Congratulation to the *new* Mike Shelton (Now with Beard!). His short work Cupidity (6 pages, PDF format) has been filmed as Just in Time. The Cupidity script is available here, and serves as a pretty good example of how a film can go through changes via development and collaboration with a director.

Barry’s got a plan and a line, but is that enough to get him a date?

Board members can hop over here and let Mike know what you think. – Don

In additional to best movie (drama), best score and best director, Slumdog Millionaire (pdf format) is the winner of the Golden Globe for best screenplay. Read the Slumdog Millionaire script.

Read the full list of Golden Globe Winners. You can also check out the other Golden Globe nominated screenplays.

13 year old boy can fade, Jack and the beanstalk, Juliet (as in Romeo) has a decendant, Doctor in Manhatten (as in New York) recognized as former hitman turned informant and an unbiased look at the list of WGA nominated screenplays.

The winners were:

“Tacet” by Travis DeStein ~ First Place
A young pianist works to overcome his weaknesses.

“Hole In One” by Eric June ~ Second Place
A man chooses to end his life in a shockingly honorable way.

“One Saved Message” by Chris Messineo ~ Third Place
Emily’s answering machine holds the memory of her love and the key to moving on

Each month, Movie Poet runs a free online five page screenplay contest. On the first of each month a new contest is announced. During that month, you can enter your script. During the next month, you can read, vote, and comment on all the entries. Finally, during the third month, the results are announced.

Head on over to Movie Poet and give it a go. – Don

Thanks to Mike for the heads up on five scripts up over on Raindance.co.uk. The one that most folks have been gunning for is Twilight – (February 11, 2008 blue shooting draft in pdf format). In addition, you might find Sherlock Holmes (not sure if it is the Black List version or not), The Dark Knight, This Side of the Truth and Nottingham.

These can be found on the Raindance.co.uk scripts page. – Don

Apologies for the lack of updates. If you are a follower of the Discussion Board you will see that I’ve posted up a few unproduced scripts every few days. All the scripts posted over the last couple of weeks are now available over on the Unproduced Scripts page. Of the 32 scripts available for your reading there is Cornetto’s The Fairy that wouldn’t Fly which is about (wait for it) a fairy that wouldn’t fly. Zack has Red Snow a short, historical horror piece that takes place in 1939 Germany where the hunters become hunted. And there is Xavier’s short Gunslinger: An Old Time Hitman which is based upon his longer short Gunslinger. It is a western and there are guns in it.

Not doing it for you? There are more. A lot more over on the Unproduced Scripts page. You can also go back to the previous weeks scripts or the week before that for more. You could go back to nearly Five Years of original works posted to the ‘net if you wanted to.

Best wishes to all in the New Year and Good Luck with your work. – Don

PC’s short Covert Careers, which recently came out in an audio performance, has been filmed by James.

A young married couple are forced to come to terms with their own lies and deceit.

You can Read the Script and/or say nice things to James who is a prolific writer about his first film making endeavor.

Robert’s work The Second Draft has been filmed.

Craig is in a park at night, out walking his dog. A stranger suddenly
approaches him. The Stranger lays some hard truths on Craig who soon
finds out that when words come to life, not everything is what it seems.

Read the script (pdf format) or say nice things here or check out Robert’s other works on his site.

 
The Second Draft-Part 1 from boostcpa26 on Vimeo.

 
The Second Draft- Part 2 from boostcpa26 on Vimeo.

 
The Second Draft-Part 3 from boostcpa26 on Vimeo.

You can check out more of Abel's work Here.

Major script dump on the Unproduced Scripts page. I’ve gotten up a couple week’s backlog and still have a bit to go. If you are keen on reading the latest original unproduced works from writer’s on the ‘net, you might want to check out the Unproduced section of the Discussion Board. Most of the new works posted appear on the discussion board several days before appear on the Unproduced Scripts page.

There is Praveen’s Gold Runners a short where two men find themselves in the middle of a drug deal gone horribly wrong, a mob war, and a hunt for stolen gold.

Jayrex has a short The Envelope where Joe receives bad news that tips him over the edge.

Elwood, McClung, Shelton and Wiebe have their short anthology Buckets of Blood part II which are several horror shorts which I suspect are NOT about butterflies and daisies, unless the butterflies and daisies are spurting blood. [Seriously, folks. Do not come to me all pissed off because you read Buckets of Blood and were all freaked out at the horror and carnage. Generally speaking the title and the log line are a pretty good indication of what you are getting into.]

Not grooving to any of this? There are fifty-seven more waiting for you on the Unproduced Scripts page. – Don