Sports movies are some of the hardest movies to make work because they’re so inherently cliched. You got some sports person, either an athlete or a coach or a GM, who’s an underdog in some sense, and then they fight to get to the top where they finally win the big game and HOORAY, we’re […]
If you can write a character like Mikey, in “Red Rocket,” you’re in the discussion! So, recently, a producer came to me saying he had a project he was trying to put together and needed a writer for it. This wasn’t some giant producer. But it was someone who could pay a writer real […]
Genre: Romantic Comedy Premise: After Amanda is seemingly ghosted by the man of her dreams, she’s delighted to discover he’s actually been kidnapped — and takes it upon herself to be his rescuer, going on an adventure of epic proportions along the way. About: This script finished with 9 votes on last year’s Black List. […]
Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: A mysterious terrorist takes over a top secret U.S. mountain military base that contains within it every ancient artifact that the U.S. has ever collected. About: New Line just won the auction for this project. John Wick 4 helmer Chad Stahelski will direct it. The writers are Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan, […]
There is a movie Hollywood wanted you to see this weekend. There is a movie Netflix tried to convince you you wanted to see this weekend. And there is the movie you actually should’ve seen this weekend. We’re going to talk about all three today. We’ll start with shocking box office news. The second weekend […]
