Our wrap up notes for the fifth session in our 2026 Script Essentials Webinar series Our fifth Script Essentials session was ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An unknown writer, a fast-rising feeding frenzy, and a true multimillion-dollar deal. It’s enough to make executives or aspiring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: Skinned) Searchlight Pictures has successfully acquired the rights to the spec script Clean Break from rising ...

New York-based comedian Mamoudou N’Diaye is a fan of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s Comedy Central series Broad City, but one glaring aspect of it has always bothered him: the show’s use of cultural ...

(L-R) Simon Kinberg, Jessica Chastain and Michael Showalter Mega EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate bought a whopper of a spec package in Wayland. In competition, Lionsgate took the spec script by Simon Kinberg off ...

EXCLUSIVE: In its first spec deal, Amazon Studios has acquired The Wall, a script by Dwain Worrell about a deadly cat-and-mouse contest waged by an American sharpshooter and the Iraqi sniper who has ...

Writer and comedian Billy Domineau has stumbled into viral fame after posting a Seinfeld spec script that imagines how its well-known sitcom characters would have reacted to the Sept. 11 terrorist ...