New Line has picked up THE COME UP by Michael Starrbury. Described as FRIDAY meets OCEANS 11.
Soon we’ll be releasing the 2016 Hit List, our compilation of the best year’s best spec scripts as voted on by industry professionals. In preparation for its release, we’re taking a look back at the writers who made the Hit List in 2014 — where they were, and how far they’ve come in just one short year.
Next Monday, we’re releasing the 2016 Young & Hungry List, our compilation of the new voices making names for themselves in Hollywood, as voted on by industry professionals. In preparation for its release, today we’re taking a look back at the 2012 Young & Hungry List writers — where they’ve been, and where they are today.
Ava DuVernay is set to direct HBO Films’ account of an infamous fashion show that took place at the Palace of Versailles in 1973, based on the book from fashion journalist Robin Givhan. DuVernay is co-writing the screenplay with 2014 Hit List scribe Michael Starrbury.
A fashion show pitting the top French designers against the unknown upstart American designers broke racial barriers as the Americans brought out 10 African American models – the likes of which had never been seen on a French couture runway.
This Friday, we’re releasing the 2015 Young & Hungry List, our compilation of the new voices making names for themselves in Hollywood, as voted on by industry professionals. In anticipation for its release, we’re taking a look back at the 2012 Young & Hungry List writers–where they’ve been, and where they are today.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as being in the tone of “Indiana Jones” and “Men in Black.”
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as being in the tone of “Indiana Jones” and “Men in Black.”
From Sundance to Toronto, The Hit List to the Blood List, and the Nicholls to the Emmys, we take a look back at a handful of the writers from each year’s list who are their way to greatness!
Story follows the adventure of two inner-city kids who attempt to survive one summer in a hostile world, while fighting poverty, parental neglect, and worst of all, the authorities that are purported to help them.
Scribe takes rewriting duties for rapper’s biopic.
Logline: A directionless freeloader believes that someone is raiding ideas from his mind and searches for those responsible.
Scribe set to pen some new life into the action-comedy!
Logline: Story follows the adventure of two inner-city kids who attempt to survive one summer in a hostile world, while fighting poverty, parental neglect, and worst of all, the authorities that are purported to help them.
BBC takes a step back in time for a new period drama, Comedy Central lines up an action/comedy with David Gordon Green & Danny McBride, HBO makes it official with Tea Leoni, and another once-upon-a-cancelled Fox animation thrives again.
Logline: Story of Tupac Shaukr’s rise to fame in the late 80s and early 90s, his violent music themes, his rivalry with other rappers and the feud between hip-hop artists on both coasts, up until his untimely death in 1996.
Logline: Two rookie cops team with a female former Delta Force operative to stop a mercenary who has stolen a cache of weapons.
