Upon first glance, the weekend box office looks insignificant. The only movie that opened wide was a smaller studio horror movie, Insidious 4. But I would argue that this weekend’s box office is one of the most important box offices of the year. The box office is its own form of AI, an accumulation of […]

I love The Bear. It’s an extremely well-written show. So I thought, let’s bring “10 Screenwriting Tips” out of retirement so we can learn what screenwriting tricks The Bear is using to be so goooooood! 1) Obstacle Mania – Whatever your characters’ giant goal is, your job, especially in a TV show, is to place […]

Genre: Action-Thriller Premise: When her family is abducted, a disgraced submariner must pilot a narco submarine to its destination in less than eight hours or her husband and daughter will be killed. About: Today’s writer is from Kansas City. He studied film at the University of Kansas. This script got him on last year’s Black […]

Genre: Action/Adventure Premise: Indiana Jones is pulled into one last adventure when his goddaughter asks him to help her find a dial created by Archimedes that has the power to travel through time. About: The fifth and final Indiana Jones film, which is said to have cost 280 million dollars, pulled in just 60 million […]

Genre: Teen Comedy Premise: When two high school seniors discover a robot from outer space, they ignore its warning of an imminent alien invasion and reprogram it to help them score with chicks! About: This is the logline that won the June Logline Showdown. Congrats to E.C. for the big win. He had to beat […]