Sony Pictures Animation and Blacklist Partner in New Writers Program

Special: Blacklist partners with Academy Award-winning Sony Pictures Animation for the first writers program to develop and diversify animation talent.

The Sony Pictures Animation x Blacklist Writers Program will work at the studio for a period of six months, selecting a writer who is creatively responsible for creating custom dialogue animation, scripts that will sink the development board. To convey your own ideas and more. They will receive $50,000 in exchange for Sony Pictures Animation’s services under the IATSE contract.

Representing a global and diverse audience that the studio seeks to entertain, the show will be attended by individual writers who are only interested in honing their skills in the world of animation. Submitted screenplays can be of any genre and be in the form of a movie, play or musical, but pilot scripts will not be accepted. They don’t necessarily need animation and will be in patterns. Presenting authors should be able to participate in the six-month full-time program that runs from fall through winter this year.

Applications are now open on blcklst.com and will close on 8 July. Selected authors will receive placement notifications and take the next steps this summer.

“We are delighted to announce this exciting new program alongside The Black List, which will enable emerging writing talent to gain first-hand experience in the animation industry and bring their own unique and personal perspective to Sony Pictures Animation. ” said. Christine Belson, head of Studio Art and Series.

It’s no secret that “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse:” is one of my favorite movies of the last decade. “It is an honor and a pleasure to partner with Sony Pictures Animation to identify the author to work with them,” added Franklin Leonard, founder and CEO of The Black List. “I look forward to seeing the outstanding animated content this soon-to-be-announced author contributes.”

Sony Pictures Animation’s Latest Release Includes Oscar-Nominated Netflix Footage against Mitchell’s cars; musical adventures livefeaturing original songs by Lynn-Manuel Miranda; AND Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, the fourth installment of the favorite monster movie franchise. This section also supports hit movie franchises such as: Meat products are likely cloudy AND Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseIt won the Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2019. A long-awaited sequel after Sony Pictures Animation, Spider-Man: In The Spider-Verse (Part One)It will hit theaters in October 2022.

Founded in 2002, Sony Pictures Animation is a division of Sony Pictures Motion Pictures Group for Sony Pictures Entertainment, a Tokyo-based subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

The Black List, an annual survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproductive scripts, was founded in 2005. Since then, at least 440 blacklisted scripts have been created, earning more than $30 billion at the worldwide box office. The blacklisted films earned 54 Academy Awards from 267 nominations, including four of the four Best Picture Oscars in the last 12 and 28 of the 11 Best Screenplays.

In October 2012, Blacklist launched an online community where authors present their work to readers, buyers and employers. Since its inception, it has presented nearly 80,000 screenplays and television shows, and has rated more than 130,000 screenplays. As a direct result of their blacklist entries, dozens of writers were represented at major agencies and talented management companies, as well as sold or borrowed their scripts. Several movies have been shot using the script featured on the site, including one that was nominated for a Golden Globe. Mockingbirdas David Oelovo.

The Blacklist currently hosts more than 5,000 scripts from nearly 3,700 writer members available to industry professionals from agency goers, studio and network heads, A-list actors and directors.

The first blacklist art products, Come as you areHe made a critical debut at SXSW in 2019. His second feature film, News from the Yuba regionOscar-nominated director Tate Taylor, starring Alison Jenny, Mila Kunis, Regina Hall, Aquafina, Wanda Sikes and Juliet Lewis, was released by MGM Studios in February last year.