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When Franklin Leonard took to Twitter on Tuesday night to decry a recent film casting, Ben Stiller shot back in a spirited conversation about whether people got Hollywood gigs on the basis of their abilities or if nepotism played a role. The Black List founder commented on a casting story Deadline broke about Hopper Pe…

Paul Laudiero and Ben Baker’s script for the holiday action pic Escape From the North Pole has landed at Filmula. Johnny Lin, producer of the upcoming sci-fi thriller Rise and psychological thriller Sacrifice, has acquired the rights to the script which was featured on the coveted Black List, the annual ranking…

EXCLUSIVE: Both are best-selling authors, both have cracked a glass ceiling or two, and both have been nominated for Emmys, but there really isn't a lot that Lena Dunham and Peggy Noonan have in common. That perception might change when the Girls creator and avowed Hillary Clinton supporter takes on the role of the…

UPDATED WITH FULL LIST OF SCRIPTS, WRITERS, AND REPS: Catherine The Great, about the rise and life of the famous (sometimes notorious) 18th-Century Russian monarch, was the top vote-getter among 70 scripts chosen for the 2014 Black List of the year’s best un-produced scripts. The screenplay, by Los Angeles writer and…