Anybody who lives on the West Coast, and especially people who live here in Southern California, know, that if you’re ever feeling down, if you’re ever feeling blue, there’s one place you can go that will always lift your spirits. I’m talking about In and Out. In and Out is a privately owned fast food […]

Edit: This draft going around is not the Scott Brick draft, but rather a chopped-up version of another writer’s draft of Rama (one of the risks of reviewing older scripts). Now we need to find the official Brick draft, as Coming Attractions says it is great. Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: When a giant mysterious cylindrical ship […]

Genre: TV Pilot – 1 hour drama Premise: A Russian fund manager educated in the UK must deal with the fallout of his fund when rumors begin to swirl that he operates in dirty Russian money. About: AMC’s doing this new thing where they partner with BBC One to deliver a show that plays in […]

Genre: True Story Premise: How the best-selling autobiography of all time, The Diary of Anne Frank, navigated an endless number of rejections to get published. About: This is one of, if not the, most prestigious spec sale of the year so far. It sold to Fox Searchlight in January after a bidding war. The spec […]

A quick reminder on loglines, friends. Avoid general phrasing to describe big swaths of your script, particularly the last act. “A young man meets an alien only to realize that friendship is a two-way street.” “An older woman discovers a cave full of gold before coming to the ultimate conclusion… greed kills.” “A famous actor […]