Genre: Noir/Fantasy/Serial KillerPremise: A recently retired police captain, Hook, is called back in to action when a boy goes missing under mysterious circumstances. He enlists the help of a woman named Wendy who, since her own kidnapping as a child, has been diagnosed as clinically insane. About: Ben Magid is a writer who’s been earning […]

Genre: Sci-Fi/ComedyPremise: One of the top villains in the world is pushed out of the villain coalition when it’s suspected that he has too much compassion for others and might actually be – gasp – good.About: Villain is one of the first two Amazon Screenwriting Contest $20,000 winners. The writer, Richard Stern, tried to push […]

I’m not going to pretend like I’m first on the boat here.  The “Dead Island” video game trailer went viral a couple of days ago and has been burning up the internet ever since.  Within a day, all the big studios were clamoring for a movie deal with the producers (who’d actually secured the film […]

Amateur Friday is back! I didn’t like the sound of last week’s “New Writer Friday” but I can’t think of anything better at the moment so back to Amateur Friday we go.  Who knows though?  Next week it could be something else. We’ll see. The drama continues! :) Genre: Drama/Sci-fiPremise: A book appraiser working at […]

Genre: Crime/Noir Premise: A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles onto a larger conspiracy involving the Los Angeles water system. About: Chinatown has been called one of the greatest films ever made. It was nominated for eleven Academy Awards in 1974, winning for Best Original Screenplay. In 1971, producer and all around kook Robert […]