I don’t have a ton of time so I’m writing this post off the cuff. Buyer beware. When I heard that James Gunn was gone just four years into his regime at DC, I was a little shocked. I mean, I knew with the barely acceptable box office of Clayface that something was coming. I’m […]

A few weeks ago, I was getting hammered in the comments for dissing Coyote vs. Acme’s box office performance. I’d pointed out (rightly I may add) that, after all the hoopla and grandstanding about how amazing this canceled movie was, that it only made 15 million bucks when it finally came out. A bunch of […]

The most recent batch of screenplays I’ve read have ranged from average to decent. But nothing’s broken out and got me excited. And that got me thinking, “Carson, what *does* get you excited?” I asked Scripty about it and he said, “Cocoa Krispies?” Horentia kept telling me I needed to write an article about the […]

Genre: Dark Comedy Premise: When his criminal mother returns after a decade, a timid teenage dishwasher who competes as an underground mascot fighter must choose between the biological mother who abandoned him and the controlling, delusional bar owner who raised him. About: A few weeks ago, I held an Amateur Showdown for all you aspiring […]

I dropped more screenwriting knowledge in this newsletter than probably any newsletter ever. There are some whopper lessons here that could literally change the entire trajectory of your screenwriting life. We talk about the hottest director in Hollywood. We talk about what the heck is going on over at Netflix. We talk about how Quentin […]