Black List 2015 Scripts Announced — Full List

UPDATE with full list by votes: The Black List, which recognizes the year’s most-liked unproduced screenplays as voted on by film executives, has unveiled its 11th edition today. The top vote-getter is Isaac Adamson’s Bubbles, which follows Michael Jackson’s life through the eyes of his adopted chimpanzee. Originally a boutique list, the surveyed execs have grown to 250 for this year, with 81 scripts making the 2015 list.

Here are this year’s top scripts, by vote total (see the votes by agency here and the votes by management company here):

44
BUBBLES
by Isaac Adamson
A baby chimp is adopted by the Pop star Michael Jackson. Narrating his own story, Bubbles the Chimp details his life within The King of Pop’s inner circle through the scandals that later rocked Jackson’s life and eventually led to Bubbles’ release.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENT: Joe Mann
MANAGEMENT: Lee Stobby Entertainment
MANAGER: Lee Stobby

40
STRONGER
by John Pollono, Scott Silver
The true story of Jeff Bauman, who after losing his legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, was an integral part of helping police to locate the suspects.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Joe Mann, Ali Trustman
MANAGEMENT: Underground
MANAGER: Noah Rothman
PRODUCERS: Mandeville, Scott Silver
FINANCIER: Lionsgate

37
THE LIBERTINE
by Ben Kopit
After the Head of the French National Assembly is placed under house arrest for accusations of sexual assault, he must live in a guarded apartment with his estranged wife until the case comes to a close.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Roger Green, Sarah Self
MANAGEMENT: Mindframe Films & Management
MANAGER: Jesse Silver
PRODUCER: Whalerock Industries
FINANCIER: Warner Bros

37
ROCKET*
by Jeffrey Gelber, Ryan Belenzon
Roger “The Rocket” Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers of all time, has 4672 strikeouts, 354 wins and a record 7 Cy Young awards. This is the story of why he is not in the Hall of Fame.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Craig Brody, Ida Ziniti
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGER: Jeff Silver
PRODUCER: Black Bear Pictures
FINANCIER: Black Bear

34
CRATER
by John J. Griffin
On the moon, five teens take an unauthorized and adventure-filled road trip, just before one of them is to be sent away on a seventy-five year journey to another planet, leaving behind his best friends.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Holly Jeter, Chris Slager
MANAGEMENT: Kevin Donahue Literary Management
MANAGERS: Kevin Donahue
PRODUCERS: 1821 Pictures, Mayhem Pictures

31
MISS SLOANE
by Jonathan “Jonny” Perera
A powerful lobbyist sacrifices her career on Capitol Hill so she can push through an amendment enforcing stricter federal laws regulating guns.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Peter Dodd, Carolyn Sivitz
MANAGEMENT: Management SGC
MANAGERS: Scott Carr
PRODUCERS: FilmNation
FINANCIER: EuropaCorp

28
TRUE FAN
by John Whittington
After interfering with a foul ball during a Chicago Cubs playoff game, Steve Bartman was tortured and stalked by die hard Cub fans for potentially costing them their first National League pennant since 1945. Years later, in a new town with a new identity—but depressed, overweight and working a dead end job—Steve meets a woman who gives him a new lease on life and reason to live.
AGENCY: Verve
AGENTS: Pamela Goldstein, Adam Weinstein
MANAGEMENT: MXN Entertainment
MANAGERS: Michelle Knudsen

26
PALE BLUE DOT
by Brian C Brown, Elliot DiGuisseppi
Twelve months after returning from a space mission, decorated astronaut Laura Pepper is arrested for the attempted murder of a fellow astronaut.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Craig Brody, Matt Martin
MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment
MANAGERS: Dianne Fraser
PRODUCER: Pacific Standard
FINANCIER: Fox Searchlight

25
REAGAN
by Mike Rosolio
When Ronald Reagan falls into dementia at the start of his second term, an ambitious intern is tasked with convincing the commander in chief that he is an actor playing the president in a movie.
AGENCY: Kaplan Stahler Agency
AGENTS: Shan Ray
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGERS: Aaron Kaplan, Michael Wilson

21
BUMP
by Ori Guendelman, Rob McClelland
After an accidental hit and run, a young lawyer’s entire life unravels over the span of one night as he attempts to dispose of a corpse that turns out to be much more than an innocent victim.
AGENCY: Paradigm
AGENT: Chris Smith
MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment
MANAGERS: Ari Lubet, Will Rowbotham

21
ELI
by David Chirchirillo
Having moved into a “clean house” to treat his auto-immune disorder, eleven year old Eli begins to believe that the house is haunted. Unable to leave, he soon realizes that the house, and the doctor who runs it, are more sinister than they appear.
AGENCY: APA
AGENTS: Adam Perry, Sheryl Petersen
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions
MANAGERS: John Zaozirny
PRODUCERS: Bellvue Productions
FINANCIERS: Broad Green Pictures

20
SEPTILLION TO ONE
by Adam Perlman, Graham Sack
While a former FBI agent is working in the fraud unit of the Texas State Lottery investigating a woman who has mysteriously hit the lottery jackpot three times, he falls in love.
AGENCY: Gersh
AGENTS: Eric Garfinkel, Jeff Greenberg
MANAGEMENT: Apostle Pictures
MANAGER: George Heller
PRODUCERS: Oddlot Entertainment, MC2 Entertainment, Marquee Entertainment
FINANCIERS: Oddlot Entertainment

20
WHITE BOY RICK
by Logan Miller, Noah Miller
True story of Richard Wershe Jr., the only successful white boy gangster/drug kingpin in an African American dominated 1980s Detroit ghetto.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Peter Dodd, Charlie Ferraro, Rames Ishak, Tim Phillips, Michael Sheresky
MANAGEMENT: Thruline Entertainment
MANAGERS: Josh Kesselman, Danny Sherman
PRODUCERS: LBI Entertainment, Protozoa Pictures
FINANCIERS: Studio 8

18
BOOMTOWN
by Matt King
A slick corporate investigator with a closely guarded secret discovers a sinister criminal conspiracy in North Dakota oil boom country.
AGENCY: Paradigm
AGENTS: Robert Bookman, David Boxerbaum
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions
MANAGERS: John Zaozirny
PRODUCERS: Marc Platt Productions
FINANCIERS: Focus Features

18
DREAMLAND
by Nicolaas Zwart
With his family’s farm on the precipice of foreclosure, fifteen year old Eugene Evans is determined to capture a fugitive bank robber and collect the bounty on her head. Against all odds, he beats out the FBI and the local police to capture her, only to discover that all may not be what it seems.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Daniel Cohan, Tanya Cohen, Danny Greenberg
MANAGEMENT: The Mission Entertainment
MANAGERS: Corrine Aquino, Andrew Coles

18
THE FISHERMAN
by Will Dunn
A fisherman sails out of Martha’s Vineyard in search of the shark that killed his fellow sailors while they were stranded in the water for four days after their ship was attacked by a Japanese submarine.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Trevor Astbury, Jon Cassir
MANAGEMENT: Think Tank Management and Production
MANAGERS: Tom Drumm

18
THE WATER MAN
by Emma Needell
A young boy tries to save his mother from terminal cancer by seeking out the town’s bogeyman, The Water Man, who is fabled to have conquered death.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Joe Austin, Sarah Self
MANAGEMENT: Anonymous Content
MANAGERS: Charlie Scully, Tariq Merhab
PRODUCERS: Harpo Studios, Yoruba Saxon Productions
FINANCIERS: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

17
ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD
by David Scarpa
The story of Getty kidnapping crisis encompassing the Red Brigades, the Italian tabloids and the Vatican.
AGENCY: Gersh
AGENTS: Bob Hohman, Bayard Maybank
PRODuCERS: Chris Clark, Quentin Curtis
FINANCIERS: TriStar Productions

17
BOY
by Mattson Tomlin
A teenage boy is born with special abilities and spends his childhood switching names and cities so as to keep his identity hidden. When he loses control and accidentally kills his father, he and his mother have to go on the run.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Jay Baker, Pete Stein, Ida Ziniti
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGERS: Zac Frognowski

17
THE SHAVE
by Thomas White, Miles Hubley
A dirty cop, exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student, visits the boy’s father at his barbershop, and while receiving a straight razor shave, listens to him recount the story of his son’s life.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Stuart Manashil, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: MXN Entertainment
MANAGER: Michelle Knudsen
PRODUCERS: Chris Columbus, Maiden Voyage Films
FINANCIERS: Lost City, Route One Entertainment

16
DO NO HARM
by Julia Cox
An ambitious surgeon’s life takes a dangerous turn when she indulges in an affair with a doctor whose god complex challenges her own.
AGENCY: APA
AGENTS: Adam Perry, Sheryl Peterson
MANAGEMENT: Project D Media
MANAGER: Allison Doyle

16
HAMMERSPACE
by Mike Van Waes
A terminally ill teenager looking for answers about his missing father finds a key that unlocks an opening to an alternate animated dimension and a new friend who helps him repair his broken family.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Trevor Astbury, Joe Mann
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGERS: Zac Frognowski
PRODUCER: Lin Pictures
FINANCIER: Warner Bros

16
THE WRETCHED EMILY DERRINGER
by Chris Thomas Devlin
Gleefully terrifying her small town as a serial killer known as “The Misfit Butcher,” 13-year-old Emily Derringer becomes annoyed when a new killer comes to town and residents begin attributing his sloppy murders to the Misfit Butcher. In a macabre coming of age story, Emily must deal with her competition while also taking on the other trials and tribulations of junior high school life.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Charles Ferraro, Aaron Hart, Jenny Maryasis
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions
MANAGERS: Jeff Portnoy, John Zaozirny

15
PANDEMONIUM, SPLENDIDLY MANAGED
by Brett Conrad
A local Phoenix newscaster at the pinnacle of local celebrity slowly descends into the depths of madness as he sees his world around him start to crumble piece by piece all while trying to become a game show host in Los Angeles.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Matt Martin
MANAGEMENT: Magnet Management
MANAGERS: Bob Sobhani
PRODUCER: Michael De Luca Productions

15
THE VIRGINIAN
by Michael Russell Gunn
Based on the novel by Owen Wister, a young, down-and-out George Washington, desperate to join the British Army, accepts a dangerous mission to conquer a French fort and save the American colonies.
AGENCY: Paradigm
AGENTS: David Boxerbaum
MANAGEMENT: Principato-Young Management
MANAGERS: David Gardner
PRODUCERS: De Line Pictures
FINANCIERS: New Line

14
CASTLE DRIVE
by Matthew Scott Weiner
Based on real events, the story of the writing of Fatal Vision, the 1983 bestselling true crime classic that chronicles the summer journalist Joe McGinness spent with “Green Beret Killer” Jeffrey McDonald while he was on trial for the brutal murder of his wife and children.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Ryan Feldman, Meyash Prabhu
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGERS: Michael Wilson
PRODUCER: Treehouse Pictures
FINANCIER: Treehouse Pictures

14
CUT AND RUN
by Zoe McCarthy
A female urologist and a retired hooker form an unlikely friendship when they team up to take down a notorious sex trafficker in Miami.
MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment
MANAGERS: Olivia Gerke, Ari Lubet

13
THE BURNING WOMAN
Brad Ingelsby
A reckless, fun-loving young woman confronts the dark side of life after losing her daughter.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Jon Cassir, Maha Dakhil, Scott Greeenberg
MANAGEMENT: Energy Entertainment
MANAGER: Brooklyn Weaver
PRODUCER: Ridley Scott Films

13
MAYDAY 109
by Samuel V. Franco, Evan Kilgore
Based on actual events, a young John F. Kennedy struggles to save the crew of his PT Boat after it is sunk by a Japanese warship during World War II.
AGENCY: ICM Partners
AGENTS: Bryan Diperstein, Rich Green, Kathleen Remington
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions, Brio Entertainment
MANAGERS: Mia Chang, Jeff Portnoy
PRODUCERS: Thunder Road Pictures, Flynn Picture Co.

13
MORNINGSTAR
by David Birke
The war is over. A bitter and uneasy truce has been reached with an invading alien race, and a new cold war has begun. Fueled by suspicions of an alien spy in their ranks, the United Nations Intelligence Division entrusts their top agent, Martin Webber, with finding the mole.
AGENCY: Paradigm
AGENTS: Scott Henderson, Valarie Phillips
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGERS: Ryan Cunningham, Robyn Meisinger
PRODUCERS: Quadrant Pictures, Madhouse Entertainment
FINANCIERS: Warner Bros

13
MOVE THAT BODY
by Lucia Aniello, Paul W Downs
Five friends rent a beach house in Miami for a bachelorette weekend and accidentally kill a male stripper.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Ali Benmohamed, Jay Gassner, Carolyn Sivitz, Jo Yao
MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment
MANAGERS: Dave Becky
FINANCIERS: Sony

13
NYAD
by Robert Specland
Based on the true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who in 2013, after 4 failed attempts and at the age of 64, became the first person ever to open-swim from Cuba to Florida (55 hours non-stop) overcoming impossible odds, personal tragedy, and 103 miles of open ocean.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: David Park, Amanda Hymson, Carolyn Sivitz
MANAGEMENT: Pacific View Management
MANAGERS: Peter Dealbert

13
QUEEN OF THE AIR
by Cat Vasko
Based on the book “Queen of the Air” written by Dean N. Jensen. The story of famed trapeze artist Lillian Leitzel and her relationship with fellow trapeze artist Alfredo Codona, who were two of the most famous entertainers of the world during their time.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Simon Faber, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGERS: Zac Frognowski, Matt Rosen
PRODUCERS: Mad Chance Productions
FINANCIERS: Warner Bros

13
SPRING OFFENSIVE
by Matthew McInerney-Lacombe
Dr. Liz Scott, a British epidemiologist with the World Health Organization, fights to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Afghanistan’s war torn Helmand province as the Taliban’s assault on allied forces threatens to turn the localized outbreak into a global catastrophe.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Jacob Epstein
MANAGEMENT: LBI Entertainment
MANAGERS: Harry Lengsfield, Sam Warren
PRODUCERS: 6th & Idaho
FINANCIERS: Fox

12
BLACKFRIARS
by Chris Bremner
Set around the Blackfriars massacre of 1978, the true story of a Boston police officer and a con man-turned-witness, who become unlikely friends hiding out in Bermuda, ultimately perpetrating a con on the Boston DA they’re tasked to serve.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Emerson Davis, Carolyn Sivitz
MANAGEMENT: MGMT Entertainment
MANAGERS: Dianne McGunigle
PRODUCER: Hasbro Inc.
FINANCIER: Lakeshore Entertainment

12
CIRCLE OF TREASON
by Anna Waterhouse, Joe Shrapnel
Based on the book “Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and The Men He Betrayed” written by Sandra Grimes & Jeanne Vertefeuille. When two women in the CIA suspect there is a mole working there, they have to overcome the institution’s hierarchy and chauvinism to bring down the traitor.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Jon Cassir, Rob Hertig, Fred Spektor
MANAGEMENT: Grandview, Curtis Brown Group Ltd
MANAGER: Jeff Silver (Grandview); Nick Marston, Camilla Young (Curtis Brown)
PRODUCER: Josephson Entertainment
FINANCIER: Focus Features

12
STAR ONE
by David Coggeshall
Two CIA agents must overcome their opposing worldviews to evade the Soviet and Chinese armies during a dangerous mission to Tibet in 1950. The true story of the first CIA agent ever to die in the line of duty; the “first star’ on the CIA Memorial Wall.
AGENCY: Paradigm
AGENTS: David Boxerbaum, Scott Henderson, Chris Smith
MANAGEMENT: Writ Large
MANAGER: Noah Rosen
PRODUCER: Mythology Entertainment

12
THE SET UP
by Kari Granlund
Two co-dependent female best friends’s friendship is put through the wringer after a blind date gone awry sends them on a dangerous, all-in-one-night adventure with a drug dealer.
AGENCY: VERVE
AGENTS: Chris Noriega, Melissa Solomon, Bill Weinstein
MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment
MANAGER: Sarah Dodge

11
BARE KNUCKLE by Dave Matillo
New York City 1862: The bare knuckle boxing champion, Bad Jack, develops a crush on a common French girl and uses his political influence to send her Irish lumberman husband off to the Civil War so he can take her for his own. Unfortunately for Bad Jack, the Irishman doesn’t die in the war and t comes back a killer looking to exact revenge on the pugilist and his entire corrupt entourage.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Ryan Feldman, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGERS: Adam Kolbrenner, Kendrick Tan
PRODUCERS: Hollywood Gang

11
CHAPPAQUIDDICK
by Taylor Allen, Andrew Logan
A historically factual look at what really happened when Ted Kennedy drove off the road into a Martha’s Vineyard bay with Mary Jo Kopechne in the car.
MANAGEMENT: DMG Entertainment
MANAGER: Chris Fenton
PRODUCER: Apex Entertainment
FINANCIER: Apex Entertainment

11
GREAT FALLS
by Andy Friedhof
After negligently killing a hunter with their patrol car, an alcoholic Sheriff’s Deputy and her superior officer must decide what to do with the only witness to their crime – a death row inmate only days from execution.
AGENCY: Equitable Stewardship for Artists
AGENTS: Antoni Kaczmarek, Varun Monga
MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion
MANAGER: Jairo Alvarado

11
HUNTING EICHMANN
by Matthew Orton
The thrilling capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann by a secret Mossad team in South America.
AGENCY: The Agency Ltd
AGENT: Emily Hickman
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGER: Jeff Silver
PRODUCERS: Automatik, Matt Charmin
FINANCIER: MGM

10
A SPECK IN THE SEA
by Jeff Pope
Based on the article “A Speck in the Sea” by Paul Tough. The true story of the rescue of lobster fisherman John Aldridge who fell into the ocean in the middle of the night on July 24th, forty miles off Montauk with no life vest and no way to signal where he was.

10
BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS
by Dan Kunka
In one of the greatest untold stories in American history, General and future President Andrew Jackson reluctantly partners with world-renowned pirate Jean Lafitte to lead a rag-tag team of soldiers against the indomitable British Army in the climactic battle of the War of 1812.
AGENCY: ICM Partners
AGENTS: Harley Copen, Kathleen Remington
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner
PRODUCER: Madhouse Entertainment
FINANCIER: Endurance

10
CRIMSON TRAIL
by Jeremy Shipp
Devastated by the cold-blooded murder of his family, a devout frontier preacher risks his soul to lead a posse in pursuit of the Harpe Brothers—America’s first serial killers. Based on a true story.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Emerson Davis, Julien Thuan
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGERS: Ryan Cunningham, Adam Kolbrenner

10
LABYRINTH
by Christian Contreras
Based on the book LAbyrinth by Randall Sullivan. The story of the investigation into the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Stuart Manashil, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Grandview, Curtis Brown Group Ltd (UK)
MANAGER: Jeff Silver (Grandview), Lily Williams (Curtis Brown)
PRODUCER: Good Films

10
OUR WEEK WITH WALLER
by Evan Mirzai, Shea Mirzai
After getting laid off, two Americans cash in their vacation pay and head to Spain where their paths collide with one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists.
AGENCY: Paradigm
AGENTS: Adrian Garcia, Adam Kanter, Martin Spencer
MANAGEMENT: Principato-Young Management
MANAGER: Allen Fischer

10
SET IT UP
by Katie Silberman
Two young assistants realize they can get more free time if they occupy their bosses’ time by setting them up on a date.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENT: Joe Mann
MANAGEMENT: MXN Entertainment
MANAGERS: Michelle Knudsen
PRODUCER: Treehouse Pictures

10
UNTITLED SOCIOPATH PROJECT
by Topher Rhys-Lawrence
A successful New Yorker’s seemingly perfect life starts unraveling once he’s suspected for the murder of his co-worker, and his only alibi is the doppelganger that’s begun stalking him.
PRODUCER: Atlas Entertainment

9
ARES
by Geneva Robertson-Dworet
The survival story of an astronaut whose space capsule crash lands in the African desert and whose mission to space was part of a larger conspiracy.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Rich Cook, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Management 360
MANAGERS: Jill McElroy, Clifford Murray
PRODUCERS: Roland Emmerich

9
FINAL JOURNEY
by Michael Lee Barlin
A mistreated elderly Inuit woman is forced out of her village to survive alone on the savage arctic tundra.
MANAGEMENT: Lee Stobby Entertainment
MANAGER: Lee Stobby

9
MILITIA
by Henry Dunham
After a shooting on a police funeral by a suspected militia member, a recluse ex-cop and fellow militia man must interrogate the suspected gunmen in his own militia before copycat attacks start a nationwide war between cops and militias.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Emerson Davis, Peter Dodd, Charles Ferraro, Mike Schwartz Wright
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGERS: Ryan Cunningham, Kendrick Tan
PRODUCER: 6th & Idaho

9
SALEM
by Mark Bianculli, Jeff Richard
Fifteen years after the witch trials, the scars of Salem are reopened when young women begin showing up dead. Desperate for answers, the town elders turn to a man of science to uncover the truth behind its terrifying events plaguing their community.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Danny Greenberg, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Anonymous Content (Bianculli)/Industry Entertainment (Richard)
MANAGERS: Rosalie Swedlin (Bianculli)/Michael Botti (Richard)
PRODUCERS: STX Entertainment
FINANCIER: The Weinstein Company

9
TOMORROW ON THE RUNWAY
by Frederick Seton
Kermit St. Lucy has a ridiculous name and is ridiculously ill-equipped to deal with adult responsibilities. After a tragedy shakes him to his core, Kermit takes it upon himself to look after and raise two young children.
AGENCY: Verve
AGENTS: Parker Davis
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGER: Kendrick Tan

9
TREASURE ISLAND
by James Coyne
Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, young Jim Hawkins finds a map to a buried fortune; to claim it means a perilous voyage, pirate treachery, and the wicked mentorship of Long John Silver.
AGENCY: Gersh
AGENTS: Eric Garfinkel, Mark Hartogsohn
MANAGEMENT: The Syndicate
MANAGER: Scott Karp
PRODUCER: Ritchie/Wigram
FINANCIER: Warner Bros

9
UNTITLED LARRY HILLBLOM PROJECT
by Matt Portenoy
The strange-yet-true story of the battle over the estate of Larry Lee Hillblom, billionaire founder of DHL.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Rob Carlson, Daniel Cohan, Tanya Cohan
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGERS: Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone
PRODUCER: Seven Bucks Entertainment

8
A LIFE FANTASTIC
by Natalie Antoci
A single mother with a terminal diagnosis embarks on a road trip with her eccentric 9 year old son and nanny to find a loving and progressive family that will accept him for whoever he may grow up to be.
MANAGEMENT: The Mission Entertainment
MANAGERS: Corrine Aquino, Andrew Coles
PRODUCER: The Mission Entertainment

8
AN AFRICAN WESTERN
by Chloe Castellon, Ridgeway Wilson
When a young African woman’s village is destroyed by a “Christian” paramilitary unit and her sister is kidnapped, she uses every weapon at her disposal on an odyssey to save her last living relative.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Emerson Davis, Jon Huddle
MANAGEMENT: Principato-Young Management
MANAGERS: Brian Dobbins, Allen Fischer

8
ATLANTIC WALL
by Zach Dean
A lone American paratrooper, stranded behind enemy lines hours before D-Day, is tasked with delivering intelligence critical to the outcome of the war and compelled to fulfill a promise to protect the young son of a murdered ally.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Cliff Roberts, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGERS: Adam Kolbrenner
PRODUCER: Madhouse Entertainment
FINANCIER: Imperative Entertainment

8
BED REST
by Lori Evans Taylor
An expectant mother who is confined to bed rest starts to experience paranormal events.
AGENCY: ICM Partners
AGENTS: Rebecca Ewing, Doug Johnson
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGERS: Josh Goldenberg, Sean Perrone
PRODUCERS: Chris Sparling, Sunswept Entertainment
FINANCIER: MGM

8
I BELIEVE IN AMERICA
by Terry Clyne
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of THE GODFATHER, revealing that the creative forces behind one of the finest American films ever made were all as cunning and ruthless as the mobsters portrayed in Mario Puzo’s bestseller.
MANAGEMENT: Kailey Marsh Media
MANAGER: Kailey Marsh

8
IDA TARBELL
by Mark McDevitt
Ida Tarbell’s magazine series “The History of the Standard Oil Company,” not only changed the history of journalism but also the fate of Rockefeller’s empire, which was shaken by the powerful pen of its most implacable observer.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Aaron Hart, Geoff Morley
MANAGEMENT: Think Tank Management and Production
MANAGER: Tom Drumm
PRODUCER: Think Tank Management and Production

8
LOU
by Maggie McGowan Cohn
An elderly woman who hacks out a rough existence on a remote island is forced to help her dimwitted neighbor rescue her daughter whose ex has kidnapped her and escaped into the woods.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Jon Cassir, JP Evans
MANAGEMENT: Management 360
MANAGERS: Eryn Brown, Adam Marshall
PRODUCER: Paramount
FINANCIER: Bad Robot

8
PRECONCEPTION
by Jake Morse, Scott Wolman
A couple on the verge of parenthood embarks on a pre-baby bucket list.
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGER: Josh Goldenberg
PRODUCER: De Line Pictures
FINANCIER: CBS Films

8
SENIOR YEAR
by Andrew Knauer, Arthur Pielli
A cheerleader wakes up after a twenty year coma and returns to sit at the cool table and try to become prom queen, as a thirty seven year-old woman.
AGENCY: Gersh
AGENT: Greg Pedicin
MANAGEMENT: Benderspink
MANAGER: Jake Wagner
PRODUCERS: Benderspink, Broken Road Productions
FINANCIER: CBS Films

8
VERONA
by Neil Widener, Gavin James
A re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Jon Cassir, Joe Mann
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGER: Matt Rosen
PRODUCER: Roth Kirschenbaum Films
FINANCIER: Sony

7
105 AND RISING
by Andrew Cypiot
Amid the chaos of a failing nation on April 29, 1975, the objective was clear: safely evacuate all remaining Americans from Saigon. But to Major Jim Kean and Ambassador Graham Martin, the moment represented something else: the final opportunity to uphold promises and obligations to the people of South Vietnam.
AGENCY: Verve
AGENTS: Parker Davis, Adam Weinstein
PRODUCER: Cota Films

7
FREE AGENT
by Sam Regnier
A female NBA executive for the Golden State Warriors pursues the biggest free agent of her career while managing a messy divorce and a complicated relationship with a younger colleague and his teenage sister.
AGENCY: Paradigm
AGENTS: David Boxerbaum, Scott Henderson
MANAGEMENT: Management SGC
MANAGER: Scott Carr
PRODUCER: 21 Laps
FINANCIER: CBS FILMS

7
HOMEGROWN
by Jacques Edeline
A teenage boy, raised in total seclusion and indoctrinated by his enigmatic father, is sent to live with a foster family and enrolled in a public high school when his father is incarcerated, threatening their relationship and causing the boy to question everything he’s learned.
AGENCY: APA
AGENTS: Debbie Deuble, Adam Perry
MANAGEMENT: Affirmative Entertainment
MANAGERS: Nicholas Bogner
PRODUCER: Cota Films

7
THE BOY
by Owen Egerton
Sixteen years after stabbing a classmate to appease a legendary phantom known as the Boy, a repentant woman returns to her hometown to live with her sister and nephew, but as the Boy continues to haunt her she must face her deepest terror and discover the truth about the Boy before he claims her nephew.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Jason Burns, Aaron Hart
MANAGEMENT: Epicenter
MANAGERS: Allard Cantor, Jarrod Murray

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CARNIVAL
by Matias Caruso
A deadly carnival knife-thrower hunts down the members of a powerful crime syndicate who murdered his sister.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Trevor Astbury, Jon Cassir
MANAGEMENT: Untitled Entertainment
MANAGER: Jen Au
PRODUCERS: Anonymous Content, Mitchell Peck

6
CROOK COUNTY
by Gita Pullapilly, Aron Gaudet
A whistleblower’s harrowing journey into an undercover FBI operation in 1980’s Cook County, Illinois, sending him toe-to-toe with corrupt judges, hustling defense attorneys, and Chicago mobsters; and ultimately resulting in the largest number of convictions of government officials in the history of the United States.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Max Mitchell, Carolyn Sivitz
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGER: Taylor Benzie
PRODUCER: Linda McDonough

6
DAMSEL
by Bryan McMullin
After first being locked in a tower and then hidden deep in the forest to prevent a prince from rescuing her, long-haired Rapunzel vows to get revenge.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Charles Ferraro, Aaron Hart, David Park
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGERS: Tobin Babst, Michael Wilson
PRODUCER: Josephson Entertainment

6
FRANCIS AND THE GODFATHER
by Andrew Farotte
Facing financial ruin, auteur filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is forced to direct the adaptation of Mario Puzo’s pulp novel The Godfather, pitting him against legendary mega-producer Robert Evans.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Jon Levin, Elizabeth Newman
MANAGEMENT: Zero Gravity Management
MANAGERS: Jeff Belkin
PRODUCER: Echo Lake Entertainment

6
GREEN RIVER KILLER
by Michael Sheen
Based on the Eisner Award winning graphic novel of the same name. Detectives in the Green River Killer case attempt to unravel both the facts behind the gruesome murders that plagued the Pacific North West for over a decade and the psychosis of the killer they find themselves face to face with.
AGENCY: ICM Partners
AGENTS: Doug MacLaren
MANAGEMENT: Sanders Armstrong Caserta
MANAGERS: Tammy Rosen
PRODUCERS: Dark Horse Entertainment

6
LANDSLIDE
by Will Staples, Tony Camerino
Based on the book How to Break a Terrorist by Tony Camerino. The story of America’s search for terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and the man who played a key role in tracking him down by using psychological warfare.
AGENCY: WME (Staples)/CAA (Camerino)
AGENTS: Phil D’Amecourt (Staples)/Jon Levin (Camerino)
MANAGEMENT: Management 360 (Staples)/BE Management (Camerino)
MANAGERS: Darin Friedman (Staples)/Brett Etre (Camerino)
PRODUCERS: Marc Butan

6
RESURFACE
by Pete Bridges
An underwater earthquake decimates a research crew working at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, leaving
two survivors with limited resources to ascend 35,000 feet and reach the surface before their life support runs out.
AGENCY: Verve
AGENTS: Adam Levine, Adam Weinstein
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner
PRODUCERS: Broken Road Productions

6
SONG OF TREBLINKA
by Viorica Baln
Based on a true story. A renowned Jewish conductor plots a revolt with fellow prisoners as he attracts the respect of his Nazi captors in Germany-occupied Poland’s most notorious death camp.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Ryan Feldman
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner

6
THE CANYON
by Alex Koplow
When parents reunite with their grown children for a road trip to hike the Grand Canyon, the family conflicts on the way prove far more grueling than the twenty mile hike.

6
THREE MONTHS
by Jared Frieder
After being exposed to HIV the weekend of his high school graduation in 2011, a punk gay teenager from Miami attempts to start a new relationship with a someone from his support group as they try to endure the three months it takes to get accurately tested.
AGENCY: Paradigm
AGENTS: Valarie Phillips, Ellie Schiff
MANAGEMENT: Haven Entertainment
MANAGERS: Brendan Bragg, Jesse Hara, Jordana Mollick

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WISH UPON
by Barbara Marshall
When Claire, a sixteen year old misfit, finds a magic box that promises a chance at the life she has always wanted, she never could have guessed that each wish would demand a deadly payment.
AGENCY: APA
AGENTS: Debbie Deuble
MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment
MANAGER: Ava Jamshidi
PRODUCER: Busted Shark
FINANCIER: Broad Green Pictures