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THE SECRET SCREENWRITING HACK THAT MASSIVELY IMPROVES YOUR THIRD ACT
As we get closer to the Blood & Ink deadline (that would be Cinqo De Mayo), we’re going to have to, you know, finish our scripts. I could write a book on finishing scripts. There’s actually a lot to it. But for the purposes of today’s article, I want to focus on the final act.…
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Screenplay Review – American Midnight
Today’s script is a rarity – a script that sold to Netflix without any director or actors attached. Which typically means either the concept is gangbusters or the execution is awesome. Genre: Serial Killer/Horror Premise: When several bodies are found along the highways of the…
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MISH-MASH MONDAY – Screenwriting Evolves, JJ Abrams Devolves, and AI Crumbles
As you know, I’m always closely watching the tennis world. And, recently, I’ve encountered several top tennis players discussing what’s changed in tennis over the last ten years. How is it different from how it used to be? And the answers they gave were, essentially, “Players…
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Carson Angry! Carson Very Very Angry!
I hate when Hollywood promotes terrible films. And today, I’m speaking my truth! I’m tempted to spend the next 1500 words unloading on the atrocity of a movie that was The Secret Agent. Let me explain why. People were trying to tell me this movie was good. People were hyping…
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Screenplay Review – Blackout
How to write a bland screenplay Genre: Thriller Premise: When eco-terrorists attack Los Angeles’ power grid and orchestrate a cascading citywide blackout, a jaded former Secret Service agent and a brilliant but unassuming engineer must fight their way across the metropolis – in…
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Mish Mash Monday – Blood & Ink Deadline Extended and A Screenwriting Tip For the Ages!
BLOOD & INK DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED ONE MONTH!!! Very important news for all you Blood & Ink Contest writers. I knew a lot of you would take that script right up to the last second, changing scenes, adding subplots, erasing characters, all with just days to go. When you do…
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20 Screenwriting Tips to Give Your Script an Immediate Infusion of Awesomeness
Tip #13! You will not get sceeewriting tips like this anywhere else on the internet. That’s why Scriptshadow is the best. You’ve got a dude reading thousands of scripts who sees real-life writing patterns every day and learns what works and what doesn’t then shares it with you.…
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Screenplay Review – ET. AL
Genre: Adventure/Thriller Premise: When a husband and wife research team travel to a remote African jungle to look for a real-life Yeti, the biggest problem turns out not to be the monster, but their mutual best friend scientist, who is secretly in love with the wife. About:…
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Movie Review – Project Hail Mary
Is Project Hail Mary the Best Studio Movie of the Century? Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: With all the stars in the galaxy dying, a middle school science teacher with a wild theory about life is sent on a suicide mission to study the one star that isn’t affected in the hope of somehow,…
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LET’S USE OUR COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WE ARE WITH AI
My relationship with AI continues to evolve. One day I think it’s amazing that I can theoretically create a movie in a computer without ever having to step outside and shoot a frame of video. The next day I think AI movies are soulless, evil, and antithetical to the actual…