DIALOGUE WEEK IS HERE! – All this week, I’ll be breaking down dialogue scenes from movies you love. I thought a lot about how I was going to frame this week’s entries and I decided that the best way to go about it was to present a scene from a well-known movie, post that scene […]

Genre: Sci-Fi Adventure Logline: After getting split up from the love of his life, a young and brash pilot joins a group of smugglers and attempts to pull off the heist of the century. About: Maligned from the moment film started passing through the gate, the Solo Star Wars movie was on a Death Star […]

Schedule Change Alert! – Tomorrow, I’m reviewing Solo. Monday, Memorial Day, I’ll be off. Tuesday-Friday will be Dialogue Week. That pushes the Amateur Offerings Winner to June 8th. As we get ready for Dialogue Week, I want to remind you of the basics. Because in order to write good dialogue, you have to first set […]

Genre: TV Pilot – Drama Premise: A group of Boston friends’ lives are changed after a member of their group unexpectedly commits suicide. About: Today’s pilot comes from former comedy writer DJ Nash, who took a chance in writing his first drama. That chance paid off when ABC made it their first pickup of the […]

Genre: Horror Premise: A young teacher who’s recently moved into a small blue collar town tries to help a lonely boy, only to find out that he’s harboring something terrible in his home. About: Antlers director Scott Cooper is on the verge of becoming the next big mainstream auteur. He’s got a really interesting resume, […]