Genre: True Story/Satire Premise: A satirical take on the unbelievable but true story of how the NRA changed overnight from an apolitical gun safety and marksmanship club into the most powerful and unhinged lobbying group in Washington, DC. About: This script finished low on last year’s Black List. It comes from Jake Disch, who is […]

The box office numbers are IN for the third weekend of September and while, at first glance, it may seem like an inactive weekend, there is actually a lot going on here. Remaining in the number one spot is It: Chapter 2, which dropped 55% to 40 million dollars. For reference, Spider-Man: Far From Home […]

I don’t want to sway anything here (I haven’t opened the script) but I’m excited that the Scriptshadow 10 Pages Contest winner is participating in this week’s Amateur Showdown. If you’re curious about what happened to that winning script, I’ll let him field questions in the comments. Now before we get started, I want to […]

This week started off on a bad note. It: Chapter 2, a movie I once proclaimed had the potential to be the best movie of the year, turned out to be a big stinking bag of garbage. You know what kind of garbage I’m talking about. The kind where you clean out your fridge into […]

Genre: Thriller Premise: An inexperienced Coast Guard Captain is put to the test when a simple submarine drug bust nets her one of the most notorious drug lords in the world. About: This script finished low on last year’s Black List and comes from newbie writer Alex Sohn, who adapted the story from a Men’s […]