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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…

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…

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…

The suspect in the killing of former Netflix staffer and Array consultant Michael Latt this week has been revealed by the LAPD, as has the victim himself. Police say Jameelah Elena Michl, 36, was arrested on Latt’s doorstep soon after the fatal shooting of the veteran studio operative and activist at…

Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast is now at Week 8, as we complete a stretch in which the standoff between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers passed the 50-day mark, halfway to the 100-day dispute that decimated Hollywood in 2007 and the 253-day dispute…

EXCLUSIVE: The skies are cloudy over LA and still thick over NYC today, but for over 1,000 studio and "struck companies" staffers their Black List membership just went dark. In support of the Writers Guild of America's over one-month long strike, the Franklin Leonard founded platform has suspended…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and Sony Pictures Animation announce Fredrick Leach as the first-ever Writers Program Fellow. He will spend the next six months as an in-house writer for Sony Pictures Animation, where he will craft dialogue for custom animation pieces, dive into scripts on the development slate…

EXCLUSIVE: Talk show reunions, heartland justice, stateside backlash to the 1970s Iranian hostage crisis, and faith vs a child's transgender identity are among the stories that make up the second annual Muslim List. The collaboration between The Black List, the Muslim Public Affairs Council Hollywood Bureau and…

The CAA Amplify summit will make its in-person return on June 22 featuring speakers across entertainment, sports, media, technology, and social justice. The summit brings together a diverse group of key influencers and industry decision-makers to explore the role business plays in advancing culture and justice for…

EXCLUSIVE: Back for a third year, the Latinx List has added some significant streamer sinew for 2022. Netflix has now come on board with the scriptwriting initiative to offer WGA minimum script deals to two selected scribes. With five original feature films and five original pilot scripts to be chosen, the submission…

MGM and The Black List have selected Jennifer Grand as the second recipient to receive a two-step guild minimum blind script deal. As part of the partnership, Franklin Leonard and Scott Silver are on board to produce Grand's script for the studio. The third opt-in period of the partnership, whose mission is to…