Britain’s answer to Mirage Enterprises exec Franklin Leonard’s great Black List.  These are the best of the unproduced, highly regarded/mentioned scripts from non US (mostly Irish/British writers.)  Reps in brackets.  We’ve listed the top rated… E-mail The Insider for the complete list.
MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (Casarotto)
Written by: Peter Straughan
SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS (PFD)
Written by: [...]

Hearing that Plan B exec, Tendo Nagenda has his own plan b, and will be leaving to become a VP at Mandate Pictures. Brad Pitt’s Plan B recently spearheaded and produced THE DEPARTED and RUNNING WITH SCISSORS…

Tuesday WGA statement.
“Today’s negotiations began at 10:00 AM. No significant progress was made. At 4:30 PM, we informed the AMPTP that we would prepare a comprehensive package proposal for their review today. At 6:45 PM, we told them the proposal would be ready in 15 minutes. Management negotiators responded by saying they preferred to leave for the day and hear our proposal tomorrow, the expiration [...]

Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award Winners below:
ZEN DOG IN THE CLOUDS
Written by: Kevin P. Cramer 
A young soldier, recently converted to Pacifism and on a two week leave from Iraq, stumbles into a drug deal gone wrong in the mountains of Montana.
COUP
Written by: Mark C. Humphrey
A struggling network greenlights a reality show pilot where contestants take part [...]

Sadly, Entertainer Robert Goulet has left the building at the age of 73 after a struggle with pulmonary fibrosis. 

Hearing that Endeavor talent agent Craig Gartner may be following his former client, Dax Shepard, out the door… not to CAA, but into the world of producing.  Who said everyone wanted to direct?  Gartner has worked with America Ferrera, Michael Vartan, Brittany Murphy, and originally comes from the theatre/acting world… We’re sure he’ll pick a [...]

Don’t try this at home. Hearing this is going in a few places:
MATCHBREAKER
Representation: Steve Destin (Sundance Management)
Written by: Greg Moulton
rom-com about a matchmaker who sets up her husband to prove her system works, but he falls a little too hard.

You may have heard, many studios are taking exception to the WGA’s strike rule which asks that scribes submit literary material they have been working on for studios to the guild.  The studios have been sending out letters advising writers and reps that this is illegal.  Things are heating up.  Here’s one such letter from [...]

Trackingb.com is featured in a great column that Jay Fernandez writes for the LA TIMES about the professional lives of screenwriters.  
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The Kopelsons continue their push into comedy, snatching up romantic comedy spec UPSIDE/DOWN from scribe Susan Brightbill.  Story concerns a successful woman whose life is turned upside down by a free spirited man.  The Kopelsons dug into their new development fund again to make the purchase.

This just in.  The Teamsters Union are encouraging their members (drivers, location scouts, animal wranglers, casting directors etc…) to not cross picket lines in a show of support for the WGA.  I know a driver.  There is no way he’s walking through a picket line… Not his style.  A real old school union guy.  This could [...]

Warner Premiere VP, Irika Slavin, is on the hunt for an assistant… get in touch, will ya’?