You’ve got about an hour left to vote for the best scene in the First Scene Showdown. It’s a close race so every vote counts!  For those of you who already voted, though, it’s time to get your Scriptshadow Newsletter on. This is a goodie! I teach you about two secret unknown pages in your […]

What I liked most about this showdown was that every time I opened an e-mail submission, I would read the logline and think, “Ooh, this sounds good!” You can’t even begin to understand how amazing that feeling is when you compare it to what I usually go through, which is that I have to repeatedly […]

Today’s script feels like the movie Tarantino was writing as his final film before abandoning it. That script was called “The Critic,” about a movie critic. I can imagine today’s antagonist being exactly who Tarantino envisioned for his own critic. Genre: Dark Comedy/Thriller Logline: A long-suffering sous chef seeks revenge after a chauvinistic food critic’s […]

I’m swamped today but didn’t want to leave you hanging. And there’s actually Scriptshadow-relevant movie news since yours truly may possibly be – nothing has been confirmed yet but there are multiple witnesses testifying as such – obsessed with Star Wars. Quick side story: Getting my rackets strung today, I ask the stringer her name […]

You are going to be SHOCKED at the movie I endorse at the end of this post A lot of people in Hollywood are asking the question: how did A Big Bold Beautiful Journey bomb? It’s the follow-up film for THE STAR OF BARBIE, one of the biggest hits in movie history, a movie that […]