UPDATE with full list by votes: The Black List, which recognizes the year’s most-liked unproduced screenplays as voted on by film executives, has unveiled its 11th edition today. The top vote-getter is Isaac Adamson’s Bubbles, which follows Michael Jackson’s life through the eyes of his adopted chimpanzee. Originally a boutique list, the surveyed execs have grown to 250 for this year, with 81 scripts making the 2015 list.

Here are this year’s top scripts, by vote total (see the votes by agency here and the votes by management company here):

44

BUBBLES

by Isaac Adamson

A baby chimp is adopted by the Pop star Michael Jackson. Narrating his own story, Bubbles the Chimp details his life within The King of Pop’s inner circle through the scandals that later rocked Jackson’s life and eventually led to Bubbles’ release.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENT: Joe Mann

MANAGEMENT: Lee Stobby Entertainment

MANAGER: Lee Stobby

40

STRONGER

by John Pollono, Scott Silver

The true story of Jeff Bauman, who after losing his legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, was an integral part of helping police to locate the suspects.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Joe Mann, Ali Trustman

MANAGEMENT: Underground

MANAGER: Noah Rothman

PRODUCERS: Mandeville, Scott Silver

FINANCIER: Lionsgate

37

THE LIBERTINE

by Ben Kopit

After the Head of the French National Assembly is placed under house arrest for accusations of sexual assault, he must live in a guarded apartment with his estranged wife until the case comes to a close.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Roger Green, Sarah Self

MANAGEMENT: Mindframe Films & Management

MANAGER: Jesse Silver

PRODUCER: Whalerock Industries

FINANCIER: Warner Bros

37

ROCKET*

by Jeffrey Gelber, Ryan Belenzon

Roger “The Rocket” Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers of all time, has 4672 strikeouts, 354 wins and a record 7 Cy Young awards. This is the story of why he is not in the Hall of Fame.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Craig Brody, Ida Ziniti

MANAGEMENT: Grandview

MANAGER: Jeff Silver

PRODUCER: Black Bear Pictures

FINANCIER: Black Bear

34

CRATER

by John J. Griffin

On the moon, five teens take an unauthorized and adventure-filled road trip, just before one of them is to be sent away on a seventy-five year journey to another planet, leaving behind his best friends.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Holly Jeter, Chris Slager

MANAGEMENT: Kevin Donahue Literary Management

MANAGERS: Kevin Donahue

PRODUCERS: 1821 Pictures, Mayhem Pictures

31

MISS SLOANE

by Jonathan “Jonny” Perera

A powerful lobbyist sacrifices her career on Capitol Hill so she can push through an amendment enforcing stricter federal laws regulating guns.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Peter Dodd, Carolyn Sivitz

MANAGEMENT: Management SGC

MANAGERS: Scott Carr

PRODUCERS: FilmNation

FINANCIER: EuropaCorp

28

TRUE FAN

by John Whittington

After interfering with a foul ball during a Chicago Cubs playoff game, Steve Bartman was tortured and stalked by die hard Cub fans for potentially costing them their first National League pennant since 1945. Years later, in a new town with a new identity—but depressed, overweight and working a dead end job—Steve meets a woman who gives him a new lease on life and reason to live.

AGENCY: Verve

AGENTS: Pamela Goldstein, Adam Weinstein

MANAGEMENT: MXN Entertainment

MANAGERS: Michelle Knudsen

26

PALE BLUE DOT

by Brian C Brown, Elliot DiGuisseppi

Twelve months after returning from a space mission, decorated astronaut Laura Pepper is arrested for the attempted murder of a fellow astronaut.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Craig Brody, Matt Martin

MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment

MANAGERS: Dianne Fraser

PRODUCER: Pacific Standard

FINANCIER: Fox Searchlight

25

REAGAN

by Mike Rosolio

When Ronald Reagan falls into dementia at the start of his second term, an ambitious intern is tasked with convincing the commander in chief that he is an actor playing the president in a movie.

AGENCY: Kaplan Stahler Agency

AGENTS: Shan Ray

MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

MANAGERS: Aaron Kaplan, Michael Wilson

21

BUMP

by Ori Guendelman, Rob McClelland

After an accidental hit and run, a young lawyer’s entire life unravels over the span of one night as he attempts to dispose of a corpse that turns out to be much more than an innocent victim.

AGENCY: Paradigm

AGENT: Chris Smith

MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment

MANAGERS: Ari Lubet, Will Rowbotham

21

ELI

by David Chirchirillo

Having moved into a “clean house” to treat his auto-immune disorder, eleven year old Eli begins to believe that the house is haunted. Unable to leave, he soon realizes that the house, and the doctor who runs it, are more sinister than they appear.

AGENCY: APA

AGENTS: Adam Perry, Sheryl Petersen

MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions

MANAGERS: John Zaozirny

PRODUCERS: Bellvue Productions

FINANCIERS: Broad Green Pictures

20

SEPTILLION TO ONE

by Adam Perlman, Graham Sack

While a former FBI agent is working in the fraud unit of the Texas State Lottery investigating a woman who has mysteriously hit the lottery jackpot three times, he falls in love.

AGENCY: Gersh

AGENTS: Eric Garfinkel, Jeff Greenberg

MANAGEMENT: Apostle Pictures

MANAGER: George Heller

PRODUCERS: Oddlot Entertainment, MC2 Entertainment, Marquee Entertainment

FINANCIERS: Oddlot Entertainment

20

WHITE BOY RICK

by Logan Miller, Noah Miller

True story of Richard Wershe Jr., the only successful white boy gangster/drug kingpin in an African American dominated 1980s Detroit ghetto.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Peter Dodd, Charlie Ferraro, Rames Ishak, Tim Phillips, Michael Sheresky

MANAGEMENT: Thruline Entertainment

MANAGERS: Josh Kesselman, Danny Sherman

PRODUCERS: LBI Entertainment, Protozoa Pictures

FINANCIERS: Studio 8

18

BOOMTOWN

by Matt King

A slick corporate investigator with a closely guarded secret discovers a sinister criminal conspiracy in North Dakota oil boom country.

AGENCY: Paradigm

AGENTS: Robert Bookman, David Boxerbaum

MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions

MANAGERS: John Zaozirny

PRODUCERS: Marc Platt Productions

FINANCIERS: Focus Features

18

DREAMLAND

by Nicolaas Zwart

With his family’s farm on the precipice of foreclosure, fifteen year old Eugene Evans is determined to capture a fugitive bank robber and collect the bounty on her head. Against all odds, he beats out the FBI and the local police to capture her, only to discover that all may not be what it seems.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Daniel Cohan, Tanya Cohen, Danny Greenberg

MANAGEMENT: The Mission Entertainment

MANAGERS: Corrine Aquino, Andrew Coles

18

THE FISHERMAN

by Will Dunn

A fisherman sails out of Martha’s Vineyard in search of the shark that killed his fellow sailors while they were stranded in the water for four days after their ship was attacked by a Japanese submarine.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Trevor Astbury, Jon Cassir

MANAGEMENT: Think Tank Management and Production

MANAGERS: Tom Drumm

18

THE WATER MAN

by Emma Needell

A young boy tries to save his mother from terminal cancer by seeking out the town’s bogeyman, The Water Man, who is fabled to have conquered death.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Joe Austin, Sarah Self

MANAGEMENT: Anonymous Content

MANAGERS: Charlie Scully, Tariq Merhab

PRODUCERS: Harpo Studios, Yoruba Saxon Productions

FINANCIERS: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

17

ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD

by David Scarpa

The story of Getty kidnapping crisis encompassing the Red Brigades, the Italian tabloids and the Vatican.

AGENCY: Gersh

AGENTS: Bob Hohman, Bayard Maybank

PRODuCERS: Chris Clark, Quentin Curtis

FINANCIERS: TriStar Productions

17

BOY

by Mattson Tomlin

A teenage boy is born with special abilities and spends his childhood switching names and cities so as to keep his identity hidden. When he loses control and accidentally kills his father, he and his mother have to go on the run.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Jay Baker, Pete Stein, Ida Ziniti

MANAGEMENT: Grandview

MANAGERS: Zac Frognowski

17

THE SHAVE

by Thomas White, Miles Hubley

A dirty cop, exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student, visits the boy’s father at his barbershop, and while receiving a straight razor shave, listens to him recount the story of his son’s life.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Stuart Manashil, Solco Schuit

MANAGEMENT: MXN Entertainment

MANAGER: Michelle Knudsen

PRODUCERS: Chris Columbus, Maiden Voyage Films

FINANCIERS: Lost City, Route One Entertainment

16

DO NO HARM

by Julia Cox

An ambitious surgeon’s life takes a dangerous turn when she indulges in an affair with a doctor whose god complex challenges her own.

AGENCY: APA

AGENTS: Adam Perry, Sheryl Peterson

MANAGEMENT: Project D Media

MANAGER: Allison Doyle

16

HAMMERSPACE

by Mike Van Waes

A terminally ill teenager looking for answers about his missing father finds a key that unlocks an opening to an alternate animated dimension and a new friend who helps him repair his broken family.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Trevor Astbury, Joe Mann

MANAGEMENT: Grandview

MANAGERS: Zac Frognowski

PRODUCER: Lin Pictures

FINANCIER: Warner Bros

16

THE WRETCHED EMILY DERRINGER

by Chris Thomas Devlin

Gleefully terrifying her small town as a serial killer known as “The Misfit Butcher,” 13-year-old Emily Derringer becomes annoyed when a new killer comes to town and residents begin attributing his sloppy murders to the Misfit Butcher. In a macabre coming of age story, Emily must deal with her competition while also taking on the other trials and tribulations of junior high school life.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Charles Ferraro, Aaron Hart, Jenny Maryasis

MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions

MANAGERS: Jeff Portnoy, John Zaozirny

15

PANDEMONIUM, SPLENDIDLY MANAGED

by Brett Conrad

A local Phoenix newscaster at the pinnacle of local celebrity slowly descends into the depths of madness as he sees his world around him start to crumble piece by piece all while trying to become a game show host in Los Angeles.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Matt Martin

MANAGEMENT: Magnet Management

MANAGERS: Bob Sobhani

PRODUCER: Michael De Luca Productions

15

THE VIRGINIAN

by Michael Russell Gunn

Based on the novel by Owen Wister, a young, down-and-out George Washington, desperate to join the British Army, accepts a dangerous mission to conquer a French fort and save the American colonies.

AGENCY: Paradigm

AGENTS: David Boxerbaum

MANAGEMENT: Principato-Young Management

MANAGERS: David Gardner

PRODUCERS: De Line Pictures

FINANCIERS: New Line

14

CASTLE DRIVE

by Matthew Scott Weiner

Based on real events, the story of the writing of Fatal Vision, the 1983 bestselling true crime classic that chronicles the summer journalist Joe McGinness spent with “Green Beret Killer” Jeffrey McDonald while he was on trial for the brutal murder of his wife and children.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Ryan Feldman, Meyash Prabhu

MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

MANAGERS: Michael Wilson

PRODUCER: Treehouse Pictures

FINANCIER: Treehouse Pictures

14

CUT AND RUN

by Zoe McCarthy

A female urologist and a retired hooker form an unlikely friendship when they team up to take down a notorious sex trafficker in Miami.

MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment

MANAGERS: Olivia Gerke, Ari Lubet

13

THE BURNING WOMAN

Brad Ingelsby

A reckless, fun-loving young woman confronts the dark side of life after losing her daughter.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Jon Cassir, Maha Dakhil, Scott Greeenberg

MANAGEMENT: Energy Entertainment

MANAGER: Brooklyn Weaver

PRODUCER: Ridley Scott Films

13

MAYDAY 109

by Samuel V. Franco, Evan Kilgore

Based on actual events, a young John F. Kennedy struggles to save the crew of his PT Boat after it is sunk by a Japanese warship during World War II.

AGENCY: ICM Partners

AGENTS: Bryan Diperstein, Rich Green, Kathleen Remington

MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions, Brio Entertainment

MANAGERS: Mia Chang, Jeff Portnoy

PRODUCERS: Thunder Road Pictures, Flynn Picture Co.

13

MORNINGSTAR

by David Birke

The war is over. A bitter and uneasy truce has been reached with an invading alien race, and a new cold war has begun. Fueled by suspicions of an alien spy in their ranks, the United Nations Intelligence Division entrusts their top agent, Martin Webber, with finding the mole.

AGENCY: Paradigm

AGENTS: Scott Henderson, Valarie Phillips

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGERS: Ryan Cunningham, Robyn Meisinger

PRODUCERS: Quadrant Pictures, Madhouse Entertainment

FINANCIERS: Warner Bros

13

MOVE THAT BODY

by Lucia Aniello, Paul W Downs

Five friends rent a beach house in Miami for a bachelorette weekend and accidentally kill a male stripper.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Ali Benmohamed, Jay Gassner, Carolyn Sivitz, Jo Yao

MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment

MANAGERS: Dave Becky

FINANCIERS: Sony

13

NYAD

by Robert Specland

Based on the true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who in 2013, after 4 failed attempts and at the age of 64, became the first person ever to open-swim from Cuba to Florida (55 hours non-stop) overcoming impossible odds, personal tragedy, and 103 miles of open ocean.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: David Park, Amanda Hymson, Carolyn Sivitz

MANAGEMENT: Pacific View Management

MANAGERS: Peter Dealbert

13

QUEEN OF THE AIR

by Cat Vasko

Based on the book “Queen of the Air” written by Dean N. Jensen. The story of famed trapeze artist Lillian Leitzel and her relationship with fellow trapeze artist Alfredo Codona, who were two of the most famous entertainers of the world during their time.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Simon Faber, Solco Schuit

MANAGEMENT: Grandview

MANAGERS: Zac Frognowski, Matt Rosen

PRODUCERS: Mad Chance Productions

FINANCIERS: Warner Bros

13

SPRING OFFENSIVE

by Matthew McInerney-Lacombe

Dr. Liz Scott, a British epidemiologist with the World Health Organization, fights to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Afghanistan’s war torn Helmand province as the Taliban’s assault on allied forces threatens to turn the localized outbreak into a global catastrophe.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Jacob Epstein

MANAGEMENT: LBI Entertainment

MANAGERS: Harry Lengsfield, Sam Warren

PRODUCERS: 6th & Idaho

FINANCIERS: Fox

12

BLACKFRIARS

by Chris Bremner

Set around the Blackfriars massacre of 1978, the true story of a Boston police officer and a con man-turned-witness, who become unlikely friends hiding out in Bermuda, ultimately perpetrating a con on the Boston DA they’re tasked to serve.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Emerson Davis, Carolyn Sivitz

MANAGEMENT: MGMT Entertainment

MANAGERS: Dianne McGunigle

PRODUCER: Hasbro Inc.

FINANCIER: Lakeshore Entertainment

12

CIRCLE OF TREASON

by Anna Waterhouse, Joe Shrapnel

Based on the book “Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and The Men He Betrayed” written by Sandra Grimes & Jeanne Vertefeuille. When two women in the CIA suspect there is a mole working there, they have to overcome the institution’s hierarchy and chauvinism to bring down the traitor.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Jon Cassir, Rob Hertig, Fred Spektor

MANAGEMENT: Grandview, Curtis Brown Group Ltd

MANAGER: Jeff Silver (Grandview); Nick Marston, Camilla Young (Curtis Brown)

PRODUCER: Josephson Entertainment

FINANCIER: Focus Features

12

STAR ONE

by David Coggeshall

Two CIA agents must overcome their opposing worldviews to evade the Soviet and Chinese armies during a dangerous mission to Tibet in 1950. The true story of the first CIA agent ever to die in the line of duty; the “first star’ on the CIA Memorial Wall.

AGENCY: Paradigm

AGENTS: David Boxerbaum, Scott Henderson, Chris Smith

MANAGEMENT: Writ Large

MANAGER: Noah Rosen

PRODUCER: Mythology Entertainment

12

THE SET UP

by Kari Granlund

Two co-dependent female best friends’s friendship is put through the wringer after a blind date gone awry sends them on a dangerous, all-in-one-night adventure with a drug dealer.

AGENCY: VERVE

AGENTS: Chris Noriega, Melissa Solomon, Bill Weinstein

MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment

MANAGER: Sarah Dodge

11

BARE KNUCKLE by Dave Matillo

New York City 1862: The bare knuckle boxing champion, Bad Jack, develops a crush on a common French girl and uses his political influence to send her Irish lumberman husband off to the Civil War so he can take her for his own. Unfortunately for Bad Jack, the Irishman doesn’t die in the war and t comes back a killer looking to exact revenge on the pugilist and his entire corrupt entourage.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Ryan Feldman, Solco Schuit

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGERS: Adam Kolbrenner, Kendrick Tan

PRODUCERS: Hollywood Gang

11

CHAPPAQUIDDICK

by Taylor Allen, Andrew Logan

A historically factual look at what really happened when Ted Kennedy drove off the road into a Martha’s Vineyard bay with Mary Jo Kopechne in the car.

MANAGEMENT: DMG Entertainment

MANAGER: Chris Fenton

PRODUCER: Apex Entertainment

FINANCIER: Apex Entertainment

11

GREAT FALLS

by Andy Friedhof

After negligently killing a hunter with their patrol car, an alcoholic Sheriff’s Deputy and her superior officer must decide what to do with the only witness to their crime – a death row inmate only days from execution.

AGENCY: Equitable Stewardship for Artists

AGENTS: Antoni Kaczmarek, Varun Monga

MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion

MANAGER: Jairo Alvarado

11

HUNTING EICHMANN

by Matthew Orton

The thrilling capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann by a secret Mossad team in South America.

AGENCY: The Agency Ltd

AGENT: Emily Hickman

MANAGEMENT: Grandview

MANAGER: Jeff Silver

PRODUCERS: Automatik, Matt Charmin

FINANCIER: MGM

10

A SPECK IN THE SEA

by Jeff Pope

Based on the article “A Speck in the Sea” by Paul Tough. The true story of the rescue of lobster fisherman John Aldridge who fell into the ocean in the middle of the night on July 24th, forty miles off Montauk with no life vest and no way to signal where he was.

10

BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS

by Dan Kunka

In one of the greatest untold stories in American history, General and future President Andrew Jackson reluctantly partners with world-renowned pirate Jean Lafitte to lead a rag-tag team of soldiers against the indomitable British Army in the climactic battle of the War of 1812.

AGENCY: ICM Partners

AGENTS: Harley Copen, Kathleen Remington

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner

PRODUCER: Madhouse Entertainment

FINANCIER: Endurance

10

CRIMSON TRAIL

by Jeremy Shipp

Devastated by the cold-blooded murder of his family, a devout frontier preacher risks his soul to lead a posse in pursuit of the Harpe Brothers—America’s first serial killers. Based on a true story.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Emerson Davis, Julien Thuan

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGERS: Ryan Cunningham, Adam Kolbrenner

10

LABYRINTH

by Christian Contreras

Based on the book LAbyrinth by Randall Sullivan. The story of the investigation into the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Stuart Manashil, Solco Schuit

MANAGEMENT: Grandview, Curtis Brown Group Ltd (UK)

MANAGER: Jeff Silver (Grandview), Lily Williams (Curtis Brown)

PRODUCER: Good Films

10

OUR WEEK WITH WALLER

by Evan Mirzai, Shea Mirzai

After getting laid off, two Americans cash in their vacation pay and head to Spain where their paths collide with one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists.

AGENCY: Paradigm

AGENTS: Adrian Garcia, Adam Kanter, Martin Spencer

MANAGEMENT: Principato-Young Management

MANAGER: Allen Fischer

10

SET IT UP

by Katie Silberman

Two young assistants realize they can get more free time if they occupy their bosses’ time by setting them up on a date.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENT: Joe Mann

MANAGEMENT: MXN Entertainment

MANAGERS: Michelle Knudsen

PRODUCER: Treehouse Pictures

10

UNTITLED SOCIOPATH PROJECT

by Topher Rhys-Lawrence

A successful New Yorker’s seemingly perfect life starts unraveling once he’s suspected for the murder of his co-worker, and his only alibi is the doppelganger that’s begun stalking him.

PRODUCER: Atlas Entertainment

9

ARES

by Geneva Robertson-Dworet

The survival story of an astronaut whose space capsule crash lands in the African desert and whose mission to space was part of a larger conspiracy.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Rich Cook, Solco Schuit

MANAGEMENT: Management 360

MANAGERS: Jill McElroy, Clifford Murray

PRODUCERS: Roland Emmerich

9

FINAL JOURNEY

by Michael Lee Barlin

A mistreated elderly Inuit woman is forced out of her village to survive alone on the savage arctic tundra.

MANAGEMENT: Lee Stobby Entertainment

MANAGER: Lee Stobby

9

MILITIA

by Henry Dunham

After a shooting on a police funeral by a suspected militia member, a recluse ex-cop and fellow militia man must interrogate the suspected gunmen in his own militia before copycat attacks start a nationwide war between cops and militias.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Emerson Davis, Peter Dodd, Charles Ferraro, Mike Schwartz Wright

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGERS: Ryan Cunningham, Kendrick Tan

PRODUCER: 6th & Idaho

9

SALEM

by Mark Bianculli, Jeff Richard

Fifteen years after the witch trials, the scars of Salem are reopened when young women begin showing up dead. Desperate for answers, the town elders turn to a man of science to uncover the truth behind its terrifying events plaguing their community.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Danny Greenberg, Solco Schuit

MANAGEMENT: Anonymous Content (Bianculli)/Industry Entertainment (Richard)

MANAGERS: Rosalie Swedlin (Bianculli)/Michael Botti (Richard)

PRODUCERS: STX Entertainment

FINANCIER: The Weinstein Company

9

TOMORROW ON THE RUNWAY

by Frederick Seton

Kermit St. Lucy has a ridiculous name and is ridiculously ill-equipped to deal with adult responsibilities. After a tragedy shakes him to his core, Kermit takes it upon himself to look after and raise two young children.

AGENCY: Verve

AGENTS: Parker Davis

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGER: Kendrick Tan

9

TREASURE ISLAND

by James Coyne

Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, young Jim Hawkins finds a map to a buried fortune; to claim it means a perilous voyage, pirate treachery, and the wicked mentorship of Long John Silver.

AGENCY: Gersh

AGENTS: Eric Garfinkel, Mark Hartogsohn

MANAGEMENT: The Syndicate

MANAGER: Scott Karp

PRODUCER: Ritchie/Wigram

FINANCIER: Warner Bros

9

UNTITLED LARRY HILLBLOM PROJECT

by Matt Portenoy

The strange-yet-true story of the battle over the estate of Larry Lee Hillblom, billionaire founder of DHL.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Rob Carlson, Daniel Cohan, Tanya Cohan

MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

MANAGERS: Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone

PRODUCER: Seven Bucks Entertainment

8

A LIFE FANTASTIC

by Natalie Antoci

A single mother with a terminal diagnosis embarks on a road trip with her eccentric 9 year old son and nanny to find a loving and progressive family that will accept him for whoever he may grow up to be.

MANAGEMENT: The Mission Entertainment

MANAGERS: Corrine Aquino, Andrew Coles

PRODUCER: The Mission Entertainment

8

AN AFRICAN WESTERN

by Chloe Castellon, Ridgeway Wilson

When a young African woman’s village is destroyed by a “Christian” paramilitary unit and her sister is kidnapped, she uses every weapon at her disposal on an odyssey to save her last living relative.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Emerson Davis, Jon Huddle

MANAGEMENT: Principato-Young Management

MANAGERS: Brian Dobbins, Allen Fischer

8

ATLANTIC WALL

by Zach Dean

A lone American paratrooper, stranded behind enemy lines hours before D-Day, is tasked with delivering intelligence critical to the outcome of the war and compelled to fulfill a promise to protect the young son of a murdered ally.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Cliff Roberts, Solco Schuit

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGERS: Adam Kolbrenner

PRODUCER: Madhouse Entertainment

FINANCIER: Imperative Entertainment

8

BED REST

by Lori Evans Taylor

An expectant mother who is confined to bed rest starts to experience paranormal events.

AGENCY: ICM Partners

AGENTS: Rebecca Ewing, Doug Johnson

MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

MANAGERS: Josh Goldenberg, Sean Perrone

PRODUCERS: Chris Sparling, Sunswept Entertainment

FINANCIER: MGM

8

I BELIEVE IN AMERICA

by Terry Clyne

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of THE GODFATHER, revealing that the creative forces behind one of the finest American films ever made were all as cunning and ruthless as the mobsters portrayed in Mario Puzo’s bestseller.

MANAGEMENT: Kailey Marsh Media

MANAGER: Kailey Marsh

8

IDA TARBELL

by Mark McDevitt

Ida Tarbell’s magazine series “The History of the Standard Oil Company,” not only changed the history of journalism but also the fate of Rockefeller’s empire, which was shaken by the powerful pen of its most implacable observer.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Aaron Hart, Geoff Morley

MANAGEMENT: Think Tank Management and Production

MANAGER: Tom Drumm

PRODUCER: Think Tank Management and Production

8

LOU

by Maggie McGowan Cohn

An elderly woman who hacks out a rough existence on a remote island is forced to help her dimwitted neighbor rescue her daughter whose ex has kidnapped her and escaped into the woods.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Jon Cassir, JP Evans

MANAGEMENT: Management 360

MANAGERS: Eryn Brown, Adam Marshall

PRODUCER: Paramount

FINANCIER: Bad Robot

8

PRECONCEPTION

by Jake Morse, Scott Wolman

A couple on the verge of parenthood embarks on a pre-baby bucket list.

MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

MANAGER: Josh Goldenberg

PRODUCER: De Line Pictures

FINANCIER: CBS Films

8

SENIOR YEAR

by Andrew Knauer, Arthur Pielli

A cheerleader wakes up after a twenty year coma and returns to sit at the cool table and try to become prom queen, as a thirty seven year-old woman.

AGENCY: Gersh

AGENT: Greg Pedicin

MANAGEMENT: Benderspink

MANAGER: Jake Wagner

PRODUCERS: Benderspink, Broken Road Productions

FINANCIER: CBS Films

8

VERONA

by Neil Widener, Gavin James

A re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Jon Cassir, Joe Mann

MANAGEMENT: Grandview

MANAGER: Matt Rosen

PRODUCER: Roth Kirschenbaum Films

FINANCIER: Sony

7

105 AND RISING

by Andrew Cypiot

Amid the chaos of a failing nation on April 29, 1975, the objective was clear: safely evacuate all remaining Americans from Saigon. But to Major Jim Kean and Ambassador Graham Martin, the moment represented something else: the final opportunity to uphold promises and obligations to the people of South Vietnam.

AGENCY: Verve

AGENTS: Parker Davis, Adam Weinstein

PRODUCER: Cota Films

7

FREE AGENT

by Sam Regnier

A female NBA executive for the Golden State Warriors pursues the biggest free agent of her career while managing a messy divorce and a complicated relationship with a younger colleague and his teenage sister.

AGENCY: Paradigm

AGENTS: David Boxerbaum, Scott Henderson

MANAGEMENT: Management SGC

MANAGER: Scott Carr

PRODUCER: 21 Laps

FINANCIER: CBS FILMS

7

HOMEGROWN

by Jacques Edeline

A teenage boy, raised in total seclusion and indoctrinated by his enigmatic father, is sent to live with a foster family and enrolled in a public high school when his father is incarcerated, threatening their relationship and causing the boy to question everything he’s learned.

AGENCY: APA

AGENTS: Debbie Deuble, Adam Perry

MANAGEMENT: Affirmative Entertainment

MANAGERS: Nicholas Bogner

PRODUCER: Cota Films

7

THE BOY

by Owen Egerton

Sixteen years after stabbing a classmate to appease a legendary phantom known as the Boy, a repentant woman returns to her hometown to live with her sister and nephew, but as the Boy continues to haunt her she must face her deepest terror and discover the truth about the Boy before he claims her nephew.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Jason Burns, Aaron Hart

MANAGEMENT: Epicenter

MANAGERS: Allard Cantor, Jarrod Murray

6

CARNIVAL

by Matias Caruso

A deadly carnival knife-thrower hunts down the members of a powerful crime syndicate who murdered his sister.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Trevor Astbury, Jon Cassir

MANAGEMENT: Untitled Entertainment

MANAGER: Jen Au

PRODUCERS: Anonymous Content, Mitchell Peck

6

CROOK COUNTY

by Gita Pullapilly, Aron Gaudet

A whistleblower’s harrowing journey into an undercover FBI operation in 1980’s Cook County, Illinois, sending him toe-to-toe with corrupt judges, hustling defense attorneys, and Chicago mobsters; and ultimately resulting in the largest number of convictions of government officials in the history of the United States.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Max Mitchell, Carolyn Sivitz

MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

MANAGER: Taylor Benzie

PRODUCER: Linda McDonough

6

DAMSEL

by Bryan McMullin

After first being locked in a tower and then hidden deep in the forest to prevent a prince from rescuing her, long-haired Rapunzel vows to get revenge.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Charles Ferraro, Aaron Hart, David Park

MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

MANAGERS: Tobin Babst, Michael Wilson

PRODUCER: Josephson Entertainment

6

FRANCIS AND THE GODFATHER

by Andrew Farotte

Facing financial ruin, auteur filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is forced to direct the adaptation of Mario Puzo’s pulp novel The Godfather, pitting him against legendary mega-producer Robert Evans.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Jon Levin, Elizabeth Newman

MANAGEMENT: Zero Gravity Management

MANAGERS: Jeff Belkin

PRODUCER: Echo Lake Entertainment

6

GREEN RIVER KILLER

by Michael Sheen

Based on the Eisner Award winning graphic novel of the same name. Detectives in the Green River Killer case attempt to unravel both the facts behind the gruesome murders that plagued the Pacific North West for over a decade and the psychosis of the killer they find themselves face to face with.

AGENCY: ICM Partners

AGENTS: Doug MacLaren

MANAGEMENT: Sanders Armstrong Caserta

MANAGERS: Tammy Rosen

PRODUCERS: Dark Horse Entertainment

6

LANDSLIDE

by Will Staples, Tony Camerino

Based on the book How to Break a Terrorist by Tony Camerino. The story of America’s search for terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and the man who played a key role in tracking him down by using psychological warfare.

AGENCY: WME (Staples)/CAA (Camerino)

AGENTS: Phil D’Amecourt (Staples)/Jon Levin (Camerino)

MANAGEMENT: Management 360 (Staples)/BE Management (Camerino)

MANAGERS: Darin Friedman (Staples)/Brett Etre (Camerino)

PRODUCERS: Marc Butan

6

RESURFACE

by Pete Bridges

An underwater earthquake decimates a research crew working at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, leaving

two survivors with limited resources to ascend 35,000 feet and reach the surface before their life support runs out.

AGENCY: Verve

AGENTS: Adam Levine, Adam Weinstein

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner

PRODUCERS: Broken Road Productions

6

SONG OF TREBLINKA

by Viorica Baln

Based on a true story. A renowned Jewish conductor plots a revolt with fellow prisoners as he attracts the respect of his Nazi captors in Germany-occupied Poland’s most notorious death camp.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Ryan Feldman

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner

6

THE CANYON

by Alex Koplow

When parents reunite with their grown children for a road trip to hike the Grand Canyon, the family conflicts on the way prove far more grueling than the twenty mile hike.

6

THREE MONTHS

by Jared Frieder

After being exposed to HIV the weekend of his high school graduation in 2011, a punk gay teenager from Miami attempts to start a new relationship with a someone from his support group as they try to endure the three months it takes to get accurately tested.

AGENCY: Paradigm

AGENTS: Valarie Phillips, Ellie Schiff

MANAGEMENT: Haven Entertainment

MANAGERS: Brendan Bragg, Jesse Hara, Jordana Mollick

6

WISH UPON

by Barbara Marshall

When Claire, a sixteen year old misfit, finds a magic box that promises a chance at the life she has always wanted, she never could have guessed that each wish would demand a deadly payment.

AGENCY: APA

AGENTS: Debbie Deuble

MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment

MANAGER: Ava Jamshidi

PRODUCER: Busted Shark

FINANCIER: Broad Green Pictures