One of my favorite things while going through the entries of these showdowns is writers who try to hide multiple entries by sending them in under different e-mail addresses, but they use THE EXACT SAME FORMATTING as their other e-mail, making it obvious it’s the same person. I love that. Especially because there’s no limit […]

******** THURSDAY – DEC 1 – IS THE DEADLINE FOR THE HIGH CONCEPT SHOWDOWN! SUBMISSION DETAILS HERE! ******** We are just about 24 hours away from the deadline to the High Concept Showdown. This has got me thinking about ‘concept’ and what kind of concepts get people to read scripts. Because, as I like to […]

******** THURSDAY IS THE DEADLINE FOR THE HIGH CONCEPT SHOWDOWN! SUBMISSION DETAILS HERE! ******** Genre: Period Piece/Biopic Premise: An inside look at the unique relationship between John Wayne and John Ford, who collaborated on one of the greatest movies of all time, THE SEARCHERS. About: This script made it on the 2019 Black List. Screenwriter […]

******** THURSDAY IS THE DEADLINE FOR THE HIGH CONCEPT SHOWDOWN! SUBMISSION DETAILS HERE! ******** With Thanksgiving and its 9000 calories worth of delicious stuffing officially behind us, the all-out sprint to Christmas has begun! I spent my Thanksgiving up at my brother’s place in Portland, which is the polar opposite of Los Angeles. Here, it […]

Remember the days when we used to get up at 4am and drive our car through the rain and the slush to wait in line at the Best Buy to get that once-in-a-lifetime $99 55-inch widescreen television deal, only to find out when we got inside, it was too late, all the $99 dollar TV […]