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The Black List 2020: Scripts About Cannibals, Billionaires, and Tabloid Faves Make the Cut

Agents - Kyle Jensen, Adam Weinstein /  Eric Garfinkel, Steven Gersh, Leslie Siebert

Management - Brillstein Entertainment Partners / Inspire

Managers - George Heller / Jason Spire

Producers - Thunder Road 

The Gorge by Zach Dean (8 mentions) 

A brazen, high-action, genre-bending, love story about two very dangerous young people, who despite the corrupt and lethal world they operate in, find a soulmate in each other. 

Management - Lit Entertainment Group

Managers - Adam Kolbrenner

Financier - Skydance Media

Producers – Lit Entertainment Group, Skydance Media

Here Come the Bandits by Ethan Dawes (8 mentions) 

Mickey Bradley, a wildly talented minor league baseball player in his early twenties who returns home to Los Angeles after an injury and coaches a little league team full of misfits who remind him why he fell in love with baseball in the first place. And theres a sweet romance in there too. 

Producers: Corduroy Entertainment, Makeready, Waffle Iron Entertainment 

Plush by Alexandra Skarsgard (8 mentions)

Sex, money, and one schoolyard fad that took a nation by storm. Based on the true story of Ty Warner, the enigmatic entrepreneur behind a ‘90s toy craze that sparked madness, murder, and a billion-dollar empire. 

Agency - United Talent Agency

Agents - Jessica Kantor, Grace Royer

Management - Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

Managers - Hannah Ozer 

Towers by Aaron Rabin (8 mentions) 

A businessman’s obsession with his competitor leads him down a rabbit hole of self-discovery, fantasy, and delusion 

Management - MXN Entertainment

Managers - Michelle Knudsen

Producers - 1.21 Pictures

Trespasser by Gabe Hobson (8 mentions)

A father and daughter living in remote isolation must fight for survival after aliens arrive seeking revenge for killing one of their own. 

Financier - Endeavor Content

Producers - Fully Formed Entertainment, Jason Fuchs 

Uncle Wick by Gabe Delahaye (8 mentions) 

An action comedy wherein Benji Stone, a lovable but deeply unpopular sixteen year old, is pulled into an international assassination plot by his uncle, a retired undercover assassin charged with babysitting Benji for the weekend. 

Agency - United Talent Agency

Agents - Emerson Davis, Jenny Maryasis

Management - Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

Managers - Aaron Kaplan, Michael Wilson

Financier - Amazon Studios

Producers - Field Trip Productions 

What If? by Alvaro Garcia Lecuona (8 mentions)

An unassertive seventeen year old turns his high school on its head when he asks out his crush, a transgender classmate. 

Agency - Agency For The Performing Arts

Agents - Halle Mariner, Lucy Tashman

Management - Vision Entertainment

Managers - Andres Budnik, Victor Rodriguez

Financier - MGM, Orion

Producers - Andrew Lauren Productions, Killer Films

Bella by Jason Markarian (7 mentions) 

Set against the backdrop of an unprecedented crime wave that gripped New York City in the 80s, a hyper-stylized action thriller about a cop’s daughter who, after her father clings to life following an assassination attempt, goes on a rampage to unearth her father’s assassin and weed out deep-rooted corruption in the NYPD. 

Agency - Verve Talent And Literary Agency

Agents - David Boxerbaum, Parker Davis

Management - Heroes And Villains Entertainment

Managers - Markus Goerg, Aaron Lipsett 

Dust by Karrie Crouse (7 mentions)

A young mother in 1930s Oklahoma is convinced that her family is threatened and takes drastic steps to keep them safe. 

Agency - Creative Artists Agency

Agents - Jay Baker

Management - Anonymous Content

Managers - Bard Dorros

Financier - Searchlight Pictures

Producers - Mad Dog Films 

Frenemy by Ariel Sayegh (7 mentions) 

A chronicle of the infamous Lindsay Lohan/Paris Hilton feud of 2004-2006 over who would be Britney Spears’ best friend. 

Agency - Paradigm Talent Agency

Agents - Melisa Baloglu, Olivia Falletti, Sam Fischer, Mark Ross 

Gabi Seems Different by Victoria Bata (7 mentions)

After spending several years recovering from a devastating car crash that pulled her out of the spotlight, Gabi, a famous pop star, gets ready to perform again for the first time. But with the pressure mounting and her memory failing her, the young woman begins to doubt who she really is — and if Gabi really survived the crash at all. 

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