Make sure to get those amateur entries in. There WILL be an Amateur Offerings this weekend. Title, Genre, Logline, Why We Should Read, plus a PDF of your script to carsonreeves3@gmail.com Genre: Period Premise: During World War 2, a famous Jewish director was coerced by the Nazis to produce a propaganda film showing the concentration […]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, I was writing a screenplay. I’d come upon a particularly important scene where two brothers were reuniting for the first time in a decade. But I was having trouble starting the scene. Not long before this, I’d gotten feedback from a producer on a different […]

Genre: Fantasy/Drama Premise: A young mute woman who works for the government in the 1960s stumbles across a top secret project, an intelligent amphibious creature, and falls in love with it. About: You may have heard about The Shape of Water recently. Famed filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro’s newest movie screened at the Telluride Film Festival […]

Genre: Action Premise: When the United States’ most prominent aircraft carrier is infected by a deadly North Korean biological virus, they must figure out how to stave off both the virus and the North Koreans themselves. About: This script comes from producer Arnold Kopelson, who was, at one point, one of the top five producers […]

Scriptshadow Challenge: Describe James Bond in the comments section with what you learned today. Upvote the best descriptions! Let’s talk about character descriptions for a minute, shall we? You ever see that show “Botched,” about botched plastic surgeries? They need to make a show about botched character descriptions. Because I see them in nearly every […]