Guys, it was not a good contest entry week. Barely any scripts got into the top 2 piles. One of the biggest factors on whether a script advances in my contest or not is if there’s a dramatically compelling situation in the first ten pages. That means there’s a problem and characters need to resolve […]

With the arrival of today’s spec, we must ask the question, is the real-time war film going to become its own genre?? Genre: Action/War Premise: Near the tail end of World War 2, an American POW escapes certain death at a concentration camp and makes a run for the southern Allied border, but is pursued […]

Another 7-figure sale. Add to this one of the most bizarre first pages I’ve ever encountered in a screenplay and you have yourself a wild script review Tuesday! Genre: Heist Premise: Told out of order in five-minute snippets, a former soldier teams up to rob a bank he used to work at, but must overcome […]

Genre: Horror Premise: A young married couple move to a remote cabin in Idaho only to learn that the land comes with a spirit that makes itself visible in unique ways every season. About: He’s at it again! Shawn Levy is arguably running Netflix at this point. Stranger Things, which he produces, is Netflix’s Marvel. […]

As some of you know, I used to play tennis competitively. Before Scriptshadow, I taught tennis for almost a decade. Unfortunately, teaching got me so burned out on the sport that I eventually limited my tennis exposure to raising my fist from the safety of my couch whenever Federer hit a passing shot on TV. […]