It’s easy to tell if a movie’s not going to work. You watch the trailer and instantly sense that something is off (check here and here for exhibits A and B). You don’t always know what it is. But you know you’re not going to waste 2 hours and 15 bucks of your life on […]

Genre: Biopic Premise: The true story of how a CIA agent used his contacts he made in the agency to sell explosives to Libya after he was fired. About: This script made the 2013 Black List and got Matthew McConaughey attached half a year later. Unfortunately, the project became a casualty of McConaughey’s busy schedule. […]

Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a dying man programs a robot to take care of his dog when he dies. About: Talk about an 80s film package! This was a spec script that got a lot of heat at the end of last year, eventually landing Tom Hanks (presumably for the role of […]

Genre: TV Series – Drama About: While companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu have made high profile splashes with budgets that rival those of studio films, YouTube has released a bunch of no-budget pre-teen content that even pre-teens think is lame. But with the announcement of Cobra Kai, a TV sequel to the 1984 phenomenon, […]

I heard Charlize Theron gained 50 pounds to play the roll of Tully in the new Diablo Cody film, which comes out this weekend in an attempt to woo you away from your 17th viewing of Avengers Infinity War. It was a good script and the kind of movie that gets you talking afterwards. So […]