Why scripts with black leads are big right now
With the success of MOONLIGHT, GET OUT and many more, just why exactly are black leads in films and script in right now? (more…)
Free Writing Contest – Featured Script of the Month for August is DEAD POSSUM by Jared Wayne Raun
A new winner is revealed for our free writing contest, the Featured Script of the Month Contest…
Our August winner of the Featured Script of the Month is DEAD POSSUM by Jared Wayne Raun.
We chose Jared’s script from a host of August submissions for its unique and interesting concept – which is what this free contest is all about!
Hell, we’ll show you what we’re talking about. Here’s a quick summary on the script by Jared:
“A boy discovers he is dead, but resists leaving his body so he can save his living girlfriend from a gang of zombie bikers, despite protestations from his spirit guide.”
And here’s a short bio on Jared:
Jared is a longtime lover of movies, comics, music, and episodic storytelling. He graduated from USC film school in the late nineties and spent the first decade of his career working in production. Around ten years ago he switched his focus to writing and though he has written over ten feature scripts and a web series, this summer marks the first attempt he has made to get his work out to the public through screenwriting contests. He is honored to receive this award and hopes to see Dead Possum on screen sometime in the near future.
In addition to many more feature scripts queued up to write, Jared has several animated and live action projects he hopes to direct, the first being a horror/fantasy web series pilot set to shoot in early 2018.
For winning the August Featured Script of the Month Jared now receives free Judging Feedback and publicity on our website, Twitter feed, and Facebook page. Jared will also get the chance for a free resubmission of his script to our current main screenwriting contest! A great set of prizes for a free writing contest!
Let’s also give a hand to our Honorable Mentions:
EMILY’S STARS by Bill Baber.
WEST DAKOTA by Mark J. Rose,
And TOUGH THE FIRE by Kevin Karp.
You could be our next Script of the Month winner – you enter for free whenever you enter one of our Contests or order a script mentoring service.
Bobby Lee Darby’s Pitching Tips – Pitching to Hollywood, European, and UK Producers
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Best Teleplay or Pilot: special television Summer Contest Award
As we’ve done with our book entries, creating the award for “Book with the Best Screen Potential”, we are doing the same for our television script entries to the Summer 2017 Contest.
The “Best Teleplay or Pilot” award will be given out to the best television script submission we receive. The winner of this award will receive free Development Notes to help make their teleplay or pilot break through. With on-demand bringing the best shows into our homes whenever we want them, the appetite for scripted TV shows is massive and so are the range of new ways to get them made – we want to give you the best chance possible. We will even pitch your script ourselves to the top of the industry if you finish in our top 3 for the main contest.
We support all writers, of all scripted formats, and we want them all to flourish. We’ve opened up these specific prizes for books and television script to reward these writers and their scripts, just as much as we would for a feature length screenplay.
You can win these new special “Best Teleplay or Pilot” or “Book with the Best Screen Potential” awards by entering the Summer 2017 Contest now.
Why Hollywood loves book adaptations…
Why Hollywood loves book adaptations… and how we can help with yours! (more…)
Books & Novels: Special award in our Summer Writing Contest!
Book your place in the industry with our Summer writing contest, for a special prize!
Our Summer 2017 Writing Contest isn’t just the place for your feature scripts, shorts, and pilots.
We also accept entries from all of you novelists – and we’re creating a special category in our Summer writing contest, for the “Book with the Best Screen Potential”. The winner will get FREE Development Notes to help them adapt it to a screenplay or documentary, or to help them find a screenwriter who can. This could be a great breakthrough for you.
We love comparing our book entries to the screenplays to find new angles and stories that the world’s gonna be looking for. So we thought we’d dedicate our social media this week to books!
- Enter a book of your own for a flat fee of $69!
- We’ll assess your book based on its own merits and its screen potential.
- We’ve had successful book writer in the past. Cornelia Kempf, a previous WriteMovies winner, has had many novels published thanks to us!
- Don’t forget, that up to August 21st, we are offering a free copy of the Confidential Studio Manual, to be given away at random, for free! And we’ve got special discounts on ALL consultancy reports in August… CLICK HERE.
So, book your place in our Summer Writing Contest with your book, or novel, or novella. We love receiving book entries just as much as scripts and assess their screen potential exactly like we do the screenplays and teleplays we receive.
Our pick of the web for July 2017 – From the @WriteMovies Twitter Feed!
Our pick of the web for July 2017 – From the @WriteMovies Twitter Feed!
Our @WriteMovies Twitter feed has been sharing lots of exciting things giving our tips of the best new articles, insights and offers for screenwriters and producers on the web. And in case you’ve missed anything there, here is our pick for July 2017…
- Why Hollywood is ready for subtle storytelling at last. Part 2: MANCHESTER BY THE SEA’s complex Protagonist – https://writemovies.com/hollywood-ready-subtle-storytelling-last-part-2-manchester-seas-complex-protagonist/
- “If you’re having trouble getting started with your script, pick scenes from your story you WANT to write — any scenes — and write them.” – https://twitter.com/GoIntoTheStory/status/881246029953331203
- This Inside Out Screenwriting Video Challenges the Age-Old Advice “Write What You Know” https://www.themarysue.com/this-inside-out-screenwriting-video-challenges-the-age-old-advice-write-what-you-know/
- Star Wars: Someone Is Selling The Last Jedi Script http://whatculture.com/film/star-wars-someone-is-selling-the-last-jedi-script
- So-called comedy desperately needs a script https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/movies/so-called-comedy-desperately-needs-a-script-432397353.html#sthash.vhYzdLQW.uxfs
- WriteMovies Spring 2017 Screenwriting Competition – Final Results – https://writemovies.com/writemovies-spring-2017-screenwriting-competition-final-results/
- Civil War, Kingsman Writer Calls Spider-Man: Homecoming Marvel’s Best Movie http://comicbook.com/2017/07/07/civil-war-kingsman-writer-calls-spider-man-homecoming-marvels-be/
- Script Development Key to Resurgence of Central, Eastern European Film Biz http://variety.com/2017/film/global/karlovy-vary-script-development-as-key-central-and-eastern-european-film-industry-1202488381/
- ‘Spies Like Us’ and the Two Best Pages of Screenwriting Ever https://filmschoolrejects.com/spies-like-us-two-best-pages-screenwriting-ever/
- Writing Tips and Submissions Tips – https://writemovies.com/writing-tips-submissions-tips/
- Why Hollywood is ready for subtle storytelling at last. Part 3: The ARRIVAL of a new, subtler wave in cinema? – https://writemovies.com/hollywood-ready-subtle-storytelling-last-part-3-arrival-new-subtler-wave-cinema/
- Disney’s Aladdin getting a script re-write http://www.criticalhit.net/entertainment/disneys-aladdin-getting-script-re-write/
- Paramount Buys Joe Epstein Script For Darren Aronofsky http://deadline.com/2017/07/darren-aronofsky-joe-epstein-paramount-pictures-project-1202130433/
- Black List, Women in Film Set Female Writer Labs, Young Adult Script Fellowship http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-black-list-and-wif-female-writers-1202498281/
- A hidden piece of the ‘Game of Thrones’ season 7 premiere script reveals how the White Walkers could invade Westeros http://uk.businessinsider.com/game-of-thrones-hound-sandor-fire-white-walkers-2017-7?r=US&IR=T
- Two New ‘Harry Potter’ Books to Be Published in October http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/two-new-harry-potter-books-be-published-october-1022438
- Meet our Spring 2017 Screenwriting Contest Third Placed Winner: BURNER by Bob Canning! https://writemovies.com/meet-our-spring-2017-screenwriting-contest-third-placed-winner-burner-by-bob-canning/
- Stallone Teases a Drago, Adonis Showdown in ‘Creed’ Sequel Script He Wrote http://ew.com/movies/2017/07/24/stallone-drago-adonis-showdown-creed-sequel-script/
- EXCLUSIVE: Is Mark Bomback writing the Ben Affleck-Less BATMAN? http://splashreport.com/batman-script-matt-reeves/
- Meet our Spring 2017 Screenwriting Contest Second Placed Winner: THE FACTION by Kevin Karp! https://writemovies.com/meet-our-spring-2017-screenwriting-contest-second-placed-winner-faction-by-kevin-karp/
- Bobby Lee Darby and Nathan Brookes – Our new Elite Script Consultants https://writemovies.com/bobby-lee-darby-nathan-brookes-new-elite-consultants/
- ‘Games Of Thrones script stolen’ as hackers target HBO http://www.burytimes.co.uk/leisure/showbiz/15445075.___Games_Of_Thrones_script_stolen____as_hackers_target_HBO/?ref=twtrec
- ‘The Princess Diaries 3’ Has A Script, Meaning Fans Are That Much Closer To An Actual Movie https://www.bustle.com/p/the-princess-diaries-3-has-a-script-meaning-fans-are-that-much-closer-to-actual-movie-73598
- Writing an Educational Script? Tips from a New York Emmy Award-Winning Scriptwriter https://www.voices.com/blog/writing-an-educational-script-a-new-york-emmy-award-winning-scriptwriter-gives-her-tips/
- ‘Deadwood’ Movie Update: HBO Exec Praises David Milch’s ‘Terrific’ Script http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/deadwood-movie-david-milch-hbo-1202507726/