Or is it? It has been a loooonnnnnnnnnnnnnng time since the directing industry had a revolution. There used to be new filmmakers popping up everywhere. Every couple of years there was some exciting new voice (Tarantino, Rodriquez, PT Anderson, Richard Linklater, the Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee, Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, David O. Russell) […]

This writer took over the town for a week. What can we learn from her? Genre: Comedy Premise: Two parents will do anything they can to help their son get into Yale, his dream college since he was a young child. About: Sophie Fleur de Bruijn recently sold a romantic comedy spec that is said […]

A reckoning is upon us. Genre: Horror Premise: An architect who’s been burdened with running a small town furniture store discovers an endless series of rooms running underneath his store. About: The backrooms started as a picture of a real room of yellowed walls that looked both depressing and terrifying.  Reddit started writing nosleep articles […]

Should be there in less than an hour. This was one of my favorite newsletters to work on. I document finding the Ember Knight script, the writers signing with Kaplane/Perrone and how you can be the next screenwriter to make that leap. I interview the writers and push them on why they decided to write […]

Yesterday, I took on Hollywood. Today, I take on Indie-land Genre: Drama Premise: A happily engaged couple are thrown a curveball a week before their wedding when one of them admits to something shocking about their past. About: The Drama got a lot of pushback when it first came out as it was marketed as […]