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EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and WIF have announced the participants of the 2024 Episodic Lab, which focuses on preparing women writers and writers of underrepresented genders for a career in television writing. “Coming out of an incredibly challenging year for our industry, the Black List and WIF are…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List is opening submissions for six diversity lists in partnership with GLAAD, CAPE, the MPAC Hollywood Bureau, The Salon, the Latin Tracking Board, NALIP, 1IN4 Coalition, and the WGA Disabled Writers Committee, in addition to establishing the Desi List-–a new, curated list that will…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and Google today revealed the four writers who were selected as the inaugural Black List x YouTube Originals Black Voices Creator Fellows. The recipients are Beverly Chukwu, Shannon Hawkins, Brandon Hines, and Duchant Johnson. More information about the Fellows is below. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Over three years after The Black List and the then MGM launched their feature film script writing partnership to find and amplify new voices, the team-up has found their fourth and final recipient. Audrey Rosenberg will receive a two-step Guild minimum open script deal with Amazon MGM…

EXCLUSIVE: Transformers Prime actress Tania Gunadi has been awarded a prime Sundance perch. Author of  dark comedy Teddy script, Gunadi is this year's Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow. In the 11th year of the indie centric collaboration between the Mudbound producer and The Black List…

The Black List and Stowe Story Labs have partnered to create a fellowship for an emerging screenwriter to attend the Stowe Narrative Lab. The Fellow will also either participate in a longform online writing program or a one-on-one mentoring program, depending on their needs. This is the first…

EXCLUSIVE: As they should, the Black List will be celebrating its 20th anniversary with some of Hollywood's most acclaimed artists and a cinema institution next year. Leaning into to two decades of shining a spotlight on Tinseltown's most liked unproduced screenplays, the Franklin Leonard-founded…

CAA and Grandview lead the way in the respective agency and management company rankings for 2023’s The Black List, the annual compendium of the year’s most liked unproduced screenplays. UTA and Echo Lake Entertainment repped this year’s top title, Travis Braun’s Bad Boy, about a rescue dog who…

Travis Braun's screenplay Bad Boy, which follows a rescue dog who suspects that his loving new owner is a serial killer, topped the 2023 Black List today. The 19th edition, which was selected by more than 375 film executives, counts 76 feature screenplays by 80 writers. Second place went to Justin…

EXCLUSIVE: Georgia has been one of the top Hollywood production spots in America for years, and now the Black List are putting some of the Peach State's finest front and center. "I grew up in Columbus, Georgia," Black List founder Franklin Leonard said Thursday of the new effort to amplify unproduced…

Tubi announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with the Black List on the “To Be Commissioned” Initiative to provide both emerging and established writers with the opportunity to submit their screenplays intended to be developed, produced and distributed by Tubi. Tubi is commissioning five scripts that…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List has named the six projects and seven screenwriters invited to their 2023 Annual Lab. The program, now in its eleventh year, provides creative mentorship and career support to promising feature writers as they further develop their scripts during a weeklong workshop in Ojai…