Genre: Christmas Comedy Logline: When the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree burns to a crisp, a ragtag group of misfit landscapers band together to find a replacement before the official tree lighting ceremony. It goes badly. About: This past weekend, we had an Amateur Showdown here on Scriptshadow. Out of a little more than 200 entries, […]

Other Mommy Unfriends The Social Reckoning! Plus, The Most Baffling Movie I’ve Seen All Year! First of all, thanks for all of you who took the time to vote this weekend in Amateur Showdown in what turned out to be a very close competition. I took away five first time votes from Deer Day as […]

Time to vote! Man, when I told you guys to send me those weird script ideas you’ve had trouble getting anyone to read, you really took that to heart. I’ve gotten so many bizarre concepts. They’ve been fun to read through but some of them had me thinking, “I have absolutely no idea how this […]

Today’s script SCREAMS “movie.” Will its delicious setup deliver?? Genre: Horror Premise: When an Arctic research vessel becomes stranded after retrieving a mysterious egg, a timid deckhand must overcome her fear and lead the crew against the ancient creature, tracking their every move through the ship itself as it hunts. About: Last year I did […]

Also, is the wokest movie of the year also its best?? A question I get asked a lot, especially by people who aren’t in the movie business, is “Why did they make that movie?” Something completely awful was financed, produced, and ended up in theaters and people rightly have no clue how it happened. I […]