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Screenplay Review – Carriage Hill
Today we’ve got Get Out meets Rosemary’s Baby meets The Stepford Wives. Genre: Horror Premise: A pregnant couple hoping to start their family in
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Screenplay Review – With Wings As Eagles
Genre: Drama/Action/WW2 Premise: At the tail end of World War 2, a German war hero is tasked with exterminating 8000 American POWs… but instead
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HOW TO FIND A CHARACTER’S FLAW
Character flaws used to be a giant mystery to me. It was hard to identify them in movies unless they were overtly obvious. If I did identity them, I
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Screenplay Review – Blackpill
Genre: Drama Premise: Awkward and lonely, Jared is only able to find a community online — until the day he realizes that his favorite Youtuber
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Screenplay Review – Fiendish
Today’s writer does something really clever. He takes a recent hit movie and slides it over to the horror genre. Genre: Horror Premise: While
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The Cliched Reality of Sports Screenplays – “Hustle” Reminds Us Of How To Do Them Right
Sports movies are some of the hardest movies to make work because they’re so inherently cliched. You got some sports person, either an athlete or
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A PRODUCER ASKED ME TO FIND HIM AN AMATEUR SCREENWRITER FOR A JOB – HERE’S HOW I WENT ABOUT CHOOSING ONE
If you can write a character like Mikey, in “Red Rocket,” you’re in the discussion! So, recently, a producer came to me saying he had a
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Screenplay Review – Ghosted
Genre: Romantic Comedy Premise: After Amanda is seemingly ghosted by the man of her dreams, she’s delighted to discover he’s actually been
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Screenplay Review – Classified
Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: A mysterious terrorist takes over a top secret U.S. mountain military base that contains within it every ancient artifact that
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Mish-Mash Monday – The “Cloned Dinosaurs vs. Robotic Cats” Edition!
There is a movie Hollywood wanted you to see this weekend. There is a movie Netflix tried to convince you you wanted to see this weekend. And there
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MS. MARVEL IS A BETTER SHOW THAN OBI-WAN KENOBI… AND IT’S NOT EVEN CLOSE???
If you would’ve told me two months ago that not only would I *like* Ms. Marvel more than Obi-Wan, but that the show would be infinitely better
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Screenplay Review – Shantaram
Genre: Drama/Crime Premise: An Australian heroin-addict prisoner escapes to Mumbai to disappear, before cozying up with the local mob to make ends
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TV PILOT TUESDAY – BAD MONKEY
The creator of Apple’s most popular show, Ted Lasso, has struck a deal with the streamer to produce a new comedy for them! Genre: TV 1 Hour
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COMEDY SHOWDOWN WINNING REVIEW! – SENIOR PRANK
Today we review the winner of Comedy Showdown. Plus a little surprise announcement! Genre: Comedy Premise: On the last day of high school, two
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MY PHILOSOPHY ON SCREENWRITING
One of the struggles of being a screenwriter is trying to decode the matrix that is the feature length screenplay. If you could master all the