by Tom | Oct 3, 2024 | Contests, Industry Diary, Industry News, News, Our Winners, Pitching, Updates, WriteMovies News
Pitch: DEATH IN VENICE BEACH by Nicholas Horwood! Another WriteMovies award winner…
A curmudgeonly English vampire is sent to 1980s LA to stop an undead serial-killer but is forced to team-up with an upbeat pathologist and a cop who wants him dead… We’ve begun to pitch DEATH IN VENICE BEACH, a WriteMovies award-winning script, and others, to the international entertainment industry.
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by Tom | Sep 27, 2024 | 2024 Screenwriting Contest, Screenwriting Contests, Updates, WriteMovies News
The WriteMovies 2024 Screenwriting Contest Earlybird Deadline is coming up this Sunday!
Every entry receives free feedback on the first ten pages and a free re-entry of your redraft! By entering early you’ll get longer to receive feedback, improve and update your script and resubmit before our final closure date!
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by Tom | Sep 24, 2024 | 2024 Screenwriting Contest, Contests, Horror Award, News, Screenwriting Contests, Updates, WriteMovies News
Why Horror Movies Are Popular – WriteMovies Horror Award 2024
With the Earlybird Deadline approaching on September 29th for the WriteMovies Horror Award 2024, we take a look at why horror movies are popular among both audiences and screenwriters.
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by Tom | Sep 20, 2024 | Contests, Industry Diary, Industry News, News, Our Winners, Pitching, Updates, WriteMovies News
Pitch: THE REVOLT OF THE WHALES by Michael Rhodes, our 2023 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award Winner.
A musician, grieving her sister’s murder, returns to the sea of her youth and reunites with her beloved whales to fight a brutal whaling armada. Introducing THE REVOLT OF THE WHALES by Michael Rhodes, a WriteMovies Award Winner!
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by Tom | Sep 16, 2024 | 2024 Screenwriting Contest, Contests, Horror Award, Rom-Com award, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award, Screenwriting Contests, Updates, WriteMovies News
Today we’re announcing more opportunities to win our screenwriting contests with the return of our WriteMovies Genre Awards!
Make our skin crawl with our Horror Award 2024, delight us with our Romance and Comedy Award 2024 or transport us to a distant world with our Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award 2024!
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by Tom | Sep 11, 2024 | 2024 Screenwriting Contest, Contests, News, Updates
Today we’re announcing our brand new WriteMovies Script Pitch Contest – a new opportunity to become a prize winner by submitting a high-quality one-page pitch!
Click here to enter
Win a year of script development! The most impressive pitch will receive script mentoring worth $3200 representation and pitching of their developed script to the international entertainment industry by TalentScout International Management!
Enter for just $25. The winner of the Script Pitch Contest receives the same prize as the winners of our main contest!
Submit a one-page pitch of your idea, making sure to include the author’s name, a logline, and information about the project (max 500 words).
We also offer a free Script Pitch Template to structure your pitch!
Click here to enter
Have you already got a completed script? On Friday we launched the WriteMovies 2024 Screenwriting Contest!
Prizes for the top three scripts: Script mentoring worth $3200, representation and pitching to the industry. Every entry also receives free feedback on the crucial opening 10 pages.
In the coming days, we are also bringing back our Horror Award, our Romance and Comedy Award and our Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award!
We’re looking for the best scripts and pitches and will be taking all of our winners’ projects to out to top execs and producers. Enter a WriteMovies contest to get your work out there!
To be extra prepared for entering, make sure to join us on September 16th for our upcoming session on How to Succeed in Screenwriting Contests.
by Tom | Sep 7, 2024 | 2024 Screenwriting Contest, Contests, Screenwriting Contests, Updates, WriteMovies News
Today we’re announcing that the WriteMovies 2024 Screenwriting Contest is now open!
Click here to enter
Prizes for the top three scripts! The top three entries and all prize winners will receive script mentoring worth $3200 and pitching to industry by TalentScout International Management!
All entries to the contests will also get a free one-page analysis of their crucial opening ten pages, meaning you’ll get professional feedback from our expert script analysts on their strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. To make the most of the feedback, you can re-submit your next draft for FREE until the contest closes!
We’re looking for the best scripts out there in any genre. WriteMovies has been working in the industry for over 20 years, and we’ll be taking all our winners’ scripts out to top producers and execs. So if you want to get your work out there, enter now!
Click here to enter
More opportunities to win with our Genre Awards…
Next week we are also bringing back our Horror Award, our Romance and Comedy Award and our Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award.
Also new for 2024 is our Best Pitch Contest a chance to be a prize winner based on the strength of your pitch!
All winners gain the same prizes as the 3 overall winners of the full contest and are automatically entered into the overall contest. More information will be announced very soon!
To be extra prepared for entering, make sure to join us on September 16th for our upcoming session on How to Succeed in Screenwriting Contests.