Update 1 (10:17 a.m. April 1) – Added thoughts about using text-speak.Update 2 (10:45 a.m. April 3) – Added advice about including title.   Update 3 (10:37 p.m. April 3) – IMPORTANT – Character count down to 134 characters (not 135). Twit-Pitch.  You thought it was dead and buried forever. It wasn’t!  It just went through […]

As many of you may have heard, I took a year off from Los Angeles to move back to Chicago and reclaim my soul. But I’m moving back in August and as I started looking for places, I realized, like Liam Neeson in Taken, that I had a particular set of skills. I’d lived in […]

A writer who’s been dead for over a hundred years pens today’s screenplay. Well…kinda. Genre: Sci-FiPremise: A sci-fi retelling of the The Count Of Monte Cristo. About: Cristo sold last year to Warner Brothers and later made the lower half of the Black List. Alfonso Cuaron (Children Of Men) is attached to direct. Shorr, the […]

Roger Balfour comes back from the dead again to review a script that I’m reasonably certain was written exclusively for him. Jack The Ripper…and vampires. Genre: Period Piece / Thriller / Gothic Horror Premise: Secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum, the infamous Jack the Ripper helps Scotland Yard solve a series of grisly murders […]

Today’s screenplay will make you reevaluate just how bad your kids really are. Genre: Comedy-HorrorPremise: A young married couple who can’t conceive decide to use in vitro fertilization. They realize something’s off, however, when their son starts acting like Satan. About: You might remember this writer as he’s the same writer who wrote The Wedding, […]