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Amblin Partners is going back to school with Oscar-nominated producer Marc Platt.

Amblin and Platt are partnering for a feature adaptation of The Bear, the upcoming fiction debut from New York Times best-selling author and high school English teacher Natalie Ford.

The comedy follows an introverted teen who secretly becomes her high school's costumed mascot so she can show off her dance and choreography skills but struggles to keep her identity hidden as she emerges as a local and viral sensation.

Black List writer Erin Rodman will adapt for Amblin. (Rodman previously was an assistant at the production banner.)

Platt and Adam ...

Amblin Partners is going back to school with Oscar-nominated producer Marc Platt.

Amblin and Platt are partnering for a feature adaptation of The Bear, the upcoming fiction debut from New York Times best-selling author and high school English teacher Natalie Ford.

The comedy follows an introverted teen who secretly becomes her high school's costumed mascot so she can show off her dance and choreography skills but struggles to keep her identity hidden as she emerges as a local and viral sensation.

Black List writer Erin Rodman will adapt for Amblin. (Rodman previously was an assistant at the production banner.)

Platt and Adam ...

The 15th annual Black List survey was revealed Monday December 16, and it includes 66 un-produced screenplays from up-and-coming literary talent. Results were pooled from a survey of more than 250 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to 10 favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2019 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year. This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the Black List.

Since 2005, more than a third of the screenplays included in the annual Black List surveys have become produced films, and often to notoriety — such as “Argo,” “American Hustle,” “Juno,” “The King’s Speech,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Spotlight,” “The Revenants,” “The Descendants,” and “Hell or High Water.” Melina Matsoukas’s 2019 film “Queen & Slim,” written by Lena Waithe with a story co-authored by James Frey, was featured on the 2018 Black List.

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The Black List and Women In Film, Los Angeles (Wif La) revealed the participants in their 2019 Feature Residency program as well as their Annual Feature Lab.

The collaboration between the organizations provides mentorship and career opportunities to six rising women screenwriters over the course of a year, the Feature Residency kicked off with a three-day intensive this past weekend in a Los Angeles and included mentors Haifaa Al-Mansour (Wadja), Jessica Bendinger (Bring it On), Andrea Berloff (The Kitchen), Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Scott Myers, Liz Hannah (Long Shot), and Kiwi Smith (Legally Blonde). The participants will continue in mentorship, script work, and career development for the next twelve months. The Residency is supported by Airbnb and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

For the Annual Feature Lab, six writers were selected from over 1,000 submissions via the Black List website...