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 ...

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” ...

The Godfather, Citizen Kane, and Chinatown are all among the absolute greatest Oscar-winning screenplays of all time.

“The Holdovers,” Alexander Payne’s Oscar-nominated film, is being accused of plagiarizing its script “line-by-line” in a “brazen” way, screenwriter Simon Stephenson says in multiple emails obtained by ...

With the motion picture business shifting almost exclusively to franchises over the past decades, screenwriters are increasingly put through the wringer as they find themselves replaced and replaced ...

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 ...