Genre: Comedy Premise: Two teenage feminists struggle to create the perfect boyfriend, only to watch their experiment deteriorate as he succumbs to the ultimate perpetrator of casual high school misogyny: the football team. About: Screenwriter Julie Mandel Folly is building a nice resume. She wrote on the underrated half-hour comedy, “Welcome to Flatch,” which I […]

One of the weirdest coolest crossovers I’ve ever read. Everything Everywhere All at Once meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets When Harry Met Sally! Genre: Rom-Com/Quirky/Sci-Fi/Drama Premise: A relationship is put to the ultimate test when time ripples keep reinventing one of the partners, forcing the relationship to begin again… and again… and […]

”The Continental” draws heavy inspiration from The Godfather. Does it work? You gotta give it to the John Wick people. They optimistically charged into a seemingly impossible task. They took a franchise built on top of thin characterization, thinner mythology, and overly-impressive production value and migrated it to a medium that’s all about characterization, needs […]

Come on in and vote for your favorite first page! I’m going to be a little shameless here but I feel like I have to be. 90% of the submitted entries for First Page Showdown were uninspired. To the point where I was getting upset. I will do a First Page Consultation — 1 page […]

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 […]