The 2012 Black List of Unproduced Screenplays

Film executive Franklin Leonard has released his annual list of “most liked” unproduced screenplays in Hollywood at BlckLst.com. Leonard’s familiar introduction reads as follows:

The Black List was compiled from the suggestions over 290 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2012 and will not have completed principal photography during this calendar year.

This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the Black List. All reasonable effort has been made to confirm the information contained herein.

The Black List apologizes for all misspellings, misattributions, incorrect representation identification, and questionable 2012 affiliations.

It has been said many times, but it’s worth repeating:

The Black List is not a “best of ” list. It is, at best, a “most liked” list.

Enjoy.

65

DRAFT DAY

Rajiv Joseph, Scott Rothman

On the day of the NFL Draft, Bills General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Buffalo when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he’s willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred.

Agency: Gersh, CAA

Agents: Lee Keele (Joseph), Chris Till, Bill Zotti (Rothman)

Management: Kaplan/Perrone (Joseph & Rothman)

Managers: Josh Goldenberg, Aaron Kaplan

Production: Montecito Pictures

43

A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS

Sean Armstrong

Based on true events. Inspector Geoff Harper conducts a forty year search for the Beaumont Children, three siblings taken from an Australian beach in January of 1966.

Agency: Verve

Agents: Aaron Hart, Adam Levine, Rob Herting, Bill Weinstein

Management: Principato-Young Management

Managers: Peter Dealbert, Susan Solomon

43

SEUSS

Eyal Podell, Jonathan Stewart

As a young man, Ted Geisel meets his future wife Helen, who encourages his fanciful drawings, and in the 1950s when Ted is struggling professionally, Helen helps inspire the children’s book that will become his first big hit, “The Cat in the Hat.”

Agency: Verve

Agents: Bryan Besser, Zach Carlisle, Rob Herting

Management: Industry Entertainment

Manager: Michael Botti, Jess Rosenthal

39

RODHAM

Young Il Kim

During the height of the Watergate scandal, rising star Hillary Rodham is the youngest lawyer chosen for the House Judiciary Committee to Impeach Nixon, but she soon finds herself forced to choose between a destined path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for Bill Clinton, her former boyfriend who now teaches law in Arkansas.

Agency: UTA

Agents: Barbara Dreyfus, Jenny Maryasis

Management: The Arlook Group

Managers: Richard Arlook, Jason Hong

Production: The Arlook Group, Temple Hill Entertainment

35

STORY OF YOUR LIFE

Eric Heisserer

Based on the short story by Ted Chiang. When alien crafts land around the world, a linguistics expert is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat. As she learns to communicate with the aliens, she begins experiencing vivid flashbacks that become the key to unlocking the greater mystery about the true purpose of their visit.

Agency: UTA

Agents: Barbara Dreyfus, Jon Huddle

Management: Art/Work

Manager: Julie Bloom

Financier: Film Nation

Production: Film Nation, Lava Bear, 21 Laps Entertainment

33

WUNDERKIND

Patrick Aison

A Mossad employed father and his CIA agent son team up to hunt an escaped Nazi.

Agency: ICM

Agents: Harley Copen, Bryan Diperstein, Emil Gladstone

Management: DMG Entertainment

Managers: Chris Cowles, Chris Fenton

Financier: Paramount

Production: Bad Robot, DMG Entertainment

31

EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL, AND VILE

Michael Werwie

Based on a true (and ultimately surprising) story, a promising young law student fights an oppressive legal system and growing public scrutiny when his routine traffic stop snowballs into shocking criminal charges, imprisonment, daring escapes, and ultimately acting as his own attorney in a nationally televised murder trial.

Agency: UTA

Agents: Peter Dodd, David Flynn, Jon Huddle, David Kramer

Management: Evolution Entetainment

Manager: Stephen Gates, Brad Kaplan

Production: Michael Costigan

29

GLIMMER

Carter Blanchard

When three friends go missing on a camping trip in a forest rumored to be haunted, the two left behind discover clues that lead them to a safe deposit box containing video tapes… showing exactly what happened to their friends.

Agency: Paradigm

Agents: David Boxerbaum

Management: Madhouse Entertainment

Managers: Ryan Cunningham, Adam Kolbrenner

Financier: Dreamworks

Production: Madhouse Entertainment

29

ME & EARL & THE DYING GIRL

Jesse Andrews

Based on Andrews’s eponymous novel, a quirky high school student who enjoys making films sparks a friendship with a classmate dying of leukemia.

Agency: WME

Agents: Anna Deroy, Sarah Self

Management: MXN

Managers: Michelle Knudsen, Mason Novick

Production: Indian Paintbrush

28

DEVILS AT PLAY

James Dilapo

In the Soviet Union in 1937, a worker of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs finds a list of traitors, which he thinks is going to be his way out.

Agency: Verve

Agents : Aaron Hart, Rob Herting, Adam Levine

Management: Kaplan/Perrone

Manager: Alex Lerner

26

SWEET VIRGINIA

Paul China, Benjamin China

A former rodeo star unknowingly starts a rapport with a young man who is responsible

for all of the violence that has suddenly gripped his small town.

Agency: WME

Agents: Roger Green, Sarah Self

Management: Fourth Floor Productions

Manager: Jeff Silver

25

FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS

Brad Desch

A woman recalls her close relationship with her famous novelist father while struggling to overcome her fear of emotional involvement with her first real boyfriend.

Agency: ICM

Agents: Harley Copen, Bryan Diperstein, Laura Haas

Management: Management 360

Managers: Ali Itri, Jill McElroy

Production: Busted Shark

23

SHUT IN

Christina Hodson

A woman who tries to raise her catatonic son on her own suddenly discovers a

shocking secret about him.

Agency: CAA

Agents: Jay Baker, Matt Rosen

Financier: Lava Bear Films

Production: Lava Bear Films

22

THE KEEPING ROOM

Julia Hart

Three southern women defend their home from the Union army while their husbands are off fighting in the Civil War.

Agency: WME

Agents: Roger Green, Sarah Self

Management: Anonymous Content

Managers: Trevor Adley, Nicole Romano

Financier: Wind Dancer Films

Production: Gilbert Films, Wind Dancer Films, Anonymous Content

21

IF THEY MOVE… KILL ‘EM!

Kel Symons

After losing his luster and respect in Hollywood, famed director Sam Peckinpah hopes to direct his next great film with financial backing from Colombian drug lords and brings along a novice screenwriter to write the film in Colombia.

Agency: UTA

Agents: Emerson Davis, Charles Ferraro, Geoff Morley

Management: MXN

Managers: Michelle Knudsen, Mason Novick

20

AMERICATOWN

Ben Poole

In a China-dominated near future, a former LAPD officer attempts to save his family from destitution in Los Angeles by working for a crime lord in the American ghetto within a thriving Hong Kong.

Agency: Verve

Agents: Aaron Hart, Rob Herting, Adam Levine

Management: Oasis Media Group

Managers: David Lonner, Ben Rowe

Production: Sean Finegan

20

SAND CASTLE

Chris Roessner

Based on a true story, a group of United States soldiers in Iraq risk their lives to save a

local village.

Agency: CAA

Agents: Jay Baker, Jon Cassir, Matt Rosen

Management: Management 360

Managers: Darin Friedman, Ali Itri, Dean Schnider

Production: The Mark Gordon Company

20

THE JUDGE

Bill Dubuque

A successful attorney returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral only to discover that his Alzheimer’s-stricken father is suspected of murder and must represent him in court. The ordeal becomes an emotional journey that makes him a better man.

Agency: Paradigm

Agent: Trevor Astbury

Management: Zero Gravity Management

Manager: Eric Williams

Financier: Warner Brothers

Production: Bid Kid Pictures, Team Downey

19

CLIVE

Natasha Pincus

After an accident causes a successful CEO to lose both legs, he is forced to re-evaluate his life and identity.

Agency: Verve

Agents: Bryan Besser, Aaron Hart, Rob Herting

19

COMANCHERIA

Taylor Sheridan

Two brothers, one an ex-con and the other a divorced father of two kids, face the foreclosure of their family’s West Texas farm. They team for a skillfully-calculated bank robbing spree that puts them on a collision course with two Texas Rangers determined to take them down.

Agency: Gersh

Agents: Bob Hohman, Devra Lieb, Bayard Maybank

Management: Elevate Entertainment

Manager: Jenny Wood

Financier: Sidney Kimmel Entertainment

Production: Film 44, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment

19

FLOWER

Alex McAulay

A coming of age story about the unlikely bond that forms between a sexually adventurous teenage girl and her obese, mentally unstable step-brother.

Agency: WME

Agents: Mike Esola, Cliff Roberts, Sarah Self

Management: Aperture Entertainment

Manager: Adam Goldworm

19

WHALEMEN

Tucker Parsons

The leader of a fourteenth century Scottish whaling village must seek out and do battle with a whale many times larger than any he has ever seen in order to ransom back his son from the occupying English.

Agency: WME

Agents: Daniel Cohan, Cliff Roberts

Management: Madhouse Entertainment

Manager: Adam Kolbrenner

19

WHIPLASH

Damien Chazelle

Based on the eponymous short film written and directed by Chazelle. Under the director of a prestigious but borderline abusive instructor, a young college student begins to lose his humanity in his quest to become the core drummer of the top jazz orchestra in the country.

Agency: Gersh

Agents: Sandra Lucchesi, Frank Wuliger

Management: Exile Entertainment

Manager: Gary Ungar

Production: Right of Way Films, Blumhouse

18

GEORGE

Jeff Shakoor

When an acerbic alcoholic finds himself penniless and alone he has no choice but to crash his family’s holiday. Years of alienating them makes for a stiff challenge, but eventually he subtly helps them heal.

Agency: CAA

Agents: Jon Cassir, John Garvey, Alex Mebed, Martin Spencer

Management: Anonymous Content

Manager: Luke Rivett

Production: Anonymous Content

17

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber

Based on the eponymous novel by John Green, a teenage girl stricken with cancer falls for a boy in her support group and the two form a bond as they deal with their illnesses.

Agenc: CAA

Agents: Robert Bookman, Bill Zotti

Management: Kaplan/Perrone

Managers: Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone

Financier: Fox 2000

Production: Temple Hill Entertainment

17

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

April Prosser

A twenty eight year old woman is about to get engaged to her great boyfriend, when

the ex she hasn’t gotten over moves back into town. All of a sudden she isn’t sure if

her boyfriend is really the one, and so she spends time decorating her ex’s new condo,

trying to figure it all out.

Agency: UTA

Agents: Blair Kohan, Carolyn Sivitz

Management: Kaplan/Perrone

Manager: Josh Goldenberg

16

THE BALLAD OF PABLO ESCOBAR

Matt Aldrich

After his family is almost killed in a car bombing, Pablo Escobar wages a war with a rival cartel and his own government in an effort to protect his family.

Agency: CAA

Agents: John Garvey, Stuart Manashil

Management: Silent R Management

Manager: Jewerl Ross

Financier: Scott Pictures

Production: Stone Village Productions (Brad Furman directing)

16

THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA

Mark Hogan

During WWII, a a fifteen year old German boy is sent to America to spy for the Fatherland by joining a politically-connected family as an English war orphan. Tension mounts when the boy gets the chance to assassinate President Roosevelt..

Agency: Gersh

Agents: Bob Hohman, Devra Lieb, Bayard Maybank

Management: Kaplan/Perrone

Manager: Alex Lerner

Production: Michael Costigan

16

MAN OF TOMORROW

Jeremy Slater

In an alternate 1940s reality, the US Government makes a deal with an indestructible gangster to kill Hilter in exchange for the city of Chicago, which he will build into his own utopia. Unfortunately his model city never comes to fruition and both he and his Bureau liaison get much of the slack for destroying one of America’s greatest cities and now the government wants him dead.

Agency: UTA

Agent: Charles Ferraro

Management: Kaplan/Perrone

Manager: Aaron Kaplan

Production: Thunder Road Pictures

15

EL TIGRE

Aaron Buchsbaum, Teddy Riley

A family vacation goes horribly awry when the father is mistaken for the most ruthless drug lord in Mexico, El Tigre.

Agency: Paradigm

Agents: Mark Ross, Ida Ziniti

Management: Mosaic

Manager: Michael Lasker

Financier: Sony

Production: Mosaic

15

MURDER CITY

Will Simmons

An ensemble crime story set in Detroit about an ex-con who goes back for one last heist in order to settle his family’s debt.

Agency: UTA

Agents: Jason Burns, Geoff Morley

Management: Energy Entertainment

Manager: Brooklyn Weaver

14

THE FINAL BROADCAST

Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe

A man takes a job as a radio broadcaster in a small town, only to discover that it is embedded with a radical group planning mass destruction in conjunction with an upcoming lunar eclipse.

Agency: WME

Agents: Simon Faber, Sarah Self

Manager: Tariq Merhab

14

THE SURVIVALIST

Stephen Fingleton

Years after lack of resources result in much of the world’s population dying off, a survivalist is living on a farm alone until a woman and her seventeen year old daughter show up looking for cover.

Agency: WME

Agents: Philip d’Amecourt, Phil Raskind

Production: Goldcrest Films, Robert Jones

13

BLACK BOX

David Guggenheim

When Air Force One crashes, a journalist discovers a cover up after gaining access to the plane’s black box data and must unravel the mystery.

Agency: Paradigm

Agent: David Boxerbaum

Management: Madhouse Entertainment

Manager: Adam Kolbrenner

Financier: Universal

Production: Madhouse Entertainment, Bluegrass Films

13

CHERRIES

Brian Kehoe, Jim Kehoe

Three fathers learn of their teenage daughters’ pact to lose their virginity on prom night and band together to stop them.

Agency: WME

Agents: Rich Cook, Sarah Self

Management: DMG Entertainment

Manager: Chris Fenton

Financier: Good Universe

Production Good Universe, DMG Entertainment, Hurwitz & Schlossberg Productions

13

FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA

Austin Reynolds

An undisciplined boy is sent to Florida for the summer with his grandparents, and the drive south changes him forever.

Agency: Paradigm

Agents: David Boxerbaum, Lucy Stille, Ida Ziniti

Management: Madhouse Entertainment

Manager: Robyn Meisinger

13

HEY, STELLA!

Tom Shephard

The story of how Marlon Brando won the role of Stanley Kowalski in Elia Kazan’s broadway play A Streetcar Named Desire.

Agency: WME

Agent: Philip d’Amecourt

Management: The Safran Company

Manager: Tom Drumm

12

THE BROKEN

John Glosser

In 1967 Oklahoma, a war vet/farmer investigates the suspicious death of his estranged son in the next county. When he discovers his son’s brutal murder was a covered-up gay bashing, he goes on a one-man mission to take down the corrupt sheriff responsible.

Agency: ICM

Agents: RRobert Lazar, Kathleen Remington

Management: MXN

Managers: Michelle Knudsen, Mason Novick

Production: Ted Kroeber, Sam Worthington, Michael Schwarz, John Schwarz

12

THE DISCIPLE PROGRAM

Tyler Marceca

A man begins an investigation into his wife’s mysterious death, only to find that it goes much deeper than he imagined.

Agency: WME

Agents: Rich Cook, Philip d’Amecourt

Management: Anonymous Content

Managers: Bard Dorros, Michael Sugar

Financier: Universal

Production: Leverage Management

12

JOJO RABBIT

Taika Waititi

After being severely hurt by a grenade at Hitler youth camp, a prideful and nationalistic ten-year old boy discovers that his mother is hiding a fifteen year old Jewish girl in their house.

Agency: CAA

Agent: Rowena Arguelles

Management: Manage-ment

Manager: Dan Halsted

Financiers: Studio Babelsberg, Unison Films

Production: Emanuel Michael, Chelsea Winstanley, Taika Waititi, Lloyd Phillips

11

ALL-NIGHTER

Brad Ingelsby

An aging hitman goes up against his boss over a single night in order to protect his family.

Agency: WME

Agent: Mike Esola

Management: Energy Entertainment

Manager: Brooklyn Weaver

Financier: Warner Brothers

Production: Vertigo Entertainment

11

MCCARTHY

Justin Kremer

It is 1951. Junior Senator Joe McCarthy feels lost. He’s anonymous, just another suit on Capitol Hill. He craves attention and celebrity. He’s desperate to be noticed, to be adored. Inspired by the response of the American public to the House of Un-American Activities Committee, McCarthy decides that communism will be his defining issue. What follows is nearly unthinkable — national fame, a shocking conspiracy, a sitting President afraid to oppose him, and a torrid journey of self destruction and paranoia.

Agency; CAA

Agents; Jon Cassir, Matt Rosen, Alexandra Trustman

Management: Madhouse Entertainment

Managers: Chris Cook, Adam Kolbrenner

11

THE WINTER KILLS

Ben Carney

A disgraced cop pursues the serial killer who murdered his partner ten years ago, has resurfaced, and is killing again.

Agency: WME

Agents: Daniel Cohan, Chris Donnelly, Roger Green

Management: Anonymous Content

Manager: Chad Hamilton

Production: Anonymous Content

11

WHO FRAMED TOMMY CALLAHAN?

Harry Kellerman

An elementary school student searches for the truth behind the candy bar ring conspiracy that got his brother expelled.

Agency: CAA

Agents: John Garvey, Stuart Manashil

10

OUR NAME IS ADAM

T.S. Nowlin

An astronaut travels back in time to enlist the help of his younger self.

Agency: WME

Agents: Daniel Cohan, Mike Esola

Management: Caliber Media Company

Manager: Adam Marshall

Financiers: Paramount, Skydance Productions

Production: Disruption Entertainment

10

THE PORTLAND CONDITION

Dan Cohn, Jeremy Miller

Set against the backdrop of rainy Portland, Oregon, a young man finds himself falling in love for the first time – only to receive a letter from his future self, warning him of impending heartbreak.

Agency: WME

Agent: Danny Greenberg

Management: Brillstein Entertainment Partners

Manager: Margaret Riley

Production: Flynn Picture Co., JC 23 Entertainment

10

SOMACELL

Ashleigh Powell

A female prison guard in the future, where prisoners are rehabilitated with virtual reality, discovers a conspiracy that puts her loyalty into question.

Agency: Gersh

Agents: Bob Hohman, Devra Lieb, Bayard Maybank

Management: Benderspink

Manager: Daniel Vang

Financier: Warner Brothers

Production: Phantom Four

10

UNTITLED COPS SCRIPT

Blake McCormick

Following a costume party where they dressed as cops, two best friends are mistaken for actual police officers and find themselves on the run, after being forced to bring a dangerous criminal back to the station.

Agency: UTA

Agent: Jason Burns

Management: Kaplan/Perrone

Managers: Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone

Financier: Universal

Production: Hurwitz & Schlossberg Productions

9

CONVERSION

Marissa Jo Cerar

A preacher’s wife, grieving from the loss of her teenage son and struggling to hold her family together, forms an unlikely friendship with a young street hustler who helps her understand her lost son and survive alcoholic depression.

Agency: ICM

Agent: Laura Haas

Management: Heroes and Villains Entertainment

Managers: Markus Goerg, Mikhail Nayfeld

Production: State Street Pictures

9

GOODBYE, FELIX CHESTER

Max Taxe

After finding out he has a month left to live, high school junior Felix Chester focuses all of his time and energy on one goal: losing his virginity to his dream girl.

Management: Madhouse Entertainment

Managers: Ryan Cunningham, Robyn Meisinger

9

PENNY DREADFUL

Shane Atkinson

Desperate to hang on to his pregnant girlfriend, bumbling Dennis gets caught up in a kidnapping scheme gone awry, leaving him saddled with a sociopathic little girl who seemingly calls the shots.

Agency: Gersh

Agents: Bob Hohman, Devra Lieb, Bayard Maybank

Management: Circle of Confusion

Managers: Zach Cox, Lawrence Mattis

Production: MM Productions

8

BORDER COUNTRY

Jonathan Stokes

A veteran goes to war against a crew of corrupt cops intent on controlling the US/Mexico border.

Agency: UTA

Agents: Ramses Ishak, Geoff Morley, Michael Sheresky

Management: Energy Entertainment

Manager: Brooklyn Weaver

8

DOPPELGANGERS

Evan Mirzai, Shea Mirzai

Buttoned-down 20-something Eric isn’t ready to marry his longtime girlfriend Abby. His only way out is through slacker Sam, his identical twin brother, who offers to pose as Eric to do the dumping. But the plan becomes a disaster when Sam realizes Abby is actually really cool–and falls head over heels for her…

Production: The Walt Becker Company

8

THE EQUALIZER

Richard Wenk

A veteran covert operative seeking redemption for his dark deeds quits a CIA-like agency and devotes himself to helping others where injustice has been done.

Agency: Gersh

Agent: Eric Garfinkel

Management: The Arlook Group

Manager: Richard Arlook

Financier: Sony

Production: Escape Artists, Mace Neufeld Productions, Zhiv Productions

8

GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM

Jason Micallef

After nine years, a NASA communications expert reconnects with the astronaut she believed to be dead and helps rescue him from space.

Agency: WME

Agents: Rich Cook, Philip d’Amecourt, Phil Raskind

Management: Underground

Manager: Josh Turner McGuire

Financier: Disney

Production: Underground, Michael De Luca Productions

8

OUT OF STATE

Eric Pearson

While driving his regular interstate bus route, an emotionally fractured ex-convict finds himself acting as a father figure to a forsaken young boy from the Philadelphia ghetto, even though he knows that the boy is smuggling drugs.

Agency: ICM

Agent: Doug Maclaren

8

TIMES SQUARE

Taylor Materne, Jake Rubin

Set amidst the transformation of Times Square from New York’s seediest neighborhood to the commercialized Disneyland it is today, when a secret from his past is unearthed, a young man’s loyalties are divided between his neighborhood boss who raised him and the grizzled ex-cop who swore to protect him.

Agency: WME

Agent: Simon Faber

Management: Oasis Media Group

Manager: Ben Rowe

Production: Chernin Entertainment, Perfect Storm Entertainment

7

BLEEDING KANSAS

Russell Sommer, Dan Frey

A runaway slave and a sheriff must journey to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Gubernatorial candidate against the backdrop of Kansas’ induction into statehood and whether or not it would be a slave or free state.

Agency: Paradigm

Agents: David Boxerbaum, Chris Smith

Management: Madhouse Entertainment

Managers: Chris Cook, Adam Kolbrenner

7

EX BOYFRIEND OF THE BRIDE

Matt Hausfater

After he finds out his ex-girlfriend is getting married, a man decides to go to the wedding in order to stop her from going through with it.

Agency: UTA

Agent: Jon Huddle

Management: Underground

Managers: Josh Turner McGuire, Evan Silverberg

Production: Hamburg Co.

7

HIBERNATION

Will Frank, Geneva Robertson-Dworet

A wrongly convicted inmate volunteers for a hibernation experiment in exchange for one day of parole every five years, which he uses to prove his innocence and search for his missing daughter across an increasingly futuristic landscape.

Agency: WME

Agents: Rich Cook, Philip d’Amecourt, Solco Schuit

Management: Underground

Manager: Jill McElroy

Production: Management 360, Perfect Storm Entertainment

7

THE HOOVERVILLE DEAD

Brantley Aufill

Set in St. Louis in the 1920s, washed up baseball player Will Cosgrove is a private eye with his older brother Ross. When Ross goes missing, Will stumbles upon a deep secret that the disease taking over the town is not quite what it seems and a mob boss turned Governor will do anything to keep the town’s secret from being revealed.

Agency: Paradigm

Agents: Trevor Astbury, Valarie Phillips

Management: Industry Entertainment

Manager: Jess Rosenthal

7

THE KILLING SPREE

Derek Elliott, Jack Donaldson

Heartbroken after being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, a guy’s best friends devise the perfect plan for his recovery and teach him how to sleep with as many women as humanly possible.

Agency: Verve

Agents: Zach Carlisle, Rob Herting

Management: Kaplan/Perrone

Managers: Josh Goldenberg, Aaron Kaplan

7

MIDNIGHT AT NOON

Nathaniel Halpern

On the run after robbing a bank during the great depression, two brothers find themselves trapped in the harsh region known as the Dust Bowl where a ruthless killer hunts them down.

Agency: CAA

Agents: JP Evans, Jacqueline Sacerio

Production: Gunn Films

7

THE OUTSKIRTS

Dominique Ferrari, Suzanne Wrubel

After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.

Management: Circle of Confusion

Managers: Zach Cox, Britton Rizzio

7

STOCKHOLM, PENNSYLVANIA

Nikole Beckwith

A young woman, kidnapped when she was a kid, returns home to the family she barely remembers and struggles to feel ‘at home.’

Agency: ICM

Agents: Val Day, Laura Haas, Bruce Kaufman

Management: Manage-ment

Manager: Dan Halsted

7

TRANSCENDENCE

Jack Paglen

An epic love story set in a time where a dying scientist is able to upload his consciousness into the internet and, facing its global implications, must fight against the forces who are actively working against the existence of a singularity.

Agency: ICM

Agent: Harley Copen

Financier: Warner Brothers

Production: Alcon Entertainment, Syncopy Films, Straight Up Films, Annie Marter

6

ALMANAC

Jason Pagan, Andrew Stark

A group of high school kids discover how to time travel, but fail to recognize the potential consequences.

Agency: WME

Agent: Mike Esola

Management: Underground

Manager: Trevor Engelson

Financier: Paramount

Production: Platinum Dunes

6

COME AND FIND ME

Zack Whedon

When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she’s not who she was pretending to be.

Agency: WME

Agent: Simon Faber

Production: The Dan Jinks Company

6

DON’T MAKE ME GO

Vera Herbert

When a single father to a teenage daughter learns that he has a fatal brain tumor, he takes her on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before and to try to teach her everything she might need over the rest of her life.

Agency: Gersh

Agents: Sandra Lucchesi, Margaret Mendelson

6

THE EEL

Roberto Bentivegna

An escaped convict is ensnared in a plot by a corrupt Sheriff to kidnap the young heiress to an oil fortune, complicating his quest for freedom.

Agency: CAA

Agent: Craig Brody

Management: Madhouse Entertainment

Managers: Chris Cook, Adam Kolbrenner

Production: Aversano Films

6

F*CK MARRY KILL

Neel Shah, Alex Blagg

Three best friends return for their high school reunion intent on righting all the wrongs done to them in high school … by either f*cking, marrying, or killing their tormentors.

Agency: UTA

Agent: Carolyn Sivitz

Management: 3 Arts Entertainment (Shah)

Manager: Jonathan Berry (Shah)

6

HOLD ON TO ME

Brad Ingelsby

Based on an article written by Hillel Levin and Jim Keene, a ruthless and moneyhungry woman uses a hapless man as a pawn in her criminal schemes.

Agency: WME

Agent: Mike Esola

Management: Energy Entertainment

Managers: Brooklyn Weaver

Financier: Indian Paintbrush

6

KING OF HEISTS

Will Staples

Based on the book King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America, written by J. North Conway. An unassuming man in the elite New York society assembles a crew that pulls off the largest bank heist in American history in 1878.

Agency: WME

Agent: Philip d’Amecourt

Management: Management 360

Manager: Brooklyn Weaver

Financier: Black Bear Pictures

Production: The Combine

6

THE LIGHTHOUSE

Eric Kirsten

William Van Alen’s building of the Chrysler building and the competition to be the first to complete the world’s tallest building.

Management: Benderspink

Manager: Chris Bender, JC Spink

6

MONSOON

Matt Ackley

A dangerous love affair between a photojournalist and a black market smuggler set against the June 2001 massacre of the Royal Family in Nepal.

Agency: Gersh

Agents: Sandra Lucchesi, Frank Wuliger

Management: Chad Snopek Management

Manager: Chad Snopek

Production: Act 4 Entertainment, K/O Paper Products

6

THE PAPER MAN

Sean O’Keefe

The true story of Matthias Sindelar, the Austrian footballer voted as the Sportsman of the Century and killed by Hitler’s Nazi party.

Agency: WME

Agents: Daniel Cohan, Jeff Gorin

Management: Brian Lutz Management

Manager: Brian Lutz

Production: Roth Films, Mir Bahmanyar

6

PESTE

Barbara Marshall

Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a teen documents her family’s new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.

Agency: APA

Agents: Debbie Deuble-Hill, Sheryl Petersen

Management: Industry Entertainment

Manager: Ava Jamshidi

Financier: IM Global

6

TITANS OF PARK ROW

Mitch Akselrad

Young William Randolph Hearst goes to war against an aging Joseph Pulitzer as each tries to monopolize coverage of a mysterious homicide capturing New York’s imagination, birthing the modern concept of sensationalist media coverage.

Agency: CAA

Agents: Matt Rosen, Jacqueline Sacerio

Management: Fourth Floor Productions

Manager: Jeff Silver

Production: Langley Park Pictures

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