• The 2011 Black List: The Year's Best Unproduced Screenplays

    Each December since 2004, studio executive Franklin Leonard has compiled the best unproduced screenplays of the year, as voted by hundreds of execs, agency guys, and high-level assistants. Titled The Black List, the compendium highlights both established screenwriters and up-and-comers, and has served as a launching pad in the past for projects like Juno, Lars…

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  • Screenwriting Bits: 'Snow White And The Huntsman', 'The Smurfs 2,' 'Bastards'

    Snow White gets a rewrite, The Smurfs get a sequel and Bastards sells for big bucks. How's that for alliteration? There's a bunch of screenwriting news out there right now and, after the jump, we'll give some context to the following: Screenwriter Hossein Amini has just been hired to do a rewrite of Universal's Snow…

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