Everybody always complains to me about my Amateur Friday choices.  (complain-y voice) “Carson, you never pick Amateur Friday scripts fairly.” “Why does this guy get to go twice?”  ”This logline sucks.  Mine’s better.”  ”How come I didn’t get picked?”  ”You play favorites.”  Well NO MORE my friends! That’s because YOU’RE picking the next two Amateur [...]

NEW Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send in a PDF of your script, a PDF of the first ten pages of your script, your title, genre, logline, and finally, why I should read your script. Use my submission address please: Carsonreeves3@gmail.com. Your script and “first ten” will be posted. [...]

Genre: ComedyPremise: (original Twit-Pitch logline) With his favorite fast-food sandwich facing its final week before it’s phased out forever, an obsessed man leads a protest to save it.About: For those recently joining Scriptshadow, I held a contest a few months back called “Twit-Pitch,” where anyone could pitch me their screenplay on Twitter, as long as [...]

Genre: Comedy/Romantic Comedy Premise: After his wife leaves him, good guy Paul is horrified to learn she’s written a book about how to leave your loser husband.  It gets really bad, however, when the book hits number 1 on the bestseller list.   About: This script finished on the bottom half of last year’s Black [...]

Genre: Sci-FiPremise: In the near future, a large-scale science experiment on an American space station goes haywire, eliminating earth from space.  The occupants of the space station must then deal with a rogue space shuttle that may have nefarious plans for the crew. About: Writer Oren Uziel is best known for his somewhat wacky premises. [...]

In my rabid attempts to find an apartment, I wasn’t able to get today’s review up before my 4 hour ascension to 30,000 feet.  Which means a late post.  I want to take this time, however, to thank everyone who sent me apartment prospects.  I went through ALL of them.  Unfortunately, I still haven’t found [...]

NEW Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send in a PDF of your script, a PDF of the first ten pages of your script, your title, genre, logline, and finally, why I should read your script. Use my submission address please: Carsonreeves3@gmail.com. Your script and “first ten” will be posted. [...]

Okay, so I have about four days left here in LA and the apartment search is not going well.  I’ve been to  $2500 apartments that are wedged up against the 10 freeway and have little children with six fingers on each hand running around outside of them.  What this unfortunately means is I haven’t had [...]

Genre: HorrorPremise: One night every year, strange creatures attack the major cities, killing thousands. Nobody knows who or what these creatures are, and no one can stop them. About: Grim Night made last year’s Black List AND was purchased last year.  The sale was best known for the writers’ inventive idea of making a trailer [...]

Genre: Thriller Premise: In 1973, a CIA agent searches for an infamous Nazi wunderkind who spearheaded Hitler’s nuclear technology push during the war.   About: This one sold to Paramount for JJ Abrams’s company, Bad Robot, last week I think?  Although Aison has been toiling around in Hollywood for the better part of a decade, [...]

Genre: Sci-fi/Found FootagePremise: A group of friends stumble upon a time portal that sends them back 30 years into the past.About: Dreamworks picked this up the other week. Since then, everyone’s been recommending it to me enthusiastically. Now you have to understand, this is a big deal. USUALLY when a script sells, I get a [...]

Let’s build a better mousetrap. Over the next month and a half, Scriptshadow will relaunch its site.  I have some great things in store for readers, but one of the things I’m most excited about is the time it will free up for me to start working on my next project – Developing a new [...]

NEW Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send in a PDF of your script, a PDF of the first ten pages of your script, your title, genre, logline, and finally, why I should read your script. Use my submission address please: Carsonreeves3@gmail.com. Your script and “first ten” will be [...]

Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: (from IMDB) A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. About: This is a loosely connected “prequel” to Alien, [...]

Genre: ThrillerPremise: A cop steals and publishes a serial killer’s unpublished manuscript while in the process of trying to take him down.About: This script hasn’t sold. It hit the tracking boards recently and has been generating some buzz. I was told to check it out so here I am, checking it out. I’ve been informed [...]

Genre: Dramedy (Romantic Dramedy)Premise: On the brink of suicide, a washed up alcoholic A&R man hears an amazing song by an unknown singer and asks her to make an album with him.About: John Carney is best known as the writer/director of Once. Before Once, Carney struggled mightily to get his scripts read in Hollywood. He [...]

Genre: ComedyPremise: Two rival North Carolina politicians with congressional aspirations tangle with one another.About: Dogfight also went by the title “Rivals” and has been changed, once again, to “The Campaign,” which is the final title for the film. Writer Chris Henchy has been around forever. He wrote Land of the Lost and The Other Guys. But [...]

Update: This is your last chance to get a script to these guys.  So far, they’ve been getting a lot of films with female leads, but they’ve decided they’re specifically looking for a MALE lead 25-50 years old, multi-dimensional with some fatal flaw. Middle-aged washed-up struggling man going through a mid-life crisis like Lester in [...]

Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send in a PDF of your script, a PDF of the first ten pages of your script, your title, genre, logline, and finally, why I should read your script. Use my submission address please: Carsonreeves3@gmail.com. Your script and “first ten” will be posted. [...]

For those playing catch-up, Twit-Pitch was a contest I held where anyone could pitch me their screenplay on Twitter as long as it was contained within a single tweet. I chose the top one hundred loglines from those pitches and read the first 10 pages of each, which I live-reviewed on Twitter every evening (join [...]