The Hit List: 2011
While we wait for The Black List, here is the The Hit List: 2011.
THE HIT LIST is an annual list that has existed in small talk, memo, gossip, facsimile, journal, email, and simple rumor since the blossoming days of the film industry. However, before 2010 it has always been left where it began, and shared closely, only amongst friends. The Hit List, is quite simply what you, personally dictate as your favorite item of topic. Whether it be music, film, novel, or any other medium, The Hit List is what dictates your taste, and your choice as to what is to be deemed the best.
This year, we are once again taking THE HIT LIST public.
The Hit List exists to celebrate SPEC SCRIPTS. By focusing exclusively on specs, this list aims to bring recognition to the new material that enters Hollywood, with an eye towards celebrating fresh ideas, new voices, and the emerging talents that make up the largest gambling circuit in all of Hollywood — The Spec Market.
To be eligible for the list, a screenplay must have been released into the spec market between December 1st, 2010 and November 30th, 2011. To be considered a spec, a screenwriter must not have been paid for their work prior to exposing their script to the market. To make the list, at least seven voting members needed to vote for the spec.
The Hit List is voted on by a judging panel which is nominated by a board of Development Executives, Producers, Writers, Agents, Managers, Directors, and Assistants. To be part of the judging panel, any member for the 2011 list must have been employed within the film industry, and had to be nominated, and voted for approval by those nominated before them. This organic process allowed an unbiased, and writer friendly vote, based on the expansion to those who are reading these scripts first, and those who are considered to represent the “Taste” of Hollywood.
Here are the top five:
142
THE IMITATION GAME by Graham Moore
The true story of how British mathematician Alan Turing cracked Germany’s impossible “Enigma” code and changed the tide for the Allies during World War II.
REPRESENTATION
CAA | JP Evans, Jacqueline Sacerio The Safran Company | Tom Drumm
STATUS
Warner Bros. Pictures | Nora Grossman, Ido Ostowsky producing
119
HE’S FUCKIN’ PERFECT by Lauryn Kahn
When a savvy social media addict who helps her friends screen potential dates is approached by an acquaintance with the “perfect man,” she uses her skills to transform herself into his ideal match.
REPRESENTATION
WME | Roger Green, Greg Hodes, Theresa Kang, Cliff Roberts
STATUS
Fox 2000 | Gary Sanchez producing
105
WHEN THE STREETLIGHTS GO ON by Eddie O’Keefe, Chris Hutton
A man recounts his coming-of-age moments amidst a small town murder mystery.
REPRESENTATION
WME | Sarah Self, Simon Faber Independent | Tariq Merhab
STATUS
Imagine Entertainment producing
98
IN THE EVENT OF A MOON DISASTER by Mike Jones
A behind the scenes, semi-fictionalized tale of the near-disaster of Buzz Aldrin and Neal Armstrong’s Apollo 11 journey to the moon.
REPRESENTATION
CAA | David Kopple, Matt Rosen Gotham Group | Lindsay Williams
STATUS
FilmNation producing
93
FATHER DAUGHTER TIME: A TALE OF ARMED ROBBERY AND ESKIMO KISSES by Matthew Aldrich
Story centers on an 11-year old girl and her ex-con father as they learn to bond over a three-state crime spree.
REPRESENTATION
CAA | Stuart Manashil, John Garvey Silent R | Jewerl Ross
STATUS
Warner Bros. Pictures | Pearl Street producing
For the rest of the list, go here.
And now the way is cleared for you know what. Tick, tick, tick…
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