Red-hot screenwriter Aron Eli Coleite bursts into the Top 10 of 2011’s Black List with his end-of-the-world screenplay, “The End.” Genre: Drama/Sci-fi/ApocalypsePremise: (from Black List) Four people – a veteran broadcaster in London, a sixteen year old girl and her best friend in Ann Arbor, and a devoted family man in Shanghai – each try […]

Guest screenplay reviewer Amy Suto buys a box of chocolates in preparation for today’s 2009 Black List script and recent Sundance purchase, Celeste and Jesse Forever. Hey everybody. As I continue to close in on the book release and re-launch of the site, I once again turn to Scriptshadow readers to help me meet my […]

Screenwriters everywhere beware. You will not be the same after this review. That’s because this screenplay is…well, I’ll just come out and say it.  It’s puppet noir. Genre: Puppet NoirPremise: When a serial killer starts murdering the cast of a once-famous puppet show called The Happytime Gang, two detectives, one a man, one a puppet, […]

Writer of one of my Top 25 favorite screenplays takes a few moments to share his experiences with Scriptshadow Nation. Brian Duffield shot onto the scene with his Black List script, “Your Bridesmaid Is A Bitch,” about a young man who must endure a wedding weekend around his ex-girlfriend, who he’s still trying to get […]

Today’s screenplay tackles that age-old screenwriting question: How does an alien spy save planet earth? Genre: Sci-FiPremise: Behind the scenes of a modern day earth, the leaders of the world learn that a faraway civilization is planning to wipe them out. So they send in a spy – one of the aliens who came to […]