Less than a month after launch, a film adaptation of Split Fiction was already in the works. For Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the process began before it even came out. For decades, video game ...

A little under two years ago, Vanity Fair ran a surprisingly eye opening piece about the state of Hollywood’s spec script market as it pertains to the feature film industry. In the write-up, author ...

BBC Writers Drama Room scheme. Emilie sat down with BBC Writers to talk about how she got into writing for TV and delves into the crucial importance of the spec (short for speculative or specimen) ...

Hollywood has long been inhospitable to women, and it is only getting worse for those who are also aspiring screenwriters. According to Suzana Orozco’s analysis of recent sales of spec scripts — ...

Ah, the ’90s. Headlines of huge spec sales and bidding wars filled the trades. The spec screenplay replaced the Great American Novel as the pastime everyone and his uncle was working on. If you could ...

Script Consultant Philip Shelley explains why spec scripts are fundamental to the industry and shares some great advice. As the dates for our next annual Open Call will be announced very soon, we ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy has had four of his novels adapted into films (All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, Outer Dark, and The Road), and claims he actually started No ...

Independent producer Lawrence Grey sold the screenplay for “Section 6” for $1 million after setting off a bidding war between the major studios. Six months later, in March, he sold the screenplay for ...

The horror thriller spec script is from Cory Goodman. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Paramount has moved aggressively to pick up The Oberlin Incident, a horror thriller spec script by Cory Goodman.

In his first deal since landing a record setting $4 million in 1994 for “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” Black will make his directing debut at Warner Bros. on his noir drama script “You’ll Never Die in ...