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Kailey Marsh is a co-founder and literary manager/producer at Faction M with her business partner Nima Maleki. Kailey graduated from the Art Institute of California-Los Angeles and interned for Ozla Pictures (the company behind The Grudge movies, among others) and then worked as an assistant for Steven Jay Schneider, producer of Paranormal Activity. She was an assistant at the management/production company Circle of Confusion before becoming a manager in her own right.

Faction M has most recently been involved in producing the feature film The Day, currently in post-production. Check out the Facebook page for all the details about the film and the teaser.

With the advent of The Black List, a collection of the top unproduced screenplays making the rounds in Hollywood, Kailey invented The Blood List, which compiles the best unproduced horror scripts. She was recently included in a Hollywood Reporter article examining this listing phenomena.

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MTV has enlisted writers Mark Hammer, Matt Pelfrey, and Monica Padrick for the U.S. version of British teenage drama Skins. In lieu of a writing sample, the trio was asked to build a bong out of office supplies. [THR]...

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"Karate Kid" star Taraji P. Henson gets serious, starring in the Lifetime movie "Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story," based on the true story of a mom who rescued her son Kobe after her ex-husband stole him and took him to South Korea. [Deadline]

MTV is all skinned up. The network read 400 writing samples from young writers and chose Mark Hammer, Matt Pelfrey and Monica Padrick to join the staff of "Skins," the U.S. version of the subversive British teen drama. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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A federal appeals court in New York says the FCC's indecency rules regarding "fleeting expletives" (a la Bono at the Golden Globes a few years ago) are unconstitutional. F*** yeah it does. [Los Angeles Times]

No Simon, no problem: "American Idol" is still commanding hefty prices -- in the neighborhood of $650,000 per 30 seconds -- for commercials. [The Wrap]

We'd watch this: Barbara Walters is talking with HBO about making a documentary about her life and career. [New York Post]

We didn't think it was possible, but the Debbie Gibson-Tiffany Syfy movie "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid" just got even more cheeztastic with the addition of ex-Monkee Micky Dolenz. [Hollywood Reporter]

Write what you know: "Ghost Whisperer" exec producers Ian Sander and Kim Moses have two shows in development at ABC, both of which have "Ghost" in the title. [Deadline Hollywood]

MTV's adaptation of the U.K. hit "Skins" is filling out its writing staff,...

MTV is firming up the writing staff for its version of the British sensation "Skins."

After reading 400 writing samples from young scribes, the network has tapped Mark Hammer, Matt Pelfrey and Monica Padrick to join the show's staff.

The network is planning the teenage drama for early next year along with the dramedy "Teen Wolf" as well as developing "The Inbetweeners," another U.K. format.

Part of the "Skins" style is using newbie writers and inexperienced actors to capture a fresh teen sensibility. Other writers for the show are forthcoming.

Pelfrey and Padrick are repped by Wme; Hammer by manager Tom Drumm.