Morris Chapdelaine always has a daunting stack of scripts on his desk. As an indie producer, he reads about three a week and farms out the rest to interns and film students, who send back detailed ...

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 ...

I worked as a script reader (back when human beings were still doing that kind of thing) and I never DNF'd a script. But there were times I wanted to, simply because the writing and/or story wasn't ...

In a nutsell, the test arranged by the cutter’s union documented that AI tools are great for organizing, classifying and summarizing. Giving helpful notes with observations on the merits of the ...

Between the lines: “You read scripts and then you do about a 1 1/2 - or two-page synopsis hitting all the key points of the script. You do a comments page where you write down what works and what ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Comprompter, a provider of news and automation software, has released a new feature for its ...

There are a plethora of reasons why anyone’s script is rejected by the powers that be. Some reasons are big and some are small, but screenwriters need to know and study all possible factors that could ...

Joe definitely did feel like, ‘But will people just think that this only happened because you are my mother?’” Winslet tells ...

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 ...