The Black List |
2024
Sixteen years of compiling the most liked scripts from over 250 film executives. As announced via Deadline https://bit.ly/30rgTgq
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Official Selections
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Official Selection
60 Votes
Unknown
Two strangers scramble to find someone to sleep with on the one night of the year when premarital sex is legal.
PLAYDATE
Official Selection
39 Votes
Unknown
When taking her daughter to a playdate at a new friend’s house, Alice suddenly comes face to face with her childhood bully, Katrine. An evening of seemingly polite dinner conversation and catching up turns into a night of psychological warfare as the two women reveal the scars of the past and the wounds of the present while their two young daughters...
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ALIGNMENT
Official Selection
38 Votes
Unknown
A boardmember at a booming AI company wrestles with corporate politics and warped incentives as he tries to prevent his colleagues’ willful ignorance from causing a global catastrophe.
LOVE OF YOUR LIFE
Official Selection
37 Votes
Unknown
Maya–a smart, wry nurse–is swept up in an immersive love, one that sets her life on a trajectory she never would have imagined.
HOW TO SAVE A MARRIAGE
Official Selection
29 Votes
Unknown
In hopes of spicing up their marriage, a husband and wife join a mysterious couples retreat, only to discover it’s a front for a dangerous cult.
DON'T BORROW TROUBLE
Official Selection
28 Votes
Unknown
A broke TaskRabbit in debt to her estranged sugar daddy holds a stolen painting she’s been tasked to deliver for ransom, leading to a deadly cat-and-mouse chase across the weirdest corners of New York City.
ZADDY
Official Selection
25 Votes
Unknown
Twenty-something fitness instructor Ellie Noone has been toiling away in the LA rat race for years, until her luck changes when she meets an attractive older man with a mysterious past that’s as complicated as his skincare routine.
CLEAN BREAK
Official Selection
24 Votes
Unknown
Mary, a hair trigger pool hustler, has her hedonistic lifestyle all figured out until she meets Ray, a fellow pool shark. Will she change her ways and let herself fall in love? Or just kill him and make a break for it...
TICKLE ME ELMO
Official Selection
24 Votes
Unknown
The true story of how one toy saved Sesame Street, shocked Wall Street, and tickled the nation.
BUST
Official Selection
23 Votes
Unknown
In 1991, Houston, Texas, millions of women sport the latest fashion trend: breast implants. But when they develop life-threatening side effects, they’ll need a special kind of lawyer to seek justice. This is the incredible true story of a women’s public health crisis, a gunslinging plaintiff lawyer, and the biggest lawsuit in American history.
NASTY
Official Selection
22 Votes
Unknown
After an injury sidelines Dylan’s ability to train for the Olympics, the determined gymnast must regain the trust of her demanding coach while facing off against a prodigious new competitor threatening to eclipse her place in the spotlight.
THE 7 GUYS YOU DATE BEFORE MARRIAGE
Official Selection
22 Votes
Unknown
After her ten-year relationship collapses, a newly single woman dives back into the dating pool, navigating seven wildly different romantic entanglements that prepare her for her future husband.
VANISHED
Official Selection
22 Votes
Unknown
Ten years after she disappeared as a teen, Violet, now 25, turns up with no memory of what happened to her, but as her family welcomes her home, it quickly becomes apparent that the past cannot be forgiven or forgotten.
ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
Official Selection
20 Votes
Unknown
During a clandestine overnight stay in the Burbank IKEA, four friends get caught in a firefight between rival criminal organizations, forcing them to figure out how to save each other–and the store they love so much.
TEST DRIVE
Official Selection
20 Votes
Unknown
A down-on-his-luck car salesman takes a mysterious stranger on a test drive– which turns into a dangerous and unsettling crime spree across the rain-soaked streets of Los Angeles.
BLOODY MINGO
Official Selection
19 Votes
Unknown
Investigating the crime scene of a potential homicide in the Appalachian mountainside, a deputy encounters a strange mountain community that claims to be haunted by an evil witch that lives in the woods.
Official Selection
18 Votes
Feature
· Action
· 94 Pages
Bo Jackson gets stuck in a time loop. Lessons are learned.
Huntsville, AL
Adam Best is an entrepreneur turned screenwriter. He made the annual Black List two years in a row (2023-24) with THE WOLF IN CHIEFS CLOTHING and BO KNOWS INFINITY. His biggest previous career success came as CEO and co-founder of FanSided, a network of fan websites serving tens of millions. He also worked as a progressive political consultant, whic...
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DECOYS
Official Selection
18 Votes
Unknown
When two cocky self-proclaimed CIA badasses learn they’re being used as diversions, they must prove to themselves and the world that they’re capable of being real heroes.
DIANA DESTROYS A WEDDING
Official Selection
18 Votes
Unknown
When her youngest son proposes to a middle-class farmer, New York business icon Diana Ivy incentivizes her dysfunctional children to protect the family name the only way she knows how... by creating a competition: whoever can break up the couple during their luxurious seven-day destination wedding will inherit the Ivys’ Lake Como estate.
THE 13TH HOUR
Official Selection
18 Votes
Unknown
When a group of teenagers repair an old clock with a mysterious 13th numeral, they are granted an extra hour where their actions have no consequence.
OVER ASKING
Official Selection
17 Votes
Unknown
After a chance encounter with a powerful female litigator, a seemingly perfect couple begin to ask questions about marriage, power, gender, and sex.
Official Selection
17 Votes
Feature
· Horror
· 110 Pages
When a youth-obsessed Beverly Hills dermatologist murders her husband’s much younger mistress, she creates an anti-aging serum made of her blood and discovers the only way to stay young forever is to keep killing.
Los Angeles, CA
After completing her BFA, Matisse wrote, produced, and starred in the web series DEFECTIVES. Most recently, Matisse wrote the award winning short, THE TAMPON, grappling with issues of sexual assault and consent. The Tampon screened at over a dozen film festivals, including HollyShorts and Taos Film Festival. Matisse is currently attending AFI to ear...
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AMERICAN MONSTERS
Official Selection
16 Votes
Unknown
A senator and his estranged son must fight to survive when they’re stranded at a hunting ranch where mythical beasts from global folklore are genetically engineered as dangerous game.
Official Selection
16 Votes
Feature
· Thriller
· 96 Pages
After the accidental death of her patient, a young nurse finds herself blacklisted and out of work. That is, until she's approached by a detective with a unique job offer: become the caretaker for a murder suspect who may be faking his Alzheimer's.
Denver, CO
Finance guy who likes to write scripts.
THE BUSBOY
Official Selection
16 Votes
Unknown
After a mysterious busboy manipulates his way into a job at the most exclusive nightclub in South Beach, he quickly rises through the ranks using ruthless tactics.
TONY
Official Selection
16 Votes
Unknown
In 1975, a wayward young Anthony Bourdain stumbles into a summer dishwashing job in Provincetown and discovers his life’s calling.
FELLOWSHIP
Official Selection
15 Votes
Unknown
A burgeoning artist is offered a once in a lifetime fellowship, luring her into the dark side of New York’s elite art world.
SHUTOUT
Official Selection
15 Votes
Unknown
A talented young pool player from the Bronx navigates the male-dominated world of pool hustling, guided by a seasoned gambler, as she rises to international fame and grapples with the moral complexities of the game.
STARDUST QUEEN
Official Selection
15 Votes
Unknown
A prodigiously gifted young assassin attempts to escape the rule of her vicious step-mother and ascend to fame as a late-90’s pop star.
TIMESHARE
Official Selection
15 Votes
Unknown
In the not-too-distant future, where a new technology allows an individual to project their psyche into the body of another, thus creating a body-sharing gig economy, a financially-struggling married couple accepts a wealthy man’s proposal to use the wife’s body for a single night, but soon that decision causes their relationship and lives to spiral...
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Toluca Lake
Private
Official Selection
15 Votes
Feature
· Drama
· 104 Pages
In the midst of struggling to care for his newly adopted sister, Gavin stumbles upon the perfect girl, Allie, who fits right into his life. But after discovering she's a hallucination caused by a brain tumor, Gavin must wrestle with the fact that he either has to end Allie, or have Allie end him.
No bio available.
AIDa
Official Selection
14 Votes
Unknown
A new mother finds the perfect nanny in AI, only to learn that a “perfect” caregiver might be the most dangerous kind of all. This psychological thriller examines the disparity between human nature versus AI nurture and asks the question, could AI ever replace us as parents?
TURNAROUND
Official Selection
14 Votes
Unknown
After beloved movie star Tom Adair is found dead, the outpouring of grief and sympathy quickly elevates his best friend Alec Donavan to movie star status. Now Alec must contend with his newfound fame and success–and the fact that he and his agent/girlfriend Karynn Pieper secretly murdered Tom and are haunted by his vengeful ghost.
CRUSH
Official Selection
13 Votes
Unknown
A woman wakes up in a room with no recollection of how she got there. The ceiling descends.
DETOUR
Private
Official Selection
13 Votes
Feature
· Horror
· 104 Pages
When a feuding rap group’s tour bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, three hip hop superstars find themselves locked in a life-or-death struggle to survive the night as they are hunted by a group of locals with a hidden agenda.
No bio available.
GOOD FOR US
Official Selection
13 Votes
Unknown
After surviving a terrifying home invasion with her two young children, a woman leans on her husband for support, but soon suspects that it was not a random incident and that her husband might have somehow been involved.
Official Selection
13 Votes
Feature
· Comedy
· 100 Pages
All hell breaks loose when a famous but notoriously troubled actor announces on a talk show that in less than an hour he’ll turn into a werewolf… all on live TV. It's "Network" meets "Bodies Bodies Bodies."
Los Angeles, Ca
Madison Vanderberg is currently out with a horror comedy feature that Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road is producing. Previously, she wrote a reboot of the cult comedy "Last American Virgin" for Millennium Films and has worked with producers like Jim Whitaker, Baobab Animation, and Invisible Narratives. Madison had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it stint as a som...
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KING OF THE FRESHMAN
Official Selection
13 Votes
Unknown
During the glittering ascent of Abercrombie & Fitch, a bold CEO and his enigmatic British partner craft an empire of desire, exclusivity, and allure–only to see their legacy unravel as a scandal of exploitation and power threatens to expose the dangerous lengths they went to in their pursuit of perfection
MOTHERBOY
Official Selection
13 Votes
Unknown
When a woman becomes trapped in a snowstorm with her overbearing mother-in-law and husband over the Thanksgiving holiday, she begins to suspect that their relationship is not as maternal as it seems. BARBARIAN by way of an erotic, Hallmark holiday movie.
OLD SOULS
Official Selection
13 Votes
Unknown
A trio of sassy, elderly women receive a unique offer from Death for a week of youth in exchange for their lives.
Paparazzo
Private
Official Selection
13 Votes
Feature
· Thriller
· 111 Pages
Desperate for fast cash to help his ailing mother, an opportunistic outcast partners with a wily paparazzo who entangles them in a homicide involving young celebutantes.
Queens, NY
Christian Nilsson is an Emmy Award-winning video journalist and producer, and the award-winning director behind DASHCAM and UNSUBSCRIBE—the $0-budget short film that became the #1 movie in the American box office in 2020.
Christian lives in New York City.
ROAD TEST
Official Selection
13 Votes
Unknown
A young woman long overdue in getting her driver’s license finally takes her road test, only to find herself receiving direction from a psychotic instructor who wants her dead.
Bato Bato
Private
Official Selection
12 Votes
Feature
· Action
· 97 Pages
When his family is murdered and child kidnapped, a Neanderthal goes on an epic rampage journey to save her from the new dominant species.
No bio available.
MOMMY'S HOME
Private
Official Selection
12 Votes
Feature
· Drama
· 108 Pages
A young dad revives his 24-year-old cryogenically frozen mom, unleashing terror and forbidden tension that haunt his family and threaten to unravel his marriage.
Los Angeles, CA
James wrote, directed and stars opposite Patton Oswalt in his feature I LOVE MY DAD, which Magnolia Pictures released in theaters. I LOVE MY DAD premiered at SXSW 2022, winning both the Grand Jury AND Audience Award. He's had major roles on AHS, FEUD, LETHAL WEAPON, and HBO's SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS and was in Variety's 2022 Comedy Impact Report ...
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OUT THERE
Private
Official Selection
12 Votes
Manuscript
· Drama
· 27 Pages
Fresh off a breakup, Meg is thrilled to meet Roger, who seems like the perfect man: disarmingly handsome, sweet, and obsessed with her. But she’ll soon discover that a disturbing secret lies behind Roger’s perfection, and will have to decide how far she’s willing to go on behalf of true love–even if the person she loves happens to be fake. Based on ...
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No bio available.
Official Selection
12 Votes
Feature
· Horror
· 104 Pages
Haunted by the death of his hoarder mother, an antisocial man suffering from obsessive compulsions takes work as a trauma cleaner in hopes of facing his past, but the job soon begins to infest and unravel his mental state.
Los Angeles, CA
Geo is a queer, Canadian screenwriter based in Los Angeles. She writes claustrophobic, psychological narratives that explore themes of desire, obsession and violence through unique settings. in 2023, Geo was named an inaugural participant in Blumhouse x K Period Media’s Screamwriting Fellowship in partnership with Sundance with her body horror scrip...
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THE TELLER
Official Selection
12 Votes
Unknown
A timid, overlooked bank teller with incredible sleight-of-hand dexterity teams up with a rogue FBI agent to rob her own bank.
THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RAINBOW
Official Selection
12 Votes
Unknown
Inspired by the disastrous making of THE WIZARD OF OZ, Maggie Hamilton fights to keep her role as the Wicked Witch, while resisting the forces stifling Judy Garland’s childhood.
TRAPPED
Official Selection
12 Votes
Unknown
A woman trapped in a tight cave shaft must fight to escape when the shaft starts unexpectedly filling up with water.
TURPENTINE
Official Selection
12 Votes
Unknown
When a deadbeat son hires his friends to rob his own mother and father in order to pay an outstanding debt to a local drug dealer, things don’t go as planned, and family bonds are stretched to their furthest extremes.