Genre: Horror Premise: Three teens rent a cursed VHS video tape and are pulled into an ’80s slasher movie that threatens to trap them there forever. About: Lionsgate just picked this one up last week. Seth Rogen is producing with Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures. The script was written by Chris Thomas Devlin, whose sparse (some […]

CONGRATULATIONS if you are one of the 42 total writers to make it to the semi-finals of The Last Great Screenplay Contest! (Note: I miscounted the other day when I said there were 53 total – sorry!) For those who weren’t around when I started this contest back in 1897, The Last Great Screenplay Contest […]

It’s finally here. It only took a year. Somebody buy me a beer. Soon, it will all be clear! Yes, the semi-finalists are about to be announced and I wanted to give you a heads up on how this is going to work. For those that don’t know, I had four piles for my contest. […]

Good news! It looks like I’ll be posting all scripts that made it into the next round in The Last Great Screenplay Contest THIS MONDAY. Mark your calendars! I was perusing Youtube as I am wont to do when I’m in Procrastination Mode, which is pretty much all the time. And I came across a […]

Genre: Period Premise: Set in 1862, after his sister is kidnapped by soldiers, a half-white, half-Comanche teenager teams up with several members of his tribe to track the soldiers East in an attempt to rescue her. About: Today’s script finished with 6 votes on last year’s Black List and has a pretty good pitch – […]