Back when I used to write screenplays, I would send them out to people and, just like many of you, be baffled when they weren’t met with unending praise. At first I thought everybody was crazy. Don’t you understand what genius looks like!? But once reality set in that I wasn’t ready to break through […]

Today’s short story receives such a bad rating, I had to revert back to Scriptshadow 1.0 to give it. Genre: Apocalyptic/Drama Premise: A college professor is annoyed by the death of a mid-level banker during the end of the world. About: This is another Stephen King short story sale. It comes from the collection, “If […]

The daughter of a big-time screenwriter tries her hand at the family business. Genre: Mystery/DramaPremise: A documentary crew in contention at the Emmys for their film about wild Alaskan wolves is hiding several big secrets about their troubled 3 month shoot.About: We’ve got some screenwriting royalty here. Today’s writer, Rose Gilroy, is the daughter of […]

If I had to guess why Fast and Furious didn’t do boffo numbers this weekend (it came in at 67 million – Fast 7, six years ago, made 150 million its first weekend), I’d venture it’s for the same reason I chose not to see the film myself – It doesn’t look different enough from […]

Every second-to-last Friday of the month, I will post the best five loglines submitted to me. You, the readers of the site, will 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 […]