Genre: Action Premise: Ethan Hunt must battle his biggest threat yet – AI! About: July was the summer’s biggest movie month. Indiana Jones, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Mission Impossible. Who was going to make it out alive? Who would fall? Cruise and McQuarrie’s latest, a labor of love that, at one point, had Cruise famously terrorizing his […]

Pilot Showdown and David Aaron Cohen’s New Navigating Hollywood Master Class! Since this is probably our only TV Pilot Logline Showdown of the year, I want to find a great TV show. This is where the industry’s bread and butter is – television. So if we can pitch a great show to these streamers, who’s […]

And the power of containing your set pieces! This weekend, I’ll be seeing the latest Mission Impossible movie. These movies have become known for their set-pieces, specifically the ones that Tom Cruise does himself. Tom Cruise scales a real skyscraper. Tom cruise HALO jumps out of a plane. Tom Cruise takes off on the side […]

Genre: TV Pilot – 1 Hour Drama Premise: During the Black Plague, a group of rich Italians head off into the countryside to party out the plague in a beautiful villa. About: Word on the street is that Bridgerton was so big for Netflix that they wanted more period stuff. Enter Jenji Kohan, creator of […]

Genre: Drama Premise: (from Black List) After a young, newly widowed janitor in a small mining village is unexpectedly elected Mayor, she navigates a new relationship with a mysterious man from the city and tries to determine how to use her new position of power to confront the corruption that has plagued the town for […]