Madonna Biopic Tops The 2016 Black List, See Other Winners Here!
"Blond Ambition" screenplay by Elyse Hollander led the 2016 version of the Black List - an annual ranking of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Said screenplay is about Madonna's first album. Aside from Madonna's biopic, "The Mindy Project" by TV star/author Mindy Kaling was also acclaimed.
Among the 250 executives voting, Hollander's script obtained 49 votes from. It portrays Madonna's circumstances and challenges to produces her first album released while "navigating fame, romance, and the dismissive attitude of the music industry at the time" in the early 80s. "Blond Ambition" is set up with Brett Ratner's Ratpac and Michael De Luca, as reported by Deadline.
The "Blond Ambition" was followed by three projects that got the same amount of 35 votes each. Dan Fogelman's multi-generational story "Life Itself," set in New York and the Spanish countryside, with Rhode Island Avenue and Temple Hill producing; Tony Tost's "The Olympian," about an underdog rower trying to compete at the 1984 Olympics, set up at Management 360; and Liz Hannah's "The Post," about how Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and editor Ben Bradlee overcame their differences to publish the story about the Pentagon Papers, set up with Amy Pascal and Star Thrower Entertainment.
"Inner City" also made the list which is by Dan Gilroy, who received an Oscar nomination for "Nightcrawler". Pearce's near-future thriller "Hotel Artemis," which recently cast Jodie Foster also made the list, according to Variety.
The winners were chosen from the 73 best unproduced scripts in Hollywood as voted on by more than 250 studio execs. The voters contribute the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written.
As reported by Coming Soon, notable past winners include "Slumdog Millionaire," "Argo," "The King's Speech," "Foxcatcher," "Whiplash," and "The Imitation Game." Black List is known as the annual list of the most-liked screenplays in town that have not yet been produced. The entire list is on the Black List web site.
