Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

The veteran scribe is launching a new competition — Gauntlet — designed to help promising spec scripts find their way to the screen. By Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, Editors Leave it to Shane ...

The public domain cinematic universe. Given the emerging popularity of fantasy franchises like Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, there was reason to believe that Ehren Kruger’s spec script had ...

Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired a spec script based on the dramatic true story of NBA legend Kobe Bryant joining the Los Angeles Lakers, Variety has confirmed. The project comes from screenwriters ...

The middle and end of Hall of Fame Lakers guard Kobe Bryant's NBA career were so dramatic that many have forgotten the beginning. However, a new film project could potentially change that. Warner Bros ...

So far, the new Skydance-owned Paramount has made a wrestling deal, a talent deal and a filmmaker deal, all of them splashy. Now comes the splashy spec script deal. Paramount has aggressively picked ...

In 1969, a now-iconic commercial first popped the question, “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” This deceptively simple line in a 30-second script managed ...

If you’re an avid podcast fan, you’ll notice that there are (broadly speaking) two types of shows: non-narrative and narrative. Non-narrative podcasts are more freewheeling, constructed around ...

This shouldn’t be entirely surprising, though. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has even talked about the studio’s process, which they often refer to as “plussing.” The script will be technically ...