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The Black List Update: Picks 15 to 11 of 2007
What I like most about the annual Black List is that there isn't any favoritism according to the projected financial size of a screenplay. For fun, you could scan down any list since its inception and you'll find equal parts indie/Sundace/small budget and studio/multiplex/limitless budgets. If you look at the price tag for 2007's top screenplay (Recount) and say picks #14 and #15 which have a budget that range somewhere between 50 to 100 times more.
Ry Russo-Young’s Top Ten Films of All Time
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of favorite films. We cap off the year with Ry Russo-Young, whose Sundance Film Festival selected and Gotham Award winner YOU WONT MISS finally receives a December 10th release followed by a nationwide roll out.
The Couple Remains Intact; Cianfrance Pairing with Gosling on ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’
It took over a decade for Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine to materialize and I've got a good feeling that it won't be much longer until he officially starts lensing his next project. Ryan Gosling is keeping the brotherhood alive, and has boarded The Place Beyond the Pines - one of the many original projects that the filmmaker (he also scripting a TV show for HBO) has been working on.
The Black List Update: Picks 5 to 1 of 2006
Of all the Black List years (dating back to 2005), 2006 has the distinction of being the only year where the top voted screenplay hasn't already been filmed. 2005 topper Things We Lost in the Fire was quickly put into production, 2007's Recount was an HBO film, 2008's The Beaver by Kyle Killen (read our profile) is in the can and ready to go forth with a theatrical release, and finally last year's The Muppet Man is currently lensing and still adding more faces (Emily Blunt and Ricky Gervais) while in production and it's pegged with a Holiday release next year. Here are updates on the top 5 screenplays for 2006.
Magnolia Films Moves Next to ‘Good Neighbours’
U.S distributor Magnolia Pictures has done some duty free shopping picking Canadian film Good Neighbours, the TIFF thriller from actor-director Jacob Tierney, starring Canuck talents Jay Baruchel, Scott Speedman and Emily Hampshire.
