I’ve been so busy this week I haven’t been able to post but when this hit the Hollywood Reporter today, I couldn’t not use the opportunity to congratulate Jacob Rainer, whose Bigfoot spec, “Wildman,” born out of the Blood & Ink Screenplay Contest, sold. To give you a little background on this one, earlier this […]

A lot of people are talking about Ridley Scott’s latest film, The Dog Stars, bombing at the box office, snagging just 8 million bucks on its opening weekend. And all I could think was, “Uhhh… how did you NOT see this coming?” This remains one of Hollywood’s biggest blind spots. They put together packages and […]

Genre: Horror comedy Premise: At the “MonstroCon” horror convention, a group of washed-up monster movie legends are reluctantly gathered in the green room, nursing bruised egos and lukewarm coffee. When they find themselves under siege by rabid, parasite-infected superfans they must fight their way out—armed with foam props, years of regret, and very bad knees. […]

Genre: Slasher Dark/Comedy Premise: A group of job applicants arrive at a sleek highrise for a coveted position, but find themselves trapped and fighting for their lives against a psychopathic assessor known as Cutthroat, who wields a briefcase full of nasty weapons and is out to kill all of them. About: Last year I did […]

Say goodbye to Hollywood doom and gloom talk. Over this past month, two movies have made 3.6 billion dollars at the box office. Ironically, those two movies have become huge for exactly the opposite reasons. One is the ultimate zeitgeist popular culture everybody from age 8 to age 80 can go see it and have […]