Tyler Marceca Makes The Black List & Ashleigh Powell Makes Both The Black List & The Hit List
The two top-rated lists of hot spec scripts were announced this past week: The Black List and The Hit List. Among the celebrated screenwriters are two connected with The Writers…
The two top-rated lists of hot spec scripts were announced this past week: The Black List and The Hit List. Among the celebrated screenwriters are two connected with The Writers Store. Congratulations to Tyler Marceca, Ashleigh Powell, and all the other talented writers on the lists.
Tyler's script, The Discipline Program , was a winner of The Writers Store Industry Insider Contest and went on to be sold to Universal with Mark Wahlberg attached.
Ashleigh, on both coveted lists, was on the Screenplay Development Notes team at The Writers Store when her script, SomaCell, was acquired by Warner Brothers.
Read our full interviews of Tyler and Ashleigh to learn more about their successes and breakout scripts:
- Industry Insider Contest Winner, Tyler Marceca, Sells Scripts with Mark Wahlberg Attached
- From Script Reader to Warner Bros Latest Acquire: Meet Ashleigh Powell
Congratulations to all!
The Full Black List 2012
Note: More specific details are available on Scott Myers Go Into The Story Black List blog:
A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS by Sean Armstrong
ALL-NIGHTER by Brad Ingelsby
ALMANAC by Jason Pagan, Andrew Stark
AMERICATOWN by Ben Poole
BALLAD OF PABLO ESCOBAR, THE by Matt Aldrich
BLACK BOX by David Guggenheim
BLEEDING KANSAS by Russell Sommer, Dan Frey
BORDER COUNTRY by Jonathan Stokes (@jonathanwstokes)
BROKEN, THE by John Glosser
CHERRIES by Brian Kehoe, Jim Kehoe
CLIVE by Natasha Pincus
COMANCHERIA by Taylor Sheridan
COME AND FIND ME by Zack Whedon (@zdubdub)
CONVERSION by Marissa Jo Cerar
DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, THE by Mark Hogan
DEVILS AT PLAY by James Dilapo
DISCIPLE PROGRAM, THE by Tyler Marceca (@TylerMarceca)
DON’T MAKE ME GO by Vera Herbert (@veraherbert)
DOPPELGANGERS by Evan Mirzai (@evan_almight), Shea Mirzai (@shea_butter)
DRAFT DAY by Rajiv Joseph, Scott Rothman (@scottmrothman)
EEL, THE by Roberto Bentivegna (@EmperorPasta)
EL TIGRE by Aaron Buchsbaum, Teddy Riley
EQUALIZER, THE by Richard Wenk
EX BOYFRIEND OF THE BRIDE by Matt Hausfater
EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL, AND VILE by Michael Werwie
FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS by Brad Desch
FAULT IN OUR STARS, THE by Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
FINAL BROADCAST, THE by Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe (@TheTeenageHead)
FLOWER by Alex McAulay (@AlexMcAulayYeah)
FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA by Austin Reynolds (@reynoldsaustin)
FUCK MARRY KILL by Neel Shah (@fneel), Alex Blagg (@alexblagg)
GEORGE by Jeff Shakoor
GLIMMER by Carter Blanchard (@cartblanch)
GOODBYE, FELIX CHESTER by Max Taxe (@taxe)
GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM by Jason Micallef (@micallefjason)
HEY, STELLA! by Tom Shephard
HIBERNATION by Will Frank, Geneva Robertson-Dworet
HOLD ON TO ME by Brad Ingelsby
HOOVERVILLE DEAD, THE by Brantley Aufill (@iseefrants)
IF THEY MOVE… KILL ‘EM! by Kel Symons
JOJO RABBIT by Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi)
JUDGE, THE by Bill Dubuque
KEEPING ROOM, THE by Julia Hart
KILLING SPREE, THE by Derek Elliott, Jack Donaldson
KING OF HEISTS by Will Staples
LIGHTHOUSE, THE by Eric Kirsten (@erickirsten)
MAN OF TOMORROW by Jeremy Slater (@boner_mountain)
MCCARTHY by Justin Kremer (@Kremsicles)
ME & EARL & THE DYING GIRL by Jesse Andrews (@_jesse_andrews_)
MIDNIGHT AT NOON by Nathaniel Halpern
MONSOON by Matt Ackley
MURDER CITY by Will Simmons (@willsimmons_)
ONE THAT GOT AWAY, THE by April Prosser
OUR NAME IS ADAM by T.S. Nowlin (@tsnowlin)
OUT OF STATE by Eric Pearson
OUTSKIRTS, THE by Dominique Ferarri, Suzanne Wrubel
PAPER MAN, THE by Sean O’Keefe
PENNY DREADFUL by Shane Atkinson
PESTE by Barbara Marshall
PORTLAND CONDITION, THE by Dan Cohn, Jeremy Miller
RODHAM by Young Il Kim
SAND CASTLE by Chris Roessner
SEUSS by Eyal Podell, Jonathan Stewart
SHUT IN by Christina Hodson
SOMACELL by Ashleigh Powell
STOCKHOLM, PENNSYLVANIA by Nikole Beckwith (@nikolebeckwith)
STORY OF YOUR LIFE by Eric Heisserer (@HIGHzurrer)
SURVIVALIST, THE by Stephen Fingleton (@sfingali)
SWEET VIRGINIA by Paul China, Benjamin China
TIMES SQUARE by Taylor Materne, Jake Rubin
TITANS OF PARK ROW by Mitch Akselrad
TRANSCENDENCE by Jack Paglen
UNTITLED COPS SCRIPT by Blake McCormick
WHALEMEN by Tucker Parsons
WHIPLASH by Damien Chazelle
WHO FRAMED TOMMY CALLAHAN? by Harry Kellerman
WINTER KILLS, THE by Ben Carney
WUNDERKIND by Patrick Aison
The Full Hit List 2012:
Note: More information can be found on The Tracking Board's site.
119
DRAFT DAY by Rajiv Joseph & Scott Rothman
 Story revolves around the general manager of the Buffalo Bills as he spends the day of the National Football League draft frantically doing whatever needs to be done to secure his team the number one draft pick.
 REPRESENTATION
 CAA | Christopher Till, Bill Zotti
 Gersh | Lee Keele, Lynn Fimberg and Seth Glewen
 Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Josh Goldenberg, Aaron Kaplan
 STATUS
 The Montecito Picture Company producing.
111
WUNDERKIND by Patrick Aison
 A CIA agent must team up with his estranged father, who works for Mossad, to track down an infamous fugitive Nazi scientist in 1970s Brazil.
 REPRESENTATION
 ICM | Emile Gladstone, Harley Copen, Bryan Diperstein
 DMG Entertainment | Chris Fenton
 STATUS
 Paramount Pictures | Bad Robot, DMG Entertainment producing.
103
GLIMMER by Carter Blanchard
 While on a hiking trip, a group of teens stumble upon a mysterious pond that serves as a time-travelling gateway to the past.
 REPRESENTATION
 Paradigm | David Boxerbaum
 Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner, Ryan Cunningham
 STATUS
 Dreamworks | Madhouse Entertainment producing.
99
OUR NAME IS ADAM by TS Nowlin
 An astronaut travels back in time to enlist the help of his younger self to fix a devastating mistake he made in their future.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Mike Esola, Daniel Cohan
 Caliber Media Co. | Adam Simpson-Marshall
 STATUS
 Paramount Pictures | Disruption Entertainment, Skydance Productions producing.
WHITE HOUSE DOWN by James Vanderbilt
 A Secret Service agent must fight to protect his daughter, the President, and the country from an attack on the White House.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Adriana Alberghetti, Greg Hodes, Rick Rosen
 UFUSE Management | Mikkel Bondesen
 STATUS
 Columbia Pictures | Mythology Entertainment, Iron Horse Entertainment, Centropolis Entertainment producing.
92
THE CELLAR by Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken
 A woman wakes up in a bomb shelter with a mysterious man who says he rescued her from an apocalyptic event.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Charlie Ferraro, Emerson Davis
 Energy Entertainment | Brooklyn Weaver
 Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner
 STATUS
 Paramount Pictures | Bad Robot producing.
91
THE DISCIPLE PROGRAM by Tyler Marceca
 A man begins an investigation into his wife’s mysterious death, only to find that it goes much deeper than he imagined.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Rich Cook, Philip D’Amecourt
 Anonymous Content | Bard Dorros, Michael Sugar
 STATUS
 Universal Pictures | Leverage producing.
87
MONSTER PROBLEMS by Brian Duffield
 A lonely man sets off to find his one true love in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by hideous, man-eating monsters.
 REPRESENTATION
 Gersh | Robert Hohman, Bayard Maybank, Devra Lieb
 Circle of Confusion | Zach Cox, David Engel, Noah Rosen
 STATUS
 Paramount Pictures | 21 Laps Entertainment.
84
VIRAL by Dustin T. Benson
 A scientist must help a crew of workers through the “infected” area of Manhattan while also trying to find her missing daughter.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Ramses Ishak, Michael Sheresky
 Energy Entertainment | Brooklyn Weaver
 STATUS
 Prime Universe Films, Energy Entertainment producing.
82
BLACK BOX by David Guggenheim
 Story begins with Air Force One crashing into the Atlantic ocean and killing everyone onboard. Years later, a journalist who lost his wife in the crash receives an anonymous recording of the black box – revealing there was an attack from within the plane.
 REPRESENTATION
 Paradigm | David Boxerbaum
 Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner
 STATUS
 Universal Pictures | Bluegrass Films, Madhouse Entertainment producing.
79
STORY OF YOUR LIFE by Eric Heisserer
 When alien crafts land across the world, a linguist 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.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Barbara Dreyfus, Jon Huddle, Josh Hornstock
 Art/Work Entertainment | Julie Bloom
 STATUS
 Lava Bear Films, FilmNation, 21 Laps Entertainment producing.
72
SOMACELL by Ashleigh Powell
 In a near-future prison environment that rehabilitates convicts using virtual reality, an investigation into a possible conspiracy leads a prison guard to suspect she may actually be on the wrong side of the system.
 REPRESENTATION
 Gersh | Robert Hohman, Devra Lieb, Bayard Maybank, JR Slatery
 Benderspink | Daniel Vang, Jake Weiner
 STATUS
 Warner Brothers | Phantom Four producing.
67
A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS by Sean Armstrong
 Based on true events, story follows Inspector Geoff Harper during his forty year search for the Beaumont Children, three siblings taken from an Australian Beach in January of 1966.
 REPRESENTATION
 Verve | Aaron Hart, Rob Herting, Bill Weinstein
 Principato/Young Entertainment | Peter Dealbert, Susan Solomon
 STATUS
 Available.
65
MURDER CITY by Will Simmons
 After being incarcerated on a drug charge, an ex-cop starts working for a Detroit crime lord to pay off his father's $100K debt.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Geoff Morley, Jason Burns
 Energy Entertainment | Brooklyn Weaver
 STATUS
 Available
63
FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA by Austin Reynolds
 When a troubled teen is forced to accompany his grandparents on their annual road trip from NY to FL, he finds himself discovering a lot about himself, and how the complexities of love, loss and family lies along the way.
 REPRESENTATION
 Paradigm | David Boxerbaum, Ida Ziniti
 Madhouse Entertainment | Robyn Meisinger
 STATUS
 Available.
SEUSS by Eyal Podell, Jonathon Stewart
 In a world that doesn’t quite understand his imagination, Ted follows his dreams to become one of the most celebrated children’s authors of all time – Dr. Seuss.
 REPRESENTATION
 Verve | Bryan Besser, Rob Herting, and Zach Carlisle
 Industry Entertainment | Michael Botti, Jess Rosenthal
 STATUS
 Available.
58
BORDER COUNTRY by Jonathan Stokes
 Story pits a war vet against a crew of corrupt cops intent on controlling the US / Mexico border.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Ramses Ishak, Michael Sheresky, Geoff Morley, Scott Carr
 Energy Entertainment | Brooklyn Weaver
 STATUS
 Available.
52
MAN OF TOMORROW by Jeremy Slater
 The world's first superheroes play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in 1940's Chicago.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Charles Ferraro, Tim Phillips
 Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Aaron Kaplan
 STATUS
 Basil Iwanyk producing.
44
CHERRIES by Brian Kehoe & Jim Kehoe
 Three naive dads band together to stop their sophomore daughters from making good on a prom night sex pact.
 REPRESENTATION
 DMG Entertainment | Chris Fenton
 STATUS
 Good Universe, DMG Entertainment, Hurwitz & Schlossberg Productions producing.
41
COMANCHERIA by Taylor Sheridan
 Two brothers decide to save their family’s farm by planning a number of bank heists, but they must outsmart a pair of determined Texas Rangers.
 REPRESENTATION
 Gersh | Robert Hohman, Bayard Maybank, Devra Lieb
 Elevate Entertainment | Jenny Wood
 STATUS
 Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Film 44 producing.
39
GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM by Jason Micallef
 A NASA communications specialist tries to rescue and falls in love with an astronaut who has been stranded on an abandoned Soviet space station for nine years.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Rich Cook, Lisa Harrison, Phillip D’Amecourt, Phillip Raskind
 Underground | Josh Turner McGuire
 STATUS
 Disney | Michael De Luca Productions, Underground producing.
37
ENDANGERED by Ryan Belenzon & Jeffrey Gelber
 When a drug company discovers a primate over 200 years old, a team descends on the perilous jungle of southeast Asia in search of the Fountain of Youth; only to find there are ancient reasons it has stayed forever hidden.
 REPRESENTATION
 Paradigm | Ida Ziniti
 Zero Gravity Management | Jeff Belkin
 STATUS
 Available.
36
BLEEDING KANSAS by Dan Frey & Russell Sommer
 With the United States on the brink of Emancipation, a Governor’s daughter is kidnapped by a Missouri plantation owner. A fugitive slave is given the chance to earn his freedom and get revenge on his former master by joining forces with a racist sheriff to rescue the girl.
 REPRESENTATION
 Paradigm | David Boxerbaum, Christopher Smith
 Madhouse Entertainment | Chris Cook, Adam Kolbrenner
 STATUS
 Available.
THE COUNSELOR by Cormac McCarthy
 Story follows a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip a toe in to the drug business without getting sucked down.
 REPRESENTATION
 ICM | Ron Bernstein, Amanda Urban
 STATUS
 20th Century Fox | Scott Free Productions, Chockstone Pictures, Nick Wechsler Productions producing.
32
EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL, AND VILE by Michael Werwie
 Based on a true 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.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Jon Huddle, David Kramer, Shani Rosenzweig, Peter Dodd, Dan Erlij, David Flynn
 Evolution Entertainment | Stephen Gates, Brad Kaplan
 STATUS
 Available.
28
ME HIM HER by Max Landis
 Follows three young adults, two of whom are struggling with their sexual identity, as they explore love, sex and relationships.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Simon Faber, David Karp
 Circle of Confusion | Lawrence Mattis, David Alpert, Britton Rizzio
 STATUS
 Big Beach Productions producing.
24
BONE TOMAHAWK by S. Craig Zahler
 A rag-tag group go on a rescue mission to save some people captured by a gang of creature-like cannibals.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Julien Thuan, Emerson Davis, Tim Phillips
 Caliber Media Co. | Dallas Sonnier
 STATUS
 Caliber Media Co. producing.
23
CONVERGENCE by Stuart C. Paul
 To save his dying son, a former field agent rejoins the CIA to track down the man who trained him – now a rogue operative who has stolen a device from the agency capable of manipulating parallel realities.
 REPRESENTATION
 Verve | Bryan Besser, Rob Herting
 Caliber Media Co. | Julian Rosenberg
 STATUS
 Michael De Luca Productions producing.
EL TIGRE by Teddy Riley & Aaron Buchsbaum
 While vacationing with his family in Acapulco, an American family man is mistaken for a Mexican drug lord who looks nearly identical to him.
 REPRESENTATION
 Paradigm | Mark Ross, Ida Ziniti, Andy Patman
 Mosaic | Michael Lasker
 STATUS
 Columbia Pictures | Mosaic producing.
22
ALL-NIGHTER (RUN ALL NIGHT) by Brad Ingelsby
 An aging hitman must protect his family as he goes up against his boss in a single night.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Mike Esola, Philip D'Amecourt, David Stone
 Energy Entertainment | Brooklyn Weaver
 STATUS
 Warner Brothers | Vertigo Entertainment, Energy Entertainment producing.
HIGH VALUE TARGET by Spenser Cohen
 An international squad of private military contractors infiltrate a cargo ship overrun by pirates in order to capture and extract a seemingly impossible High-Value Target, the pirate warlord.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Mike Esola
 Energy Entertainment | Brooklyn Weaver
 STATUS
 Nu Image/Millenium Films | Energy Entertainment, Vinson Films, Six Foot Turkey Productions producing.
21
EPSILON by Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese
 When a group of robots hide out on a space station after a failed rebellion, the machines use human lab rats to be their agents, but one man finds out he is different than the rest.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Greg Hodes, Philip D’Amecourt
 STATUS
 Columbia Pictures | Michael De Luca Productions producing.
OFF THE GRID by Christopher Cantwell & Christopher Rogers
 Having been disgraced from a black ops government organization designed to protect foreign defectors with valuable secrets, a man simply known as ‘Ghost’ must go against two of his former fellow agents as they each suspect the others of betrayal when their previous clients begin getting killed.
 REPRESENTATION
 Verve | Aaron Hart, Bill Weinstein
 Management 360 | Darin Friedman, Chris Huvane
 STATUS
 Indian Paintbrush producing.
THE JOIN by Justin Rhodes
 Following a terrible particle accelerator accident, a first response hazmat team are sent in to investigate, only to find themselves targeted for assassination as soon as they emerge.
 REPRESENTATION
 ICM | Lars Theriot
 Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner
 STATUS
 Legendary Entertainment producing.
20
IF THEY MOVE... KILL EM! by Kel Symons
 Based on true events in the life of Sam Peckinpah. When Hollywood no longer wants to make his movies Sam travels to Colombia with a new project and a fresh faced screenwriter to secure financing from the drug cartels.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Emerson Davis, Charles Ferraro, Geoff Morley
 MXN | Mason Novick, Michelle Knudsen
 STATUS
 Available.
MCCARTHY by Justin Kremer
 Story follows the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy's power and notoriety in the 1950s as he exploited the fear of communism, and began what has now been coined the McCartyism era.
 REPRESENTATION
 CAA | Jon Cassir, Matthew Rosen, Alexandra Trustman
 Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner, Chris Cook
 STATUS
 Available.
19
WALK OF SHAME by Christopher Baldi
 When a clean cut, straight-laced young PR exec wakes up next to his firm’s biggest and most reclusive client, his very first “Walk of Shame” quickly turns into a 100-mile, penniless, shoeless, (and oddly enlightening) race across New York to save his career.
 REPRESENTATION
 CAA | Bill Zotti
 New Wave Entertainment | Josh Adler, Mike Goldberg, Matt Ochacher, Michael Pelmont
 STATUS
 Available.
16
FUCK FACEBOOK by Zeke Farrow
 A high school virgin uses a 34-year-old woman's picture to make a fake girlfriend on Facebook, but when the woman finds out she decides to help the boy lose his virginity.
 REPRESENTATION
 Artist International | Matthew Horwitz, Dave Brown
 STATUS
 Available.
PONTIUS PILATE by Vera Blasi
 Story follows Lucius Pontius Pilate as he grows from the son of a Roman Knight, to a fear-inducing military General, and as the prefect of Judea under Emperor Tiberius, the judge who condemned Jesus Christ to crucifixion.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Andrew Cannava, Blair Kohan
 STATUS
 Warner Brothers | Gran Via Productions producing.
THE KEEPING ROOM by Julia Hart
 Three southern women defend their home from the Union army while their husbands are off fighting in the Civil War.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Roger Green, Sarah Self
 Anonymous Content | Trevor Adley, Nicole Romano
 STATUS
 Wind Dancer Films, Gilbert films, Anonymous Content producing.
15
BEST MAN by Gabe Snyder & Mike Alber
 A man’s life is turned upside down when his super-annoying childhood best friend re-enters his life after a 20 year absence and convinces him to be his best man.
 REPRESENTATION
 ICM | Melissa Orton
 New Wave Entertainment | Josh Adler, Mike Goldberg, Michael Pelmont
 STATUS
 Chemical Imbalance producing.
14
EVERYBODY WANTS HEAD by Peter Hoare & Chris Lilli
 After an OCD guy meets a shameless sex addict in group therapy, the two somehow end up on the run from the police and the mob, all the time carrying a severed head in a bowling ball bag.
 REPRESENTATION
 Station3 | Kailey Marsh
 STATUS
 Sentinel Pictures producing.
THE EEL by 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.
 REPRESENTATION
 CAA | Craig Brody
 Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner, Chris Cook
 STATUS
 Aversano Films producing.
13
MISFORTUNE by Jared Butler & Lars Norberg
 When three friends find millions in stolen cash on a wilderness excursion, they must outrun the money’s bloodthirsty owner and struggle to work as a team as greed quickly turns them against each other.
 REPRESENTATION
 Paradigm | Valarie Phillips, Trevor Astbury
 Gotham Group
 STATUS
 Cousin Pete Productions and Management producing.
WHALEMEN by Tucker Parsons
 Story follows a 14th century Scottish whaling villager who must seek out and do battle with a whale many times larger than any he has seen in order to ransom back his son from the occupying English.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Daniel Cohan, Cliff Roberts
 Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner
 STATUS
 Available.
12
MATCH by Ben Shiffrin & Daniel Antoniazzi
 A dating website executive plots against a rival company that beefs up its clients’ profiles to help them find hook ups.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Charles Ferraro, Max Michael
 Gotham Group | Jeremy Bell
 STATUS
 Nu Image/Millenium Films | Scott Sanders Productions producing.
10
BLOWN by Jesse Wheeler
 A geeky lab technician posing as a detective and a conman pretending to be a deputy are forced to work together when they stumble upon a gang of rogue cops.
 REPRESENTATION
 Manus Entertainment | Marc Manus
 STATUS
 Available.
DEAR SATAN by Dan Ewen
 Follows a 7-year-old girl who accidentally misspells “Santa” and instead invites Satan to bring her a toy for Christmas.
 REPRESENTATION
 APA | William Lowery, Chris Ridenhour
 Primal Pictures | Christopher Pratt
 STATUS
 20th Century Fox | Conundrum Entertainment producing.
MAN CLUB by Dan Hughes
 In an attempt to make friends in a new town, a shy husband joins a top-secret group of married men known as “Man Club.” But when he discovers it’s nothing more than a bunch of overgrown frat boys who blindly follow their leader on outlandish activities, he tries to quit… only to discover that nobody leaves Man Club. Nobody.
 REPRESENTATION
 Caliber Media Co. | Jennifer Au, Adam Simpson-Marshall
 STATUS
 Available.
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN by Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt
 When the White House is taken by terrorists the US government must rely on a disgraced Secret Service agent to save the day.
 REPRESENTATION
 Gersh | Robert Hohman, Bayard Maybank, Devra Lieb
 Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Alex Lerner
 STATUS
 Nu Image/Millenium Films | Evil Twins producing.
SUBDIVISION by Alex Ankeles & Morgan Jurgenson
 Two teenagers who think they've discovered a UFO circling their neighborhood, start to unravel something far more mysterious about the neighborhood it is circling.
 REPRESENTATION
 CAA | Bill Zotti
 APA | Ryan Saul
 Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Aaron Kaplan
 Hung Entertainment Group | Jonathan Hung
 STATUS
 Universal Pictures | Barnstorm Pictures producing.
THE SURVIVALIST by Stephen Fingleton
 In a post-apocalyptic world almost totally devoid of modern technology, a forest man's life is drastically altered upon the unexpected arrival of a woman and her teenage daughter, with whom he begins a relationship.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Philip D'Amecourt, Philip Raskind
 STATUS
 The Fyzz Group producing.
9
EXPOSURE by Jeff Addiss & Will Matthews
 With six days before the world is wiped out by a massive solar flare, a man sets out amongst the chaos to find the person responsible for killing his wife.
 REPRESENTATION
 Gersh | Lee Keele, Margaret Mendelson
 Principato/Young Entertainment | Evan Cavic, Peter Dealbert
 STATUS
 Available.
GOODBYE, FELIX CHESTER by 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.
 REPRESENTATION
 Madhouse Entertainment | Robyn Meisinger, Ryan Cunningham
 STATUS
 Available.
HOW MY WEDDING DRESS GOT THIS FUCKING DIRTY by Emily Blake
 A bride's wedding day is ruined by gun-slinging gangsters from her past who crash the party and kidnap her groom, looking for their share of the prize that she stole from under them.
 REPRESENTATION
 APA | Sheryl Petersen, Debbie Deuble Hill
 Circle of Confusion | Ken Freimann
 STATUS
 Available.
I.T. by Dan Kay
 A publisher tries to keep his life from completely unraveling after firing an unstable I.T. guy who has gotten too close to his family.
 REPRESENTATION
 New Wave Entertainment | Josh Adler, Mike Goldberg, Matt Ochacher, Michael Pelmont
 STATUS
 Voltage producing.
OCCUPIED by Chris Borrelli
 Ten years after a devastating alien invasion, humans struggle to survive in world that has been taken over.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Daniel Cohan, David Stone
 DMG Entertainment | Chris Fenton
 STATUS
 Langley Park producing.
ROCKETS' RED GLARE by Ken Nolan
 After a Mexican cartel leader turns himself in to a border patrol officer he promises an $8 billion reward to the agent if he can protect him and give him immunity.
 REPRESENTATION
 CAA | Jay Baker, Todd Feldman, John Garvey
 Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Tobin Babst
 STATUS
 Columbia Pictures | Original Film producing.
THE WAITING by Mark Bianculli & Jeff Richard
 Things go horribly wrong when two high school filmmakers decide to prank their old neighbor into believing his house in haunted.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Danny Greenberg, David Karp
 Anonymous Content | Rosalie Swedlin, Elana Barry
 STATUS
 Warner Brothers | Anonymous Content, KatzSmith Productions producing.
THREE HUNDRED YEARS by Peter Hirschmann
 Transported 300 years into the future, a man must escape from an alien city where humans are kept as pets.
 REPRESENTATION
 Verve | Rob Herting, Aaron Hart, Adam Weinstein
 Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Aaron Kaplan
 STATUS
 Carson Reeves producing.
WEEK 14 by Ron Shelton
 Story chronicles the last three weeks of an NFL season through the perspectives of players, coaches and spouses.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Paul Haas, David Wirtschafter
 STATUS
 Flame Ventures producing.
8
COUNTERPOINT by Brian Michael Scully
 When their lover is killed in a car crash, a man and a woman discover they’ve been dating the same man for ten years.
 REPRESENTATION
 The Muraviov Company | Kathy Muraviov
 STATUS
 Available.
EX-BOYFRIEND OF THE BRIDE by Matthew Hausfater
 After discovering one of their high school sweethearts is getting married, two best friends head to the wedding in order to stop the bride from going through with it.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Jon Huddle
 Underground | Josh McGuire, Evan Silverberg
 STATUS
 John Hamburg Productions, Anders Bard producing.
HATCHED by Megan Woodward
 When failing novelist Marley reluctantly attends her parents' anniversary on Easter weekend,
 her world is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of 16-year-old Naomi, who claims to be the result of Marley's secret egg donation 16 years earlier.
 REPRESENTATION
 APA | Debbie Deuble, Sheryl Petersen
 Tantillo Entertainment | John Tantillo
 STATUS
 Available.
HIBERNATION by Geneva Robertson-Dworet & Will Frank
 A convict who was framed for murder agrees to take part in an experimental study which grants him 6 hours of parole for every 5 years spent sleeping in hibernation. He must use these small windows to find his missing daughter, who saw the real killer, so they can be reunited and she can prove his innocence.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Rich Cook, Solco Schuit
 Management 360 | Jill McElroy
 STATUS
 Film 360, Perfect Storm Entertainment producing.
LAMBS by Phinneas Kiyomura
 After being framed for his wife’s murder, a school teacher takes shelter with his estranged family, comprised of Irish gypsies and thieves.
 REPRESENTATION
 The Kaplan Stahler Agency | Shan Ray
 Heroes & Villains Entertainment | Markus Goerg, Dick Hillenbrand, Mikhail Nayfeld
 STATUS
 Available.
MARKED by Zak Olkewicz
 When his wife is murdered, a dying man makes a deal with the devil – his soul in exchange for one more night to get revenge.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Daniel Cohan
 Prolific | Will Rowbotham
 STATUS
 Available.
PESTE by Barbara Marshall
 A 16 year old girl begins to record her life for her high school media class just as a terrifying virus begins to spread.
 REPRESENTATION
 APA | Debbie Deuble, Lee Dinstman
 Industry Entertainment | Ava Jamshidi
 STATUS
 IM Global, Busted Shark producing.
SANCTUARY by Alan Trezza
 A young woman, possessed by a demon, seeks refuge within The Sanctuary, a Vatican-run secret organization that teaches the possessed to channel their inner demon and use its power as a weapon against evil.
 REPRESENTATION
 Magnet Management | Zach Tann, Bob Sobhani
 STATUS
 Paramount Pictures | Silver Pictures producing.
TRANSCENDENCE by Jack Paglen
 A scientist has his brain uploaded into a computer in a cutting edge experiment.
 REPRESENTATION
 ICM | Harley Copen, Kathleen Remington
 STATUS
 Warner Brothers | Alcon Entertainment, Straight Up Films, Syncopy Films, Annie Marter producing.
UNTITLED COPS SCRIPT by Blake McCormick
 After leaving a costume party dressed as cops, two friends decide to continue masquerading as the real thing to impress women, but instead find themselves mixed up with a ruthless criminal.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Jason Burns, Marissa Devins, Matt Rice, Tim Phillips
 Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone
 STATUS
 Universal Pictures | Hurwitz & Schlossberg Productions producing.
WHILE ROME BURNS by Alex Hollister
 A disillusioned lawyer gets caught up in a gangster’s plan to retrieve a bullet from his crooked, ex-cop father’s body, which has a secret account passcode worth millions carved into it.
 REPRESENTATION
 Zero Gravity | Jeff Belkin
 STATUS
 Available.
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12/24 by Matt Lieberman
 Two brothers set out to prove that Santa Claus is real using their home video camera. The boys get more than they bargained for when they end up joining Santa’s epic Christmas Eve ride. After inadvertently causing Santa’s sleigh to crash, the brothers need to work together to save Christmas.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Simon Faber, Roger Green, Phillip Raskind
 Madhouse Entertainment | Adam Kolbrenner
 STATUS
 Madhouse Entertainment, David Guggenheim producing.
BACK IN THE USSR (COLD WARRIORS) by Todd Berger
 A retired CIA operative uses his grandson's trip to Europe as a cover to settle some unfinished Cold War business.
 REPRESENTATION
 The Kohner Agency | Stephen Moore
 Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment | Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone
 STATUS
 Nu Image/Millenium Films | Schorr Pictures producing.
CONVERSION by 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.
 REPRESENTATION
 ICM | Laura Haas
 Heroes & Villains | Mikhail Nayfeld, Markus Goerg, Dick Hillenbrand
 STATUS
 State Street Pictures producing.
ECHOES by F. Scott Frazier
 After disobeying battlefield orders and escaping their Space Fleet, a rogue squad of galactic soldiers crash lands on an alien planet where they must fight for survival against the planet’s alien environment and a Galactic kill team sent to eliminate them.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Mike Esola, Daniel Cohan, David Stone
 DMG Entertainment | Chris Fenton
 STATUS
 Available.
FURLOUGH by Sherman Payne
 A convict, granted a temporary release from prison to attend his murdered son’s funeral, goes on a hunt for his son’s killers in hopes of taking them all down before he must return behind bars.
 REPRESENTATION
 APA | Chris Ridenhour
 Caliber Media Co. | Adam Simpson-Marshall
 STATUS
 Lava Bear Films, Witten Pictures producing.
MARROW by Erik W. Van Der Wolf
 A woman discovers that she’s received a new personality and memories from a bone marrow transplant- including how her donor was murdered.
 REPRESENTATION
 The Muraviov Company | Kathy Muraviov
 STATUS
 Train Bridge Films producing.
RUN & GUN by Jonathan L. Davis
 A young white collar criminal hires a hardened felon to help him escape prison so that he can protect his wife and the the fortune they stole from a group of notorious gangsters.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | John Huddle
 DMG Entertainment | Chris Fenton
 STATUS
 Marc Hofstatter producing.
SAVAGE PLANET by Cole Haddon
 Kept under wraps.
 REPRESENTATION
 ICM | Harley Copen, Lars Theriot
 Anonymous Content | Alex Goldstone
 STATUS
 Columbia Pictures | Matt Tolmach Productions, Avad Productions, Anonymous Content, Monsterfoot producing.
SCORN by Derek Kolstad
 A retired hitman relentlessly pursues the Russian thugs who stole his car and killed his dog, a gift given to him by his deceased wife to keep him from killing himself.
 REPRESENTATION
 UTA | Charles Ferraro, Max Michael
 New Wave Entertainment | Josh Adler, Michael Goldberg
 STATUS
 Thunder Road Pictures producing.
THE CURRENT WAR by Michael Mitnick
 Chronicles the battle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse as they fight over one of mankind's greatest creations - electricity.
 REPRESENTATION
 WME | Jordan Cerf, Simon Faber, Derek Zasky
 Fourth Floor Productions | Jeff Silver
 STATUS
 Bazelevs Productions, Film Rites producing.
THE FALL by Christopher Cosmos
 After a blood-borne virus twice the size of the Black Plague ravages the world, a man carrying a cure for the epidemic has to travel from Los Angeles to Washington DC while being hunted by men who want the cure for themselves.
 REPRESENTATION
 Benderspink | JC Spink, Chris Bender, Jake Weiner
 STATUS
 QED International producing.
VANISH MAN by Denison Hatch
 A man, who is the master of making people disappear without a trace, is forced to work with the FBI to track down his last client, a violent escaped murderer.
 REPRESENTATION
 Gersh | Sandra Lucchesi, Abram Nalibotsky
 Circle of Confusion | Noah Rosen
 STATUS
 Lionsgate.

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