February Showdown Deadline is THIS THURSDAY! It is the “First Line Showdown.” Details are here at this link. Get those submissions in!!! I think it’s now safe to say that if you’re a Superhero Movie…. “Uh oh.” I have to give it to the box office media. They will do ANYTHING to spin the numbers. […]

Week 7 of the “2 Scripts in 2024” Challenge Every Thursday, for the first six months of 2024, Scriptshadow will be guiding you through the process of writing a screenplay. In June, you’ll be able to enter this screenplay in the Mega Screenplay Showdown. The best 10 loglines, then the first ten pages of the […]

Happy Valentine’s Day! Genre: Comedy Premise: After his girlfriend dies, a guy who hates cats begins an unexpected bromance with her widowed cat, who reveals himself to be an alien that is here to save the world. About: This one comes from a new screenwriter. The script made the Black List and is in development […]

With Valentine’s Day only 24 hours away, it’s only natural that we review a script about LOVE…. and killing. Genre: Rom-Com/Action Premise: (from Black List) After Liv, a world-class hitwoman, breaks up with her boyfriend, Martin, he puts out a massive contract on his own life to get her attention. What Martin doesn’t realize is […]

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a Christopher Nolan interview where he said that Ben Safdie and Nathan Fielder’s show, “The Curse” had no comp in television history. It was *that* unique. Combine this with an overall frustration in how bad television has been lately and I was seriously considering giving The Curse a […]