GET AN AGENT or GO VIRAL! I’ve been thinking a lot about how to make it as a screenwriter today. It’s so different than it was 20 years ago. It’s different than it was 10 years ago! You talk to a dozen different dealmakers in Hollywood and ask them how they got their last streaming […]

Genre: Drama/Comedy Premise: A grieving woman goes to an Icelandic “end of life” resort to kill herself while also looking into the surprise suicide of her girlfriend, who killed herself here several months prior. About: This script finished with 11 votes on last year’s Black List. Laura Stoltz worked as an associate producer on a […]

Genre: Comedy Premise: When Tom Hanks, the nicest guy in Hollywood (and arguably the world), finds his life stolen by a Tom Hanks impersonator, the only way to get it back is to do the one thing he’s never been able to: stop being nice. About: This script finished with a respectable 12 votes on […]

A lot of people are going to look at Red One’s box office this weekend and categorize it as a failure. The film cost 250 million dollars and made only 34 million this weekend. But whether this movie is a failure or not depends on your perspective. As a movie that needs to make money, […]

There is an ebb and a flow to what I obsess over in the screenwriting space. Sometimes I’m obsessed with high concepts. Sometimes I’m obsessed with a great opening page. Sometimes I’m obsessed with second acts. But as time has passed, there is one obsession that seems to keep coming back to the forefront again […]