Genre: TV Pilot – 1 Hour Drama Premise: After a real estate developer accepts a half a million dollar loan from a new friend, he learns that the money comes with lots of attached strings. About: Pitched as a “Hithcockian” thriller, Suspicion is based on a book and adapted for television by Jessica Goldberg, who […]

In one of the most improbable crossovers in recent screenplay memory, Blonde Ambition is “Once” meets “The Social Network.” But is it as good as either of those movies? Genre: Biopic Premise: Set in New York in the 80s, Blonde Ambition tells the story of how Madonna hustled her way to stardom. About: Today we […]

Genre: Crime Drama/Action Logline (from writer): When a routine prison transfer turns into a precarious hostage situation at a rural gas station & grill, a curmudgeonly small-town sheriff on the cusp of retirement must team up with a hardened Native American inmate to dodge gunfire and keep each other alive as a rebellious pack of […]

I was chatting with a screenwriter who’s fairly new to the medium. He’d written a Breaking Bad type pilot that was good. However, it had the potential to be a lot better if he improved his scene-writing. There were too many scenes in the pilot that were treading water. Conversations that didn’t have enough bite […]

Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi Premise: (from Black List) A young black girl’s family in 1960s Mississippi decides to harbor two human-looking refugees who have mysteriously fallen from the sky. About: Today’s screenplay is a double-whammy! It was one of the 2017 Nicholl Screenwriting Competition winners AND it made the Black List, with 12 votes. Sarah Jane Inwards, […]