The big project that landed over at Paramount with Timothee Chalamet and James Mangold Genre: Crime/Heist Premise: A guy who uses motorcycles to rob banks recruits his brother to join the party. About: Timothee Chalamet is reteaming with his “Complete Unknown” director, James Mangold, to make this film for Paramount on the heels of its […]

The best family film of the decade. Genre: Family/Fantasy Premise: A town is thrown into chaos after a young girl, grieving the loss of her mother, has her sketchbook full of monsters come to life. About: Writer-director Seth Worley made a bunch of short films, one of which was the short version of this movie, […]

This is it! The Second Annual Mega-Showdown winning screenplay. And we don’t wait around here at Scriptshadow like other contests. We celebrate the script THE VERY NEXT DAY. Hence, here’s the review for… Hard Labor. Genre: Real-Time Action Thriller Logline: A heavily pregnant woman is found by criminals she’s been hiding from and the shock […]

This is it! The four finalists have had their day, and now it’s your turn, dear readers, to crown a champion. I feel like I’m cueing up a juicy episode of Love Island. Will those who voted for these scripts stay loyal? Or, now that you’ve read the full five pages from each contender, will […]

There was a tight race for that last finalist slot and it was Smokescreen that rose to the occasion. A great screenwriter once said that one of the best logline hacks you can use is to include something that already occupies real estate in the potential reader’s head. Familiarity has a shocking amount of influence […]