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 ...

An unknown writer, a fast-rising feeding frenzy, and a true multimillion-dollar deal. It’s enough to make executives or aspiring screenplay authors dream of the heady spec script deals of the 1990s.

Writing a screenplay isn’t necessarily some big mysterious artistic process. For some people who do it successfully enough times, it just becomes work. Flowery literary spices such as “inspiration” ...

If you're reading this, you're probably familiar with the main points of the Writers Guild of America's (WGA) strike. The WGA strike is important to the profession of screenwriting because television ...

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 ...