A giant book deal and a big spec sale rocked March, but rich deals don't always ... into a box-office hit. THR looks at the mixed fates of some of the biggest book and script sales ever.

The once-mighty movie “spec” script, long a source of some of Hollywood ... to tell while keeping me fresh and enthusiastic.” Don’t look for any candle-lit shrines along Hollywood ...

And don’t even think about submitting a spec of the show you actually want to get hired for. If you’re hoping to get staffed on “The Office,” say, send in a script for “My Name Is Earl ...

has purchased an untitled spec script by ... paid a premium for that. Script becomes a candidate for one of two pics Carell will do during his hiatus from “The Office.” ...

Headlines of huge spec ... box office are superhero, horror and animated family movies. But the only genre a writer could really write on spec is horror and, traditionally, horror specs don ...

As previously noted in these pages, we’re currently living in what might be called the golden age of topical, just-for-the-hell-of-it spec scripts. Over the last few months, we’ve seen The ...

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has paid mid- to high-six figures for Don’t Go in the Water, a Peter Gaffney spec script that has 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Levine and Lit Entertainment’s ...

Love of Your Life has been the talk of town this Halloween, and sources said the result is one of the biggest spec script deals in recent memory, landing in the $2 million range. Ryan Gosling is ...