Imagine a director coming to you with an idea and you had a week to churn out a short script on a theme or genre. Could you do it? This Friday we will be announcing the theme/genre of the April One Week Exercise.

On the Unproduced Scripts page we have twenty more original works up for your reading pleasure. That brings us to over fifty scripts this week alone. There is some good stuff in there. After you’ve read a script, head over to the Discussion Board and talk about what you’ve read.

Thanks Dennis for the heads up on this latest from The Weekly Script. This weeks fare is the 1965 The Cincinnati Kid – An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game. Check it out on the Movie Scripts page.

Oh, hey. Martin’s got a ‘blog. – Don

Thanks to Jack for the heads up on this. The Smoking Gun has five pages of the script to the controversial movie Hounddog. The film, set in the Deep South in the 1950s, features Dakota Fanning as Lewellen, a troubled girl who is attacked in a shed by a character named Wooden’s Boy. The five pages describes the sexual assault of the character Lewellen portrayed by Fanning. The scene is very disturbing. You can read it here. – Don

Thanks to JBM for the heads up on these. On the Movie Scripts we have two new scripts. Thanks to Horror Lair read the 2nd draft script of Whannell and Wan’s Dead Silence. Over at Daily Script read an unspecified draft of Ali.

Silent Universe has the script up to the sixth episode of Silent Universe: The Wheel Never Stops. That would be on the Radio Scripts page.

Ever thought of giving up your job and trying to become a writer in twelve months? In February of this year, IQCrash washed his hands of a career in advertising and gave himself 12 months to make it as a professional screenwriter. Follow his adventure on his ‘blog 12 Months

Update Pirates of the Carribbean 3 – Joblo.com has a link to the script and a couple of clips to the upcoming POTC3. – Don

On the unproduced scripts page there are twenty-three new or revised scripts up for your reading pleasure.

Thanks to Dailyscript for a couple of neat items. On the TV scripts page we have a draft of the pilot Scrubs.

On the Movie Scripts page we have S.W.A.T.. I think just about every writer in Hollywood has touched the script. – Don

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Thanks to “Anonymous”. On Daily Script there is The Black Dahlia. On Horror lair there is the script to Identity – a very excellent John Cusack thriller. Both of these can be found on the Movie Scripts page.

Also, voting for the Webby’s is open. Please, if you have a chance, register (it’s free!), log in and drop a vote for Verizon Dave Matthews Band page. That would be in the Connections -> Celebrity/Fan category.

Written in haste. – Don

On the TV Scripts page, thanks to Weekly Script read this draft of of the pilot of the popular Deadwood.

Thanks to “anonymous” and Daily Script there is The Faculty and Edward Sissorhands for your reading pleasure on the Movie Scripts page.

And, on the Unproduced Scripts page we have half a dozen or so original scripts up for your reading pleasure.

Lastly, a screenplay site, moviescripts.name has bitten the dust taking with it about a dozen movie scripts and teleplays. I think I’ve cleared out the dead links in Movie Scripts and TV Scripts. – Don

Thanks to Leila’s Vampire Movie Guide here are a couple more Vampire scripts to read. Slink on over to the movie scripts page to read Frost: Portrait of a Vampire and Sucker The Vampire. Leila’s Scripts page has a pretty good collection of just about any vampire movie script available on the ‘net. If it is just blood suckers of the Dracula variety you are interested in, skip over to the Dracula Scripts page and read scripts to dracula movies from 1922 to 1997.

Want to try your hand at a student film short screenwriting contest? If you have a script for a 20 minute (20 page) or less film, check out Captain Cutlazz. The due date is May 1, 2007. Winners get $100.00 and screen credit. – Don

Film director Robert Clark and his son Ariel were killed in an early morning collision along a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, authorities said.

Clark directed the classic holiday film “A Christmas Story” in 1983 and was also the producer of the “Porkys” films, along with about two dozen other feature films.

Read the full article from the L. A. Times

Thanks to Jack for the heads up.