In Search of a Movie Gem
There are thousands of screenplays sloshing around Hollywood at any given moment. Now, one Hollywood executive who has spent too much time inundated with the mediocre ones, has built an online directory — and, he hopes, a business — around the hunt for the handful that show promise.
On Thursday, the Black List, a closely watched compendium of Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays that originally began as a free, yearly emailed document, will move online and allow paying users to rank film scripts and view the results as they search for gems.
Membership costs $20 a month and will be limited initially to people working in the film industry.