Archive for Archive for October, 2009

Recent Script Sales #68

Want to know what Hollywood has been buying in the last week or so? Below are some recent script sales. Info on sales price and loglines are included as available.

Big Momma’s House 3
Comedy
Sequel
Buyer: Regency Enterprises
At Swim-Two-Birds
Adaptation of Irish author Flann O’Brien’s seminal metaphysical novel
Buyer: Parallel Pictures
The Beauty of the Donkey
Drama
Buyer: Warner Bros. - Italy
Note: Foreign [...]

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Thursday, October 29th, 2009

2009 Expo Screenplay Competition Winners

Grand Prize Winner, $20,000
“Freud” - Drama -Daniel Ragussis
Genre Prize Winners, $2,500 each
“Premonition” - Thriller - David Bousquet
“The Phoenix Effect” - Sci-Fi/Action -Margaret M. MacDonald
“The Blue Planet” - Sci-Fi - Svet Rouskov
“Horror Comic” - Thriller - Stephen Hoover

Suzanne’s Prize For Best Love Story Winner, $2,000
“Love Letters” - Riley LaShea
Runners Up For Genre Prizes - $250 [...]

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Recent Script Sales #67

Want to know what Hollywood has been buying in the last week or so? Below are some recent script sales. Info on sales price and loglines are included as available.

I Am Number Four
Adaptation of the James Frey and Jobie Hughes novel
Buyers: DreamWorks, Benderspink
32 Candles
Based on Ernessa Carter’s novel of the same name.
Buyer: Miramax Films
Pirate Latitudes
Based [...]

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

2009 Screenwriting Expo Finalists for Suzanne’s Prize for Best Love Story

Love Letters - Riley LaShea
Strawberry Mansion - R. Scott Shields
A Severed Romance - Todd Rheingold
A Different Shade of Black - Dana Congdon
My Girl Daisy - Sue Yeats
Winner announced on Sunday.

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Friday, October 16th, 2009

2009 Screenwriting Expo Semifinalists

Features Semi- Finalists
94 Maidens – Rhonda Fink-Whitman
Aza’ Zyel –Terrence Manns
Book of the Missing –Kate Douglas
Blood and Honor – William Berezansky
Big Band Butterflies – Amy Rider
Borderland – Drama - J.R. Taylor -
Brooklynese – by Troy Ransome –
Freud -by Daniel Ragussis
Felix The Flyer- Christopher C. Canole
Horror Comic –Stephen Hoover
Ice cold feet- Stephen Fein
Karmically Correct – Erin Donovan
Naked [...]

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Thursday, October 15th, 2009