A screenplay is the written version of a film or an episode of television. Simple, right? Wrong. Unlike a completed work, such as a novel or a short story, a screenplay is the first in a long series ...

If you recognize that line, you know the film whose script the Writers Guild of America just voted as the best of the past 22 years. Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning Get Out tops the WGA‘s just-released ...

OKPicture this: You’re curled up with your favorite book that also happens to be your favorite movie. Spending more time at home last year resulted in an uptick in book sales, and film screenplays are ...

The art of screenwriting and script development encompasses a broad spectrum of creative, technical, and collaborative activities that transform conceptual ideas into compelling narratives for film, ...

Internet Movie Script Database: IMSDb has a deep catalog of screenplays—and we mean deep. (The site boasts of being “the biggest collection of movie scripts available anywhere on the web.”) Along with ...

Studios, producers and agencies receive countless spec scripts – original feature length screenplays that weren’t the product of a paid writing assignment. To filter through hundreds and thousands of ...

It would be an unprecedented delight if, come Oscar Sunday, Parasite bested its Best Picture competition and became the first foreign-language film to triumph in the category. Its chances of doing so ...

Exclusive: A new study tries to answer what Hollywood's anonymous gatekeepers think makes a great screenplay. Studios, producers and agencies receive countless spec scripts – original feature length ...

Looking to transform Hollywood’s pile of unproduced scripts into publishable e-books, James West, a motion-picture industry entrepreneur, has launched Script Lit. The company licenses optioned, but ...

As the dates for our next annual Open Call will be announced very soon, we turned to Script Consultant Philip Shelley to outline some of the key things you should be thinking about if you are ...