Genre: True Story Premise: How the best-selling autobiography of all time, The Diary of Anne Frank, navigated an endless number of rejections to get published. About: This is one of, if not the, most prestigious spec sale of the year so far. It sold to Fox Searchlight in January after a bidding war. The spec […]

A quick reminder on loglines, friends. Avoid general phrasing to describe big swaths of your script, particularly the last act. “A young man meets an alien only to realize that friendship is a two-way street.” “An older woman discovers a cave full of gold before coming to the ultimate conclusion… greed kills.” “A famous actor […]

There’s an old saying in baseball. “You can’t win the pennant in April. But you can lose it.” For the uninitiated, a baseball season is 162 games long. The first month of the season is April. And what that saying means is this: Even if you win every game in April, you haven’t won the […]

Genre: Action Premise: (from the Black List) An underwater earthquake decimates a research crew working at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, leaving two survivors with limited resources to ascend 35,000 feet and reach the surface before their life support runs out. About: This script finished on the 2015 Black List with 6 votes. Newbie […]

This high-profile spec sale achieves what many thought was impossible – it brings back the romantic comedy! Genre: Romantic Comedy/Fairy Tale Premise: When a fairy godmother is commissioned to help a young woman land the fairest prince in the land, things go awry when the godmother falls for the prince herself. About: Fairy Godmother sold […]