A little under two years ago, Vanity Fair ran a surprisingly eye opening piece about the state of Hollywood’s spec script market as it pertains to the feature film industry. In the write-up, author ...

Script Consultant Philip Shelley explains why spec scripts are fundamental to the industry and shares some great advice. As the dates for our next annual Open Call will be announced very soon, we ...

The once-mighty movie “spec” script, long a source of some of Hollywood’s most-beloved films, was pronounced dead after a lengthy illness. As befits many screen legends, the spec script died alone and ...

Independent producer Lawrence Grey sold the screenplay for “Section 6” for $1 million after setting off a bidding war between the major studios. Six months later, in March, he sold the screenplay for ...

October was a very good month indeed to be a screenwriter. On Monday, TheWrap reported 18 screenplays were purchased in the month, the highest amount in five years. Well, the final number is even ...

Woody Allen Wrote a Script About Being a Porn Director in Love With Young WomanAn unearthed Woody Allen script from the late ‘60s or early ‘70s is about a porn director — named Woody Allen — in love ...

Brandon Cohen wrote the script that was picked up preemptively by the studio. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer So far, the new Skydance-owned Paramount has made a wrestling deal, a talent deal and a ...

As the dates for our next annual Open Call will be announced very soon, we turned to Script Consultant Philip Shelley to outline some of the key things you should be thinking about if you are ...

So far, the new Skydance-owned Paramount has made a wrestling deal, a talent deal and a filmmaker deal, all of them splashy. Now comes the splashy spec script deal. Paramount has aggressively picked ...

So far, the new Skydance-owned Paramount has made a wrestling deal, a talent deal, and a filmmaker deal, all of them splashy. Now comes the splashy spec script deal. Paramount has aggressively picked ...