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

By Angie Han December 12th, 2011

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: Warners Taps A Writer For 'The Lost Years Of Merlin;' Max Landis Writing Fox's 'Pied Piper; Chris Smith Pens Holiday Tale

By Russ Fischer May 17th, 2011

Get ready for Merlin to be the new Snow White, or the new Linda Lovelace, or whatever icon studios and producers decide to compete over next. Warner Bros. has just tapped Ed Whitworth, a former journalist who evidently has experience as a script reader for Oprah Winfrey's company, to adapt the T.A. Barron youth-lit novel…

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