Genre: Horror Premise: (from IMDB) Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety. About: Bird Box started off as a novel. Screenwriter Eric Heisserer (Arrival) actually began adapting the novel before it was finished. How early on […]

Genre: Holiday Comedy Premise: When Santa Claus’ protégé is killed in an avalanche, the next relative in line, a New York cop with no holiday spirit, is taken to the North Pole for his training until he must save Christmas from the grinch-like Krampus. Why You Should Read: Apart from this script placing in the […]

Didn’t make it. We’ve had a wild year at the box office. We got the first ever Star Wars bomb (nooooooo!). A surprise giant hit that had half its audience debating whether it was possible for a family to never fart. We had two huge diversity-focused films, Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians, that became […]

Genre: Thriller/Contained Horror/Drama Premise: When renowned interventionist Warren Man’s daughter, Christy, suffers a relapse and her family is forced to deal with their inner demons at the site of a tragedy that tore them apart, it slowly becomes clear that this is no ordinary relapse, but something much more sinister. About: This script made this […]

Genre: Biopic Premise: While a student at Stanford University, Evan Spiegel creates the American multinational technology and social media company Snapchat. About: This is the number 1 script on the 2018 Black List, which was released yesterday. The writer, Elissa Karasik attended Stansford, and would later work as an assistant to two showrunners, on both […]