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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The Decendants screenplay

Fox Searchlight is now posting their scripts for Award Consideration.

The Descendants - april 11, 2010 pink shooting draft script by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash – hosted by: Fox Searchlight – in pdf format

With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King,takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

Information courtesy of imdb

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Machine Gun Preacher screenplay

And now Relativity Media has hopped in with a script up for award consideration.

Machine Gun Preacher - september 30, 2010 final shooting draft script by Jason Keller (based on the life of Sam Childers) – hosted by: Machine Gun Preacher – in pdf format

The story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who’ve been forced to become soldiers.

Information courtesy of imdb

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Warrior screenplay

Lionsgate has jumped in with a script up for award consideration:

Warrior - undated, unspecified draft script by Gavin O’Connor and Anthony Tambakis & Cliff Dorfman (revisions by Gavin O’Connor and Anthony Tambakis – hosted by: Lionsgate – in pdf format

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he’s trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament — a path that puts the fighter on a collision corner with his older brother.

Information courtesy of imdb

Friday, November 4, 2011

Movie Poet September 2011 short script competition winners

MoviePoet.com announces the winners of the September 2011 short script contest: “The Undead” – Your story must have at least one character who is a ghost, mummy, vampire, or zombie.

Cure in Sight” by JeanPierre Chapoteau ~ First Place
A man hunts down notorious monsters to obtain the cure for his sickness.

Letting Go” by Marnie Mitchell Lister ~ Second Place
After a horrible accident, a young girl’s mother has a very hard time letting go. 

Zombie Sex and the City” by Basil Sunshine ~ Third Place

A Manhattan zombie fashionista learns a valuable lesson about sex, with a little help from some friends.

Little Lucy – Filmed

Little Lucy by William Nicholas Clay

A private eye struggles to solve the case of a missing girl. – Short, Drama 5 pages – pdf, format

Little Lucy (2011) from William Nicholas Clay on Vimeo.

Discuss on the discussion board.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Issues – Filmed

Issues by Pia Cook has been filmed. This was a February, 2010 OWC script

Longing for love, can make you do bad things. (Short, Drama, Horror in pdf format)

Discuss this script on the Discussion Board

This was also previously produced as a machinima which you can view here.

Bridesmaids screenplay

Universal Pictures has jumped in with Scripts up for award consideration:

Bridesmaids - undated, unspecified draft script by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig – hosted by: Universal Pictures – in pdf format

Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride’s best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

Information courtesy of imdb

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Niner by Eric Dickson – Featured Script of the Month

Niner by Eric Dickson – Featured Script of the Month

Niner by Eric DicksonNiner by Eric Dickson

An offbeat cop harbors a murder suspect and blackmails him into testifying at a criminal trial.
(Thriller) 128 pages in pdf format

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Status: Available

Eric DicksonWriter Bio: Eric Dickson graduated Full Sail University in 2003 and worked in the development departments of The Radmin Company, James Manos, Jr. Productions and Omniquest Entertainment. He has worked as a contractual writer for Spear Films, L.L.C., penning the 35mm horror movie Dark Games, starring Twilight Saga’s Booboo Stewart, Martin Kove, Danny Trejo and Jeff Conaway. The film marked Conaway’s final on-screen appearance as well as Stewart’s first breakout role. Eric has also worked as a studio photographer for Norwegian Cruiseline and have recently started a scriptwriting service, I Write Your Script, which specializes in writing treatments and re-edits for feature screenplays.

Discuss Niner on the discussion forum

Monday, October 31, 2011

The October 2011 One Week Challenge selected script is

The October, 2011 One Week Challenge genre was Gothic Horror. The theme was Ghosts are not bad, just misunderstood.

Participants had one week to write a 6 – 12 page script on the genre and theme. There were 38 scripts which were read and discussed over on the discussion board. One script was selected to be audio performed by the fine folks over at iScript.com.

That selected script is Veil of Blood by Ryan Lee.

A young woman ventures to her uncle’s crumbling plantation in 1874 Louisiana.

You can read along with the pdf version of the script. You can discuss this script and all the OWC entries here. Click the “Play” button to listen to the script.

 
icon for podpress  Veil of Blood [16:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (737)

{note: This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons, attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives 3.0 license. You can share the audio recording in its entirety, but you can’t change it or sell it. }

Thanks to everyone who participated in the challenge. – Don

Very special thanks to iScript.com for sponsoring the challenge and selecting the final script.

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