Do we have a new Top 25 script on our hands!!? Genre: Thriller Premise: After a devastating wildfire wipes out a small California town, a teenage girl is missing and presumed dead. A year later, an obsessive mother and cynical arson investigator begin to suspect that she’s still alive…and in the clutches of a predator. […]

Does anyone here know what a “screenplay movie” is? A “screenplay movie” is a movie that actually resonates because of the screenplay. Most of the movies at the top of the box office in the IP era are *not* screenplay movies. They’re Hollywood movies. They’re designed to sell tickets and merchandise. Their impact is based […]

Every second-to-last Friday of the month, I post the five best loglines submitted to me. You, the readers of the site, vote for your favorite in the comments section. I then review the script of the logline that received the most votes the following Friday. If you didn’t enter this month’s showdown, don’t worry! We […]

GET THOSE LOGLINE SHOWDOWN ENTRIES IN! DETAILS BELOW! The August Logline Showdown deadline is TONIGHT at 10pm. For Logline Showdowns, you send me a logline for a script. I then pick the best five loglines and they compete on the site with you guys voting. Whoever wins gets a script review the following week! What: […]

Is this the first time Scriptshadow gets sexy in a script review?? Genre: Thriller Premise: (from Black List) A successful author/wife/mother plans a trip to a bucolic island to crack her next book and finds herself in a surprising situation. About: Today we get the rare CELEBRITY script, as Power Rangers’ very own Amy Jo […]