evans’ How to Save a Marriage bought to Sony at public sale, with Robert Pattinson on board to provide, whereas Ryan Evans’ Clean Break bought on spec to Searchlight, with Scott Free producing. Lionsgate has each motion comedy Three Hitmen and a Baby, from Dave Matalon & Matt Altman, and James Morosini’s psychological horror pic Mommy’s Home. Netflix and the Obamas’ Higher Ground prevailed in a mid-six-figure spec deal for the Will Hettinger-penned Dyersville, with Grant Singer inking to direct, whereas Paramount received a six-studio bidding warfare for Over Asking, the erotic revenge thriller spec from Caroline Dries. Lou Howe and Todd Bartels’ Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony is ready up at A24 with BlackBerry‘s Matt Johnson to direct and Dominic Sessa starring, after which there’s Matt Venne’s Test Drive, an unique motion spec that bought to twentieth in a aggressive state of affairs, with Safehouse boarding to provide. This isn’t to talk of all the opposite tasks which have already lined up manufacturing firm involvement.
Verve was second-ranked amongst businesses this 12 months with 11 mentions, whereas Bellevue Productions took second on the administration facet with seven. The record featured a complete of 83 scripts by 91 writers, which had been chosen by greater than 500 movie executives, a document variety of voters for a Black List survey. Notably, in 33 out of 83 circumstances, there was a administration firm concerned, however no company. And after all, per standard, a handful of scripts had no illustration in any respect.
“Twenty years can really feel like a very long time or a blink of an eye fixed relying on the second,” mentioned Black List founder Franklin Leonard amid the rollout of right now’s compendium. “Throughout that point, that is all the time the perfect half: Finding and sharing nice tales effectively informed with the remainder of the neighborhood of oldsters who care about them. I sit up for these scripts discovering the success and viewers that earlier annual Black List scripts have discovered and to watching these films in theaters as quickly as they’re accessible.”
See how all businesses and administration firms fared on this 12 months’s Black List mentions under.
SCRIPTS BY AGENCY
CAA
15
Verve
11
Paradigm
6
WME
5
Gersh
5
UTA
2
Independent Artist Group
2
Transatlantic Agency
1
SCRIPTS BY MANAGEMENT COMPANY
Untitled Entertainment
9
Bellevue Productions
7
Writ Large
6
Rain Management
5
Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
5
Artists First
3
Entertainment 360
3
Heroes and Villains Entertainment
3
Housefire Management
3
Range Media Partners
3
Anonymous Content
3
Echo Lake Entertainment
2
Linden Entertainment
2
Empirical Evidence
2
3 Arts Entertainment
2
Brillstein Entertainment Partners
2
Project D
1
Traction
1
Fourth Wall
1
Redefine
1
Mosaic
1
Industry Entertainment
1
Time Train
1
LIT Entertainment
1
SpectreVision
1
First Story Entertainment
1
Epicenter
1
Underground Management
1
831 Entertainment
1
The Gotham Group
1
Stride
1
Art/Work Entertainment
1
Greenlight Management
1
Jen Au Management
1
