“What’s that, brother?  My logline didn’t make the showdown???” It’s time to play that most wonderful of games: “Why didn’t my logline get picked for Logline Showdown?” This month, though, we’re going to do something special. We’re going to focus on submissions that need to retire.  As much as I’m rooting for everyone on today’s […]

Genre: Action/Revenge/Comedy Premise: Blasting out of prison after being double-crossed by the Mastermind of a heist, a Demolition Expert uses his genius with explosives to enact revenge on the Caper Crew who set him up while simultaneously picking up the pieces of his personal life. About: The controversial screenwriting talent, Colin Bannon, he of the […]

Do we have a new Top 25 script on our hands!!? Genre: Thriller Premise: After a devastating wildfire wipes out a small California town, a teenage girl is missing and presumed dead. A year later, an obsessive mother and cynical arson investigator begin to suspect that she’s still alive…and in the clutches of a predator. […]

Does anyone here know what a “screenplay movie” is? A “screenplay movie” is a movie that actually resonates because of the screenplay. Most of the movies at the top of the box office in the IP era are *not* screenplay movies. They’re Hollywood movies. They’re designed to sell tickets and merchandise. Their impact is based […]

Every second-to-last Friday of the month, I post the five best loglines submitted to me. You, the readers of the site, vote for your favorite in the comments section. I then review the script of the logline that received the most votes the following Friday. If you didn’t enter this month’s showdown, don’t worry! We […]