Blacklist Scripts Pdf

[Deandra Uleman]

TheBlack List is an annual survey of the "most-liked" motion picture screenplays not yet produced. It has been published every year since 2005 on the second Friday of December by Franklin Leonard, a development executive who subsequently worked at Universal Pictures[1] and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment.[2][3][4] The website states that these are not necessarily "the best" screenplays, but rather "the most liked", since it is based on a survey of studio and production company executives.[5]

Of the more than 1,000 screenplays The Black List has included since 2005, at least 440 have been produced as theatrical films,[6] including Argo,[7] American Hustle, Juno,[1] The King's Speech, Slumdog Millionaire,[8] Spotlight,[9] The Revenant, The Descendants, and Hell or High Water. The produced films have together grossed over $30 billion,[9] and been nominated for 241 Academy Awards and 205 Golden Globe Awards, winning 50[10] and 40 respectively. As of the 92nd Academy Awards, four of the last 10 Academy Awards for Best Picture went to scripts featured on a previous Black List, as well as 12 of the last 20 screenwriting Oscars (Original and Adapted Screenplays).[11] Additionally, writers whose scripts are listed often find that they are more readily hired for other jobs, even if their listed screenplays still have not been produced, such as Jim Rash and Nat Faxon, two of the writers of the screenplay for The Descendants, who had an earlier screenplay make the list.[3] Slate columnist David Haglund has written that the list's reputation as a champion for "beloved but challenging" works has been overstated, since "these are screenplays that are already making the Hollywood rounds. And while, as a rule, they have not yet been produced, many of them are already in production."[12]

The first Black List was compiled in 2005 by Franklin Leonard, at the time working as a development executive for Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way Productions. He emailed about 75 fellow development executives and asked them to name the ten best unproduced screenplays they read that year.[13] To thank them for participating, he compiled the list and sent it to the respondents. The name The Black List was a nod to his heritage as an African American man, and also as a reference to the writers who were barred during the McCarthy era as part of the Hollywood blacklist.[14]

On January 27, 2019, at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, it was announced that the LGBT media advocacy group GLAAD had partnered with The Black List to create The GLAAD List, a new curated list of the most promising unmade LGBT-inclusive scripts in Hollywood.[15]

The Black List tallies the number of "likes" various screenplays are given by development executives, and then ranks them accordingly. The most-liked screenplay is The Imitation Game, which topped the list in 2011 with 133 likes; it went on to win the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015.[16]

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I'm okay with temporarily or permanently enabling #1 on a case by case basis, which is what I do. With #2, I definitely won't enable permanently if it's not a site I don't visit regularly, but allow temporarily is fine if I just want to see the content once and leave.

Unfortunately there are so many of them that I can't be bothered enabling one by one. My only option is to do "enable all on this page temporarily", but now I also end up enabling #3, which I don't ever want to enable for any reason. So, in order to deal with this, I move google-analytics into untrusted, and now I can enable all and google-analytics gets excluded.

However, there is still one problem: Obviously google-analytics isn't the only web tracker out there. At first I thought I could just do a quick search for the unfamiliar hosts I see as I come across them, and if any turn up tracking related things, mark them as untrusted. But it turns out there's a lot of trackers! Some sites have 2, 3, 4 different trackers, each tracking their visitors from many different hosts. Especially with corporate or big media websites, dealing with the initial barrage of scripts becomes very difficult because of this.

I'm sure there are people out there like me that habitually mark ad and tracking scripts as untrusted, or at least don't want them to ever run. It would be very convenient if someone who already did the hard work of compiling a list of the hundreds of trackers and ad servers on the internet uploaded it somewhere, so I could just download and import it into my NoScript, and have all the trackers and ad servers be blocked by default.

I use a combination of NoScript and a plugin called Ghostery. Ghostery specifically blocks known advertising and script farm domains. So even if you do an allow all from NoScript, Ghostery's dictionary still blocks the trackers.

As you all know, the Black List is a mess. The way the votes are tallied is a highly flawed process. Scripts that were only seen by 20 people are going up against scripts that have been seen by 100 people. There are certain genres that get preference over others. Politics has started to influence voting in recent years. All this results in a bunch of vote tallies that are almost arbitrary at this point.

Logline: Ready for a night of partying, a group of Black and Latino college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an emergency.

Writer: KD Davila

Reason: A tonal mish-mash of epic proportions. Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? No one knows!

Logline: The President is murdered during a private dinner, and Secret Service agent Mia Pine has until morning to discover which guest is the killer before a peace agreement fails and leads to war

Writer: Jonathan Stokes

Reason: You gotta have the discipline and cleverness of Agatha Christie to write these whodunnits. If you take your foot off the gas for even a second, all the plates fall to the ground. The messiness in the plotting here was too much to overcome.

Logline: Based on a true story, a runaway slave has to outwit bounty hunters and the perils of a Louisiana swamp to reach the Union army and his only chance at freedom.

Writer: Bill Collage

Reason: This one starts out really good then gets harder and harder to digest. Not light subject matter by any means. Have to be in the proper head space to read.

Logline: When a woman on an interstellar voyage falls in love with someone during a cryosleep simulation, she attempts to discern whether the man is a real passenger on the ship or just a figment of her imagination.

Writer: Crosby Selander

Reason: Bring Me Back is probably the most high concept script on the list. And I certainly was intrigued by it. The problem is that it spans so much time and tries to do so much that it never quite finds its groove.

Logline: An action comedy wherein Benji Stone, a lovable but deeply unpopular sixteen year old, is pulled into an international assassination plot by his uncle, a retired undercover assassin charged with babysitting Benji for the weekend.

Writer: Gabe Delahaye

Reason: Best pure comedy on the list. Great concept. Can see this movie being a hit tomorrow!

Logline: An obsessed fan maneuvers his way into the inner circle of his hip hop idol and will stop at nothing to stay in.

Writer: Alex Russell

Reason: I started off rolling my eyes. I finished eagerly ripping pages away to find out what happened next. A great stalker story that feels very 2020.

Logline: An Air Marshal transporting a fugitive across the Alaskan wilderness via a small plane finds herself trapped when she suspects their pilot is not who he says he is.

Writer: Jared Rosenberg

Reason: I love scripts like this. Tight quarters. Multiple secrets. High stakes. Twists and turns. This is a great little screenplay that contained enthusiasts will love.

This won't produce the results you expect:

Most client OSs will cache DNS results for successfully resolved domains up to until their TTL expires. For some youtube domains, that may be hours or even days. (EDIT: Note that youtube does also utilise other domains to serve content, not only those named *.youtube.com, and be aware that a client streaming a video from an already known IP address may have no cause to request DNS resolution again until that stream ends.)

Blocking DNS resolution for specific domains at certain times won't prevent a client with such a cached resolution result from talking to a domain's IP address, as DNS is not needed and hence never queried then.

Hi @yubiuser yes, the scripts work when I manually run them on the terminal. What I expected was for the domains to be added/removed from the blacklist page, and that happens when I manually run it. But it does not happen when I run it with cron.

Thanks @Bucking_Horn, you're right. I need to account for the TTL as well. Looking at the dig output it seems to cache for 5 minutes (except for the www.youtube.com CNAME record).

So I might have mixed results, but I am happy with that.

Youtube is serving content from a multitude of domains, not only *.youtube.com. I think you will find that most video content domains have TTLs much longer than 5 minutes.

Also, note that it's the returned DNS record that expires with the TTL, not the IP address. If a client can successfully stream content from an already known IP address, it may have little cause to request DNS resolution again before the stream ends.

(I've also updated my initial answer to make this clearer for any casual readers who happen upon it.)

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