This is a big recent spec sale to Lionsgate. It is being pitched as a “negotiator” version of Source Code Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: Unable to prevent a bomber from blowing up a hotel, a hostage negotiator finds himself stuck in a time loop, using the extra time to figure out who the determined bomber is […]

This weekend’s box office is one of the few in recent years that Hollywood can get excited about. Sinners only slipped a tiny bit in its second weekend (45 million) which is unheard of in this day and age. Outside of tiny Oscar-hopeful films in November, no movies have that kind of hold these days. […]

I couldn’t ignore all the buzz that Sinners was getting. It’s not easy to achieve both 90+ percent in critics and audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes. So, over to the local movie theater I went and strapped in for two hours of… well, I didn’t know what. I’d seen the fist trailer, which was vague, […]

An excellent resource for how to write a pilot script For any of you writing pilots, I want you to watch the pilot episode of Your Friends and Neighbors. I’m not saying it’s the greatest pilot script ever. There were aspects of it I didn’t like. And, if I’m being honest, I don’t know how […]

As my strained eyes continue to keep me from reading my weekly allotment of scripts, I have been watching a lot of movies and it’s been a really cool experience. I’ve developed this terrible habit over the years of watching movies and shows with my laptop on. When the movie or show inevitably hits a […]