The Black List
Screenplay hosting and professional evaluation service. The industry-standard discovery platform for unproduced screenplays.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
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- Screenwriting
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- Kirbyy added The Black List
Kirbyy added The Black List as alternative to Story Notes
The Black List information
What is The Black List?
The Black List (blcklst.com) is a screenplay hosting and evaluation platform founded by Franklin Leonard in 2005. The site began as an annual industry survey of the most-liked unproduced screenplays circulating in Hollywood, voted on by film executives, and expanded in 2012 into a paid hosting service for writers.
Writers upload screenplays to The Black List and pay for professional evaluations — typically $75–$100 per coverage. Scripts that receive an "8" or higher rating from Black List readers are featured to verified industry members (managers, agents, producers, executives), who can request the script directly.
Key services:
- Script hosting (monthly subscription, ~$30/month per script)
- Professional coverage / evaluations ($75–$100 per script)
- Industry visibility for high-rated scripts
- Annual Black List survey (published each December)
The Black List is widely considered the industry standard for unproduced-screenplay discovery. Notable success stories include "Juno," "The King's Speech," "Spotlight," and "Argo," all of which appeared on early Black List surveys before production.
The platform is one of the few major screenplay discovery services to survive the 2025 coverage industry collapse (which saw the shutdown of Coverfly, WeScreenplay, ScreenCraft, and The Tracking Board).