Script Consultant Philip Shelley explains why spec scripts are fundamental to the industry and shares some great advice.

He would rely on a talent for finding great material. While working at Fox Searchlight Pictures in the early and mid-2000s, he discovered the spec script for the Academy Award winner "Juno." ...

An unknown writer, a fast-rising feeding frenzy, and a true multimillion-dollar deal. It’s enough to make executives or aspiring screenplay authors dream of the heady spec script deals of the 1990s.

Netflix has acquired "I Don't Know Who You Are Anymore," a spec script penned by writer Matt Lawton. Plot details for the project remain under wraps, but it's described as "Palm Springs" meets "The ...

I wrote that idea as an “X-Files” [spec script] … so it was very serendipitous that we ended up having the film go to [“The X-Files” executive producers] James Wong and Glen Morgan, who ...

Before “Final Destination,” cheating death never seemed so fun. Directed by James Wong from a screenplay he wrote with Glen Morgan, based on a story by Jeffrey Reddick, the film came out of ...