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Exclusive: The Black List and Wif have announced the participants for the 2025 Episodic Lab.

Seven up-and-coming television writers have been chosen for the selective and intensive Lab, which is now in its ninth year.

Supported by the Golden Globe Foundation and Shivhans Pictures, the lab focuses on preparing women writers and writers of underrepresented genders for a career in writing television. The lab meets 2-3 times a week in March, with sessions that include master classes, workshops, and lectures from guest mentors.

Mentors this year include Krista Vernoff (Grey’s Anatomy), Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries universe), Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead), Nicole Jefferson Asher (P-Valley), Kassia Miller (High Potential), Sono Patel (Based on a True Story), Jane Becker (Nobody Wants This) and Mj Delaney (Ted Lasso).

Participants will also meet with a number of lab alumni mentors, including Anna Salinas (Loot), Alex Rubin (Sweet Magnolias), Hannah Stoddard & Jenny Ulmer (Reboot...

Exclusive: In an expansion of its Lab program, the Black List has named the projects and writers for its inaugural Projects Lab. The six writers are developing feature projects they intend to direct. The Lab program, now in its eleventh year, provides creative mentorship and professional support to promising screenwriters during a weeklong workshop in Ojai, CA.

This year’s writers are Dylan James Amick (The Estranged), Steve Anthopoulos (My Summer in the Human Resistance), Meghan Lennox (Gay For Amy), Alex Murawski (Walking In Iowa), Gabriella Mykal (Fuzzy), and Alexandra Qin (Thirstygirl). The Black List selected these writers from over 1,700 script submissions on blcklst.com.

During the Lab, each writer will develop their screenplay through peer workshops and one-on-one sessions with working professional screenwriting mentors, including Hannah Fidell (A Teacher), Liz Hannah (The Girl From Plainville), Maryam Keshavarz (The Persian Version), Sarah Adina Smith (Birds of Paradise), Axelle Carolyn (The...

Plot: The mystery surrounding the enigmatic void on the west pasture of the Abbott family ranch deepens as Royal and his wife Cecelia struggle to keep their family together in the aftermath of their granddaughter’s sudden disappearance. The stakes have never been higher for the Abbotts, who now face threats on multiple fronts with profound and unforeseen circumstances that could shake the very foundations of time itself.

Review: With so many shows on television and streaming platforms, it can be nearly impossible to distinguish yourself from the pack. While Outer Range may be a complex blend of genres, the first season was unlike anything else. Blending elements of everything from Yellowstone to Arrival and The Twilight Zone, Outer Range ended its first season with some substantial cliffhangers, while the second season wastes no time diving right into the murky complexity of this story of multiverses, parallel timelines and so much more.

An inaugural screenwriting lab co-founded by Margot Robbie, designed to help women writers break into the action and franchise film market, has seen a stunning 100% sales return on six original pitches.

Each of the six women writers in the room marked their first major sale following the workshop, all in the action or genre arena and all with commitments for distribution. It’s not only a win for representation in a male-dominated space, it’s a victory for feature film sales at a time when coronavirus has plunged the theatrical market into chaos.

The program is titled The Lucky Exports Pitch Program, and was created by Christina Hodson and Morgan Howell of Hodson Exports and Robbie, Josey McNamara, and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap Entertainment. The six writers include Sue Chung, Charmaine DeGraté, Eileen Jones, Faith Liu, Dagny Looper, and Maria Sten. .

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The Lucky Exports Pitch Program, founded by Christina Hodson’s Hodson Exports and Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment, has sold five action feature pitches to major film companies including Warner Bros., Sony, Universal, New Line, and Thunder Road, and is in development on a high concept television series.

The Lucky Exports Pitch Program was created by Hodson and Morgan Howell of Hodson Exports and Robbie, Josey McNamara, and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap Entertainment

The program’s goal was to create opportunities for female-identifying writers to gain exposure and the experience needed in order to be hired on studio/franchise jobs. The program was a huge success with all the feature pitches sold, some in competitive situations. The pitch sales mark the first feature deals for each writer.

From Nov. 4th to Dec. 6th, 2019, six female-identifying writers participated in an action focused writers’ room. Starting in most cases with no more than a logline or title,...

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The program is aimed at developing the original action movie pitches and scripts of women writers.

Creating systemic change in Hollywood takes intentional, sustained action—and putting the money where the mouth is. That's exactly what Birds of Prey co-workers Margot Robbie and screenwriter Christina Hodson (Bumblebee) are doing with the Lucky Exports Pitch Program, a new writing program aimed at increasing the number of women writing action-driven movies.

According to THR, the Lucly Exports Pitch Program—named after Robbie and Hodson's respective companies (LuckyChap Entertainment and Hodson Exports)— has selected six women to participate in a four-week program that will give them a chance to break, outline, and develope their original action film ideas into studio ready pitches. The end goal? To "bring the writers the exposure and experience they need in order to become go-to names for studio/franchise jobs."

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Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment and Christina Hodson’s Hodson Exports are partnering up for the Lucky Exports Pitch Program (Lepp) to help female writers develop original feature films.

Writers during the four-week program will break, outline and develop their ideas into studio-ready pitches, which must demonstrate their ability to write an action film while gaining some exposure in the process.

The six female-identifying writers were selected through a process where the samples were read blindly and from those, a pool of writers were selected to apply to the program, which will be run by Robbie, Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap and Hodson and Morgan Howell of Hodson Exports. More than a dozen speakers, including actors, directors, producers and writers, will be participating in a Q&a and workshops. These speakers include Sue Kroll, Chris Morgan, Zak Penn, Chad Strahelski, Max Borenstein and Lindsey Beer.

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LuckyChap Entertainment and Hodson Exports have teamed up to create the Lucky Exports Pitch Program (Lepp), a new initiative that provides opportunities for female voices to be heard in the action feature space. Six female-identifying writers have been chosen to participate in the four week writers room which begins on Nov. 4 and goes through Dec. 6. Each of the projects developed will be original action movies that are producible at $30M budgets or below. The goal of the program is to provide the writers the exposure and experience needed in order to become go-to names for studio/franchise jobs. The Lucky Exports Pitch Program will be run by Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara, and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap and Christina Hodson and Morgan Howell of Hodson Exports.

The six writers selected for the Lucky Exports Pitch Program include Sue Chung (Kaplan Perrone Entertainment), Charmaine DeGrate (Kaplan Perrone Entertainment), Eileen Jones (Verve), Faith Liu...

LuckyChap Entertainment and Hodson Exports have partnered to launch the Lucky Exports Pitch Program (Lepp). The new initiative has selected six female-identifying writers to participate in the program, in which they will each focus on developing their own idea for an original action feature film.

The program will be run by Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap Entertainment and Christina Hodson and Morgan Howell of Hodson Exports.

LuckyChap Entertainment and Hodson Exports will be attached to produce each project. The four-week writers’ room begins Nov. 4 and runs through Dec. 6. Each of the projects will be original action movies that are producible for $30 million and under.

Over the course of four weeks, the writers will break, outline and develop their ideas into studio-ready pitches. Spanning a range of tones and genres, all the projects will demonstrate the participants’ ability to write action. The ambition of the program is...