The Black List 2016 Scripts: Madonna Biopic ‘Blond Ambition’ Leads Rankings
Elyse Hollander’s Madonna biopic Blond Ambition is the top script on the 2016 The Black List, the annual list of the most-liked screenplays in town that have not been produced. The script, from the WME- and Bellvue Productions-repped Hollander, is set in 1980s New York, where Madonna struggles to get her frst album released while navigating fame, romance, and a music industry that views women as disposal. The script received 48 votes to top the list.
RatPac Entertainment, Michael De Luca Producutions and Bellvue Productions are the producers attached to Hollander’s screenplay.
The list, released earlier today, features 73 scripts. There was a three-way tie for second with This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself, Tony Tost’s The Olympian and Liz Hannah’s The Post.
The Black List was compiled from the suggestions of more than 250 film executivesl; the projects receiving mentions will have not begun principal photography during the 2016 calendar year.
Refresh for latest as the rankings are revealed (by number of mentions), followed by agency and management company rankings.
48
BLOND AMBITION
Elyse Hollander
In 1980s New York, Madonna struggles to get her frst album released while navigating fame, romance, and a music industry that views women as disposal.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Simon Faber
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions
MANAGER: John Zaozirny
PRODUCERS: RatPac Entertainment, Michael De Luca Producutions, Bellvue Productions
35
LIFE ITSELF
Dan Fogelman
A multigenerational love story that weaves together a number of characters whose lives intersect over the course of decades from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside and back.
AGENCY: WME
AGENT: Danny Greenberg
MANAGEMENT: Management 360
MANAGER: Eryn Brown
PRODUCERS: Rhode Island Avenune, Temple Hill
FINANCIERS: FilmNation
THE OLYMPIAN
Tony Tost
The true story of an underdog rower trying to make it into the 1984 Olympics, told through the story of his relationships with his coach, his father, his fancée, and with competition itself.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Jill Gillett, Sylvie Rabineau
MANAGEMENT: Management 360
MANAGERS: Guymon Casady, Jill McElroy
PRODUCERS: Management 360
THE POST
Liz Hannah
Before Watergate, there was the Pentagon Papers. This is the true story of how Washington Post scion Katharine Graham and legendary editor Ben Bradlee overcame their differences to publish the story that would change their lives.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Dan Erlij, Keya Khayatian Carolyn Sivitz
MANAGEMENT: Echo Lake Management
MANAGERS: Brittany Kahan, Graciella Sanchez
PRODUCERS: Pascal Pictures, Star Thrower Entertainment
28
VOYAGERS
Zach Dean
The cosmic love story of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Dan Aloni, Simon Faber, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner
PRODUCER: Lynda Obst Productions
FINANCIERS: Warner Bros
25
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE
Colby Day
Explores the entire history of the universe and our species through three interwoven storylines that question the very nature of life, love, mortality, where we’ve been, and where we’re going; the past, present, and future of the human race.
AGENCY: WME
AGENT: Mike Fera
MANAGEMENT: LBI
MANAGER: Harry Lengsfield
22
O2
Christie LeBlanc
Waking up inside a cryogenic chamber with no memory of how she got there, Charlie must somehow escape the chamber before her air runs out.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Joe Mann, Pete Stein
MANAGEMENT: Echo Lake Entertainment
MANAGERS: James Engle, Adam Riback
UNTITLED LAX MANDIS PROJECT
Seth Spector
A frustrated film exec at odds with the state of his industry is forced to work with the one person who is making him question everything.
21
DARK MONEY
Matt Fruchtman
The true story of a young stock trader who goes to work for billionaire tycoon Steve Cohen and gets involved in the biggest insider trading scandal in history.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Sue Carls, Jon Cassir, Brian Kend, Joe Mann
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner
PRODUCER: Echo Lake Entertainment
LETTERS FROM ROSEMARY KENNEDY
Nick Yarborough
Told through a series of letters to family members, the tragic true story of Rosemary Kennedy, a vibrant, passionate young woman and oldest daughter of Joe and Rose Kennedy. Born with a severe learning disability, Rosemary so worried her father with her erratic behavior that he believed the stigma of mental illness in the family would ruin his plans to build a political dynasty. He hid her away in convents and sanitariums and ultimately had her lobotomized.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Simon Faber
MANAGEMENT: Epicenter
MANAGERS: Allan Cantor, Jarrod Murray
20
LINDA AND MONICA
Flint Wainess
The absolutely crazy true story of the relationship between Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp, the woman who nearly destroyed the Clinton presidency – and herself in the process.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENT: Charles Ferraro
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGER: Josh Goldenberg
PRODUCER: Escape Artists
19
HALA
Minhal Baig
When a teenaged Muslim-American girl, struggling with identity issues already, discovers her father is having an afair with a colleague, she responds by seducing her English teacher, ultimately leading to her parents’ divorce.
MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment
MANAGER: Ari Lubet
PRODUCER: Overbrook Entertainment
18
THE MISERABLE ADVENTURES OF BURT SQUIRE ABOARD THE HORN HIGH YO
Ben Bolea
The unbelievable true story of a family man from Alaska in the midst of a midlife crisis who embarks on what he hoped would be a dream sailing vacation but ends up shipwrecked in the Atlantic Ocean with a charming but psychotic sea captain who has decided to stop taking his medication.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Holly Jeter
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions
MANAGER: Jeff Portnoy
PRODUCERS: LD Entertainment, Kim Zubick
FINANCIER: LD Entertainment
THE TIME TRAVELER’S LA RONDE
Tom Dean
An exploration of relationships as a man witnesses diferent types of love across the ages.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Roger Green, Meyash Prabhu
MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion
MANAGERS: Zach Cox, Daniela Garcia-Brcek
PRODUCERS: Circle of Confusion
17
REVOLVER
Kate Trefry
Based on true events in Anchorage, Alaska in 1966, a teen girl attempts to sneak into the hotel where the Beatles are staying to lose her virginity to George Harrison.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Amanda Hymson, Keya Khayatian
MANAGEMENT: Lee Stobby Entertainment
MANAGER: Lee Stobby
15
FAIRY GODMOTHER
Chiara Atik
When sought after Fairy Godmother Faye is hired by a mind-bogglingly gorgeous teenage client, Kenzie, to fnd her true love with the hottest prince in the land, Faye fnds herself facing an unfamiliar challenge when the prince starts falling for her instead.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Sarah Self
MANAGEMENT: Think Tank Management
MANAGER: Tom Drumm
PRODUCER: A Thousand Ships
FINANCIER: MGM
FREE GUY
Matt Lieberman
A bank teller stuck in his routine discovers he’s a background character in a realistic, open world action-adventure video game and he is the only one capable of saving the city.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Simon Faber, Roger Green
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner
PRODUCER: Berlanti Productions
FINANCIER: 20th Century Fox
THE KINGS OF MAINE
Kathy Charles
Living with his wife and child in a trailer while working as a janitor, Stephen King struggles with alcoholism and his own dark history as he attempts to complete Carrie.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Peter Dodd, Charles Ferraro
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions
MANAGER: John Zaozirny
LAYLA…AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS
Derek Weissbein
Based on the lives and times of Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and Pattie Boyd and the tumultuous love triange that inspired an entire generation of music.
AGENCY: APA
AGENTS: Adam Perry
MANAGEMENT: Echo Lake Entertainment
MANAGER: Adam Riback
PRODUCERS: LBI Entertainment, Le Grisbi Productions, Real Creative Productions
MAXIMUM KING!
Shay Hatten
An outlandish, surreal imagining of how in 1985 Stephen King wrote and directed his horror classic Maximum Overdrive.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Joe Mann, Praveen Pandian
MANAGEMENT: Lee Stobby Entertainment
MANAGER: Lee Stobby
14
BATTLE OF ALCATRAZ
Neil Widener, Gavin James
A plan to escape from Alcatraz prison turns into a battle and hostage crisis that pits armed prisoners against US Army troops for two full days.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Jon Cassir, Joe Mann
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGERS: Matt Rosen
PRODUCERS: Automatik, Matt Charman
FINANCIER: Paramount
I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW
Mike Makowsky
The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse — until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Rob Herting, Praveen Pandian
MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion
MANAGER: Susan Solomon
PRODUCERS: Automatik, Estuary Films, Exhibit, Mike Makowsky
MAN ALIVE
Joe Greenberg
After an alien invasion takes over the minds of humankind, one survivor known as “Man” must make peace with the alien force to fight a greater evil.
AGENCY: Verve Talent and Literary Agency
AGENTS: Bryan Besser, Parker Davis
MANAGEMENT: Good Fear Film + Management
MANAGERS: Scott Stoops, Jake Wagner
PRODUCERS: 26 Keys, Good Fear
FINANCIER: Fox
MOTHER
Michael Lloyd Green
A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot “Mother” – designed to repopulate the earth’s surface following an extinction-level event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
MANAGEMENT: Echo Lake Entertainment
MANAGERS: Dave Brown, James Engle
PRODUCERS: The Penguin Empire, Southern Light Films SLA
FINANCIER: Rhea Films
UNTITLED LATE NIGHT COMEDY
Mindy Kaling
A veteran late-night talk show host comes close to losing her job after hiring the show’s frst female writer.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Michael Cooper, Maha Dakhil
MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Management
MANAGER: Howard Klein
PRODUCERS: Feigco, Scott Rudin
FINANCIER: Fox 2000
13
KING OF LA
Chris Bremner
Set in the 1980s, based on the true story of a man who went from star DEA agent to convicted drug trafficker in the worst corruption scandal in DEA history.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Emerson Davis, Ben Jacobson
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGERS: Lindsey Framson, Josh Goldenberg
PRODUCERS: Bridle Path Films, Scott Free
LET THE EVIL GO WEST
Carlos Rios
In the 1800s, a father desperate to care for his family finds a barrel of gold, that may be less fortune than great curse.
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGER: Hannah Ozer
VILLAINS
Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Two small time robbers become prisoners when they break into a house and discover a ten year old girl chained up in the basement.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Peter Dodd, Charles Ferraro
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGER: Josh Goldenberg
PRODUCERS: Preferred Content, Russel Geyser, Two Ton Films
12
HART YOU
Zoe McCarthy
MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment
MANAGERS: Olivia Gerke, Ari Lubet
PRODUCER: Michael De Luca Productions
JAMES CAMERON’S TITANIC
Jen D’Angelo
A Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead take on Titanic. An overprotective mother attempts to keep her teenage daughter, young son, and rowdy sister together while sailing on the doomed voyage of the Titanic in 1912.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Amanda Hymson
MANAGEMENT: Principato-Young Entertainment
MANAGER: Maggie Haskins
NORTHEAST KINGDOM
Alex R. Johnson
When Angie witnesses the betrayal and murder of her father during a smuggler’s drop, the vigilant and determined young woman calls in the help of a mysterious female assassin to seek revenge against all those responsible.
AGENCY: Gersh
AGENTS: Greg Pedicin, Danny Toth
MANAGEMENT: Zero Gravity Management
MANAGERS: Mark Holder, Erik Williams
PRODUCERS: Platinum Dunes
FINANCIER: Paramount
11
BARBARIAN
Rosalind Ross
Based on the true story of Boudicca, a queen and warrior of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, David Karp, Deb McIntosh
MANAGEMENT: Heroes And Villains Entertainment
MANAGERS: Markus Goerg, Mikhail Nayfeld
THE BUILDER
Tom Cartier
A look inside the tortuous drama of Donald Trump’s frst Manhattan real estate deal, his relationships with troubled older brother Freddy and famed fixer Roy Cohn, and how they all created the Trump of today.
AGENCY: APA
AGENT: Adam Perry
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions
MANAGERS: John Zaozirny
UNTITLED FAIRY TALE
Cat Vasko
A handsome prince falls in love with a commoner, so her fairy Godmother turns her in to a perfect princess. But when the spell works a little too well, the prince embarks on a quest to reverse it, not realizing that he’s endangering the entire fairy tale universe.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Simon Faber, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGERS: Zac Frognowski, Matt Rosen
PRODUCER: Mad Chance
10
ADRIFT
Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell
In this incredible true story of love and survival, Tami Ashcraft sails into the heart of a hurricane and embarks on a harrowing 41 day odyssey against impossible odds to save the man she loves.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Jeff Gorin
MANAGEMENT: Hopscotch Pictures
MANAGER: Sukee Chew
PRODUCERS: Aaron & Jordan Kandell
KINGS CANYON
Evan Parter, Paul Hilborn
At the height of the Cold War, Air Force pilot Lieutenant David Steeves vanishes over the Sierra Nevada mountains in a high-value jet. Fifty-four days later, left for dead, he crawls out of the wild with an impossible tale of survival. The media and military brand him a hero, launching him to fame and fortune, only to call him into question when certain discrepancies in his story point to his being a hoax, or worse — a traitor.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Ida Ziniti, Pete Stein
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGER: Ryan Cunningham
PRODUCER: Bristol Automotive
THE LAST DAYS OF NIGHT
Graham Moore
Attorney Paul Cravath takes on Thomas Edison in a legal battle to determine whether Edison or his rival George Westinghouse will provide the electricity to light America.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Brian Sibererll, Trevor Astbury
MANAGEMENT: Think Tank Management
MANAGER: Tom Drumm
PRODUCERS: Bristol Automotive, Black Bear Pictures
FINANCIER: Black Bear Pictures
LEE
Chris Urch
An emotionally charged depiction of the six months leading up to one of Alexander McQueen’s greatest shows, probing both his personal and professional personas.
AGENCY: UTA/United Agents (UK)
AGENTS: Jenny Maryasis, Lucinda Moorhead, Geoff Morley/Marnie Podos
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGER: Jeff Silver
PRODUCERS: Damian Jones, Pathe
LIBERTY
Jayson Rothwell
The truly astonishing tale of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi – the French sculptor wholly responsible for designing, building, and delivering the Statue of Liberty across the Atlantic to where it stands today.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Rich Cook
PRODUCER: GK Films
SAVING CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Justin Shady
With Nazi agents attempting to stop the production of a film that is poking fun at Hitler, an FBI agent and an LAPD detective must team up to protect a drunk and angry Charlie Chaplin from being kidnapped.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Michael Fera, Roger Green
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGER: Matt Rosen
TWO BUTTERFLIES
Evan Dodson
Torn apart by tragedy, two estranged sisters are forced to reunite and confront their difderences after one sister must be transported to an Alzheimer’s facility.
AGENCY: Verve Talent and Literary Agency
AGENTS: Melisaa Darman, Parker Davis, Adam Levine
MANAGEMENT: Good Fear Film + Management
MANAGER: Jake Wagner
THE WOMAN WITH RED HAIR
Michael Schatz
The extraordinary true story of Johanna “Hannie” Schaft, a young woman who dropped out of college to join the Dutch Resistance during WWII, eventually becoming one of their most talented assassins and one of the Nazis’ most wanted enemies.
AGENCY: Paradigm
AGENT: Adrian Garcia
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions
MANAGER: Jeff Portnoy
PRODUCER: Berlanti Productions
9
AMERICAN REBEL
Christopher Cosmos
The true story of Deborah Sampson, a woman from Massachusetts who risked her life by disguising herself as a man and joining the Continental Army to help fight for independence during the Revolutionary War.
AGENCY: Paradigm
AGENT: David Boxerbaum
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner
PRODUCERS: Madhouse Entertainment, Pascal Pictures
RUGGED
April Prosser
Four dysfunctional female coworkers get lost in the wilderness during a team-building trip and must work together in order to survive.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Blair Kohan, Carolyn Sivitz
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGER: Josh Goldenberg
PRODUCER: Michael De Luca Productions
FINANCIER: Good Universe
TURNED ON
Charlie Kesslering
When a socially awkward engineer creates an android to fill in for her, things go awry when it becomes self actualized.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Sam Bringardner, Joe Mann
MANAGEMENT: Mosaic
MANAGERS: Josh Rudnick
PRODUCER: Feigco
FINANCIER: Fox
8
BOYFRIEND MATERIAL
Mackenzie Dohr
In the near future, a heartbroken girl who hates technology participates in an experiment that allows you to program a robot into your dream man.
AGENCY: Verve Talent and Literary Agency
AGENTS: Melissa Darman, Chris Noriega, Melissa Solomon
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGERS: Merideth Bajana
PRODUCER: Montecito Picture Company
THE BURNING SEASON
Jenny Halper
A primatologist takes her teenage daughter to a remote region of Madagascar, where her determination to save endangered lemurs puts their relationship and safety at risk. Based on the short story “What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us” by Laura Van Den Berg.
MANAGEMENT: Kipperman Management
MANAGER: Liza Zusman
PRODUCERS: Kate Sharp, Jenny Halper
CONTINGENCY PROTOCOL
Mark Townend
When futuristic technology renders the Federal Witness Protection Program obsolete, the U.S. Government begins using Time Travel to hide high-profile witnesses in the Past. When a security breach occurs, a U.S. Marshal and her witness struggle to find their way back to the Present Day while evading assassins.
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions
MANAGER: Jeff Portnoy
PRODUCERS: Bellvue Productions, Storyscape Entertainment, Weed Road
FINANCIER: Broad Green Pictures
A DECONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
Mattson Tomlin
Tasked with finding a game changing take for the sixth Jason Bourne movie, Tom Milton goes deep down the rabbit hole of cracking the story. With the guidance (and abuse) of a professor from his past and Bourne himself, Tom begins workshopping scenes that begin to bleed into real life in unexpected ways.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Jay Baker, Pete Stein, Ida Ziniti
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGER: Zac Frognowski
THE FRUITCAKE
Trey Selman
The remarkable true story of an unremarkable church-going accountant who stole $17 million in the biggest fruitcake heist of all time.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Sue Carls, Jon Cassir
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGERS: Adam Kolbrenner, Kendrick Tan
THE HUNCHBACK
Topher Rhys-Lawrence
Defying an isolationist, fear-mongering government, a gypsy revolutionary, a mutinous soldier, and a deaf hunchback become the champions of human tolerance and the symbols for a peaceful future in a dystopian revision of Victor Hugo’s novel.
MANAGEMENT: The Gotham Group
MANAGERS: Eric Robinson, Justin Littman
I, TONYA
Steven Rogers
Based on the author’s irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jef Gillooly.
AGENCY: Gersh
AGENTS: Lee Keele, Bayard Maybank, Greg Pedicin
PRODUCERS: Clubhouse Pictures
FINANCIERS: Clubhouse Pictures, Luckychap Entertainment, Steven Rogers
INNER CITY
Dan Gilroy
When a hard nosed liberal lawyer who has been fighting the good fight while others take the credit assumes the role of his crusading firm’s front man, he discovers some unsettling things about what they’ve done, resulting in an existential crisis that leads to extreme action.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Scott Greenberg
PRODUCERS: Cross Creek Pictures, Macro Ventures
FINANCIERS: Columbia Pictures, Cross Creek Pictures, Macro Ventures
ORB
Steve Desmond, Michael Sherman
Inspired by actual events from a phenomenon that occurred in 1974, a young married couple discover a mysterious metallic orb in the woods near their house following a meteor shower. While the unusual object dazzles the couple by exhibiting some awe-inspiring properties, its true purposes are revealed to be far more sinister than they could ever imagine.
AGENCY: APA
AGENTS: Adam Perry, Sheryl Petersen
MANAGEMENT: The Gotham Group
MANAGERS: Peter McHugh, Matt Schichtman
PRODUCER: Davis Entertainment
7
BURN RUN
Matt Tente
In war-torn Afghanistan, an American mercenary team is hired to escort a 20-ton heroin seizure bound for destruction but get caught up in a botched drug deal when their leader goes rogue, forcing them to overcome various enemies who wish to steal it.
MANAGEMENT: Good Fear Film + Management
MANAGER: Jake Wagner
THE FALL
Pete Bridges
Finding themselves in the middle of an alien invasion, a newly divorced couple must survive a dangerous real-time journey on foot from downtown Atlanta to the suburbs, where their young children are home alone.
AGENCY: Verve Talent and Literary Agency
AGENTS: Adam Levine, Adam Weinstein
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner
PRODUCER: Madhouse Entertainment
FINANCIER: Amblin
THE GUN SHOW
Lucas Carter
A famous top cop wakes up twenty years after a shootout and is reinstated to solve the case that killed his old partner. Only problem: he’s a bull in a China shop, and 2016 is a very diferent time than the 1990s world he’s used to. To teach him the ropes, he’s paired with his old partner’s son, a risk averse trafc cop.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENT: Peter Dodd
MANAGEMENT: Echo Lake Management
MANAGER: Adam Riback
FINANCIER: Paramount
THE HOUSEWIFE
Alyssa Hill
Based on a true story set in 1960s New York, a journalist finds and investigates a woman whom he believes is married to a Nazi in hiding. Their relationship results in the frst ever extradition of an American citizen for war crimes.
AGENCY: ICM Partners
AGENTS: Tayrn Ariel, Niki Montazaran
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGER: Alex Lerner
HUMMINGBIRD
John Tyler Mclain
A black-ops assassin’s latest mark forces her to question the truth of her identity and ultimately confront the unsettling fact that she’s more than a hired gun, she’s an entirely new breed of weapon.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENT: Peter Dodd
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGER: Ryan Cunningham
PRODUCER: Broken Road Productions
FINANCIER: Fundamental Films
PALMER
Cheryl Guerriero
A recently paroled convict returns to his hometown in the South, where he forms an unlikely-but-powerful bond with a young, efeminate boy.
MANAGEMENT: Heroes And Villains Entertainment
MANAGER: Markus Goerg
PRODUCER: Route 1
FINANCIER: Route 1
REASON OF STATE
Matthew Orton
Twenty four hours inside the British Prime Minister’s abode at 10 Downing Street.
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Jeff Gorin, David Karp, Tanya Cohen
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGER: Jeff Silver
PRODUCER: Black Bear Pictures, Silvertown Films, Wildgaze Films
FINANCIER: Black Bear Pictures
6
ALLISON ADAMS
Devon Graye
A little girl goes missing in a small town, and the key to fnding her resides with four disparate women who share nothing in common except for the young girl’s name…Allison Adams.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Charles Ferraro, Alex Rincon, Mikey Schwartz Wright
PRODUCER: Matt Tolmach Productions
AMERICA: THE MOTION PICTURE
Dave Callaham
An R-rated action comedy, animated, revisionist history of the founding of the United States of America
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Jason Burns, Emerson Davis
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
MANAGER: Tobin Babst
PRODUCERS: Will Allegra, Dave Callaham, Free Association, Floyd County, Phil And Chris
BAD EDUCATION
Mike Makowsky
The unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in United States history – an incredible true story that pits corrupt educators against dogged student journalists against the backdrop of a cutthroat Long Island suburb.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Rob Herting, Praveen Pandian
MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion
MANAGER: Susan Solomon
PRODUCER: Automatik, Mike Makowsky
BITTER PILL
Turner Hay
When an out-of-work divorced mother stops taking the court-ordered medication that made her feel like a zombie, her brazenly immoral, 15-year-old imaginary friend appears to help get her life back on track.
MANAGEMENT: Lee Stobby Entertainment
MANAGERS: Lee Stobby
CAPTAIN INFINITY
Harry Tarre
When his comic book obsessed fve-year-old brother is diagnosed with cancer, Oscar Ruiz attempts to shield him from the truth by convincing him that his “treatment” is all part of a top secret program to become a superhero.
CARNADA
Katharine Werner
Based on true events. In post-Cuban Missile Crisis Miami, an ambitious young CIA agent receives a career making opportunity in becoming the case officer for a charismatic Cuban ambassador offering to help eliminate Fidel Castro. As their relationship grows, however, he begins to question the mission and the true motives of his superiors.
AGENCY: ICM Partners
AGENTS: Bryan Diperstein, Erik Horne
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGERS: Ryan Cunningham
PRODUCER: Star Thrower Entertainment
DONZIGER
Jay Carson, Matt Bai
After twenty years, Steven Danziger wins a $19 billion verdict against Chevron for poisoning rural lands in Ecuador. Chevron responds by hiring heavy hitter Randy Mastro determined to have the entire verdict thrown out.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENT: Jon Cassir
MANAGEMENT: Management 360
MANAGERS: Eryn Brown, Guymon Casady
ESCAPE FROM SARAJEVO
Vanya Asher
AGENCY: WME
AGENTS: Jordan Cerf, Meyash Prabhu, Matt Solo
MANAGEMENT: Grandview
MANAGER: Matt Rosen
PRODUCER: Phantom 4
HOTEL ARTEMIS
Drew Pearce
In riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, the wrong six people become trapped for the night in Hotel Artemis – a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals.
AGENCY: WME
AGENT: Phil D’Amecourt
PRODUCER: Marc Platt Productions
Financiers: Ink Factory
MILLER’S GIRL
Jade Bartlett
A precocious young writer becomes involved with her high school creative writing teacher in a dark comingof-age drama that examines the blurred lines of emotional connectivity between professor and protégé, child and adult.
AGENCY: UTA
AGENTS: Amanda Hymson, Gregory McKnight
MANAGEMENT: Heroes and Villains Entertainment
MANAGER: Henry Huang
PRODUCER: Point Grey
FINANCIER: Good Universe
MR. TOY
Chai Hecht
The true story of Marvin Glass, brilliant, charismatic, self-loathing, paranoid, demanding – and probably the greatest inventor of all time.
AGENCY: CAA
AGENTS: Jon Cassir, Matt Martin
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment
MANAGERS: Ryan Kolbrenner
PRODUCER: Madhouse Entertainment
SPACE ODDITY
Rebecca Banner
A young man obsessed with taking a one-way trip to Mars begins to question his motives when he starts to fall in love with the Insurance Agent underwriting his trip.
AGENCY: ICM Partners
AGENTS: Niki Montazaran
MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion
MANAGERS: Ashley Berns, Daniela Garcia-Brcek
PRODUCERS: Arlook Group, Circle of Confusion
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