It’s an all-new all-different but-still-kinda-the-same Amateur Showdown! If you haven’t been to the site in a while, this showdown might be confusing, so let me give you the Cliff’s Notes version of what’s going on. I hosted a screenplay contest called, The Last Great Screenplay Contest. I read the first ten pages of every entry […]

A funny thing happens when you read a ton of scripts in a row. Especially the way I did it over the weekend. I needed to finish all the entries and I was running out of time since I had to post the semifinalists Monday, so I had zero breaks. As soon as I finished […]

Genre: Romantic Comedy Premise: (from Black List) MEET CUTE, the hottest dating app on the market, brings couples together by giving them their Rom Com moment. When the app’s biggest skeptic, Haley, matches with one of its developers, Russ, their instant connection starts to change her mind. About: This script finished on last year’s Black […]

Genre: Horror Premise: Three teens rent a cursed VHS video tape and are pulled into an ’80s slasher movie that threatens to trap them there forever. About: Lionsgate just picked this one up last week. Seth Rogen is producing with Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures. The script was written by Chris Thomas Devlin, whose sparse (some […]

CONGRATULATIONS if you are one of the 42 total writers to make it to the semi-finals of The Last Great Screenplay Contest! (Note: I miscounted the other day when I said there were 53 total – sorry!) For those who weren’t around when I started this contest back in 1897, The Last Great Screenplay Contest […]