The new newsletter is in your inboxes. In it, I set up your screenplay gameplan for 2023, telling you the exact steps you need to take to achieve success. I also set up the LOGLINE SHOWDOWN, a new Scriptshadow feature of 2023 that’s going to be a blast. I review the original draft of a […]

“I know we just won the World Cup.  But what we really want to know is what are Carson’s Top 10 movies of the year???” It’s the final post of the year! Yes, after this, I will be heading deep into the Scriptshadow caves to plot the ongoing goings-ons of 2023. But before we get […]

Over time, I’ve gotten better at knowing what movies I’m going to hate ahead of time and, therefore, not go to them. I knew to steer clear, for instance, of the “M” movies this year: Marry Me, Morbius, and Moonfall. Or flicks that had ‘disaster’ written all over them from the start – Amsterdam and […]

Is the Screenwriting Grinch finally ready to smile? Do we have a Christmas script worth reading?? Genre: True Story Premise: In the aftermath of WWII, a traumatized Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart use the making of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE to attempt to find a way back into normalcy. About: I promised myself I wouldn’t […]

The most important movie to the long-term health of the movie business is finally here! Does it deliver?? Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Premise: Jake Sulley must relocate his family to a far away water tribe on Pandora in an effort to hide from the humans, who are determined to find and kill him. About: Avatar 2 is […]