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Newcomers Score Writing Assignment
Newcomers Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman, whose spec Of Every Wickedness scored significant industry buzz, have won an assignment to write a remake of Brian DePalma's 1978 supernatural thriller The Fury. The project, about a young man with heightened kinetic powers who is abducted by the government, was based originally on a novel by John Farris. McGeevy and Shipman are repped by Paradigm and manager Michael Connolly. For more information about this sale and dozens of others by first-time writers, subscribe to MovieBytes' Who's Buying What.
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- Adventures in Screenwriting: The Misadventures of a Soccer Mom
The sun is out, the birds are singing, and I'm relaxing in the way that only a woman can after a good week with her man ... or in my case, boys. Not just one boy, but three. Well, if we're going to get down to brass tacks, they weren't just boys. They were three horny high school virgins desperate to get&paid. And boy, did I pay them, but not quite the way that these hormonally challenged lads thought when we first hooked up. They thought it was going to be a quickie, on the sly, on the fly, no tricks, pretty slick, hump em' and dump em'.
(Posted: 05/15/2008)
- ASA Announces Semifinalists
The American Screenwriters Association (ASA) has announced the Semifinalists in their 11th Annual International Screenplay Competition, co- sponsored by Gotham Writers' Workshop. (Posted: 05/07/2008)
- Script Savvy Announces March Winners
Script Savvy has announced the results of their March, 2008 Screenwriting Competition. (Posted: 05/05/2008)
- TVWriter.com Announces Spec Scriptacular Winners
TVWriter.com has announced the winners of the 12th Spec Scriptacular Competition (Posted: 05/03/2008)
- TVWriter.com Announces People's Pilot Winners
Cassandra Hennessey's I.O.U. 1 SOUL has been named the winner of the 15th People's Pilot Competition. (Posted: 05/03/2008)
- MoviePoet Announces March Contest Winners
MoviePoet.com has announced the winners of their March 2008 short script competition. (Posted: 05/03/2008)
- StoryPros Announces Quarterfinalists
StoryPros has announced their contest quarterfinalists, (Posted: 05/03/2008)
- Sundance Announces June Screenwriters Lab Participants
The Sundance Institute has announced the selection of projects for its annual June Screenwriters Lab, which will take place at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 26 June 26, 2008. (Posted: 05/03/2008)
- Bare Bones Film Festival Announces Contest Results
The Bare Bones Film Festival has announced their screenwriting contest results. (Posted: 05/03/2008)
- Phoenix Film Festival Announces Screenplay Challenge Results
The Phoenix Film Festival has announced the results of the 2008 Arizona Screenplay Challenge. (Posted: 04/22/2008)
- A Feeding Frenzy Announces 2008 Contest Winners
A Feeding Frenzy has announced Ron Vincent's Shake as the winner of their 2008 Screenwriting Competition.
(Posted: 04/21/2008)
- TVWriter.com Announces Spec Scriptacular Finalists
TV Writer.com has announced the finalists in the 12th TV Writer.Com
Spec Scriptacular Competition. (Posted: 04/17/2008)
- Garden State Announces Screenplay Competition Results
The Garden State Film Festival has announced their Screenplay Award winners. (Posted: 04/16/2008)
- People's Pilot Finalists Chosen
TVWriter.com has announced the finalists of the 15th People's Pilot Competition. (Posted: 04/14/2008)
- TVWriter.com Announce Spec Scriptacular Semifinalists
TV Writer.com has announced the semifinalists in the 12th TV Writer.Com
Spec Scriptacular Competition. (Posted: 04/11/2008)
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When a California mudslide unearths a mass grave of headless, spineless corpses, an FBI psychologist becomes obsessed with finding a logical explanation. But as she risks everything to uncover the bizarre, sanity-shattering secret behind the crime, she must confront her greatest fear that some truths may be beyond her understanding. (Posted: 05/07/2008)
- Strung
A newly released ex-con is blackmailed and ambushed into the San Francisco drug world to save his old girlfriend and newfound daughter from a psycho meth dealer strung out on his own product. Love, murder, sacrifice... Who said chivalry is dead?
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- Driftwood
Noah tags along with a group of small time criminals on their way to knock off an antique store. But Noah doesn't want the money - He wants his '59 Mantle back. (Posted: 01/31/2008)
- Armada Project
The cutting-edge project of a brilliant scientific team creates a harrowing future dominated by a Frankenstein's monster of sentient technology.
Finalist - London Independent Film Festival (Posted: 01/10/2008)
- REBIRTH
In a world without separation of church and state, without freedom of conscience, where speaking your mind can lead to the loss of your head; a humanist artist uncovers more than the nudes he captures on canvas. Inspired by a true story. www.rebirthonline.net (Posted: 01/08/2008)
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Love is thicker than skin color, when a black woman writes a check her behind can't cash in the mountains of Silbiss, West Virginia.
In the summer of 1972, a studious 16 year old high school student's life is turned upside down when his hard charging WWII vet and usually absent father roars home on his Harley after three years at sea. Trying to make up for lost time, he shows his son the ropes - getting both into some knotty situations as they each seek the courage to face life, love, and loss. Like father, like son? More than they know. It's Father Knows Best meets Easy Rider.
Forever in each others thoughts, God and Lucifer grapple with forgiveness, as man awaits peace or destruction.
The prophecy of a fairy tale romance may be no match for the grim business of reality, jealousy and blind ambition.
Book written by me with 14 short-short stories along the lines of 'The Twilight Zone', and 'Tales from the Dark Side'. Perfect for a TV series in that genre. One SAMPLE story is enclosed called, 'The Option'. These stories are not in screenplay format but can easily be adapted, and revised as needed.
Seven nerdy students (circa 1955) must write a short screenplay over the week end for their English teacher in order to graduate from high school but after eating a Mexican mushroom laced pizza they suddenly find themselves face to face with the devil, they think. Getting in would be easy but getting out would be hell. Could easily be a musical ala Rocky Horror Show. Supernatural satire on low budget.
Aborted attempted assassination of a terrorist chief, in the Sahara, by the use of a special sniper rifle called the Longbow. However, most of the story and subtext deals with serial murders in New Orleans during the height of Mardi Gras. OF INTEREST: Original script was written before 9-11 about Saddam, and the WGA registeration number ends in.......911. What are the odds? Possible zero $$$ down to right producer.
'Tonic' spring water is discovered in the Australian Desert Outback, circa 1910, which has some 'strange effects' on the local chiXXXen ranchers, and towns people especially during the big Founders Day celebration. A gang of inept thugs, not unlike the Three Stooges, attempt to steal the special water for chiXXXen rancher, retired English Army Bird Colonel, Horalot Slanders, and his former Sergeant Major, Kent Duckee (fried?). Western Comedy ala Blazing Saddles/Austin Powers/Naked Gun fun.
When a Catholic priest and Lutheran Missionary are murdered (and eaten) in the jungles of Indonesia, the missionary's wife and teen-age grandson must use their wits to escape becoming a feast for a handful of natives ignoring laws against cannibalism.
A Louisiana teen kills her best friend in a moment of spontaneous anger. Philoma regrets the murder, but it doesn't prevent her from going to live in sin with her first cousin in his haunted California house. Philoma quickly discovers a vengeful ghost isn't so easily left behind, even for a voodooienne.
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