ScriptHop

A night celebrating Hollywood’s rising screenwriters. We honored The Gauntlet, the spirit of filmmaking, and unveiled our first 9 Gauntlet Endorsed scripts. Congrats to our first slate of writers who victoriously passed all 3 Gauntlet levels. It’s an honor to share your work with the industry!

Born to win Oscars and work alongside the greats. Forced to rearrange story plot cards on a whiteboard.

realizing you have all your life to watch movies and discover new favorites

Meet Gauntlet Reader Joel Shapiro Story Analyst for Skydance Joel Shapiro currently analyzes books and screenplays for Skydance, and has been a professional story analyst for over 20 years. Formerly a staff reader at CAA, Joel has covered all types of story content and IP for many industry entities including Netflix, MGM, WWE, Laika, and Film Independent. Joel is also a script consultant as well as an optioned writer and a Nicholl Quarter-Finalist. His films have won numerous awards and played in festivals around the world. He's an MFA graduate of the Columbia University School of the Arts where he also won an Alfred P. Sloan Production Award and the Columbia Film Festival Honors award. Joel has feature projects in development at Southpaw Productions and Avenue Pictures and is also a published novelist.

The great screenwriter CHARLIE KAUFFMAN with some advice on screenwriting.

HOT TAKE: You don’t have to chase the number eight to get your script in the room with serious industry people. All you have to do is enter the Gauntlet. It’s the only system that guarantees direct access to industry gatekeepers who can actually get your script through Hollywood’s door.

Christopher Nolan says movie theaters will be around forever 🍿 "Theaters are part of history, and they’re part of the future as well" "When you watch a comedy in a room full of laughing people ... a tragedy where everybody’s sad at the same time... that’s very, very important and very unique to cinema" "The idea of the movie as a communal experience, as a place where we come together to experience a story, I’m fully confident that that’s a part of our culture forever" (via @60Minutes)

“You can fix anything but a blank page.” - Nora Roberts

This is your daily reminder to perform a spelling and grammar check on your script.

Seth Rogen Says If "Your Instinct Is to Use AI" to Write Scripts, "You Shouldn’t Be a Writer" hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/set…

Treat yourself to a movie night this weekend. Stay in or go out. Eat some buttery popcorn. 🍿 It’s good for the soul.

Reading good scripts feeds the soul.

A golden ticket into the heart of a script reader = Give them a reason to CARE about your characters

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Telling people you’re a screenwriter and they say, “Have I seen anything you wrote?”

🧵Things Only Screenwriters Understand