Eric Lavallée

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.

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.

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.

Less than three hours after being named as the odd world premiere title in the Spotlight program which focuses mostly on U.S premieres of major festival titles or friends of the Sundance family screenings, IFC used the iron while it's still hot to announce that they've teamed with the Mumblecore director Joe Swanberg for the 4th time. A SXSW is certainly feasible for Uncle Kent and an early 2011 theatrical release appears logical.

Armie Hammer didn't get any love for his "double" performance, but The National Board of Review picked The Social Network for Best Film, Best Director (David Fincher), Adapted Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin) and the big surprise, only because it isn't being mentioned enough, Best Actor landed on Jesse Eisenberg's lap.