Genre: Holiday Premise: At the height of the holiday season, two strangers team up to rob one of New York’s most famous department stores while accidentally falling in love. About: Today’s script finished high on last year’s Black List, with an ornament-busting 12 votes (“On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to […]

What a weekend! If there’s anything I learned, it’s that not even the best logline consultant in Hollywood can compete with a brain-trust of 100+ screenwriters. You guys killed it. I personally liked Katie’s… A repressed war widow awakens naked in the snow on a military black site and must outwit her ruthless father’s vengeful […]

Today, we’re going to do something different. With loglines being such a hot topic on the site, I thought I’d take you through a recent logline consultation of mine so you can see the thought process I go through when I develop a logline.  This logline comes from a frequent contributor to the site, David […]

Genre: True Story Premise: To get the performance he demands for “The Shining”, despotic director Stanley Kubrick emotionally tortures relative newbie Shelley Duvall. When she refuses to play the victim any longer, Shelley uncovers dark secrets that may completely destroy the film — and her sanity. About: This was one of our entries in the […]

Genre: Comedy Premise: Ten years after a group of girlfriends bet on which of them would be the last to get married, their adult lives and relationships are completely upended when they discover the $80 they drunkenly invested in Bitcoin is now worth $5.2 million. About: We’ve definitely got the best name of all the […]