The biggest news of the week so far is that Robert “motion capture” Zemeckis is getting back into live action filmmaking!  Hurray!  Even better, he’s doing it with a time travel movie!  Back To The Future is easily in my Top 5 of all time so this is, like, thrilling news.  If you want to [...]

The folks over at Deadline Hollywood are reporting that Universal has just purchased a script titled “Snow White and the Huntsman” for 1.5 million dollars, obviously taking the famous deceased gal in a new, and I presume more sinister, direction.  Rupert Sanders, desired by everyone for their big budget projects (he’s said to be up [...]

Genre: DramaPremise: An upper middle class suburban man who loses his 15 year old daughter to a car crash befriends another 15 year old girl eight years later. About: Welcome To The Rileys came out of Sundance with a lot of buzz. It has an interesting cast with James Gandolfini and Kristin Stewart playing the [...]

It looks like this is where the movie world is headed.  It started with Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble a few years ago but this week two movies have hit the video release market before or during the time they’re being released in theaters. The first is the movie Slash-Film has been gushing over for months now, [...]

A big congratulations goes out to all the Nicholl finalists.  It looks like two comedies have made their way into the Top 10 (Drunk-Dialing and Nicky Flyn Finally Gets A Life), a genre that traditionally doesn’t fare well at Nicholl, so double-congratulations to those guys.  Nicholl tends to get a lot of crap these days [...]

Genre: Period/BiopicPremise: On the precipice of World War 2, the son of King George V, who has an embarrassing speech impediment, is tasked with giving one of the most important speeches of the 20th century. About: The King’s Speech just won the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival. The film stars Colin Firth, Geoffrey [...]

The style of the blog will be changing periodically throughout the week until I figure out what I want it to look like.  Sorry for the inconvenience.  At least we’ll still be updating!

Genre: ThrillerPremise: A suicide jumper is secretly orchestrating a jewel heist in order to clear himself of a crime he didn’t commit.About: It should be noted that this isn’t the draft that got the movie moving. Hot scribes Erich and Jon Hoeber, who wrote the upcoming Geek-tasmogoric “Red,” starring Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman, have [...]

Genre: Crime Drama BiopicPremise: A mob hit man recalls his relationship with one of the most well-known mobsters in history.About: Some confusion going on with this one. There’s an identically titled project starring Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer being directed by Jonathan Hensleigh about mobsters in the 70s, but this is not that project, even [...]

Genre: BiopicPremise: A look at the years leading up to John Wilkes’ Booth assassination of President Lincoln.About: Booth is one of those scripts that’s been bouncing around Hollywood for a long time. Although all we have to go on is rumor here, it’s said that many who have read it loved it, and that the [...]

Genre: Spy Thriller/Sci-fiPremise: A female convict is implanted with the memories of a CIA spy who died under mysterious circumstances.About: Bold Films acquired this spec a little while ago. The script comes from high concept kings Douglas Cook and David Weisberg, who wrote everybody’s favorite, The Rock, as well as the Ashley Judd – Tommy [...]

Got a spec that was picked up recently for tomorrow’s review. I have a script from an Oscar winner that’s gone unmade for seven years which some people have called “amazing.” I have a recently sold thriller that’s landed one of Hollywood’s newest stars. I also have a script that’s reuniting some Hollywood legends. Gear [...]

We don’t usually discuss TV on this site but when Scorsese creates an HBO series, I think it’s worthy of our attention. So, did you watch Boardwalk Empire tonight? And if so, what did you think?

Genre: Heist/ActionPremise: A group of famous magicians combine their talents to perform a trio of heists.About: This is a spec sale picked up by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. See Me is written by Edward Ricourt and Boaz Yakin. Yakin wrote the 1989 version of The Punisher, The Rookie, and directed Remember the Titans. Ricourt’s [...]

Genre: DramaPremise: (from IMDB) A master forger falls for a mysterious woman.About: I can’t say I’ve ever read The Contortionist’s Handbook, the Craig Clevenger novel, but that’s okay because now it’s being turned into a movie starring Hollywood’s new bad boy, Channing Tatum. Robin Shushan, the writer who adapted the book, is probably best known [...]

A question I always like to ask people in the know is, “What kind of character should you write to give yourself the best chance to attract an A-List actor?” The reason I ask is because there’s no quicker way to get your script sold or made into a movie than to attach a star. [...]

Genre: ComedyPremise: Three friends with the worst bosses imaginable decide to solve their problem…by killing them.About: Michael Markowitz sold this script to Rat Entertainment and New Line back in 2005. After busy scribes John Goldstein and John Francis Daley gave it a rewrite, it was able to land Aniston and Colin Farrell in two of [...]

Last week kinda sucked. Nothing even remotely captured my interest. But this week promises to be much better. We have a project with Hollywood’s new bad boy attached. We have an article by yours truly about one of the top 3 things that determine your screenplay selling. We have a really funny comedy that caught [...]

Genre: Drama/Love StoryPremise: (from IMDB) A penniless girl in the 1930′s is taken in by a circus freak, and even as he falls in love with her, she begins to launch a career in the circus herself.About: Flora Plum has been in development for many years and almost went into production with Jodie Foster directing, [...]