There’s a debate raging now about whether or not the actors who play the superheroes in hit franchises are worth as much as the brand. Would we accept Chris Pine as Tony Stark or is Robert Downey, Jr. the only actor to pull off Iron Man? Mark Ruffalo was great as Bruce Banner in The [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan May 13, 2013 May 2013 Pitch Market Scorecard As our tifosi know, there’s nothing we like better than digging around in the data to find hidden patterns. We found a good one for you this week — glance at the Overall Pitch Numbers grid, below. 2013’s lagging a [...]
In my night job, I showed Bonnie and Clyde and In the Heat of the Night, both 1967 Oscar nominees for script and picture. I’m an Adjunct Associate Professor of Film at the New York Institute of Technology. I was teaching my graduate seminar. The scripts from both films blew away my students. That year, [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan May 6, 2013 April 2013 Spec Market Roundup We don’t want to jinx anything, but we sure picked an auspicious time to move the Scoggins Report into its new home on SpecScout.com. April 2013’s 14 spec sales is the highest monthly total in nearly a year, [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan April 29, 2013 April 2013 Pitch Market Roundup We’re back to quasi-normal: After a four-month volley, the past week has seen total spec sales pull significantly ahead of total pitch sales for the first time this year. And the good news is that it’s not [...]
Vanessa Parise is an actress, writer and director. When asked to direct the new romantic comedy The Wedding Chapel starring Shelley Long, she knew her writing skills would come in hand. Script sat down with Parise to discuss how she uses her writer’s mindset to work with actors from behind the camera. Script: How did you [...]
From years of working with aspiring screenwriters and helping them get their scripts produced, one glaring weakness has become clear to me – most beginning writers don’t pay enough attention to their narrative, the description of action and setting. This is usually the last thing a professional screenwriter learns on his way to commercial success. [...]
Script Magazine is proud to announce a new Screenwriting Website of the Week — NBC Writers on the Verge program and the Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship winner Kiyong Kim’s blog, Kiyong’s Blog of Creative Pursuits. A generous and well-respected writer, Kiyong Kim takes us all on his journey as a television writer. Ask Kiyong questions about [...]
Three years ago, my team and I had an idea for a new kind of screenwriting contest. We called it The Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest, and in it, we: Provide a logline from a Industry Insider Ask screenwriters to submit a 15-page spec screenplay based on that logline Mentor the top ten screenwriters through 120 [...]
