Genre: Alternative ComedyPremise: When fourteen year old Joe Toy and his buddies tire of their parents overbearing ways, they decide to build their own house in the woods, away from the restraints of the lives they have come to know.About: Toy’s House finished in the Top 15 of the 2009 Black List with 15 votes. […]

Genre: Action ComedyPremise: Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so. (from IMDB)About: Kick-Ass is Matthew Vaughn’s third directing effort (behind Layer Cake and Stardust). What some people don’t know […]

Zach Galifianakis and Paull Rudd will star in “Will,” the spec screenplay written by Demetri Martin which was sold a couple of years ago. Wanted to give both of these guys and Paramount kudos for taking a chance on something different. Longtime readers will remember I reviewed the script earlier in the year.

A quick surprise contest. The first person who answers this special Scriptshadow trivia question – I will read your script and give you three pages of notes for free! As longstanding readers of the site know, I offer script notes for a fee. But I want to reward those same readers with a question that […]

We all do it. Every time we see a movie like “Gamer” or “Inkheart” hit the cineplexes, we shake our heads, rolls our eyes, and say, “I know I could do better than that.” We imagine ourselves as studio bosses, greenlighting a dozen District 9s, Hurt Lockers, or Up In The Airs. We’d make quality […]