A giant book deal and a big spec sale rocked March, but rich deals don't always translate into box office hits. By Rebecca Ford A version of this story first appeared in the April 8 issue of The ...

According to lore, the spec was born in 1933, when legendary scribe Preston Sturges sold “The Power and the Glory” to Fox for $17,500, plus a portion of its profits.

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 ...

The Rep Sheet: "There are definitely still people who are looking for original material -- always with an eye towards production," UTA agent Alex Rincon says ...

Cars' scribe steers to WB In a deal worth nearly $2 million against $2.5 million, Warner Bros. has purchased an untitled spec script by "Cars" scribe Dan Fogelman that is a star vehicle for Steve ...

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 ...

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 ...