How did one of my most anticipated films of the year hold up to all that expectation?? Genre: War/Drama/Period Premise: A wealthy German family goes about their daily lives living several feet away from the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2. About: This film won the esteemed Grand Prix at the Cannes film festival. […]

The Black List is rigged. It’s time for Scriptshadow to un-rig it Which Top 10 script is this? As we all know, by this point, the Black List is rigged. This is not the creator, Franklin Leonard’s, fault. It’s just that the list has been around long enough that managers and agents have figured out […]

Genre: Thriller Premise: A man wakes up on his wedding day with a text that simply says, “Run,” and what follows is 8 straight hours of people trying to kill him. About: Another HUGE short story sale. This one sold to Universal. Sam Hargrave (Extraction) will be directing. This is writer Aaron Jayh’s second sale […]

It is that time of year. A time of joy. A time of hope. A time of roasting second-rate loglines. Oh, I kid. We all know, at this point, that managers who have never written a logline in their lives are responsible for the majority of the loglines we see on the Black List. My […]

Frankenstein meets Forest Gump meets Flowers for Algernon meets The Island of Doctor Moreau meets Wes Anderson meets 50 Shades of Gray Genre: Drama/Fantastical Premise: A crazy old doctor performs an unthinkable experiment on a young woman and charts her progress as she opens up to a new world of sexuality that she embraces with […]