A little under two years ago, Vanity Fair ran a surprisingly eye opening piece about the state of Hollywood’s spec script market as it pertains to the feature film industry. In the write-up, author ...

After three years of reboots, sequels and prequels, the market for original scripts is finally sizzling again in Hollywood. No fewer than 18 spec scripts – screenplays written without a contract – ...

The very idea of a spec script — an original script written by an aspiring or low-level TV writer for a show already on the air — is one of the television industry’s great paradoxes. A good spec will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An unknown writer, a fast-rising feeding frenzy, and a true multimillion-dollar deal. It’s enough to make executives or aspiring ...

I know I'm not alone in writing the easiest, loudest emotional beat in the toolkit: the dead wife. Or the murdered girlfriend ...

The 'Stranger Things' phenomenon sparks a deluge of material and backlash from execs and agents expected to read an average of 20 original scripts all weekend long. By Bryn Sandberg William Morris ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - After three years of reboots, sequels and prequels, the market for original scripts is finally sizzling again in Hollywood. No fewer than 18 spec scripts -- screenplays ...

Shorr's spec script scared up a frenzy among producers.

After a competitive bidding war, Fifth Season, the financing and production banner formerly known as Endeavor Content, and Brad Weston’s Makeready banner have acquired the spec script “Alignment” from ...

Writer and comedian Billy Domineau has stumbled into viral fame after posting a Seinfeld spec script that imagines how its well-known sitcom characters would have reacted to the Sept. 11 terrorist ...