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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
Today we’re announcing that the WriteMovies 2024 Screenwriting Contest is now open!
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!
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.
After becoming an award-winning script in the 2022 WriteMovies Screenwriting Contest, we’re now inviting approaches from the industry to take it to the widest audience possible!
About the pitch: Standby by Patrick Tierney:
Gail’s life is going nowhere. Single, barely employed, and rudderless, Gail approaches 40 with a terrifying realization — that she hasn’t accomplished anything. What’s worse, she’s drifting apart from Beth, Mallory, and Sheila — her best friends since childhood.
When Beth dies unexpectedly, Gail convinces Mallory and Sheila to finish Beth’s bucket list. The only item left unachieved? Seeing their favorite band, Manic Pixie Dream Girl, perform live in concert. Turns out, it’s now or never — the band is breaking up, and their final performance is only days away… on Saturday Night Live!
Since tickets are notoriously hard to come by, they have no choice but to tackle the legendary SNL standby line — a grueling all-nighter on the streets of Rockefeller Center. If our heroes (and their bladders) can survive the inane rules, territorial superfans, and a brewing nor’easter, the tickets will be theirs by morning.
But even then, standby tickets are no guarantee. If Gail, Mallory, and Sheila *really* want to see Manic Pixie Dream Girl perform “live from New York,” they’ll have to do whatever it takes — even if it means breaking into Studio 8H.
But when NBC Studios throws down the gauntlet, the obstacles may be more than our heroes can handle. Beth was always the “glue” that held their group together — can their friendship survive without her? Can Gail finish anything she starts? If our heroes have any chance of succeeding, they’ll have to give it all they’ve got — with a little help from a psychotic stand-up comedian, a telepathic zoomer, a shotgun-toting boomer, and the ever-elusive ghost of Ellen Cleghorne.
To be considered for representation and pitching to industry yourself, buy any of WriteMovies’ services today using the options in the sidebar on the right!
With our Anytime Entry service, you can enter your script at any time for just $45 and receive:
We’re inviting approaches now from the industry to take this script to the widest audience possible!
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About Internal Security by Stefan Alexander:
This is the near future. Since the war in Ukraine and the war in Gaza, not only the West and Russia have been engaged in a new Cold War, but also Islamic terrorism is rising. Right-wing populist movements are coming to power all over Europe. Germany is the focus of attention as last beacon of democracy. Until now.
Tensions are high across Germany; a right-wing populist faction led by Interior Minister Jörg von Stahl has placed itself at the center of public discourse, and a wave of bloody Islamic extremism is causing panic.
Ina Schmidt sees past the fear and rhetoric, but she feels powerless to stop it. Her reputation as an investigative and influential journalist has been sullied by a story gone badly wrong. She still carries the guilt and contempt for her country it has burdened her with – even as her Father is killed in a terrorist attack, she sees no reason to sacrifice the little that remains in her life to help.
Her past comrades, still remember her fondly. Bernd Muller for one, an-ex love and operative of the intelligence services, who helps her following a trail of duplicitous disappearances from refugee camps around the country.
With Bernd’s help, Ina trawls over the evidence he’s amassed and uncovers a shattering truth. The radical political movement on the rise owes their popularity and considerable resources to a foreign backer. Their power and influence extends far beyond a protest march. These acts of terrorism plaguing the nation are in fact their handiwork, using the fear they create to further their own cause.
With the security and government institution’s around them evidently compromised Ina and Bernd find themselves alone, trying to prove and publicize their discovery, in a race against the rising popularity of fascists.
But their meddling puts them in the cross hairs of the shadowy forces at play. Bernd is kidnapped as a former colleague and informant is killed. Fearing for her own life Ina must outrun the security forces that pursue her.
Cut off and afraid, can Ina find and free her only accomplice? Can the evidence they’ve collected show the world the truth behind a wicked new regime? Or will their rise to power continue – is it possible they’re just too late?
Timely and thought-provoking, INTERNAL SECURITY challenges audiences with a plausible and terrifying future where a new Cold War challenges the West. It combines the ingenious political gamesmanship of The Post and Argo, with the lighting fast action beats and thrilling suspense of The Bourne Identity. Berlin’s answer to Atomic Blonde with world changing consequences.
To be considered for representation and pitching to industry yourself, buy any of WriteMovies’ services today using the options in the sidebar on the right!
With our Anytime Entry service, you can enter your script at any time for just $45 and receive: