THE BLACK LIST 2015
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The Black List was compiled from the suggestions of over 250 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to ten of his or her favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2015 and will not have begun 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 2015 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.
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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 | Joe Mann
MANAGEMENT: Lee Stobby Entertainment | Lee Stobby
Presented by Channing Tatum
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STRONGER by John Pollono
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 | Ali Trustman, Joe Mann
MANAGEMENT: Underground | Noah Rothman
Presented by Damon Lindelof
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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 | Roger Green, Sarah Self
MANAGEMENT: Mindframe Films & Management | Jesse Silver
Presented by Tessa Thompson
ROCKET* by Jeffrey Gelber and 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 | Craig Brody, Ida Ziniti
MANAGEMENT: Grandview | Jeff Silver
Presented by Nate Parker
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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 | Chris Slager, Holly Jeter
MANAGEMENT: Kevin Donahue Literary Management | Kevin Donahue
Presented by the students of The Young Storytellers Foundation
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MS. SLOANE by 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 | Carolyn Sivitz, Peter Dodd
MANAGEMENT: Management SGC | Scott Carr
Presented by Beau Willimon
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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 | Adam Weinstein, Pamela Goldstein
MANAGEMENT: MXN Entertainment | Michelle Knudsen
Presented by Victoria Strouse
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PALE BLUE DOT by Brian C. Brown and 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 | Craig Brody, Matt Martin
MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment | Dianne Fraser
Presented by Kimberly Peirce
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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 | Shan Ray
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Aaron Kaplan, Michael Wilson
Presented by Jon Spaihts
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BUMP by Ori Guendelman and 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 | Chris Smith
MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment | Ari Lubet, Will Rowbotham
Presented by Rose McIver
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: Agency For The Performing Arts | Adam Perry, Sheryl Peterson
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions | John Zaozirny
Presented by Reid Carolin
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SEPTILLION TO ONE by Adam Perlman and 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 | Eric Garfinkel, Jeff Greenberg
MANAGEMENT: Apostle Pictures | George Heller
Presented by Lena Waithe
WHITE BOY RICK by Logan Miller and 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 | Charlie Ferraro, Michael Sheresky, Peter Dodd, Rames Ishak, Tim Phillips,
MANAGEMENT: Thruline Entertainment | Danny Sherman, Josh Kesselman
Presented by Kate Hagen
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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 | David Boxerbaum, Robert Bookman
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions | John Zaozirny
Presented by Christopher Weekes
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 | Daniel Cohan, Danny Greenberg, Tanya Cohen
MANAGEMENT: The Mission Entertainment | Andrew Coles, Corrine Aquino
Presented by Derek Haas
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 | Jon Cassir, Trevor Astbury
MANAGEMENT: Think Tank Management and Production | Tom Drumm
Presented by Jesse Andrews
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 | Joe Austin, Sarah Self
MANAGEMENT: Anonymous Content | Charlie Scully, Tariq Merhab
Presented by Lindsay Doran
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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 | Bayard Maybank, Bob Hohman
Presented by Jesse Williams
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 | Jay Baker, Pete Stein, Ida Ziniti
MANAGEMENT: Grandview | Zac Frognowski
Presented by Aline Brosh McKenna
THE SHAVE by Thomas White and 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 | Solco Schuit, Stuart Manashil
MANAGEMENT: MXN Entertainment | Michelle Knudsen
Presented by Brian Koppelman
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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: Agency for the Performing Arts | Adam Perry, Sheryl Peterson
MANAGEMENT: Project D Media | Allison Doyle
Presented by Lily James
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 | Joe Mann, Trevor Astbury
MANAGEMENT: Grandview | Zac Frognowski
Presented by Eric Heisserer
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 | Aaron Hart, Charles Ferraro, Aaron Hart
MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions | Jeff Portnoy, John Zaozirny
Presented by Kristina Lauren Anderson
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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 | Matt Martin
MANAGEMENT: Magnet Management | Bob Sobhani
Presented by Lake Bell
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 | David Boxerbaum
MANAGEMENT: Principato-Young Management | David Gardner
Presented by Leslie Odom
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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 | Meyash Prabhu, Ryan Feldman
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Michael Wilson
Presented by Gary Whitta
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 | Ari Lubet, Olivia Gerke
Presented by Cathy Schulman
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THE BURNING WOMAN by Brad Ingelsby
A reckless, fun-loving young woman confronts the dark side of life after losing her daughter.
AGENCY: CAA | Jon Cassir, Maha Dakhil, Scott Greeenberg
MANAGEMENT: Energy Entertainment | Brooklyn Weaver
Presented by Effie Brown
MAYDAY 109 by Samuel V Franco and 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 | Bryan Diperstein, Kathleen Remington, Rich Green
MANAGEMENT: Bellevue Productions, Brio Entertainment | Jeff Portnoy, Mia Chang
Presented by Ryan Coogler
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 | Scott Henderson, Valarie Phillips
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment | Robyn Meisinger, Ryan Cunningham
Presented by Chris McCoy
MOVE THAT BODY by Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs
Five friends rent a beach house in Miami for a bachelorette weekend and accidentally kill a male stripper.
AGENCY: UTA | Ali Benmohamed, Carolyn Sivitz, Jay Gassner, Jo Yao
MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment | Dave Becky
Presented by Kelly Marcel
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 | Amanda Hymson, Carolyn Sivitz, David Park
MANAGEMENT: Pacific View Management | Peter Dealbert
Presented by Laura Carmichael
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 | Simon Faber, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Grandview | Matt Rosen, Zac Frognowski
Presented by Francis Lawrence
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 | Jacob Epstein
MANAGEMENT: LBI Entertainment | Harry Lengsfield, Sam Warren
Presented by Noah Oppenheim
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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 | Carolyn Sivitz, Emerson Davis
MANAGEMENT: MGMT Entertainment | Dianne McGunigle
Presented by David Benioff
CIRCLE OF TREASON by Anna Waterhouse and 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 | Fred Spektor, Jon Cassir, Rob Hertig
MANAGEMENT: Grandview | Jeff Silver
Presented by Catherine Hardwicke
THE SET UP by Kari Granlund
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 | Chris Smith, David Boxerbaum, Scott Henderson
MANAGEMENT: Writ Large | Noah Rosen
Presented by Bruna Papandrea and Reese Witherspoon
STAR ONE by David Coggeshall
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 | Bill Weinstein, Chris Noriega, Melissa Solomon
MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment | Sarah Dodge
Presented by Danny Strong
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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 | Ryan Feldman, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner, Kendrick Tan
Presented by Megan Halpern
CHAPPAQUIDDICK by Taylor Allen and 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 | Chris Fenton
Presented by Marc Webb
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 | Antoni Kaczmarek, Varun Monga
MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion | Jairo Alvarado
Presented by Shannon Woodward
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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 | Emily Hickman
MANAGEMENT: Grandview | Jeff Silver
Presented by Michael Mitnick
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 | Harley Copen, Kathleen Remington
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner
Presented by Josh Zetumer
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 | Emerson Davis, Julien Thuan
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner, Ryan Cunningham
Presented by Phil Lord and Chris Miller
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 | Solco Schuit, Stuart Manashil
MANAGEMENT: Grandview | Jeff Silver
Presented by Jessica Bendinger
OUR WEEK WITH WALLER by Shea Mirzai and Evan 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 | Adam Kanter, Adrian Garcia, Martin Spencer
MANAGEMENT: Principato-Young Management | Allen Fischer
Presented by Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman
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 | Joe Mann
MANAGEMENT: MXN Entertainment | Michelle Knudsen
Presented by Ben Schwartz
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.
Presented by David Guggenheim
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.
Presented by Scott Myers
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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 | Rich Cook, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Management 360 | Clifford Murray, Jill McElroy
Presented by Graham Moore
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 | Lee Stobby
Presented by Adam Morrison
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 | Charles Ferraro, Emerson Davis, Mike Schwartz, Wright Peter Dodd
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment | Kendrick Tan, Ryan Cunningham
Presented by Terry Huang
SALEM by Mark Bianculli and 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 | Danny Greenberg, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Anonymous Content (Bianculli)/Industry Entertainment (Richard) | Rosalie Swedlin (Bianculli)/Michael Botti (Richard
Presented by Nicholas Hoult
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 | Parker Davis
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment | Kendrick Tan
Presented by Couper Samuelson
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 | Eric Garfinkel, Mark Hartogsohn
MANAGEMENT: The Syndicate | Scott Karp
Presented by Haley Joel Osment
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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 | Daniel Cohan, Rob Carlson, Tanya Cohan
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone
Presented by Lisa Joy
AN AFRICAN WESTERN by Chloe Castellon and 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 | Emerson Davis, Jon Huddle
MANAGEMENT: Principato-Young Management | Allen Fischer, Brian Dobbins
Presented by Ava Duvernay
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 | Cliff Roberts, Solco Schuit
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner
Presented by Matt Charman
BED REST by Lori Evans Taylor
An expectant mother who is confined to bed rest starts to experience paranormal events.
AGENCY: ICM Partners | Doug Johnson, Rebecca Ewing
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Josh Goldenberg, Sean Perrone
Presented by Scott Neustader
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 | Kailey Marsh
Presented by Peter Landesman
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 | Aaron Hart, Geoff Morley
MANAGEMENT: Think Tank Management and Production | Tom Drumm
Presented by Rian Johnson
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 | Andrew Coles, Corrine Aquino
Presented by Maggie Gyllenhaal
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 | Jon Cassir, JP Evans
MANAGEMENT: Management 360 | Adam Marshall, Eryn Brown
Presented by James Schamus (and Symbolic Exchange)
PRECONCEPTION by Jake Morse and Scott Wolman
A couple on the verge of parenthood embarks on a pre-baby bucket list.
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Josh Goldenberg
Presented by Roselyn Sanchez
SENIOR YEAR by Andrew Knauer and 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.
MANAGEMENT: Benderspink | Jake Wagner
Presented by Adam Shankman
VERONA by Neil Widener and Gavin James
AGENCY: CAA | Joe Mann, Jon Cassir
MANAGEMENT: Grandview | Matt Rosen
Presented by Dino Sijamic
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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 | Adam Weinstein, Parker Davis
Presented by Eyal Podell and Jonathan Stewart
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 | Aaron hart, Jason Burns
MANAGEMENT: Epicenter | Allard Cantor, Jarrod Murray
Presented by Cooper Thornton
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 | David Boxerbaum, Scott Henderson
MANAGEMENT: Management SGC | Scott Carr
Presented by Randall Green
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: Agency for the Performing Arts | Adam Perry, Debbie Deuble
MANAGEMENT: Affirmative Entertainment | Nicholas Bogner
Presented by Allan Loeb
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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.
Presented by Justin Bartha
CARNIVAL by Matias Caruso
A deadly carnival knife-thrower hunts down the members of a powerful crime syndicate who murdered his sister.
AGENCY: CAA | Jon Cassir, Trevor Astbury
MANAGEMENT: Untitled Entertainment | Jen Au
Presented by Travis Beachem
CROOK COUNTY by Gita Pullapilly and 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 | Carolyn Sivitz, Max Mitchell
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Taylor Benzie
Presented by Paul Scheer
DAMESEL 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 | Aaron Hart, Charles Ferraro, David Park
MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Tobin Babst, Michael Wilson
Presented by Abi Morgan
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 | Elizabeth Newman, Jon Levin
MANAGEMENT: Zero Gravity Management | Jeff Belkin
Presented by Arash Amel
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 | Doug MacLaren
MANAGEMENT: Sanders Armstrong Caserta | Tammy Rosen
Presented by Howard Rodman
LANDSLIDE by Will Staples and 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) | Phil D’Amecourt (Staples)/Jon Levin (Camerino)
MANAGEMENT: Management 360 (Staples)/BE Management (Camerino) | Darin Friedman (Staples)/Brett Etre (Camerino)
Presented by Aaron Guzikowski
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 | Adam Levine, Adam Weinstein
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner
Presented by John August
SONG OF TREBLINKA by Viorica Bian
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 Poland’s most notorious death camp.
AGENCY: WME | Ryan Feldman
MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner
Presented by Phyllis Nagy
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 | Ellie Schiff, Valarie Phillips
MANAGEMENT: Haven Entertainment | Brendan Bragg, Jesse Hara, Jordana Mollick
Presented by Christine Vachon
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: Agency for the Performing Arts | Debbie Deuble
MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment | Ava Jamshidi
Presented by Leigh Janiak and Patrick Fugit
