I continue to have issues with my E-mailer so if the newsletter is not in your Inbox, check your “SPAM” and “PROMOTIONS” folders. In this month’s newsletter, I talk about Warner Brothers giving Christopher Nolan the heave-ho. Francis Ford Coppola finally making his Citizen Kane with his own money. I give a Kinetic update. I […]

Today’s script takes cues from both A Quiet Place and Pitch Black. Is it on par with those screenplays? Genre: Sci-Fi Horror Premise: When a photosensitive alien force blacks out the sun, a dysfunctional family must survive together in a perpetually dark world full of predatory creatures, while trying not to lose the only thing […]

These sci-fi submissions did not make the Science Fiction Showdown. Find out why! One of the most frustrating things that writers go through is sending their scripts out there only to get rejected time and time again, and having no idea why. I had two instances this week where writers e-mailed me and wanted to […]

The Brigands of Rattleborge meets Water for Elephants meets Deliverance? Genre: Drama/Dark/Thriller Premise: After a 1976 traveling carnival sets up in a small town in Louisiana, the locals become enraged with the actions of the carnival workers, and set about taking the carnival down. About: S. Craig Zahler needs no introduction on this site. He […]

Wait a minute. This script sold for 3 million dollars?? Genre: Comedy/Horror/Blockbuster? Premise: When a man comes to a psychiatrist claiming to be a werewolf, the psychiatrist attempts to videotape his transformation to prove to him that he’s merely hallucinating, but is shocked to learn that the man is telling the truth. About: Is Hollywood […]