Script Consultant Philip Shelley explains why spec scripts are fundamental to the industry and shares some great advice.

The once-mighty movie “spec” script, long a source of some of Hollywood’s most-beloved films, was pronounced dead after a lengthy illness. As befits many screen legends, the spec script died ...

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 ...

You’ve finished your screenplay. What to do now? “Write another script and another,” says Greg Beal, director of the prestigious Nicholl Fellowships for screenwriters. “Watch movies and ...

After three years of reboots, sequels and prequels, the market for original scripts is finally sizzling again in Hollywood. No fewer than 18 spec scripts – screenplays written without a contract ...

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 ...

Million-dollar screenplay sales in recent months by independent producer Lawrence Grey for 'Section 6' and 'Winter's Knight' show the market is improving after several years in decline.

Stephenson’s original spec script “Frisco” is reportedly about a middle-aged doctor and a 15-year-old patient he gets stuck looking after. “The two screenplays are forensically identical ...

The Death of the Spec Script: What Are the Ten Highest Screenplay Sales Ever?The beleaguered Hollywood screenwriter has rarely reached the upper pay echelons achieved by other studio talent ...

“The spec falls smack in the middle of what everyone responds to with Cormac’s novels,” [producer Nick] Wechsler said. Steve Schwartz told me: “Since McCarthy himself wrote the script, we ...