My two-cents is this. Scripts like "Juno" is what H'wood is looking for these days. What that means is deep story with well-honed honest characters. Story is coming back into vogue, even in action movies. The newest Batman is a good example.
And if you think someone outside "the industry" can't get a script made into a movie, look again to "Juno." The writer, Diablo Cody, was a secretary, a stripper and well-known blogger.
Now she's an Academy Award winner.