CAA and WME represent the writers of nearly half the scripts on this year’s Black List, a ranking of Hollywood’s favorite unproduced screenplays based on the polling of more than 250 executives.
You can slice and dice this list any numbers of way, which we do right here (with some help from The Black List). Here’s the full list.
Number of Screenplays: 72
Scripts with a Producer On-Board: 49
Scripts with a Financier in Place: 24
Biopics: 11 (Subjects include Steven Spielberg (twice), John McEnroe and Oscar Wilde)
Scripts About Hollywood: 5
Writers Who’ve Been Here Before: 5
Writers By Agency:
CAA – 16.5
WME – 16.5
UTA – 10
Verve – 7
APA – 4.5
Paradigm – 4
ICM Partners – 3
Gersh – 1.5
Original Artists – 1
Resolution – 1
Rothman Brecher – 1
Michelle Kass Associates – 1
Writers by Management Company:
Kaplan/Perrone — 9
Madhouse Entertainment – 5
Fourth Floor Productions – 4
Caliber Media – 3
Energy Entertainment – 3
Management 360 – 3
Anonymous Content 2.5
Principato-Young – 2.5
Benderspink — 2
Echo Lake Entertainment – 2
Generate – 2
Industry Entertainment — 2
Management SGC – 2
Mosaic – 2
Oasis Media Group — 2
