During our recent round of free 30-minute phone calls, age seems to have been a concern for a number of you. Is there ageism in Hollywood? If you’re over 40, are people going to look at you differently? So we had a lovely chat with Brad Johnson, screenwriter, filmmaker, and founder of The Gray List,…
20 minutes of tips and cautionary tales With Get Repped Now less than two weeks away, we’ve put together a little video for ya packed with advice and tips to help you crush Get Repped Now. Enjoy! Watch last year’s PRO TIPS TO CRUSH GET REPPED NOW video here. Next week: we announce OUR 2025 MANAGER PANEL….
Is it time to say adios to your pet project? THE TRAP so many screenwriters fall into: working on one script well past its expiration date. While tenacity is important for writers, so is knowing when to take the brush off the canvas. In general, if it’s been five years or more and you’re still…
Get Repped Now 2025 is rushing towards us. Is your script ready to rock the house? Before you send that baby into the world, make sure you’ve done everything possible to convey a patina of polish and professionalism. Here are ten of the most common script problems we encounter. Hint: make sure your script is…
This week our resident rom-com expert Anna Siri brings us a deep dive into the beloved romantic comedy format. It’s been a couple of decades since rom-coms have had a moment like this. We can remember the days when the likes of Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers packed the theaters with audience-goers in search of…
Anora. Annabel. Abigail. Michael Clayton. John Wick. Marianne. Emilia Perez. What do all these titles have in common? They’re all “name” titles. And what do they tell us about the movie or show? Zero, zilch, nada. Genre? Nope. Tone? Nein. Theme? Non. Subject matter? ʻIkai. (Yeah, that last one was Tongan and we had to look…
Every screenwriting teacher talks about Theme. But do you actually need it? If you’re unfamiliar, THEME generally refers to what the writer is really trying to say: the takeaway, the mission statement, if you will. It’s often a truism or observation about life, like: no good deed goes unpunished, or love will find a way….
You write because you have something to say. Yes, we get it. We all do. We all want to be heard, get our point across, and maybe even make a difference in this world. After all, the word is mightier than the sword. However, that can sometimes lead us to go overboard and we forget…
March 17th through May 31st 2025 We’ve gotten hundreds of writers read by our management panels, which has resulted in over 80 meetings, writers working with managers on developing new material, writers signed to agencies and management companies, and even a big spec sale — when manager Jake Wagner sold writer Brandon Barker’s script “Nottingham…
Hello, friends! It is with great pleasure that we announce that Joshua Heaton, screenwriter of the 2024 Get Repped Now “consider” IT LIVES IN THE SHED, has signed a shopping agreement with award-winning Producer/Manager Joshua Weinstock from Sea Smoke Entertainment. Sea Smoke’s credits include the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Nightingale for HBO and Netflix’s #1 global hit…
