Today (Thursday) is the deadline for First Page Showdown. You submit the first page of your screenplay. I pick the five best first pages and post them tomorrow. The site votes on their favorite. Whoever wins gets a script review next Friday. What: First Page Showdown Send in: Title, Genre, Logline, and a PDF of […]

The First Page Showdown deadline is this Thursday at 10pm! Here’s how to enter! Genre: Comedy Premise: A 13 year-old boy blackmails his favorite pop star into being his best friend. About: This script received 8 votes on last year’s Black List. Writer James Morosini got some nice buzz a few years back for his […]

Today’s article taught me a tremendous lesson about creating memorable main characters. Genre: Article – Drama/Crime Premise: Covers the unique job of Gary Johnson, a Houston cop who specializes in going undercover as a hit man to entrap murders-for-hire. About: This article, which was written all the way back in 2001, was snatched up by […]

A discussion about the crucial screenwriting skill of mining your concept properly One of the funnier moments in the film Nobody’s shocked that A Haunting in Venice barely scraped up 15 million dollars this weekend. A decade ago, I think that number doubles. But Rian Johnson put his Agatha Christie clone movie on Netflix for […]

We take our amazing logline from yesterday and turn it into a movie! ******** SPECIAL WEEKEND OFFER! HALF-OFF SCRIPT NOTES DEAL! TWO SLOTS OPEN E-MAIL ME ASAP TO GRAB ONE: carsonreeves1@gmail.com ******** Yesterday, I came up with one heck of a cool movie idea. Here’s the preliminary pitch… Title: The Lawless Dozen Genre: Western Logline: […]