Genre: Romantic Comedy Premise: With the future of Manhattan’s Chinatown at stake, a stubborn store clerk battles against an innovative CEO’s expansion plan, while both are unaware they’ve been falling in love with each other on a new, anonymous dating app. About: This script finished on last year’s Black List. William Yu has written a […]

As I continue to work on the Scriptshadow dialogue book, aka the greatest book on dialogue ever written (and it’s not even close), I’ve noticed that when you watch film and TV solely to analyze dialogue, you see things you wouldn’t normally pick up on. For example, I forgot how plot-centric all the dialogue in […]

I’ve been working hard on my dialogue book. One of the most frustrating things about writing the book has been finding recent movies with good dialogue to reference!  Most great feature film dialogue went out the window in the early 2000s with the death of the indie film. If any of you have suggestions for […]

Genre: Drama Premise: After a woman becomes one of the first female presidents of a 1950s publishing house in New York, she draws a former college classmate into her orbit, who soon finds her literary empire is not what it appears to be. About: This script finished on last year’s Black List. The writer, Laura […]

Genre: Fantasy Premise: An elf is the only one of her people convinced that an evil force thought long extinct is waiting in hiding to, once again, rule the land. About: The show that Amazon paid a billion dollars for is finally here! The first two episodes are available on Prime. The streamer recently announced […]