And another script For Your Consideration

The Company Men – May 28, 2009 buff shooting script by John Wells – hosted by: The Weinstein Company – in pdf format

The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company – and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.

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A bit ago, I got this message from Glenn Porter, Would you like to have the script for I Melt With You, a script I wrote based on an idea I hatched with Mark Pellington? It was produced last summer and is premiering at Sundance ’11. The reason I ask is that I have used your excellent site many times over the last few years for reference, and thought that maybe someone somewhere might want to read [I Melt With You]. Let me know at your convenience and I hope this finds you well.
Well, heck ya I want to read it. Thanks Glenn!

I Melt With You – August 2, 2010 draft script by Glenn Porter (story by Glenn Porter and Mark Pellington) – hosted by: SimplyScripts – in pdf format

Former high school friends reunite for a summer reunion but it leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. In response they decide to resurrect a former pact to live and die by and thus creating a new world order.

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Another For Your Consideration screenplay.

Blue Valentine – December 23, 2010 Official White draft script by Derek Cianfrance & Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis – hosted by: The Weinstein Company – in pdf format

A story of love found and love lost told in moments past and present. Dean and Cindy are a married couple who spend a night away from theiri daughter in an attempt to save their failing marriage.

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The 2010 Black List (pdf format) is out.

Some previous Black List scripts included Juno, The Social Network, 500 Days of Summer and Lars And The Real Girl.

This year, with 49 votes leading the pack is College Republicans by by Wes Jones

Based on true events. Aspiring politician Karl Rove runs a dirty campaign for national College Republican Chairman under the guidance of Lee Atwater, his campaign manager.

A few other notable (well, at least to me) nods are:

Hunger Games by Billy Ray. Based on the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

I’m heartened to see this make The Black List. My boys and I have read the series and I hope that the scripts appearance on The Black List means that they’ll be able to pull off which appears to me to be a very difficult book to film.

Also appearing is Chris Sparling’s ATM. Chris wrote Buried which came out last year.

Three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for survival when they stop to use an ATM.

Another script that caught my eye was Boy Scouts Vs. Zombies by Carrie Evans & Emi Mochizuko.

A troop of Boy Scouts on their weekend camping trip must protect an island town from a zombie outbreak and save the local girl scout troop.

Check out Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood which has an excellent writeup and analysis of The Black List.

*For those of you who don’t know, The Black List is an annual list of Hollywood’s most liked unproduced screenplays. It started in 2004 when Franklin Leonard, a development executive for Appian Way, asked folks in the business to send in their list of top 10 unproduced screenplays. Those lists were complied into The Black List (which now as a site entirely devoted to The Black List).

Another script For Your Consideration.

The King’s Speech – undated, unspecified draft script by David Seidler – hosted by: The Weinstein Company – in pdf format

The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.

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Winter’s Bone – undated, unspecified draft script by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini (Based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell) – hosted by: Roadside Attractions – in pdf format

With an absent father and a withdrawn and depressed mother, 17 year-old Ree Dolly keeps her family together in a dirt poor rural area. She’s taken aback however when the local Sheriff tells her that her father put up their house as collateral for his bail and unless he shows up for his trial in a week’s time, they will lose it all. She knows her father is involved in the local drug trade and manufactures crystal meth but anywhere she goes the message is the same: stay out of it and stop poking your nose in other people’s business.

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I Love You Phillip Morris – April 27, 2008 pink draft script by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa (based on the book by Steve McVicker) – hosted by: Roadside Attractions – in pdf format

Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven becomes open about his homosexuality and decides to live life to the fullest – even if it means breaking the law. Steven’s new, extravagant lifestyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another.

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Mike Shelton’s Blind Date Bedlam (Short, comedy pdf format) has been filmed by Rachael Hartzog.

There are good dates, bad dates, and others that are just plain weird. 8 pages
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“Laugh about it, shout about it” here. – Don

Cindy’s short, comedy Focus has been filmed by Richard Thompson of Firefly Pictures.

A secretary loses her job, kills a squirrel, and is involved in a big misunderstanding all because she learns that her nitpicky mother is coming for a visit.

You can view the short here.

Read the script (10 pages – pdf format) or talk about it.