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EXCLUSIVE: In June, we announced The Laugh List, a caller ongoing study recognizing nan year’s astir promising unproduced drama screenplays, to beryllium unveiled successful relation pinch Just for Laughs Montreal, amid nan fest’s yearly ComedyPRO marketplace. And now, we person nan first yearly selection.
The Laugh List’s inaugural version recognizes 10 screenplays that emerged from a section of much than 40 nominated projects. The scripts are successful various stages of improvement — immoderate pinch studios attached and immoderate not — and travel from writers astatine each shape of their careers, from established professionals to scribes without representation. We antecedently collapsed news of deals for three: Gabe Delahaye’s I’d Like To Speak To Your Manager, This Could Be Our Night from brothers Justin & Jordan Shipley, and the Unt. Erotic Teen Fan Fiction Movie from Morgan Lehmann.
Laugh List scripts scope successful style, covering coming-of-age comedy, romanticist comedy, humanities comedy, governmental mockumentary, assemblage comedy, acheronian comedy, and buddy comedy. They were selected by an anonymous voting assemblage of much than a twelve characteristic drama execs from galore of nan industry’s starring drama accumulation companies. Participating executives nominated nan first 40 unproduced drama screenplays earlier reference nan nominated scripts anonymously and voting to find nan last list.
Of nan impetus for launching The Laugh List, laminitis Reg Tigerman said, “There is simply a wide belief that Hollywood isn’t making capable awesome comedies anymore, but it’s not owed to a deficiency of awesome material. We recovered an unthinkable extent of funny, original, commercially breathtaking scripts written by exceptionally talented writers. The situation isn’t whether nan worldly exists—it’s making judge nan champion activity finds advocates. The Laugh List was created to observe those writers, promote executives and producers to support betting connected original comedy, and thief refill nan pipeline pinch films audiences will 1 time quote, revisit, and hopefully acquisition together successful theaters.”
The 2026 Laugh List can beryllium viewed beneath and astatine this link.
David Bennet Needs a Friend
By Jon Eidson & Nick Smith
The world’s richest and loneliest man funnels his adjacent infinite resources into making 1 friend.
Manager: 3 Arts – Zack Waxenberg
Studio / Producer: Hidden Pictures
The Flu Game
By Ajay Lalani & Anton Vayedjian
During nan 1997 NBA Finals, 4 hopeless Utah Jazz fans stake their life savings against nan Chicago Bulls and hatch an idiotic scheme to poison Michael Jordan, accidentally creating nan infamous (and very real) “Flu Game.“
Agent: IAG – Daniel Leap
Studio / Producer: De Line Pictures
I’d Like To Speak To Your Manager
By Gabe Delahaye
Jake really really wants to return these stupid small insubstantial towels!
Agent: UTA – Jenny Maryasis
Manager: Kaplan/Perrone – Aaron Kaplan, Michael Wilson
Studio / Producer: FilmNation, Fortunate Jack
Island Man
By Jesse Gordon
After heroically sacrificing himself to prevention a hijacked level and spending 5 years connected a deserted island, a roguish expert returns from near-death to reunite pinch nan emotion of his life – only to observe she has joined a wholly normal dude named Jake. But this isn’t nan hero’s story. It’s Jake’s. And Jake is truthful f*cked.
Agent: UTA – Amanda Hymson, John Kaiser
Manager: Redefine – Michael Botti, Sarah Dodge
Studio / Producer: Universal, Point Grey, Jen D’Angelo, Lucas Koppel
Pistols @ 3:45
By Kim Seltzer & Aliya Kamalova
After a petty online feud betwixt 2 section councilmen goes viral, nan politicians are pressured by their mini municipality into a real-life weapon duel, leaving them some desperately trying to fig retired really to get retired of it without looking for illustration a wuss.
Studio / Producer: Tam Sackman, Abso Lutely, Neon Heart
Rush
By Cassidy Alla & Read Masino
When a assemblage student is sexually assaulted by a frat feline who faces nary consequences, she and her champion friend unreserved his fraternity undercover to get revenge – only to go nan improbable stars of Delta Iota Kappa’s promise people and get successful measurement excessively deep.
Agent: UTA – Anna Flickinger, John Kaiser
Manager: Mosaic – Drew Shenfield (Alla), Artists First – Haley Jones, Casey Neumeier (Masino)
Studio / Producer: Netflix, Berlanti, Schechter, Fierce Baby
This Could Be Our Night
By Justin Shipley & Jordan Shipley
After nan merchandise of a “crush list” throws nan last nighttime of precocious schoolhouse into chaos, 2 champion friends must sneak retired to a chaotic graduation statement truthful 1 of them tin hook up pinch her longtime crush.
Agent: WME – Jeff Gorin, Connor Armstrong
Manager: Haven – Jesse Hara
Studio / Producer: Sony
This Planet is Fucking Awesome
By James Morosini
Twenty years aft their champion friend went missing, a group of stoner friends are zapped to a nosy statement satellite wherever they find him alive. They must title crossed nan satellite earlier nan only portal to location closes forever.
Agent: CAA – Bryant Barile, Joe Mann
Manager: Range – Payne Cowley
Studio / Producer: 6th & Idaho
Unt. Erotic Teen Fan Fiction Movie
By Morgan Lehmann
A teen virgin penning seductive fabrication online must collaborate pinch her school’s promiscuous backmost erstwhile asked to constitute astir her nonexistent emotion life for a publisher.
Agent: CAA – Ilana Goren, Anna Jinks
Manager: Untitled – Harry Lengsfield
Studio / Producer: A24, Fruit Tree, Ley Line
Witch, Please
By Michael-Leon Wooley
Two Black wannabe‑viral shade hunters are transported backmost to 1600s Massachusetts to take sides a small achromatic girl’s mother who’s been accused of being a witch.
Agent: UTA – Eni Akintade
Manager: Bleecker Street Ent. – Vincent Nastri
Studio / Producer: Macro, Hartbeat
