SCRIPTSHADOW TOURNAMENT CONTEST REMINDER: Remember guys – Your Scriptshadow Tournament scripts are due next Sunday!!! Here are the details if you’re interested in submitting. Get cracking on those scripts! Genre: Comedy Premise: A corrupt politician recruits an aspiring law school student to help him escape New York before the cops can capture and throw him […]

Summer’s just about wrapped up, and boy what a disaster it has been! Unless your name is Ellen, you came out of this box office bloodbath in search of your limbs, many of which were chopped off before the Saturday matinee receipts were counted. But as bad as Hollywood has been in predicting what the […]

The Big Stone Grid may be the closest thing we’ll ever get to the next Seven. Genre: Crime Thriller Premise: A New York cop investigates a series of torture-centric murders that lead to a strange underground blackmail scheme that’s growing bigger by the day. About: This one comes from the writer of one of my […]

Genre: Crime-Thriller Premise: A former rodeo star turned motel owner helps his town heal after a triple-homicide, having no idea that the killer is one of his customers. About: This script finished on the 2012 Black List and is just now coming together with one of my favorite actors, Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead). The […]

Genre: Biopic/Drama Premise: The unbelievable fallout after Larry Hillblom, a self-made billionaire, died in a plane crash, and it was revealed he’d used numerous Third World Asian countries as his own personal pedophilia playground. About: This script finished on the low end of last year’s Black List. You could say this is Matt Portenoy’s breakthrough […]