Genre: Family/Holiday/MusicalPremise: When a toy factory tour guide is framed for Santa’s kidnapping on Christmas Eve, he sets out on a race against time across mythical Christmastown to clear his name, and save Christmas. About: Every Friday, I review a script from the readers of the site. If you’re interested in submitting your script for […]

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 The room where we got our film equipment at Columbia College Hey everyone.  Doing something a little different today.  Tom Benedek, the writer of Cocoon, interviewed me for his class last week at Screenwriting Master Class.  Since I put so much into the interview and covered a wide range of screenwriting topics, I thought you […]

Genre: Romantic Comedy Premise: Finding it more difficult to kill himself than he thought it would be, a depressed man offers a cash-strapped woman his life insurance money if she’ll marry him and make sure the suicide succeeds. About: This spec sold to Lionsgate last year. The writer, Corinne Kingsbury, was actually an actress and […]

Genre: Drama Premise: (from Black List) In the early 1980s, a town suffers through the aftermath of a brutal murder of a high school girl and a teacher. About: This script finished Number 2 on this year’s Black List. Drew Barrymore has been attached to direct. It’s unclear to me if she became involved before […]