Genre: Drama Premise: A steamboat captain is recruited by a British ivory company stationed in Northern Africa to find one of its men who’s lost in the jungle. About: Best known for tricking radio listeners into thinking the earth was under attack by aliens from Mars, and for creating the “best film ever made” in […]

Genre: Dark Drama Premise: When a young girl named Allison Adams goes missing, four other women named Allison Adams find themselves at first peripherally, and then directly, pulled into the mysterious disappearance. About: Allison Adams made this past year’s Black List, was written by actor Devon Graye, and is really fucked up. Now, you may […]

A surprisingly kick-ass movie about friendship that was almost as fun to watch as the original! Genre: Drama Premise: 20 years after Renton abandoned his heroin-junky friends for a drug-free existence, he comes back into town to try and make things right again. About: The original Trainspotting launched the careers of director Danny Boyle and […]

We’re back like a Shamrock milkshake, baby. For how long, I don’t know. So enjoy it while you can taste it! To submit your script for Amateur Offerings, send a PDF of your script, along with the title, genre, logline, and finally, why your script deserves a shot, to: Carsonreeves3@gmail.com. Remember that your script will […]

I was looking through the top 10 movies of the year so far and realized that almost all of them had great screenwriting lessons embedded in them. So don’t write your next script until you go through these breakdowns! 1) THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE ($160 million so far) – Animated films from major studios always […]