What are today’s screenwriters looking for? In Hollywood, the answer is simple: a quickly-pitched, overly familiar story idea that feels different, but of course isn’t. Die Hard in a blimp. Bad Boys II meets Schindler’s List. Rudy, but set in the ultra-competitive world of meat-judging.
Wait, what?
According to The Wall Street Journal, college meat-judging teams practice [...]

While it’s true that I usually use Logline Freebies to suggest a high-concept movie idea, free for the stealing by any screenwriters of loose moral character who stumble across my little site here, today we’ll try something a little bit different.
Because I’m convinced that if no one has snapped up the rights to the story [...]

It’s been far too long since we’ve had an edition of Logline Freebies in which I fling reason and logic out the window and foolishly give away all intellectual property and merchandising rights to any of you screenwriters out there of questionable ethics and taste. I welcome your plagiarism; I embrace your thievery; I admire [...]

You know what’s just incredibly lacking in cinema today? Stories about men. Sure, you can whine and complain about “great roles for women” and you can ring that old bell about “independent movies” and “foreign films” and similar tripe - but really what we should demand from the studios is a much more prodigious output [...]

Along with everything else, it really seems as though Hollywood is running out of horror movie ideas, doesn’t it? How else can we explain that classic thriller, splatter and vampire movies are all getting redone, retouched and “reimagined”?
Well, Burbanked’s got the cure for that tired, hackneyed, uninspired, unmotivated, unoriginal screenwriter you’ve got trapped inside you. [...]

You may think that it’s too late to capitalize on this year’s Oscar race, but in this day and age of on-the-fly indie filmmaking, you’ve got plenty of time to shoot your Soulful Human Drama With a Quirky Edge and get screeners out to all those Academy members who previously dismissed you as a “crackpot” [...]

It must be true that absolutely no one, anywhere, listens to movie critics anymore. How else to explain the pure blow-to-the-head insanity of Click’s boffo $40 million opening weekend when the vast majority of reviewers felt the need to trash the movie so creatively?The other explanation is far more horrifying, of course: audiences will go [...]