Genre: ComedyPremise: A young man about to get married to the wrong girl gets stuck down in Florida for a week, babysitting his newly widowed grandfather. About: Hip hip hooray, the spec sale lives! This script just sold a couple of weeks ago to Universal for mid six figures. The writer, John Phillips, is a […]

Genre: Sci-Fi/FantasyPremise: In the future, where every minute is kept track of by a time dictator known as the Ticktockman, one man decides to fight the system and help the public seize back their lives. About: J. Michael Straczynski, through the blessing of his friend Harlan Ellison, who wrote the original short story which won […]

Genre: ComedyPremise: (writers’ logline) A film producer known for remaking some of Hollywood’s biggest movies becomes the subject of a posthumous investigation by Entertainment Tonight.About: Last week’s comments section for Amateur Friday was a disaster. I want to rebound here. Remember what Amateur Friday is about. It’s about identifying the problems in an amateur screenplay […]

I’ve reviewed a lot of scripts here on Scriptshadow, and one of the unfortunate things about the way the blog is constructed, is that whenever I come across a good script that’s been lost amongst the glut of endless projects weighing down the Hollywood sign and everything around it, it’s forgotten less than a week […]

Genre: Romantic DramedyPremise: A frustrated 35 year old magazine columnist forms a friendship with a 16 year old female blogger while researching her for an article. About: Point A landed on the 2010 Black List. It’s written by Chris Rubeo, who wrote and directed the 2003 Indie “Hale Bopp,” but has been kicking it underground-style […]