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.

Script Consultant Philip Shelley explains why spec scripts are fundamental to the industry and shares some great advice. As the dates for our next annual Open Call will be announced very soon, we ...

Searchlight Pictures has successfully acquired the rights to the spec script Clean Break from rising writer Ryan Brennan. The studio won the project in a bidding competition against other studios.

Ah, the ’90s. Headlines of huge spec sales and bidding wars filled the trades. The spec screenplay replaced the Great American Novel as the pastime everyone and his uncle was working on. If you could ...

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 ...

As the dates for our next annual Open Call will be announced very soon, we turned to Script Consultant Philip Shelley to outline some of the key things you should be thinking about if you are ...