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EXCLUSIVE: The Love List has released its inaugural list highlighting the best 14 unproduced romance-centered screenplays and pilots of the year just in time for Valentine’s Day.
The list was read and curated by a group of anonymous readers, in addition to writer Lindsay Grossman and Olive Bridge TV exec Madison Jones, who launched the Love List last month.
“We were blown away by the response we got, especially in the Love List’s first year,” Jones told Deadline. “We were really encouraged by the quality of submissions sent our way. And we’re excited we’re able to highlight a lot of up-and-coming writers too.”
Grossman added, “Our hope is that these projects will be read by the industry at large and that they will ultimately be sold and produced. Coming out of a pandemic, and then a double-strike, we know there’s a need for stories that inspire and touch our hearts, and all of these projects more than fit that bill.”
Below are the 14 Love List projects, in no particular order:
Crutches by Lauren Bachelis Iser (Feature Romantic Comedy)
Logline: Forced to move back home after a sudden knee injury, Becca Peterson, a 30-something commitment-phobe, decides to “Cyrano” her widowed mom Diane’s love life, leading to both mother and daughter helping one another back on their feet. Inspired by a true story.
Agency: CAA; Management Company: Rise Management; Lawyer: The Nord Group; Production Company: Rebelle Media with Richie and Brianna Keen at Foley’s Pond
Filthy by Yulin Kuang (Feature Romantic Drama)
Logline: A young married couple contemplates starting a family. When Esther discovers her husband Jack’s secret double life as an audio porn star, the sexual dynamics of their marriage quickly change. Loosely inspired by The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Agency: UTA; Management Company: Kaplan/Perrone; Adam & Naomi Scott (Getting’ Rad Productions) are producing alongside Morgan Des Groseillers
Jack & Lily by Adam Giaudrone (Half-Hour Dramedy Pilot)
Logline: A reverse-gendered When Harry Met Sally-esque romantic dramedy, told over three time periods.
Management Company: The Framework Collective; Financier: MGM; Production Company: Rebelle Media
Shiksa by Madeline Hendricks Lewen (One-Hour Drama Pilot)
Logline: Shiksa examines the changing face of South Williamsburg through the lens of a forbidden romance between Collette, a lost college student, and Elya, a Hasidic young man.
Agency: WME; Management: Redefine Entertainment
Single And The City by Michelle Askew (Feature Romantic Comedy)
Logline: ER nurse Christina swears off dating any more men from her hometown. Bobby swears he’s different…even though he’s a firefighter from Staten Island. After searching for love in every other borough, she must decide: Is she one ferry ride away from finding love or is she on a sinking ship?
Agency: UTA; Management Company: Artists First
’Deed I Do by Clark Moore (Feature Romantic Comedy)
Logline: A gay man is forced to participate in the wedding of the love of his life.
No attachments or reps.
The Vision Board by Morgan Matson (Feature Romantic Comedy)
Logline: A risk-averse woman makes a vision board of her ideal life – then wakes up to find everything on it has come true.
Agency: CAA; Management Company: Artists First
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’s Fan Mail by Sam Jarvis (Feature Romantic Comedy)
Logline: In a modern spin on You’ve Got Mail, a jaded millennial who works at a fan mail response company surprises even herself when she secretly falls for a guy she doesn’t know based on his letters to Kevin Bacon.
Agency: Verve; Management Company: Rise Management; Lawyer: Grace Kallis at Ginsburg Daniels; Production Company: Nothing To See Here Productions – Will Allegra and Matt Hoklotubbe
How To Lose A Popularity Contest by Kaitlin Reilly and Dorian Keyes (Feature YA Romantic Comedy)
Logline: When her ex-boyfriend runs for student body president, a heartbroken high school control-freak decides to rig the election and sabotage her popular enemy in the process… only to discover some unexpected losses, lessons, and love along the way.
Producer: Devorah Moos Hankin; For Dorian Keyes: Anonymous Content and Iconoclast. Kaitlin Reilly is currently unrepped.
From These Ashes by Erin Charles (Feature Romantic Drama)
Logline: This is a film about love. Love in the eyes of your family, in the emptiness of loss… in the piece of you reflected in someone else… in the people, music, and landscape of Scotland.
Director: Erin Charles; Erin is currently unrepped. Producers: Ginger Sledge, Julie Goldstein and Jonathan Zurer.
The Dog Walker by Sarah Rothschild (Feature Romantic Comedy)
Logline: A young woman gets a job as her ex-husband’s dog walker to sabotage his new relationship and win him back. A light-hearted stalker romantic comedy very loosely based on an almost absolutely true story.
Agency: Verve; Producers: Josie Liang and Mark Ross; Director: Megan Griffiths; Reps for Megan: Jen Au Management and CAA.
Alex and the Four Shadows by Yolanda Rodriguez (Half-Hour YA Dramedy Pilot)
Logline: A teenage fangirl enters the contest of a lifetime to sing with her favorite boy band. But having never performed in front of an audience, she must overcome her fears to win.
No attachments or reps.
Ciao Bella by Jamie Savarese (Feature YA Romantic Drama)
Logline: A queer love story set in 2010 between a girl from Texas and an Italian foreign exchange student.
Agency: CAA; Management Company: Kaplan Perrone
Sculpted by Victoria Male (Half-Hour Fantasy Comedy Pilot)
Logline: When mortal sculptor Pygmalia insults Aphrodite during a drunken rant, the goddess brings her beloved statue Galateo to life and upends Pygmalia’s world by challenging her to get him to return her feelings or else they both will be turned into stone.
Management Company: Zero Gravity Management; Manager: Cameron Cubbison
